Football at the 1978 Asian Games – Men's team squads

Squads for the Football at the 1978 Asian Games played in Bangkok, Thailand.

Group A

 China

Head coach: Nian Weisi

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Li Fusheng
14		He Jia
4		Lin Lefeng
3		Liu Zhicai
2		Xiang Hengqing
17		Yang Anli
16		Wang Feng
6	3MF	Chi Shangbin
11	4FW	Rong Zhixing
18		Li Fubao
7		Yang Yumin
15		Shen Xiangfu
		Liu Jinshan
		Liu Lifu
		Wang Changtai

 Iraq

Head coach: Ammo Baba

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Raad Hammoudi	(1953-05-01)1 May 1953 (aged 25)			Al-Shorta
	1GK	Fatah Nsaief	(1951-02-02)2 February 1951 (aged 27)			Al Jaish
	2DF	Ibrahim Ali	(1950-07-01)1 July 1950 (aged 28)			Al-Zawraa
	2DF	Hassan Farhan	(1953-06-29)29 June 1953 (aged 25)			Al Jaish
	2DF	Wathiq Aswad	(1957-07-01)1 July 1957 (aged 21)			Al-Talaba
	2DF	Nadhim Shaker	(1958-12-18)18 December 1958 (aged 19)			Al Tayaran
	2DF	Adnan Dirjal	(1960-01-26)26 January 1960 (aged 18)			Al-Zawraa
	2DF	Abdul-Karim Farhan	(1956-11-26)26 November 1956 (aged 22)			Al-Talaba
	2DF	Adnan Jafar	(1949-12-29)29 December 1949 (aged 28)			Al-Shorta
	3MF	Alaa Ahmad	(1952-01-01)1 January 1952 (aged 26)			Al-Minaa
	3MF	Hadi Ahmed	(1951-01-01)1 January 1951 (aged 27)			Al-Minaa
	3MF	Dhurgham Mahdi	(1951-07-01)1 July 1951 (aged 27)			Al-Sinaa SC
	3MF	Hesham Mustafa	(1952-07-01)1 July 1952 (aged 26)			Al-Tayaran
	3MF	Hussein Ali Thajil	(1958-07-01)1 July 1958 (aged 20)			Al Tayaran
	4FW	Ali Hussein Mahmoud	(1953-01-01)1 January 1953 (aged 25)			Al-Shorta
	4FW	Ali Kadhim	(1949-01-01)1 January 1949 (aged 29)			Al-Zawraa
	4FW	Hussein Saeed	(1958-01-21)21 January 1958 (aged 20)			Al-Talaba
	4FW	Ahmed Subhi	(1952-01-01)1 January 1952 (aged 26)			Al-Amana
	4FW	Mahdi Abdul-Sahib	(1956-07-28)28 July 1956 (aged 22)			Al-Talaba
	4FW	Ara Hamparsum	(1952-07-07)7 July 1952 (aged 26)			Al-Amana

 Qatar

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Mohammad Sami Wafa
	2DF	Mubarak Anbar Al-Ali
	2DF
	3MF
	2DF
	3MF
	4FW
	4FW
	4FW
	4FW
	4FW

 Saudi Arabia

Head coach: David Woodfield

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Salem Marwan
2	2DF	Jasim al-Qartas
3	2DF	Saleh Al-Nu'eimeh
4	3MF	Issa Khalifa Al-Dosari
5	2DF	Tawfiq al-Moghren
7	3MF	Yousef Khames
8	3MF	Saleh Khalifa Al-Dosari
9	4FW	Majed Abdullah
11	3MF	Ahmad al-Saqeer
12	2DF	Ibrahim Tahseen
13	3MF	Fahad al-Habshi
14	4FW	Issa Hamdan
15	2DF	Ahmad al-Nifawi
18	4FW	Sultan bin Naseeb
19	1GK	Ibrahim al-Yousef
20	1GK	Taiseer al-Saqabi
	4FW	Abdullah Abdraboh
	2DF	Saad Breek
	3MF	Issa al-Dosari
	4FW	Saud Jassim
	3MF	Issa Khawaji
	2DF	Wajdi Mubarak

Group B

 Burma

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK
	2DF
	2DF
	3MF
	2DF
	3MF
	4FW
	4FW
	4FW
	4FW
	4FW

 North Korea

Head coach: Pak Du-Sok

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Kim Gang-Il
2		Kim In-Chan
3		Kim Mu-Gil
4		Cha Jong-Sok
5		Kim Jong-Min
6		An Chang-Nam
7		Hong Song-Nam
8		Kim Bok-Nam
9		An Se-Uk
10		Pak Jong-Hon
11		Ri Chang-Ha
17		Kim Mun-Chol

 Thailand

Head coach: Peter Schnittger

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Vasin Masapong
2		Manus Ratanatisol
3		Jirasak Chareonchand
16		Prapan Premsri
14		Witoon Trikuna
12		Chamreon Kamnil
10	4FW	Niwat Srisawat
9		Pichai Kongsri
13		Boonlert Aeochareon
18		Vitheechai Sornlak
11		Somcit Chuayeoomchoom
15		Kition Laokeukoonpong
8		Thawiwat Acklasala

Group C

 Bangladesh

Head coach: Werner Bickelhaupt

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Shahidur Rahman Shantoo (c)	(1947-11-17)17 November 1947 (aged 31)			Mohammedan SC
	1GK	Moinul Karim Moin				Sadharan Bima CSC
	2DF	Sawpan Kumar Das	(1958-11-10)10 November 1958 (aged 20)			Wari Club Dhaka
	2DF	Shamsul Alam Manju	(1955-03-14)14 March 1955 (aged 23)			Mohammedan SC
	2DF	Abul Hossain	(1957-07-02)2 July 1957 (aged 21)			Azad Sporting Club
	2DF	Mohammad Abu Yusuf	(1957-09-11)11 September 1957 (aged 21)			Rahmatganj MFS
	2DF	Mostafa Hossain Mukul	(1957-11-12)12 November 1957 (aged 21)			Team BJMC
	2DF	Zakir Hossain Badal				Mohammedan SC
	3MF	Milon Karmakar Basu				Team BJMC
	3MF	Ashish Bhadra	(1960-03-14)14 March 1960 (aged 18)			Rahmatganj MFS
	3MF	Kowsar Ali	(1958-11-20)20 November 1958 (aged 20)			Team BJMC
	3MF	Pranab Kumar Dey Banu				Mohammedan SC
	3MF	Syed Nazmul Hassan Lovan	(1958-09-20)20 September 1958 (aged 20)			Wari Club Dhaka
	3MF	Hasanuzzaman Khan Bablu	(1955-05-05)5 May 1955 (aged 23)			Brothers Union
	4FW	Yusuf Buli				Mohammedan SC
	4FW	Hassan Ahmedul Haque	(1958-01-02)2 January 1958 (aged 20)			Team BJMC
	4FW	Mohammed Mohsin	(1963-04-03)3 April 1963 (aged 15)			Brothers Union
	4FW	Sheikh Mohammad Aslam	(1958-03-01)1 March 1958 (aged 20)			Victoria SC
	4FW	Enayetur Rahman Khan	(1951-02-28)28 February 1951 (aged 27)			Mohammedan SC

 India

Head coach: Arun Ghosh^[1]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Bhaskar Ganguly				East Bengal
	1GK	Bhaskar Maity				Bengal
	1GK	Surjit Singh
	2DF	Gurdev Singh Gill (c)	(1950-04-20)20 April 1950 (aged 24)			East Bengal
	2DF	Chinmoy Chatterjee				East Bengal
	2DF	Shyamal Banerjee				Bengal
	2DF	Compton Dutta				Bengal
	2DF	Subrata Bhattacharya	(1953-03-03)3 March 1953 (aged 21)			Mohun Bagan
	2DF	Nicholas Pereira
	2DF	D. Sekaran
	2DF	Gurcharan Singh Parmar
	3MF	Prasun Banerjee	(1955-04-06)6 April 1955 (aged 19)			East Bengal
	3MF	Pushparaj Kumar				Karnataka
	3MF	A. Devraj Doraiswamy				Karnataka
	3MF	M.M. Jacob
	3MF	Thomas Fernandes
	4FW	Xavier Pius
	4FW	Francis D'Souza
	4FW	Mohammed Akbar
	4FW	Harjinder Singh				JCT Mills
	4FW	Surajit Sengupta	(1951-08-30)30 August 1951 (aged 23)			East Bengal
	4FW	Bidesh Ranjan Bose	(1953-11-15)15 November 1953 (aged 21)			Bengal

 Malaysia

Head coach: Chow Kwai Lam

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	R. Arumugam
22		Jamal Rashid
4		Yahya Jusoh
6	3MF	Shukor Salleh
3	2DF	Soh Chin Aun
5	2DF	Santokh Singh
19		Khor Sek Leng
10	4FW	Mokhtar Dahari
9	4FW	Isa Bakar
12		Bakri Ibni
11		Ali Abdullah

Group D

 Bahrain

Head coach: Jack Mansell

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Hamood Sultan
2		Youssef Sharida
15		Rashid Jamber
5		Nazir Al-Dirzali
4		Faisal Sanad
14		Hamed Mohammed
10		Ibrahim Suwayed
9		Khalil Shwayer
7		Karim Al-Mulla
11		Mohammed Fahad

 Japan

Head coach: Hiroshi Ninomiya

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Mitsuhisa Taguchi	(1955-02-14)14 February 1955 (aged 23)			Mitsubishi Motors
	2DF	Masatoshi Matsunaga	(1950-12-22)22 December 1950 (aged 27)			Mitsubishi Motors
3	2DF	Hiroshi Ochiai	(1946-02-28)28 February 1946 (aged 32)			Mitsubishi Motors
4	2DF	Keizo Imai	(1950-11-19)19 November 1950 (aged 28)			Fujita Industrial
5	2DF	Kazuo Saito	(1951-07-27)27 July 1951 (aged 27)			Mitsubishi Motors
6	3MF	Nobuo Fujishima	(1950-04-08)8 April 1950 (aged 28)			Nippon Kokan
7	4FW	Haruhisa Hasegawa	(1957-04-14)14 April 1957 (aged 21)			Osaka University of Commerce
8	3MF	Mitsunori Fujiguchi	(1949-08-17)17 August 1949 (aged 29)			Mitsubishi Motors
9	4FW	Hiroyuki Usui	(1953-08-04)4 August 1953 (aged 25)			Hitachi
10	3MF	Nobutoshi Kaneda	(1958-02-16)16 February 1958 (aged 20)			Chuo University
11	4FW	Yoshikazu Nagai	(1952-04-16)16 April 1952 (aged 26)			Furukawa Electric
12	2DF	Atsuyoshi Furuta	(1952-10-27)27 October 1952 (aged 26)			Toyo Industries
	2DF	Tsutomu Sonobe	(1958-03-29)29 March 1958 (aged 20)			Fujita Industrial
14	3MF	Hideki Maeda	(1954-05-13)13 May 1954 (aged 24)			Furukawa Electric
15	3MF	Hisashi Kato	(1956-04-24)24 April 1956 (aged 22)			Waseda University
16	4FW	Hiromi Hara	(1958-10-19)19 October 1958 (aged 20)			Waseda University
17	4FW	Masaru Kawaguchi	(1956-12-19)19 December 1956 (aged 21)			Osaka University of Commerce
	1GK	Tatsuhiko Seta	(1952-01-08)8 January 1952 (aged 26)			Hitachi

 South Korea

Head coach: Ham Heung-chul

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Kim Hwang-ho	(1954-08-15)15 August 1954 (aged 24)			ROK Navy FC
2	2DF	Hong Sung-ho	(1954-12-20)20 December 1954 (aged 23)			POSCO FC
3	2DF	Kim Ho-gon	(1950-03-26)26 March 1950 (aged 28)			Seoul Trust Bank FC
4	2DF	Cho Kwang-rae	(1954-03-19)19 March 1954 (aged 24)			POSCO FC
5	2DF	Hwang Jae-man	(1953-01-24)24 January 1953 (aged 25)			ROK Air Force FC
6	2DF	Park Sung-hwa	(1955-05-07)7 May 1955 (aged 23)			POSCO FC
7	3MF	Shin Hyun-ho	(1953-09-21)21 September 1953 (aged 25)			POSCO FC
8	3MF	Cho Young-jeung	(1954-08-18)18 August 1954 (aged 24)			ROK Navy FC
9	3MF	Lee Young-moo	(1953-07-26)26 July 1953 (aged 25)			POSCO FC
10	4FW	Lee Kang-Jo	(1954-10-27)27 October 1954 (aged 24)			Korea Auto Insurance FC
11	4FW	Cha Bum-Kun	(1953-05-22)22 May 1953 (aged 25)			ROK Air Force FC
12	2DF	Choi Jong-Duk	(1954-06-24)24 June 1954 (aged 24)			POSCO FC
15	3MF	Huh Jung-Moo	(1955-01-13)13 January 1955 (aged 23)			ROK Navy FC
17	3MF	Park Sang-in	(1952-11-16)16 November 1952 (aged 26)			Commercial Bank of Korea FC
18	3MF	Kim Sung-nam	(1954-07-19)19 July 1954 (aged 24)			ROK Navy FC
19	3MF	Kim Kang-nam	(1954-07-19)19 July 1954 (aged 24)			ROK Navy FC
20	4FW	Oh Seok-jae	(1958-10-13)13 October 1958 (aged 20)			Konkuk University
21	1GK	Kim Hee-chun	(1955-10-19)19 October 1955 (aged 23)			ROK Air Force FC
22	2DF	Kim Hee-tae	(1953-07-10)10 July 1953 (aged 25)			ROK Air Force FC
23	1GK	Cho Byung-deuk	(1958-05-26)26 May 1958 (aged 20)			POSCO FC

 Kuwait

Head coach: Mario Zagallo

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Ahmed Al-Tarabulsi
20	1GK	Jasem Bahman
2	2DF	Mohammad Abbas
5	2DF	Ibrahim Al-Duraihim
13	2DF	Redha Maarafi
17	2DF	Hussein Al-Jaser
3	2DF	Mahboub Juma'a
14	2DF	Abdullah Mayoof
11	3MF	Hamad Bouhamad
15	3MF	Saud Bouhamad
6	3MF	Saad Al-Houti
18	3MF	Saleh Al-Asfoor
8	3MF	Farouk Ibrahim
4	3MF	Abdullah Al-Buloushi
12	4FW	Badir Bu Abbas
19	4FW	Mohammed Shuaeb
16	4FW	Faisal Al-Dakhil
9	4FW	Jasem Yaqoub
7	4FW	Fathi Kameel
10	4FW	Abdulaziz Al-Anberi

References

1. Ghoshal, Amoy. "Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1978 Bangkok". www.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 2022-08-28.

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20140102232311/http://rdfc.com.ne.kr/int/skor-intres-1970.html