DPR Korea will play a friendly against India, it has been decided. The Indian team, which is now in Lisbon for their two-month training-cum-competition stint in Portugal in the build-up to next year's Asian Cup in Doha, will play their first match at home against Thailand on September 8.

This is four days after they play the Thai team in Bangkok in their first international friendly after the Portugal stint.

India will play against North Korea, who lost all their three group matches in the recent FIFA World Cup in South Africa, at Ambedkar Stadium on September 14.