India won the cup for a second time by winning all thee matches.

[1] It was India's first outright win in an international football tournament played abroad.

[3] The India team arrived in Rangoon on 22 October 1953 and the Pakistan side, a week before.

The Indian Express described the Aung San Stadium, where all matches were to be played, as having "concrete and semi permanent stands all around the ground" with a capacity of 30,000.

[4] Four of India's players — Sailen Manna, Ahmed Khan, Pansanttom Venkatesh and M. Thangaraj (in the second half) — played bare-footed against Pakistan in the tournament's first game, on 23 October.