South Asia Olympic Council

Template:Template other The South Asia Olympic Council, aka SAOC and formerly known as the South Asian Sports Federation, is the governing body of sports in South Asia. It currently has 7 National Olympic Committees members.

History

South Asian Games Federation (SAGF) was formed officially in 1983. In 2004, in 32nd meeting of South Asian Sports Federation held at Islamabad (Pakistan), it was decided to rename it to its current name i.e. South Asia Olympic Council.

The SAOC headquarters is located in host city of future South Asian Games and the President of NOC hosting the SAG holds the position of SAOC President. Its current President is Lieutenant-General Syed Arif Hasan from Pakistan.

Member nations

Following is the list of member countries of SAOC:

S. No.	Member
1.	Template:Flagicon Bangladesh Olympic Association
2.	Template:Flagicon Bhutan Olympic Committee
3.	Template:Flagicon Indian Olympic Association
4.	Template:Flagicon Maldives Olympic Committee
5.	Template:Flagicon Nepal Olympic Committee
6.	Template:Flagicon National Olympic Committee of Pakistan
7.	Template:Flagicon National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka

Former members

Following is the list of former member countries of SAOC:

S. No.	Member	Joined	Left	Notes
1.	Template:Flagicon Afghanistan National Olympic Committee	2004	2016	Afghanistan joined Central Asian Games

SAOC Presidents

As per the Constitution of SAOC, the President of NOC hosting the next South Asian Games is the president of SAOC.

S. No.	Name	Country	Term
1.	Sarad Chandra Shah		1983 – 1984
2.	Lt. Gen Hussain Muhammad Ershad		1984 – 1985
3.	Vidya Charan Shukla		1985 – 1987
4.	Syed Wajid Ali		1987 – 1989
5.	Data Unavailable		1989 – 1991
6.	Mushfekur Rahman		1991 – 1991
7.	Abdur Rouf		1991 – 1991
8.	Nurul Momen		1992 – 1992
9.	Gias Kamal Chowdhury		1992 – 1993
10.	Suresh Kalmadi		1993 – 1995
11.	Gavinda Raj Joshi		1995 – 1998
12.	Rukma Shamsher Rana		1998 – 1999
13.	Syed Wajid Ali		1999 – 2004
14.	Data Unavailable		2004 – 2006
15.	General Moeen U Ahmed		2006 – 2009
16.	General Md Abdul Mubeen		2009 – 2010
17.	Suresh Kalmadi		2010 – 2011
Acting	Vijay Kumar Malhotra		2011 – 2012
18.	Abhay Singh Chautala		2012 – 2014
19.	Narayana Ramachandran		2014 – 2016
20.	Jeevan Ram Shrestha		2016 – 2019
21.	Lt. Gen Syed Arif Hasan		2019 – present

Events

• South Asian Games
• South Asian Winter Games
• South Asian Beach Games

Competition	Edition	Top rank	Title	Runners-up	Most successful	Next edition
South Asian Games	Kathmandu and Pokhara 2019		13th		(13)	Lahore 2025
South Asian Winter Games	Dehradun and Auli 2011		1st		(1)
South Asian Beach Games	Hambantota 2011		1st		(1)

See also

• Central Asian Games
• East Asian Games (now defunct)
• East Asian Youth Games
• South Asian Games
• Southeast Asian Games
• West Asian Games