Football at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games

Initially, eight teams were set to participate in the football events - India, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, the U-21 youth teams of Uzbekistan and Malaysia, and the U-23 youth team of Malavan F.C. which is an Iranian football club that represented the country. However, Cameroon withdrew, and Ghana was decided to replace Cameroon.

Just before the preliminaries were to begin, Ghana pulled out of the football events, leaving only seven teams participating.

The football events were held in two stadiums - the GMC Balayogi Athletic Stadium, which was the main stadium of the Games; and the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium. The football finals were held in the latter stadium.

Iran were represented by U-23 club side Malavan Bandar Anzali Football Club. Cameroon were replaced by Zimbabwe.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Uzbekistan U-21	3	2	1	0	3	1	2	7
Zimbabwe	3	1	2	0	6	3	3	5
Burkina Faso	3	1	0	2	3	6	−3	3
Malavan Anzali U-23	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1

Matches

23 October

Zimbabwe	4 - 1	Burkina Faso
Prince Vusumuzi Nyoni 3', 74' Albert Mbano 26', 82'		Barro Samba Seydou 16'

23 October

Malavan Anzali U-23	0 - 1	Uzbekistan U-21
		Marat Bikmoev 48'

25 October

Zimbabwe	1 - 1	Malavan Anzali U-23
Brian Badza 3'		Seyed Jalal Hosseini-Khoshkbijari 59' (pen.)

25 October

Burkina Faso	0 - 1	Uzbekistan U-21
		Yaroslav Krushilnitskiy 66'

27 October

Uzbekistan U-21	1 - 1	Zimbabwe
Ilkom Suyunov 50'		Leonard Tsipa 17'

27 October

Burkina Faso	2 - 1	Malavan Anzali U-23
Abdul Moctar Diallo Germain Bationo		Germain Bationo ?' (o.g.)