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.

List of captains

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

Captains by major tournaments

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

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