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 Polynesians reached most of the far flung islands and atolls and populated them, almost all the islands, archipelagos and atolls of the Indian Ocean were uninhabited until colonial times. Although there were numerous ancient civilizations in the coastal states of Asia and parts of Africa, the Maldives were the only island group in the Central Indian Ocean region where an ancient civilization flourished. Maldivian ships used the Indian Monsoon Current to travel to the nearby coasts. From 1405 to 1433 admiral Zheng He said to have led large fleets of the Ming Dynasty on several treasure voyages through the Indian