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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
1950
Osman Jan
Pakistan national team first ever debut and tour to Iran and Iraq
[2]
1952
Abdul Wahid Durrani
1952 Colombo Cup
[2]
1953
Muhammad Sharif
1953 Colombo Cup
[2]
1954
Moideen Kutty
1954 Asian Games
[2]
1954
Jamil Akhtar
1954 Colombo Cup
[2]
1955
Sumbal Khan
1955 Colombo Cup
[5]
1956
Riasat Ali
[2]
1958
Nabi Chowdhury
1958 Asian Games
[2]
1959
Masoodul Hassan Butt
Pakistan tour to Burma
[2]
1959–1960
Qayyum Changezi
1960 AFC Asian Cup qualification ,
1960 Merdeka Tournament
[2]
[6]
1961
Ghulam Rabbani
[7]
1961
Musa Ghazi
[8]
1961–1963
Muhammad Umer Baloch
1962 Merdeka Tournament
[6]
1963
Muhammad Amin
1964 Summer Olympics qualification
[6]
1964
Abid Ghazi
[6]
1965
Omar
Abdul Ghafoor
1965 RCD Cup
1967
Turab Ali
1968 AFC Asian Cup qualification ,
1967 RCD Cup
[6]
1967
Muhammad Latif
1967
Wali Muhammad
1968
Murad Bakhsh
[9]
1969
Sardar Aslam
[10]
1969
Younus Rana
1969 RCD Cup
[10]
1970
Qadir Bakhsh
1970 RCD Cup
[11]
1973
Maula Bakhsh
[6]
1974
Ayub Dar
[10]
1974
Ali Nawaz Baloch
1974 RCD Cup
[12]
1974
Abdul Ghafoor
1974 Asian Games
[13]
1976
Ghulam Sarwar
1976 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup
[14]
1978
Muhammad Ishaq
1981–1982
Akbar Raisani
1981 King's Cup ,
1982 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup
[15]
1982
Naeem Gul
1984–1985
Zulfiqar Dogar
1984 Merdeka Tournament ,
1985 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup
1986–1989
Mukhtar Ali
1986 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup ,
1987 South Asian Games
1986
Muhammad Naveed
1986 Asian Games
[13]
1987
Shoukat Mufti
1986 Fajr International Tournament
[15]
1987–1989
Sharafat Ali
1987 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup ,
1989 South Asian Games
1990
Mateen Akhtar
1990 Asian Games
[13]
1991
Ghulam Sarwar (Teddy )
1991 South Asian Games
[15]
1992
Mohammad Riaz
1993
Zafar Iqbal
1993 SAARC Gold Cup
[7]
1995
Mohammad Nauman Khan
1995 SAFF Gold Cup
1997
Qazi Ashfaq
Haroon Yousaf
1997 SAFF Gold Cup
[16]
1998–2003
Haroon Yousaf
1999 SAFF Gold Cup ,
1999 South Asian Games ,
2003 SAFF Gold Cup
[16]
[17]
2002
Sarfraz Rasool
2003–2011
Jaffar Khan
Samar Ishaq ,
Adnan Ahmed ,
Faisal Iqbal ,
Abdul Aziz
2005 SAFF Gold Cup ,
2006 AFC Challenge Cup ,
2011 SAFF Championship
[18]
2005
Tanveer Ahmed
2005 Islamic Solidarity Games
[19]
2006–2009
Muhammad Essa
Jaffar Khan
2009 SAFF Championship
[20]
2008
Zahid Hameed
Imran Niazi
2008 SAFF Championship
[21]
2010–2013
Samar Ishaq
Adnan Ahmed
2013 SAFF Championship
2013–2019
Zesh Rehman
2013 Philippines Peace Cup
[22]
2014
Kaleemullah Khan
Faisal Iqbal ,
Saddam Hussain
2014
Muhammad Ahmed
2015–2023
Hassan Bashir
2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup ,
2023 SAFF Championship
[23]
2018
Saddam Hussain
Hassan Bashir
2018 SAFF Championship
[24]
2023
Saqib Hanif
[25]
2023–present
Easah Suliman
Otis Khan
2023
Yousuf Butt
[26]
Captains by major tournaments
In Continental and International tournaments
References
External links
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Results
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