List of Pakistan national football team captains

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This article lists all the captains of the Pakistan national football team .

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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. [5]

List of captains

TenureIncumbentVice-captainsTournaments/NotesRef
1950 Osman Jan [2]
1952 Abdul Wahid Khan Durrani PFF.jpg Abdul Wahid Durrani Ramzan Jr. 1952 Colombo Cup [2]
1953Muhammad Sharif Moideen Kutty 1953 Colombo Cup [2]
1954 Moideen Kutty.jpg Moideen Kutty Ahmed Ali 1954 Asian Games [2] [6]
1954 Jamil Akhtar.png Jamil Akhtar Moideen Kutty 1954 Colombo Cup [2]
1955 Former Pakistan national football team captain Sumbal Khan.jpg Sumbal Khan 1955 Colombo Cup [7]
1956 Riasat Ali 1953 (cropped).jpg Riasat Ali Mohammad Amin [5]
1958 Nabi Chowdhury (cropped).jpg Nabi Chowdhury Abdul Haq 1958 Asian Games [2] [8]
1959 Masoodul Hassan Butt Ibrahim [2]
1959–1960 Qayyum Changezi.jpg Qayyum Changezi 1960 Merdeka Tournament [2] [9]
1961 Ghulam Rabbani.png Ghulam Rabbani [10] [11]
1961 Musa Ghazi (cropped).jpg Musa Ghazi [12] [13]
1962–1965 Tunku Abdul Rahman distributing the 1962 Aga Khan Gold Cup trophy to Muhammad Umer.jpg Muhammad Umer Baloch 1962 Merdeka Tournament [9]
1963 Mohammad Amin.jpg Mohammad Amin Abid Ghazi [9]
1964 Abid Ghazi (cropped).jpg Abid Ghazi [9]
1966–1967 Former Pakistan national football team captain Turab Ali.jpg Turab Ali 1967 RCD Cup [9] [14]
1967Muhammad Latif
1967Wali Muhammad
1969 Former Pakistan national football team captain Murad Bakhsh.jpg Murad Bakhsh [15]
1969Sardar Aslam
1969 Younus Rana 1967.jpg Younus Rana 1969 Friendship Cup

1969 RCD Cup

[16]
1970 Qadir Bakhsh (cropped).png Qadir Bakhsh 1970 RCD Cup [17]
1973 Maula Bakhsh 1967.jpg Maula Bakhsh [9]
1974 Ayub Dar 1967.png Ayub Dar
1974 Ali Nawaz Baloch.jpg Ali Nawaz Baloch 1974 RCD Cup [18]
1974 Pakistani footballer of the 1960s, Abdul Ghafoor Majna, shakes hands with the chief guest before a match.jpg Abdul Ghafoor 1974 Asian Games [19]
1976 Ghulam Sarwar 1974 Asian Games.jpg Ghulam Sarwar Sr. Afghanistan Republic Day Festival Cup

1976 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup

[20] [21]
1978Muhammad Ishaq
1981–1982 Akbar Raisani 1981 King's Cup

1982 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup

[22] [23]
1982Naeem Gul 1982 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup [23]
1984Zulfiqar Ghulam Ahmed Khalid Butt, Najeeb Ullah Najmi 1984 Merdeka Tournament [24]
1985Zulfiqar Dogar 1985 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup
1985Arbab Muhammad Hayat Shahzada 1985 South Asian Games [25]
1986–1989 Mukhtar Ali at the 1986 Fajr International Tournament in Tehran.jpg Mukhtar Ali 1986 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup

1987 South Asian Games

[10] [11]
1986Muhammad NaveedSamuel Gill 1986 Asian Games [19]
1986 Shaukat Mufti (cropped).jpg Shaukat Mufti Mukhtar Ali 1986 Fajr International Tournament [22]
1987 Sharafat Ali 1987 (cropped).jpg Sharafat Ali 1987 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup [26]
1989–1990 Mateen Akhtar Abdul Wahid, Zafar Iqbal 1989 South Asian Games

1990 Asian Games

[25] [19]
1991 Ghulam Sarwar (Teddy) 1991 South Asian Games [27]
1992Mohammad Riaz [5]
1993 Zafar Iqbal at the 1986 Fajr International Tournament in Tehran.jpg Zafar Iqbal 1993 SAARC Gold Cup [10] [11]
1993–1996 Mohammad Tariq Hussain [28] [25]
1995 Mohammad Nauman Khan 1997.jpg Mohammad Nauman Khan 1995 SAFF Gold Cup [29]
1997 Qazi Ashfaq before the match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan, 1997 Gold Cup (cropped).jpg Qazi Ashfaq Haroon Yousaf 1997 SAFF Gold Cup [30]
1998–2003 Haroon Yousaf.jpg Haroon Yousaf 1999 SAFF Gold Cup

1999 South Asian Games

2003 SAFF Gold Cup

[30] [31]
2002 Sarfraz Rasool at the 1997 SAFF Gold Cup (cropped).jpg Sarfraz Rasool [32] [33]
2003–2011 Jaffar Khan 2013.jpg Jaffar Khan Samar Ishaq, Adnan Ahmed, Faisal Iqbal, Abdul Aziz 2005 SAFF Gold Cup

2006 AFC Challenge Cup

2011 SAFF Championship

[34] [33]
2005 Tanveer Ahmed 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games [35] [33]
2006–2009 Muhammad Essa Jaffar Khan 2009 SAFF Championship [36] [33]
2008 Zahid Hameed Imran Niazi 2008 SAFF Championship [37]
2010–2013 Samar Ishaq.jpg Samar Ishaq Adnan Ahmed 2013 SAFF Championship [33]
2013–2019 Zesh Rehman York City v. Bradford City 1.png Zesh Rehman 2013 Philippines Peace Cup [38] [33]
2014 Kaleemullah playing for Sacramento Republic FC.jpg Kaleemullah Khan Faisal Iqbal, Saddam Hussain [33]
2014 Muhammad Ahmed 2013.jpg Muhammad Ahmed
2015–2023 Hassan Bashir.jpg Hassan Bashir 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup

2023 SAFF Championship

[39]
2018 Saddam Hussain Hassan Bashir 2018 SAFF Championship [40]
2023 Saqib Hanif [41]
2023 Yousuf Butt 2019(cropped).jpg Yousuf Butt 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup [42] [43]
2023–present Easah Suliman Otis Khan 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup

Captains by major tournaments

PlayerTournament(s)
Moideen Kutty
Nabi Chowdhury
Abdul Ghafoor
Muhammad Naveed
Mateen Akhtar
Jaffar Khan

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