List of Pakistan national football team captains
This article lists all the captains of the Pakistan national football team.
The first captain to lead Pakistan in their international debut in October 1950 was the goalkeeper Osman Jan,[1][2] who captained Pakistan in their first international match against Iran on 27 October 1950.[3][4]
The following table includes players who have captained the Pakistan national football team, along with the vice-captains and the international tournaments they led in.
List of captains
Tenure | Incumbent | Vice-captains | Tournaments/Notes | Ref | |
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1950 | Osman Jan | [2] | |||
1952 | ![]() | Abdul Wahid Durrani | 1952 Colombo Cup | [2] | |
1953 | Muhammad Sharif | 1953 Colombo Cup | [2] | ||
1954 | ![]() | Moideen Kutty | Ahmed Ali | 1954 Asian Games | [2][5] |
1954 | ![]() | Jamil Akhtar | Moideen Kutty | 1954 Colombo Cup | [2] |
1955 | ![]() | Sumbal Khan | 1955 Colombo Cup | [6] | |
1956 | ![]() | Riasat Ali | Mohammad Amin | ||
1958 | ![]() | Nabi Chowdhury | Abdul Haq | 1958 Asian Games | [2][7] |
1959 | Masoodul Hassan Butt | [2] | |||
1959–1960 | ![]() | Qayyum Changezi | 1960 Merdeka Tournament | [2][8] | |
1961 | ![]() | Ghulam Rabbani | [9][10] | ||
1961 | ![]() | Musa Ghazi | [11][12] | ||
1961–1965 | ![]() | Muhammad Umer Baloch | 1962 Merdeka Tournament | [8] | |
1963 | ![]() | Mohammad Amin | [8] | ||
1964 | ![]() | Abid Ghazi | [8] | ||
1967 | ![]() | Turab Ali | 1967 RCD Cup | [8][13] | |
1967 | Muhammad Latif | ||||
1967 | Wali Muhammad | ||||
1968 | ![]() | Murad Bakhsh | |||
1969 | Sardar Aslam | ||||
1969 | ![]() | Younus Rana | 1969 Friendship Cup | ||
1970 | ![]() | Qadir Bakhsh | 1970 RCD Cup | [14] | |
1973 | ![]() | Maula Bakhsh | [8] | ||
1974 | ![]() | Ayub Dar | |||
1974 | ![]() | Ali Nawaz Baloch | 1974 RCD Cup | [15] | |
1974 | ![]() | Abdul Ghafoor | 1974 Asian Games | [16] | |
1976 | Ghulam Sarwar Sr. | Afghanistan Republic Day Festival Cup | [17][18] | ||
1978 | Muhammad Ishaq | ||||
1981–1982 | Akbar Raisani | 1981 King's Cup | [19][20] | ||
1982 | Naeem Gul | 1982 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup | [20] | ||
1984 | Zulfiqar Ghulam Ahmed | 1984 Merdeka Tournament | [21] | ||
1985 | Zulfiqar Dogar | 1985 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup | |||
1985 | Arbab Muhammad Hayat Kasi | 1985 South Asian Games | [22] | ||
1986–1989 | Mukhtar Ali | 1986 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup | [9][10] | ||
1986 | Muhammad Naveed | 1986 Asian Games | [16] | ||
1986 | Shaukat Mufti | 1986 Fajr International Tournament | [19] | ||
1987 | Sharafat Ali | 1987 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup | [23] | ||
1989–1990 | Mateen Akhtar | 1989 South Asian Games | [22][16] | ||
1991 | Ghulam Sarwar (Teddy) | 1991 South Asian Games | [24] | ||
1992 | Mohammad Riaz | ||||
1993 | Zafar Iqbal | 1993 SAARC Gold Cup | [9][10] | ||
1993 | Mohammad Tariq Hussain | [25][22] | |||
1995 | Mohammad Nauman Khan | 1995 SAFF Gold Cup | [26] | ||
1997 | Qazi Ashfaq | Haroon Yousaf | 1997 SAFF Gold Cup | [27] | |
1998–2003 | ![]() | Haroon Yousaf | 1999 SAFF Gold Cup | [27][28] | |
2002 | Sarfraz Rasool | [29][30] | |||
2003–2011 | ![]() | Jaffar Khan | Samar Ishaq, Adnan Ahmed, Faisal Iqbal, Abdul Aziz | 2005 SAFF Gold Cup | [31][30] |
2005 | Tanveer Ahmed | 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games | [32][30] | ||
2006–2009 | Muhammad Essa | Jaffar Khan | 2009 SAFF Championship | [33][30] | |
2008 | Zahid Hameed | Imran Niazi | 2008 SAFF Championship | [34] | |
2010–2013 | ![]() | Samar Ishaq | Adnan Ahmed | 2013 SAFF Championship | [30] |
2013–2019 | ![]() | Zesh Rehman | 2013 Philippines Peace Cup | [35][30] | |
2014 | ![]() | Kaleemullah Khan | Faisal Iqbal, Saddam Hussain | [30] | |
2014 | ![]() | Muhammad Ahmed | |||
2015–2023 | ![]() | Hassan Bashir | 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup | [36] | |
2018 | Saddam Hussain | Hassan Bashir | 2018 SAFF Championship | [37] | |
2023 | Saqib Hanif | [38] | |||
2023–present | Easah Suliman | Otis Khan | 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup | ||
2023 | ![]() | Yousuf Butt | 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup | [39][40] |
Captains by major tournaments
- In Continental and International tournaments
Player | Tournament(s) |
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Moideen Kutty | |
Nabi Chowdhury | |
Abdul Ghafoor | |
Muhammad Naveed | |
Mateen Akhtar | |
Jaffar Khan |
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External links
- Dawn, A history of football in Pakistan — Part I
- Dawn, A history of football in Pakistan — Part II
- Dawn, A history of football in Pakistan — Part III
- Dawn, A history of football in Pakistan — Final part
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