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 1938.jpg Osman Jan [1]
1952 Abdul Wahid Khan Durrani PFF.jpg Abdul Wahid Durrani Ramzan Jr. 1952 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [2]
1953Muhammad Sharif Moideen Kutty 1953 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [2]
1954 Moideen Kutty.jpg Moideen Kutty Ahmed Ali 1954 Asian Games [6] [7]
1954 Jamil Akhtar.png Jamil Akhtar Moideen Kutty 1954 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [2]
1955 Former Pakistan national football team captain Sumbal Khan.jpg Sumbal Khan 1955 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [8]
1956 Riasat Ali 1953 (cropped).jpg Riasat Ali Mohammad Amin [5]
1958 Nabi Chowdhury (cropped).jpg Nabi Chowdhury Abdul Haq 1958 Asian Games [2] [9]
1959 Masoodul Hassan Butt.jpg Masoodul Hassan Butt Ibrahim [2]
1959–1960 Qayyum Changezi.jpg Qayyum Changezi Kabir Ahmed 1960 Merdeka Tournament [2] [10] [11]
1961 Ghulam Rabbani.png Ghulam Rabbani [12] [13]
1961 Moosa Ghazi (cropped).jpg Moosa Ghazi [14]
1962–1965 Tunku Abdul Rahman distributing the 1962 Aga Khan Gold Cup trophy to Muhammad Umer.jpg Muhammad Umer Abdul Haq 1962 Merdeka Tournament

1965 RCD Cup

[15]
1963 Mohammad Amin.jpg Mohammad Amin Abid Ghazi [10]
1964 Abid Ghazi.jpg Abid Ghazi [16]
1966–1967 Former Pakistan national football team captain Turab Ali.jpg Turab Ali [10]
1967 Muhammad Lateef 1967.jpg Muhammad Lateef 1967 RCD Cup [17]
1967Wali Muhammad
1968–1969 Former Pakistan national football team captain Murad Bakhsh.jpg Murad Bakhsh [18]
1969 Sardar Aslam.jpg Sardar Aslam1969 Friendship Cup

1969 RCD Cup

[17]
1970 Younus Rana 1967.jpg Younus Rana Qadir Bakhsh 1970 Friendship Cup (as PFF XI) [19]
1970 Qadir Bakhsh (cropped).png Qadir Bakhsh 1970 RCD Cup [17]
1973 Maula Bakhsh 1967.jpg Maula Bakhsh [10]
1974 Ayub Dar 1967.png Ayub Dar [20]
1974 Ali Nawaz Baloch.jpg Ali Nawaz Baloch 1974 RCD Cup [21]
1974 Pakistani footballer of the 1960s, Abdul Ghafoor Majna, shakes hands with the chief guest before a match.jpg Abdul Ghafoor 1974 Asian Games [22]
1976 Ghulam Sarwar 1974 Asian Games.jpg Ghulam Sarwar Sr. Afghanistan Republic Day Festival Cup

1976 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup

[23] [24]
1981–1982 Akbar Raisani (cropped).jpg Akbar Raisani Naeem Gul 1981 King's Cup

1982 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup

[25] [26]
1982–1983Naeem Gul 1982 Bangladesh President's Gold Cup [27]
1984Muhammad Zulfiqar Khalid Butt, Najeeb Ullah Najmi 1984 Merdeka Tournament [28]
1985Zulfiqar Hussain Dogar 1985 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup
1985 Arbab Hayat Shahzada.jpg Arbab Hayat Shahzada 1985 South Asian Games [29] [30] [31]
1986 Shaukat Mufti (cropped).jpg Shaukat Mufti Mukhtar Ali 1986 Fajr International Tournament

1986 Pakistan President's Gold Cup

[25]
1986–1988 Mukhtar Ali at the 1986 Fajr International Tournament in Tehran.jpg Mukhtar Ali 1986 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup

1987 South Asian Games

[12] [13]
1986 Muhammad Naveed Samuel Gill 1986 Asian Games [22] [32]
1987 Sharafat Ali 1987 (cropped).jpg Sharafat Ali 1987 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup [33]
1989–1990 Mateen Akhtar Abdul Wahid, Zafar Iqbal 1989 South Asian Games

1990 Asian Games

[29] [22]
1991 Ghulam Sarwar (Teddy) 1991 South Asian Games [34]
1992Mohammad Riaz [5]
1993 Zafar Iqbal at the 1986 Fajr International Tournament in Tehran.jpg Zafar Iqbal 1993 SAARC Gold Cup [12] [13]
1993–1996 Mohammad Tariq Hussain 1993 South Asian Games [29]
1995 Mohammad Nauman Khan 1997.jpg Mohammad Nauman Khan 1995 SAFF Gold Cup [35]
1997 Qazi Ashfaq before the match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan, 1997 Gold Cup (cropped).jpg Qazi Ashfaq Haroon Yousaf 1997 SAFF Gold Cup [36]
1998–2003 Haroon Yousaf.jpg Haroon Yousaf 1999 SAFF Gold Cup

1999 South Asian Games

2003 SAFF Gold Cup

[36] [37]
2002 Sarfraz Rasool at the 1997 SAFF Gold Cup (cropped).jpg Sarfraz Rasool [38] [39]
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

[40] [39]
2005 Tanveer Ahmed 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games [41] [39]
2006–2009 Muhammad Essa Jaffar Khan 2009 SAFF Championship [42] [39]
2008 Zahid Hameed Imran Niazi 2008 SAFF Championship [43]
2010–2013 Samar Ishaq.jpg Samar Ishaq Adnan Ahmed 2013 SAFF Championship [39]
2013–2019 Zesh Rehman York City v. Bradford City 1.png Zesh Rehman 2013 Philippines Peace Cup [44] [39]
2014 Kaleemullah playing for Sacramento Republic FC.jpg Kaleemullah Khan Faisal Iqbal, Saddam Hussain [39]
2014 Muhammad Ahmed 2013.jpg Muhammad Ahmed [45]
2015–2023 Hassan Bashir.jpg Hassan Bashir 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup

2023 SAFF Championship

[46]
2018 Saddam Hussain Hassan Bashir 2018 SAFF Championship [47]
2023 Saqib Hanif [48]
2023 Yousuf Butt 2019(cropped).jpg Yousuf Butt 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup [49] [50]
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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