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 | 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 |
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Iraq
Head coach: Ammo Baba
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Raad Hammoudi | 1 May 1953 (aged 25) | Al-Shorta | |||
| GK | Fatah Nsaief | 2 February 1951 (aged 27) | Al Jaish | |||
| DF | Ibrahim Ali | 1 July 1950 (aged 28) | Al-Zawraa | |||
| DF | Hassan Farhan | 29 June 1953 (aged 25) | Al Jaish | |||
| DF | Wathiq Aswad | 1 July 1957 (aged 21) | Al-Talaba | |||
| DF | Nadhim Shaker | 18 December 1958 (aged 19) | Al Tayaran | |||
| DF | Adnan Dirjal | 26 January 1960 (aged 18) | Al-Zawraa | |||
| DF | Abdul-Karim Farhan | 26 November 1956 (aged 22) | Al-Talaba | |||
| DF | Adnan Jafar | 29 December 1949 (aged 28) | Al-Shorta
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| MF | Alaa Ahmad | 1 January 1952 (aged 26) | Al-Minaa | |||
| MF | Hadi Ahmed | 1 January 1951 (aged 27) | Al-Minaa | |||
| MF | Dhurgham Mahdi | 1 July 1951 (aged 27) | Al-Sinaa SC | |||
| MF | Hesham Mustafa | 1 July 1952 (aged 26) | Al-Tayaran | |||
| MF | Hussein Ali Thajil | 1 July 1958 (aged 20) | Al Tayaran | |||
| FW | Ali Hussein Mahmoud | 1 January 1953 (aged 25) | Al-Shorta | |||
| FW | Ali Kadhim | 1 January 1949 (aged 29) | Al-Zawraa | |||
| FW | Hussein Saeed | 21 January 1958 (aged 20) | Al-Talaba | |||
| FW | Ahmed Subhi | 1 January 1952 (aged 26) | Al-Amana | |||
| FW | Mahdi Abdul-Sahib | 28 July 1956 (aged 22) | Al-Talaba | |||
| FW | Ara Hamparsum | 7 July 1952 (aged 26) | Al-Amana |
Qatar
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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Saudi Arabia
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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Burma
Head coach:
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North Korea
Head coach: Pak Du-Sok
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Thailand
Head coach: 
Peter Schnittger
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Bangladesh
Head coach: Werner Bickelhaupt
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Shahidur Rahman Shantoo (c) | 17 November 1947 (aged 31) | Mohammedan SC | |||
| GK | Moinul Karim Moin | Sadharan Bima CSC | ||||
| DF | Sawpan Kumar Das | 10 November 1962 (aged 16) | Wari Club Dhaka | |||
| DF | Shamsul Alam Monju | 14 March 1955 (aged 23) | Mohammedan SC | |||
| DF | Abul Hossain | 2 July 1957 (aged 21) | Azad Sporting Club | |||
| DF | Mohammad Abu Yusuf | 11 September 1956 (aged 22) | Rahmatganj MFS | |||
| DF | Milon Karmakar Basu | Team BJMC | ||||
| DF | Zakir Hossain Badal | Mohammedan SC | ||||
| MF | Ashish Bhadra | 14 March 1960 (aged 18) | Rahmatganj MFS | |||
| MF | Kowsar Ali | 20 November 1958 (aged 20) | Team BJMC | |||
| MF | Mostafa Hossain Mokul | 12 November 1957 (aged 21) | Team BJMC | |||
| MF | Pranab Kumar Dey Banu | Mohammedan SC | ||||
| MF | Syed Nazmul Hassan Lovan | 20 September 1958 (aged 20) | Wari Club Dhaka | |||
| MF | Hasanuzzaman Khan Bablu | 5 May 1955 (aged 23) | Brothers Union | |||
| FW | Yusuf Buli | Mohammedan SC | ||||
| FW | Hassan Ahmedul Haque | 2 January 1958 (aged 20) | Team BJMC | |||
| FW | Mohammed Mohsin | 3 April 1963 (aged 15) | Brothers Union | |||
| FW | Sheikh Mohammad Aslam | 1 March 1958 (aged 20) | Victoria SC | |||
| FW | Enayetur Rahman Khan | 28 February 1951 (aged 27) | Mohammedan SC |
India
Head coach: Arun Ghosh[1]
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Bhaskar Ganguly | East Bengal | ||||
| GK | Bhaskar Maity | Bengal | ||||
| GK | Surjit Singh | |||||
| DF | Gurdev Singh Gill (c) | 20 April 1950 (aged 24) | East Bengal | |||
| DF | Chinmoy Chatterjee | East Bengal | ||||
| DF | Shyamal Banerjee | Bengal | ||||
| DF | Compton Dutta | Bengal | ||||
| DF | Subrata Bhattacharya | 3 March 1953 (aged 21) | Mohun Bagan | |||
| DF | Nicholas Pereira | |||||
| DF | D. Sekaran | |||||
| DF | Gurcharan Singh Parmar | |||||
| MF | Prasun Banerjee | 6 April 1955 (aged 19) | East Bengal | |||
| MF | Pushparaj Kumar | Karnataka | ||||
| MF | A. Devraj Doraiswamy | Karnataka | ||||
| MF | M.M. Jacob | |||||
| MF | Thomas Fernandes | |||||
| FW | Xavier Pius | |||||
| FW | Francis D'Souza | |||||
| FW | Mohammed Akbar | |||||
| FW | Harjinder Singh | JCT Mills | ||||
| FW | Surajit Sengupta | 30 August 1951 (aged 23) | East Bengal | |||
| FW | Bidesh Ranjan Bose | 15 November 1953 (aged 21) | Bengal |
Malaysia
Head coach: Chow Kwai Lam
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Bahrain
Head coach: Jack Mansell
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||
Japan
Head coach: Hiroshi Ninomiya
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | Mitsuhisa Taguchi | 14 February 1955 (aged 23) | Mitsubishi Motors | ||
| DF | Masatoshi Matsunaga | 22 December 1950 (aged 27) | Mitsubishi Motors | |||
| 3 | DF | Hiroshi Ochiai | 28 February 1946 (aged 32) | Mitsubishi Motors | ||
| 4 | DF | Keizo Imai | 19 November 1950 (aged 28) | Fujita Industrial | ||
| 5 | DF | Kazuo Saito | 27 July 1951 (aged 27) | Mitsubishi Motors | ||
| 6 | MF | Nobuo Fujishima | 8 April 1950 (aged 28) | Nippon Kokan | ||
| 7 | FW | Haruhisa Hasegawa | 14 April 1957 (aged 21) | Osaka University of Commerce | ||
| 8 | MF | Mitsunori Fujiguchi | 17 August 1949 (aged 29) | Mitsubishi Motors | ||
| 9 | FW | Hiroyuki Usui | 4 August 1953 (aged 25) | Hitachi | ||
| 10 | MF | Nobutoshi Kaneda | 16 February 1958 (aged 20) | Chuo University | ||
| 11 | FW | Yoshikazu Nagai | 16 April 1952 (aged 26) | Furukawa Electric | ||
| 12 | DF | Atsuyoshi Furuta | 27 October 1952 (aged 26) | Toyo Industries | ||
| DF | Tsutomu Sonobe | 29 March 1958 (aged 20) | Fujita Industrial | |||
| 14 | MF | Hideki Maeda | 13 May 1954 (aged 24) | Furukawa Electric | ||
| 15 | MF | Hisashi Kato | 24 April 1956 (aged 22) | Waseda University | ||
| 16 | FW | Hiromi Hara | 19 October 1958 (aged 20) | Waseda University | ||
| 17 | FW | Masaru Kawaguchi | 19 December 1956 (aged 21) | Osaka University of Commerce | ||
| GK | Tatsuhiko Seta | 8 January 1952 (aged 26) | Hitachi |
South Korea
Head coach: Ham Heung-chul
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | Kim Hwang-ho | 15 August 1954 (aged 24) | ROK Navy FC | ||
| 2 | DF | Hong Sung-ho | 20 December 1954 (aged 23) | POSCO FC | ||
| 3 | DF | Kim Ho-gon | 26 March 1950 (aged 28) | Seoul Trust Bank FC | ||
| 4 | DF | Cho Kwang-rae | 19 March 1954 (aged 24) | POSCO FC | ||
| 5 | DF | Hwang Jae-man | 24 January 1953 (aged 25) | ROK Air Force FC | ||
| 6 | DF | Park Sung-hwa | 7 May 1955 (aged 23) | POSCO FC | ||
| 7 | MF | Shin Hyun-ho | 21 September 1953 (aged 25) | POSCO FC | ||
| 8 | MF | Cho Young-jeung | 18 August 1954 (aged 24) | ROK Navy FC | ||
| 9 | MF | Lee Young-moo | 26 July 1953 (aged 25) | POSCO FC | ||
| 10 | FW | Lee Kang-Jo | 27 October 1954 (aged 24) | Korea Auto Insurance FC | ||
| 11 | FW | Cha Bum-Kun | 22 May 1953 (aged 25) | ROK Air Force FC | ||
| 12 | DF | Choi Jong-Duk | 24 June 1954 (aged 24) | POSCO FC | ||
| 15 | MF | Huh Jung-Moo | 13 January 1955 (aged 23) | ROK Navy FC | ||
| 17 | MF | Park Sang-in | 16 November 1952 (aged 26) | Commercial Bank of Korea FC | ||
| 18 | MF | Kim Sung-nam | 19 July 1954 (aged 24) | ROK Navy FC | ||
| 19 | MF | Kim Kang-nam | 19 July 1954 (aged 24) | ROK Navy FC | ||
| 20 | FW | Oh Seok-jae | 13 October 1958 (aged 20) | Konkuk University | ||
| 21 | GK | Kim Hee-chun | 19 October 1955 (aged 23) | ROK Air Force FC | ||
| 22 | DF | Kim Hee-tae | 10 July 1953 (aged 25) | ROK Air Force FC | ||
| 23 | GK | Cho Byung-deuk | 26 May 1958 (aged 20) | POSCO FC |
Kuwait
Head coach: 
Mario Zagallo
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Bu Hamad | ||||
| 15 | MF | Saud Bu Hamad | ||||
| 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
- ↑ Ghoshal, Amoy. "Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1978 Bangkok". www.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
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