India at the 1962 Asian Games

India participated in the 1962 Asian Games held in the city of Jakarta, Indonesia from 24 August 1962 to 4 September 1962. India ranked 3rd with 12 gold medals in this edition of the Asiad.^[1]

India at the 1962 Asian Games
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
in Jakarta
Medals Ranked 3rd	Gold 10 Silver 13 Bronze 10 Total 33
Asian Games appearances (overview)
1951 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026

Medals by sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	5	5	4	14
Boxing	1	0	2	3
Hockey	0	1	0	1
Football	1	0	0	1
Wrestling	3	6	3	12
Shooting	0	0	1	1
Volleyball	0	1	0	1
Total	10	13	10	33

Football

Head coach: Syed Abdul Rahim

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Pradyut Barman				Railways
	1GK	Peter Thangaraj	(1935-12-24)24 December 1935 (aged 26)			Mohammedan Sporting
	2DF	Menon Chandrashekar	(1935-07-10)10 July 1935 (aged 27)			Bombay
	2DF	Tarlok Singh				Services
	3MF	Fortunato Franco				Bombay
	2DF	Jarnail Singh	(1936-02-20)20 February 1936 (aged 26)			Mohun Bagan
	3MF	Ram Bahadur Chhetri	(1937-02-15)15 February 1937 (aged 25)			East Bengal
	4FW	Pradip Kumar Banerjee	(1936-06-23)23 June 1936 (aged 26)			Railways
	4FW	Mohammed Yousuf Khan	(1937-08-05)5 August 1937 (aged 25)			Hyderabad City Police
	4FW	D.M.K. Afzal				Hyderabad City Police
	4FW	Chuni Goswami (c)	(1938-01-15)15 January 1938 (aged 24)			Mohun Bagan
	4FW	Tulsidas Balaram	(1936-10-04)4 October 1936 (aged 25)			East Bengal
	3MF	Prasanta Sinha				Bengal
	4FW	D. Ethiraj	(1934-07-01)1 July 1934 (aged 28)			Services
	4FW	Arumai Nayagam				Mohun Bagan
	2DF	Arun Ghosh	(1941-07-07)7 July 1941 (aged 21)			East Bengal

Preliminary round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts
South Korea	3	3	0	0	6	2	3.000	6
India	3	2	0	1	6	3	2.000	4
Japan	3	1	0	2	3	4	0.750	2
Thailand	3	0	0	3	4	10	0.400	0

Source: RSSSF

India	0–2	South Korea
		Chung Soon-choon 30' Cha Tae-sung

26 August 1962

Senayan Main Stadium, Jakarta

Attendance: 95,000^[2]

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Thailand	1–4	India
	Report	Banerjee Goswami Balaram

28 August 1962

Jakarta

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India	2–0	Japan
Banerjee 54' Balaram 70'	Report

29 August 1962

Jakarta

Semifinals

South Vietnam	2–3	India
Phan Duong Cam 52' (pen.) Do Thol Vinh 64'	Report	Goswami 13', 75' J. Singh 41'

1 September 1962

Jakarta

Gold medal match

India	2–1	South Korea
P. K. Banerjee 74' J. Singh 87'	Report	Cha Tae-sung 45'

4 September 1962

Senayan Main Stadium, Mumbai

Attendance: 100,000^[3]

Referee: J. Ferguson (Singapore)^[3]