Football at the 2015 Indian Ocean Island Games will host matches of the Football competition Football at the 2015 Indian Ocean Island Games The men's association football tournament at the 2015 Indian Ocean Island Games (French: "Jeux des îles de l'océan Indien 2015") will be held in Réunion. The competition format will be determined based upon the number of teams entering the competition. Each team will have up to 20 players. If more than four teams enter there will be two Groups; A and B. Réunion, the representative team of the host will be placed in Group A and Seychelles, the winner of the 2011 edition will be
Indian Ocean Island Games Madagascar 1963, a football match between Mauritius vs Madagascar was abandoned at 1-1 in 54'. Then Madagascar declared winners of tournament. After this match Mauritius refused to play and the tournament was not held anymore. In 1974, the Regional Olympic Committee of Réunion decide to organise a multi-sport competition in the Indian Ocean and it was finally adopted by the IOC in 1976. The competition was initially billed as the Indian Ocean Games. However, its name was changed to the Indian Ocean Island Games before the first games, without the participation of Sri Lanka, initially in the bill. The objectives