Squads for the Football at the 1978 Asian Games played in Bangkok, Thailand.
Group A
editHead coach: 
Nian Weisi
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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| 1 | GK | Li Fusheng | ||||
| 14 | He Jia | |||||
| 4 | Lin Lefeng | |||||
| 3 | Liu Zhicai | |||||
| 2 | Xiang Hengqing | |||||
| 17 | Yang Anli | |||||
| 16 | Wang Feng | |||||
| 6 | MF | Chi Shangbin | ||||
| 11 | FW | Rong Zhixing | ||||
| 18 | Li Fubao | |||||
| 7 | Yang Yumin | |||||
| 15 | Shen Xiangfu | |||||
| Liu Jinshan | ||||||
| Liu Lifu | ||||||
| Wang Changtai |
Head coach: 
Ammo Baba
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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| GK | Raad Hammoudi | 1 May 1953 (aged 25) | Al-Shorta
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| GK | Fatah Nsaief | 2 February 1951 (aged 27) | Al Jaish
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| DF | Ibrahim Ali | 1 July 1950 (aged 28) | Al-Zawraa
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| DF | Hassan Farhan | 29 June 1953 (aged 25) | Al Jaish
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| DF | Wathiq Aswad | 1 July 1957 (aged 21) | Al-Talaba
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| DF | Nadhim Shaker | 18 December 1958 (aged 19) | Al Tayaran
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| DF | Adnan Dirjal | 26 January 1960 (aged 18) | Al-Zawraa
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| DF | Abdul-Karim Farhan | 26 November 1956 (aged 22) | Al-Talaba
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| DF | Adnan Jafar | 29 December 1949 (aged 28) | Al-Shorta
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| MF | Alaa Ahmad | 1 January 1952 (aged 26) | Al-Minaa
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| MF | Hadi Ahmed | 1 January 1951 (aged 27) | Al-Minaa
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| MF | Dhurgham Mahdi | 1 July 1951 (aged 27) | Al-Sinaa SC
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| MF | Hesham Mustafa | 1 July 1952 (aged 26) | Al-Tayaran
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| MF | Hussein Ali Thajil | 1 July 1958 (aged 20) | Al Tayaran
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| FW | Ali Hussein Mahmoud | 1 January 1953 (aged 25) | Al-Shorta
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| FW | Ali Kadhim | 1 January 1949 (aged 29) | Al-Zawraa
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| FW | Hussein Saeed | 21 January 1958 (aged 20) | Al-Talaba
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| FW | Ahmed Subhi | 1 January 1952 (aged 26) | Al-Amana
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| FW | Mahdi Abdul-Sahib | 28 July 1956 (aged 22) | Al-Talaba
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| FW | Ara Hamparsum | 7 July 1952 (aged 26) | Al-Amana
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Head coach: 
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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| GK | Mohammad Sami Wafa | |||||
| DF | Mubarak Anbar Al-Ali | |||||
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Head coach: 
David Woodfield
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | Salem Marwan | ||||
| 2 | DF | Jasim al-Qartas | ||||
| 3 | DF | Saleh Al-Nu'eimeh | ||||
| 4 | MF | Issa Khalifa Al-Dosari | ||||
| 5 | DF | Tawfiq al-Moghren | ||||
| 7 | MF | Yousef Khames | ||||
| 8 | MF | Saleh Khalifa Al-Dosari | ||||
| 9 | FW | Majed Abdullah | ||||
| 11 | MF | Ahmad al-Saqeer | ||||
| 12 | DF | Ibrahim Tahseen | ||||
| 13 | MF | Fahad al-Habshi | ||||
| 14 | FW | Issa Hamdan | ||||
| 15 | DF | Ahmad al-Nifawi | ||||
| 18 | FW | Sultan bin Naseeb | ||||
| 19 | GK | Ibrahim al-Yousef | ||||
| 20 | GK | Taiseer al-Saqabi | ||||
| FW | Abdullah Abdraboh | |||||
| DF | Saad Breek | |||||
| MF | Issa al-Dosari | |||||
| FW | Saud Jassim | |||||
| MF | Issa Khawaji | |||||
| DF | Wajdi Mubarak |
Group B
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Head coach: 
Pak Du-Sok
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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| 1 | GK | 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 |
Head coach: 
Peter Schnittger
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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| 1 | GK | Vasin Masapong | ||||
| 2 | Manus Ratanatisol | |||||
| 3 | Jirasak Chareonchand | |||||
| 16 | Prapan Premsri | |||||
| 14 | Witoon Trikuna | |||||
| 12 | Chamreon Kamnil | |||||
| 10 | FW | Niwat Srisawat | ||||
| 9 | Pichai Kongsri | |||||
| 13 | Boonlert Aeochareon | |||||
| 18 | Vitheechai Sornlak | |||||
| 11 | Somcit Chuayeoomchoom | |||||
| 15 | Kition Laokeukoonpong | |||||
| 8 | Thawiwat Acklasala |
Group C
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Head coach: Werner Bickelhaupt
Head coach: 
Arun Ghosh[1]
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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| GK | Bhaskar Ganguly | East Bengal
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| GK | Bhaskar Maity | Bengal
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| GK | Surjit Singh | |||||
| DF | Gurdev Singh Gill (c) | 20 April 1950 (aged 24) | East Bengal
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| DF | Chinmoy Chatterjee | East Bengal
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| DF | Shyamal Banerjee | Bengal
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| DF | Compton Dutta | Bengal
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| DF | Subrata Bhattacharya | 3 March 1953 (aged 21) | Mohun Bagan
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| DF | Nicholas Pereira | |||||
| DF | D. Sekaran | |||||
| DF | Gurcharan Singh Parmar | |||||
| MF | Prasun Banerjee | 6 April 1955 (aged 19) | East Bengal
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| MF | Pushparaj Kumar | Karnataka
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| MF | A. Devraj Doraiswamy | Karnataka
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| MF | M.M. Jacob | |||||
| MF | Thomas Fernandes | |||||
| FW | Xavier Pius | |||||
| FW | Francis D'Souza | |||||
| FW | Mohammed Akbar | |||||
| FW | Harjinder Singh | JCT Mills
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| FW | Surajit Sengupta | 30 August 1951 (aged 23) | East Bengal
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| FW | Bidesh Ranjan Bose | 15 November 1953 (aged 21) | Bengal
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Head coach: 
Chow Kwai Lam
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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| 1 | GK | R. Arumugam | ||||
| 22 | Jamal Rashid | |||||
| 4 | Yahya Jusoh | |||||
| 6 | MF | Shukor Salleh | ||||
| 3 | DF | Soh Chin Aun | ||||
| 5 | DF | Santokh Singh | ||||
| 19 | Khor Sek Leng | |||||
| 10 | FW | Mokhtar Dahari | ||||
| 9 | FW | Isa Bakar | ||||
| 12 | Bakri Ibni | |||||
| 11 | Ali Abdullah |
Group D
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Head coach: Jack Mansell
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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| 1 | GK | 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 | |||||
Head coach: 
Hiroshi Ninomiya
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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| 1 | GK | Mitsuhisa Taguchi | 14 February 1955 (aged 23) | Mitsubishi Motors
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| DF | Masatoshi Matsunaga | 22 December 1950 (aged 27) | Mitsubishi Motors
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| 3 | DF | Hiroshi Ochiai | 28 February 1946 (aged 32) | Mitsubishi Motors
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| 4 | DF | Keizo Imai | 19 November 1950 (aged 28) | Fujita Industrial
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| 5 | DF | Kazuo Saito | 27 July 1951 (aged 27) | Mitsubishi Motors
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| 6 | MF | Nobuo Fujishima | 8 April 1950 (aged 28) | Nippon Kokan
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| 7 | FW | Haruhisa Hasegawa | 14 April 1957 (aged 21) | Osaka University of Commerce
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| 8 | MF | Mitsunori Fujiguchi | 17 August 1949 (aged 29) | Mitsubishi Motors
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| 9 | FW | Hiroyuki Usui | 4 August 1953 (aged 25) | Hitachi
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| 10 | MF | Nobutoshi Kaneda | 16 February 1958 (aged 20) | Chuo University
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| 11 | FW | Yoshikazu Nagai | 16 April 1952 (aged 26) | Furukawa Electric
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| 12 | DF | Atsuyoshi Furuta | 27 October 1952 (aged 26) | Toyo Industries
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| DF | Tsutomu Sonobe | 29 March 1958 (aged 20) | Fujita Industrial
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| 14 | MF | Hideki Maeda | 13 May 1954 (aged 24) | Furukawa Electric
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| 15 | MF | Hisashi Kato | 24 April 1956 (aged 22) | Waseda University
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| 16 | FW | Hiromi Hara | 19 October 1958 (aged 20) | Waseda University
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| 17 | FW | Masaru Kawaguchi | 19 December 1956 (aged 21) | Osaka University of Commerce
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| GK | Tatsuhiko Seta | 8 January 1952 (aged 26) | Hitachi
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Head coach: 
Ham Heung-chul
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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| 1 | GK | Kim Hwang-ho | 15 August 1954 (aged 24) | ROK Navy FC
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| 2 | DF | Hong Sung-ho | 20 December 1954 (aged 23) | POSCO FC
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| 3 | DF | Kim Ho-gon | 26 March 1950 (aged 28) | Seoul Trust Bank FC
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| 4 | DF | Cho Kwang-rae | 19 March 1954 (aged 24) | POSCO FC
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| 5 | DF | Hwang Jae-man | 24 January 1953 (aged 25) | ROK Air Force FC
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| 6 | DF | Park Sung-hwa | 7 May 1955 (aged 23) | POSCO FC
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| 7 | MF | Shin Hyun-ho | 21 September 1953 (aged 25) | POSCO FC
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| 8 | MF | Cho Young-jeung | 18 August 1954 (aged 24) | ROK Navy FC
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| 9 | MF | Lee Young-moo | 26 July 1953 (aged 25) | POSCO FC
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| 10 | FW | Lee Kang-Jo | 27 October 1954 (aged 24) | Korea Auto Insurance FC
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| 11 | FW | Cha Bum-Kun | 22 May 1953 (aged 25) | ROK Air Force FC
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| 12 | DF | Choi Jong-Duk | 24 June 1954 (aged 24) | POSCO FC
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| 15 | MF | Huh Jung-Moo | 13 January 1955 (aged 23) | ROK Navy FC
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| 17 | MF | Park Sang-in | 16 November 1952 (aged 26) | Commercial Bank of Korea FC
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| 18 | MF | Kim Sung-nam | 19 July 1954 (aged 24) | ROK Navy FC
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| 19 | MF | Kim Kang-nam | 19 July 1954 (aged 24) | ROK Navy FC
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| 20 | FW | Oh Seok-jae | 13 October 1958 (aged 20) | Konkuk University
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| 21 | GK | Kim Hee-chun | 19 October 1955 (aged 23) | ROK Air Force FC
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| 22 | DF | Kim Hee-tae | 10 July 1953 (aged 25) | ROK Air Force FC
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| 23 | GK | Cho Byung-deuk | 26 May 1958 (aged 20) | POSCO FC
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Head coach: 
Mario Zagallo
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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| 1 | GK | Ahmed Al-Tarabulsi | ||||
| 20 | GK | Jasem Bahman | ||||
| 2 | DF | Mohammad Abbas | ||||
| 5 | DF | Ibrahim Al-Duraihim | ||||
| 13 | DF | Redha Maarafi | ||||
| 17 | DF | Hussein Al-Jaser | ||||
| 3 | DF | Mahboub Juma'a | ||||
| 14 | DF | Abdullah Mayoof | ||||
| 11 | MF | Hamad Bouhamad | ||||
| 15 | MF | Saud Bouhamad | ||||
| 6 | MF | Saad Al-Houti | ||||
| 18 | MF | Saleh Al-Asfoor | ||||
| 8 | MF | Farouk Ibrahim | ||||
| 4 | MF | Abdullah Al-Buloushi | ||||
| 12 | FW | Badir Bu Abbas | ||||
| 19 | FW | Mohammed Shuaeb | ||||
| 16 | FW | Faisal Al-Dakhil | ||||
| 9 | FW | Jasem Yaqoub | ||||
| 7 | FW | Fathi Kameel | ||||
| 10 | FW | Abdulaziz Al-Anberi |
References
edit- ^ Ghoshal, Amoy. "Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1978 Bangkok". www.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 2022-08-28.