2003 SAFF Gold Cup squads

The 2003 South Asian Football Federation Gold Cup is an international football tournament held in Bangladesh from 10 January to 20 January 2003. ^[1] The eight national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 23 players, including three goalkeepers. Only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament. ^{[2] [3]}

Group A

India

Coach: Stephen Constantine ^[4]

• Naseem Akhtar
• Rajat Ghosh Dastidar
• Virender Singh
• Roberto Fernandes
• Selwyn Fernandes
• Debjit Ghosh
• Samir Naik
• Muttath Suresh
• Jules Alberto
• Jo Paul Ancheri
• Subhash Chakraborty
• Abhay Kumar
• Climax Lawrence
• Renedy Singh
• Shanmugam Venkatesh
• Ashim Biswas
• Alvito D'Cunha
• Harvinder Singh
• IM Vijayan
• Abhishek Yadav

Sri Lanka

Coach: Marcus Fereira ^[5]

• Sandun Devinda
• Dammika Senarath
• Dudley Lincoln Steinwall
• KM Fuard
• Nalind Nandana Kurmara
• Samantha Prabath
• Rukman Rishantha
• Janaka Sanjaya Silva
• Gihan Janaka
• Imran Mohammed
• Mohamed Rawme Mohideen
• Chathura Maduranga Weerasinghe
• Chryshantha Abeysekera
• M Azmeer
• EIP Perera
• MH Mohamed Hamsa

Pakistan

Coach: Tariq Lutfi ^[6]

• Jaffar Khan
• Abdul Ghani
• Haroon Yousaf
• Tanveer Ahmed
• Muhammad Sameen
• Amir Shahzad
• Sajjad Haider
• Sarfraz Rasool
• Zakir Hussain
• Sajjad Hussain
• Ashfaq Ahmed
• Muhammad Ayaz
• Muhammad Niaz
• Qadeer Ahmed
• Shahid Saleem
• Zahid Niaz
• Khuda Bakhsh
• Mehmood Khan
• Muhammad Nawaz
• Fareed Majeed
• Wazir Ahmed
• Muhammad Amir Khan

Afghanistan

Coach: Holger Obermann ^[7]

• Jamshid
• Abdul Salem Jamshid
• Rahil Ahmad Fourmoli
• Najib Naderi
• Omar Azhar
• Ahmad Zia Azimi
• Rollah
• Omar Nazar
• Reza Rezai
• Obaidullah
• Sayed Tahir Shah
• Ali Danish

Group B

Bangladesh

Coach: George Kottan ^{[8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}

• Biplob Bhattacharjee
• Aminul Haque
• Rajani Kanta Barman
• Kazi Nazrul Islam
• Mohammed Sujan
• Mahmudul Hasan
• Hassan Al-Mamun
• Firoj Mahmud Titu
• Rokonuzzaman Kanchan
• Abdul Qaiyum Sentu
• Mohammed Monwar Hossain
• Arman Mia
• Arif Khan Joy
• Mustafa Anwar Parvez Babu
• Saifur Rahman Moni
• Motiur Rahman Munna
• Alfaz Ahmed
• Mehedi Hasan Ujjal
• Ariful Kabir Farhad
• Saiful Islam Saif

Bhutan

Coach: Henk Walk ^[13]

• Jigme Singhe
• Puspalal Sharma
• Passang Tshering
• Irishna Subba
• Bhim Kumar Chhetri
• Kinley Dorji
• Wangay Dorji
• Dorji Khandu
• Chengho
• Sonam Tobgye
• Sonam Tenzin
• Dinesh Chhetri
• Pema Chophel
• Sonam Jamtsho
• Ygyen
• Namey
• Tenzin

Maldives

Coach: Jozef Jankech ^{[14] [15]}

• Mohamed Jameel
• Aslam Abdul Raheem
• Mohamed Nizam
• Ali Shiyam
• Mohamed Areesh
• Asad Abdul Ganee
• Ali Umar
• Abdullah Ibrahim
• Ismail Naseem
• Ibrahim Fazeel
• Adam Abdul Latheef
• Fareed Mohamed
• Ahmed Naaz
• Mohamed
• Hussain Luthfee
• Mohamed Hussain
• Shah Ismail
• Ishaq Easa
• Ibrahim Sagib
• Hassan Nadheem
• Ismail Mohamed
• Ahmed Janah
• Ibrahim Amil
• Ahmed Niyaz
• Ahmed Thoha
• Ahmed Thoriq

Nepal

Coach: Yoo Kee-heung ^{[16] [17] [18]}

• Upendra Man Singh
• Chhannu Ram Chaudhary
• Rajkumar KC
• Sagar Thapa
• Dev Narayan Chaudhary
• Rakesh Shrestha
• Narayan Manandhar
• Narottam Gautam
• Janak Singh
• Rajesh Shah
• Nabin Neupane
• Deepak Lama
• Basanta Gauchan
• Sunil Tuladhar
• Balgopal Maharjan
• Rajkumar Shrestha
• Kumar Thapa
• Ananta Thapa
• Rajan Rayamajhi
• Surendra Tamang
• Sukra Tamang
• Ramesh Budathoki
• Hari Khadka
• Basanta Thapa
• Nirajan Rayamajhi

References

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8. "Nationfootball team" . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
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14. "Maldives Squad" . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
15. "Maldives vs Bangladesh match" . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
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17. "Nepal Match 2" . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
18. "Nepal Match 3" . Retrieved 20 November 2021.