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	1 GK	Li Fusheng
14		He Jia
4		Lin Lefeng
3		Liu Zhicai
2		Xiang Hengqing
17		Yang Anli
16		Wang Feng
6	3 MF	Chi Shangbin
11	4 FW	Rong Zhixing
18		Li Fubao
7		Yang Yumin
15		Shen Xiangfu
		Liu Jinshan
		Liu Lifu
		Wang Changtai

  Iraq

Head coach: Ammo Baba

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1 GK	Raad Hammoudi	(1953-05-01)1 May 1953 (aged 25)			Al-Shorta
	1 GK	Fatah Nsaief	(1951-02-02)2 February 1951 (aged 27)			Al Jaish
	2 DF	Ibrahim Ali	(1950-07-01)1 July 1950 (aged 28)			Al-Zawraa
	2 DF	Hassan Farhan	(1953-06-29)29 June 1953 (aged 25)			Al Jaish
	2 DF	Wathiq Aswad	(1957-07-01)1 July 1957 (aged 21)			Al-Talaba
	2 DF	Nadhim Shaker	(1958-12-18)18 December 1958 (aged 19)			Al Tayaran
	2 DF	Adnan Dirjal	(1960-01-26)26 January 1960 (aged 18)			Al-Zawraa
	2 DF	Abdul-Karim Farhan	(1956-11-26)26 November 1956 (aged 22)			Al-Talaba
	2 DF	Adnan Jafar	(1949-12-29)29 December 1949 (aged 28)			Al-Shorta
	3 MF	Alaa Ahmad	(1952-01-01)1 January 1952 (aged 26)			Al-Minaa
	3 MF	Hadi Ahmed	(1951-01-01)1 January 1951 (aged 27)			Al-Minaa
	3 MF	Dhurgham Mahdi	(1951-07-01)1 July 1951 (aged 27)			Al-Sinaa SC
	3 MF	Hesham Mustafa	(1952-07-01)1 July 1952 (aged 26)			Al-Tayaran
	3 MF	Hussein Ali Thajil	(1958-07-01)1 July 1958 (aged 20)			Al Tayaran
	4 FW	Ali Hussein Mahmoud	(1953-01-01)1 January 1953 (aged 25)			Al-Shorta
	4 FW	Ali Kadhim	(1949-01-01)1 January 1949 (aged 29)			Al-Zawraa
	4 FW	Hussein Saeed	(1958-01-21)21 January 1958 (aged 20)			Al-Talaba
	4 FW	Ahmed Subhi	(1952-01-01)1 January 1952 (aged 26)			Al-Amana
	4 FW	Mahdi Abdul-Sahib	(1956-07-28)28 July 1956 (aged 22)			Al-Talaba
	4 FW	Ara Hamparsum	(1952-07-07)7 July 1952 (aged 26)			Al-Amana

  Qatar

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1 GK	Mohammad Sami Wafa
	2 DF	Mubarak Anbar Al-Ali
	2 DF
	3 MF
	2 DF
	3 MF
	4 FW
	4 FW
	4 FW
	4 FW
	4 FW

  Saudi Arabia

Head coach: David Woodfield

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1 GK	Salem Marwan
2	2 DF	Jasim al-Qartas
3	2 DF	Saleh Al-Nu'eimeh
4	3 MF	Issa Khalifa Al-Dosari
5	2 DF	Tawfiq al-Moghren
7	3 MF	Yousef Khames
8	3 MF	Saleh Khalifa Al-Dosari
9	4 FW	Majed Abdullah
11	3 MF	Ahmad al-Saqeer
12	2 DF	Ibrahim Tahseen
13	3 MF	Fahad al-Habshi
14	4 FW	Issa Hamdan
15	2 DF	Ahmad al-Nifawi
18	4 FW	Sultan bin Naseeb
19	1 GK	Ibrahim al-Yousef
20	1 GK	Taiseer al-Saqabi
	4 FW	Abdullah Abdraboh
	2 DF	Saad Breek
	3 MF	Issa al-Dosari
	4 FW	Saud Jassim
	3 MF	Issa Khawaji
	2 DF	Wajdi Mubarak

Group B

  Burma

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1 GK
	2 DF
	2 DF
	3 MF
	2 DF
	3 MF
	4 FW
	4 FW
	4 FW
	4 FW
	4 FW

  North Korea

Head coach: Pak Du-Sok

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	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	1 GK	Vasin Masapong
2		Manus Ratanatisol
3		Jirasak Chareonchand
16		Prapan Premsri
14		Witoon Trikuna
12		Chamreon Kamnil
10	4 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
	1 GK	Shahidur Rahman Shantoo (c)	(1947-11-17)17 November 1947 (aged 31)			Mohammedan SC
	1 GK	Moinul Karim Moin				Sadharan Bima CSC
	2 DF	Sawpan Kumar Das	(1962-11-10)10 November 1962 (aged 16)			Wari Club Dhaka
	2 DF	Shamsul Alam Manju	(1955-03-14)14 March 1955 (aged 23)			Mohammedan SC
	2 DF	Abul Hossain	(1957-07-02)2 July 1957 (aged 21)			Azad Sporting Club
	2 DF	Mohammad Abu Yusuf	(1956-09-11)11 September 1956 (aged 22)			Rahmatganj MFS
	2 DF	Milon Karmakar Basu				Team BJMC
	2 DF	Zakir Hossain Badal				Mohammedan SC
	3 MF	Ashish Bhadra	(1960-03-14)14 March 1960 (aged 18)			Rahmatganj MFS
	3 MF	Kowsar Ali	(1958-11-20)20 November 1958 (aged 20)			Team BJMC
	3 MF	Mostafa Hossain Mokul	(1957-11-12)12 November 1957 (aged 21)			Team BJMC
	3 MF	Pranab Kumar Dey Banu				Mohammedan SC
	3 MF	Syed Nazmul Hassan Lovan	(1958-09-20)20 September 1958 (aged 20)			Wari Club Dhaka
	3 MF	Hasanuzzaman Khan Bablu	(1955-05-05)5 May 1955 (aged 23)			Brothers Union
	4 FW	Yusuf Buli				Mohammedan SC
	4 FW	Hassan Ahmedul Haque	(1958-01-02)2 January 1958 (aged 20)			Team BJMC
	4 FW	Mohammed Mohsin	(1963-04-03)3 April 1963 (aged 15)			Brothers Union
	4 FW	Sheikh Mohammad Aslam	(1958-03-01)1 March 1958 (aged 20)			Victoria SC
	4 FW	Enayetur Rahman Khan	(1951-02-28)28 February 1951 (aged 27)			Mohammedan SC

  India

Head coach: Arun Ghosh ^[1]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1 GK	Bhaskar Ganguly				East Bengal
	1 GK	Bhaskar Maity				Bengal
	1 GK	Surjit Singh
	2 DF	Gurdev Singh Gill (c)	(1950-04-20)20 April 1950 (aged 24)			East Bengal
	2 DF	Chinmoy Chatterjee				East Bengal
	2 DF	Shyamal Banerjee				Bengal
	2 DF	Compton Dutta				Bengal
	2 DF	Subrata Bhattacharya	(1953-03-03)3 March 1953 (aged 21)			Mohun Bagan
	2 DF	Nicholas Pereira
	2 DF	D. Sekaran
	2 DF	Gurcharan Singh Parmar
	3 MF	Prasun Banerjee	(1955-04-06)6 April 1955 (aged 19)			East Bengal
	3 MF	Pushparaj Kumar				Karnataka
	3 MF	A. Devraj Doraiswamy				Karnataka
	3 MF	M.M. Jacob
	3 MF	Thomas Fernandes
	4 FW	Xavier Pius
	4 FW	Francis D'Souza
	4 FW	Mohammed Akbar
	4 FW	Harjinder Singh				JCT Mills
	4 FW	Surajit Sengupta	(1951-08-30)30 August 1951 (aged 23)			East Bengal
	4 FW	Bidesh Ranjan Bose	(1953-11-15)15 November 1953 (aged 21)			Bengal

  Malaysia

Head coach: Chow Kwai Lam

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1 GK	R. Arumugam
22		Jamal Rashid
4		Yahya Jusoh
6	3 MF	Shukor Salleh
3	2 DF	Soh Chin Aun
5	2 DF	Santokh Singh
19		Khor Sek Leng
10	4 FW	Mokhtar Dahari
9	4 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	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	1 GK	Mitsuhisa Taguchi	(1955-02-14)14 February 1955 (aged 23)			Mitsubishi Motors
	2 DF	Masatoshi Matsunaga	(1950-12-22)22 December 1950 (aged 27)			Mitsubishi Motors
3	2 DF	Hiroshi Ochiai	(1946-02-28)28 February 1946 (aged 32)			Mitsubishi Motors
4	2 DF	Keizo Imai	(1950-11-19)19 November 1950 (aged 28)			Fujita Industrial
5	2 DF	Kazuo Saito	(1951-07-27)27 July 1951 (aged 27)			Mitsubishi Motors
6	3 MF	Nobuo Fujishima	(1950-04-08)8 April 1950 (aged 28)			Nippon Kokan
7	4 FW	Haruhisa Hasegawa	(1957-04-14)14 April 1957 (aged 21)			Osaka University of Commerce
8	3 MF	Mitsunori Fujiguchi	(1949-08-17)17 August 1949 (aged 29)			Mitsubishi Motors
9	4 FW	Hiroyuki Usui	(1953-08-04)4 August 1953 (aged 25)			Hitachi
10	3 MF	Nobutoshi Kaneda	(1958-02-16)16 February 1958 (aged 20)			Chuo University
11	4 FW	Yoshikazu Nagai	(1952-04-16)16 April 1952 (aged 26)			Furukawa Electric
12	2 DF	Atsuyoshi Furuta	(1952-10-27)27 October 1952 (aged 26)			Toyo Industries
	2 DF	Tsutomu Sonobe	(1958-03-29)29 March 1958 (aged 20)			Fujita Industrial
14	3 MF	Hideki Maeda	(1954-05-13)13 May 1954 (aged 24)			Furukawa Electric
15	3 MF	Hisashi Kato	(1956-04-24)24 April 1956 (aged 22)			Waseda University
16	4 FW	Hiromi Hara	(1958-10-19)19 October 1958 (aged 20)			Waseda University
17	4 FW	Masaru Kawaguchi	(1956-12-19)19 December 1956 (aged 21)			Osaka University of Commerce
	1 GK	Tatsuhiko Seta	(1952-01-08)8 January 1952 (aged 26)			Hitachi

  South Korea

Head coach: Ham Heung-chul

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1 GK	Kim Hwang-ho	(1954-08-15)15 August 1954 (aged 24)			ROK Navy FC
2	2 DF	Hong Sung-ho	(1954-12-20)20 December 1954 (aged 23)			POSCO FC
3	2 DF	Kim Ho-gon	(1950-03-26)26 March 1950 (aged 28)			Seoul Trust Bank FC
4	2 DF	Cho Kwang-rae	(1954-03-19)19 March 1954 (aged 24)			POSCO FC
5	2 DF	Hwang Jae-man	(1953-01-24)24 January 1953 (aged 25)			ROK Air Force FC
6	2 DF	Park Sung-hwa	(1955-05-07)7 May 1955 (aged 23)			POSCO FC
7	3 MF	Shin Hyun-ho	(1953-09-21)21 September 1953 (aged 25)			POSCO FC
8	3 MF	Cho Young-jeung	(1954-08-18)18 August 1954 (aged 24)			ROK Navy FC
9	3 MF	Lee Young-moo	(1953-07-26)26 July 1953 (aged 25)			POSCO FC
10	4 FW	Lee Kang-Jo	(1954-10-27)27 October 1954 (aged 24)			Korea Auto Insurance FC
11	4 FW	Cha Bum-Kun	(1953-05-22)22 May 1953 (aged 25)			ROK Air Force FC
12	2 DF	Choi Jong-Duk	(1954-06-24)24 June 1954 (aged 24)			POSCO FC
15	3 MF	Huh Jung-Moo	(1955-01-13)13 January 1955 (aged 23)			ROK Navy FC
17	3 MF	Park Sang-in	(1952-11-16)16 November 1952 (aged 26)			Commercial Bank of Korea FC
18	3 MF	Kim Sung-nam	(1954-07-19)19 July 1954 (aged 24)			ROK Navy FC
19	3 MF	Kim Kang-nam	(1954-07-19)19 July 1954 (aged 24)			ROK Navy FC
20	4 FW	Oh Seok-jae	(1958-10-13)13 October 1958 (aged 20)			Konkuk University
21	1 GK	Kim Hee-chun	(1955-10-19)19 October 1955 (aged 23)			ROK Air Force FC
22	2 DF	Kim Hee-tae	(1953-07-10)10 July 1953 (aged 25)			ROK Air Force FC
23	1 GK	Cho Byung-deuk	(1958-05-26)26 May 1958 (aged 20)			POSCO FC

  Kuwait

Head coach: Mario Zagallo

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1 GK	Ahmed Al-Tarabulsi
20	1 GK	Jasem Bahman
2	2 DF	Mohammad Abbas
5	2 DF	Ibrahim Al-Duraihim
13	2 DF	Redha Maarafi
17	2 DF	Hussein Al-Jaser
3	2 DF	Mahboub Juma'a
14	2 DF	Abdullah Mayoof
11	3 MF	Hamad Bouhamad
15	3 MF	Saud Bouhamad
6	3 MF	Saad Al-Houti
18	3 MF	Saleh Al-Asfoor
8	3 MF	Farouk Ibrahim
4	3 MF	Abdullah Al-Buloushi
12	4 FW	Badir Bu Abbas
19	4 FW	Mohammed Shuaeb
16	4 FW	Faisal Al-Dakhil
9	4 FW	Jasem Yaqoub
7	4 FW	Fathi Kameel
10	4 FW	Abdulaziz Al-Anberi

References

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20140102232311/http://rdfc.com.ne.kr/int/skor-intres-1970.html
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