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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][3] who captained Pakistan in their first international match against Iran on 27 October 1950.[4][5]

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 edit

Tenure Incumbent Vice-captains Tournaments/Notes Ref
1950 Osman Jan Pakistan national team first ever debut and tour to Iran and Iraq [3]
1952 Abdul Wahid Durrani 1952 Colombo Cup [3]
1953 Muhammad Sharif 1953 Colombo Cup [3]
1954 Moideen Kutty 1954 Asian Games [3]
1954 Jamil Akhtar 1954 Colombo Cup [3]
1955 Sumbal Khan 1955 Colombo Cup [6]
1956 Riasat Ali [3]
1958 Nabi Chowdhury 1958 Asian Games [3]
1959 Masoodul Hassan Butt Pakistan tour to Burma [3]
1959–1960 Qayyum Changezi 1960 AFC Asian Cup qualification, 1960 Merdeka Tournament [3][7]
1961 Ghulam Rabbani [8]
1961 Musa Ghazi [9]
1961–1963 Muhammad Umer Baloch 1962 Merdeka Tournament [7]
1963 Muhammad Amin 1964 Summer Olympics qualification [7]
1964 Abid Ghazi [7]
1965 Omar Abdul Ghafoor 1965 RCD Cup [10]
1967 Turab Ali 1968 AFC Asian Cup qualification, 1967 RCD Cup [7]
1967 Muhammad Latif
1967 Wali Muhammad
1968 Murad Bakhsh [11]
1969 Sardar Aslam [12]
1969 Younus Rana 1969 RCD Cup [13]
1970 Qadir Bakhsh 1970 RCD Cup [14]
1973 Maula Bakhsh [7]
1974 Ayub Dar [15]
1974 Ali Nawaz Baloch 1974 RCD Cup [16][17]
1974 Abdul Ghafoor 1974 Asian Games [10]
1976 Ghulam Sarwar 1976 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup [18]
1978 Muhammad Ishaq
1981–1982 Akbar Raisani 1981 King's Cup, 1982 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup [7]
1982 Naeem Gul
1984–1985 Zulfiqar Dogar 1984 Merdeka Tournament, 1985 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup [19]
1986–1989 Mukhtar Ali 1986 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup, 1987 South Asian Games [19]
1986 Muhammad Naveed 1986 Asian Games [20]
1987 Shoukat Mufti 1986 Fajr International Tournament [21]
1989 Sharafat Ali 1989 South Asian Games
1990 Mateen Akhtar 1990 Asian Games
1991 Ghulam Sarwar (Teddy) 1991 South Asian Games [21]
1992 Mohammad Riaz
1993 Zafar Iqbal 1993 SAARC Gold Cup [8]
1995 Mohammad Nauman Khan 1995 SAFF Gold Cup [22]
1997 Qazi Ashfaq Haroon Yousaf 1997 SAFF Gold Cup [23]
1998–2003 Haroon Yousaf 1999 SAFF Gold Cup, 1999 South Asian Games, 2003 SAFF Gold Cup [23][24]
2002 Sarfraz Rasool [25]
2003–2011 Jaffar Khan Samar Ishaq, Adnan Ahmed, Faisal Iqbal, Abdul Aziz 2005 SAFF Gold Cup, 2006 AFC Challenge Cup, 2011 SAFF Championship [26]
2005 Tanveer Ahmed 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games [27][28]
2006–2009 Muhammad Essa Jaffar Khan 2009 SAFF Championship [29][30]
2008 Zahid Hameed Imran Niazi 2008 SAFF Championship [31]
2010–2013 Samar Ishaq Adnan Ahmed 2013 SAFF Championship
2013–2019 Zesh Rehman 2013 Philippines Peace Cup [32][33]
2014 Kaleemullah Khan Faisal Iqbal,

Saddam Hussain

[34]
2014 Muhammad Ahmed
2015–2023 Hassan Bashir 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup, 2023 SAFF Championship [35][36]
2018 Saddam Hussain Hassan Bashir 2018 SAFF Championship [37]
2023 Saqib Hanif [38]
2023–present Easah Suliman Otis Khan
2023 Yousuf Butt [39]

Captains by major tournaments edit

  • In Continental and International tournaments
Player Tournament(s)
Moideen Kutty
Nabi Chowdhury
Abdul Ghafoor
Muhammad Naveed
Mateen Akhtar
Jaffar Khan

References edit

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  17. ^ Editorial Staff (2011-01-05). "KESC joins hands with PFF to revitalise football in Lyari". FootballPakistan.com (FPDC). Retrieved 2024-01-24.
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  19. ^ a b Editorial Staff (2013-03-06). "Profile: Ex-captain Mukhtar Ali". FootballPakistan.com (FPDC). Retrieved 2024-01-24.
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  33. ^ Editorial Staff (2015-03-10). "Pakistan departs for Qatar ahead of World Cup qualifier with Yemen". FootballPakistan.com (FPDC). Retrieved 2024-01-24.
  34. ^ Azeem, Gauhar Mahmood (2014-02-17). "Pakistan football team leaves for Lebanon tonight". FootballPakistan.com (FPDC). Retrieved 2024-01-24.
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  36. ^ Editorial Staff (2023-07-23). "We need to score more goals, concedes Pak football captain [The News]". FootballPakistan.com (FPDC). Retrieved 2024-01-24.
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