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List of Pakistan national football team captains

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

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

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Tenure Incumbent Vice-captains Tournaments/Notes Ref
1950 Osman Jan [1]
1952   Abdul Wahid Durrani Ramzan Jr. 1952 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [2]
1953 Muhammad Sharif Moideen Kutty 1953 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [2]
1954   Moideen Kutty Ahmed Ali 1954 Asian Games [6][7]
1954   Jamil Akhtar Moideen Kutty 1954 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [2]
1955   Sumbal Khan 1955 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [8]
1956   Riasat Ali Mohammad Amin [5]
1958   Nabi Chowdhury Abdul Haq 1958 Asian Games [2][9]
1959   Masoodul Hassan Butt Ibrahim [2]
1959–1960   Qayyum Changezi Kabir Ahmed 1960 Merdeka Tournament [2][10][11]
1961   Ghulam Rabbani [12][13]
1961   Moosa Ghazi [14]
1962–1965   Muhammad Umer Abdul Haq 1962 Merdeka Tournament

1965 RCD Cup

[15]
1963   Mohammad Amin Abid Ghazi [10]
1964   Abid Ghazi [16]
1966–1967   Turab Ali [10]
1967   Muhammad Lateef 1967 RCD Cup [17]
1967 Wali Muhammad
1968–1969   Murad Bakhsh [18]
1969   Sardar Aslam 1969 Friendship Cup

1969 RCD Cup

[17]
1970   Younus Rana Qadir Bakhsh 1970 Friendship Cup (as PFF XI) [19]
1970   Qadir Bakhsh 1970 RCD Cup [17]
1973   Maula Bakhsh [10]
1974   Ayub Dar [20]
1974   Ali Nawaz Baloch 1974 RCD Cup [21]
1974   Abdul Ghafoor 1974 Asian Games [22]
1976   Ghulam Sarwar Sr. Afghanistan Republic Day Festival Cup

1976 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup

[23][24]
1981–1982   Akbar Raisani Naeem Gul 1981 King's Cup

1982 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup

[25][26]
1982–1983 Naeem Gul 1982 Bangladesh President's Gold Cup
1984 Muhammad Zulfiqar Khalid Butt, Najeeb Ullah Najmi 1984 Merdeka Tournament [27]
1985 Zulfiqar Hussain Dogar 1985 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup
1985   Arbab Hayat Shahzada 1985 South Asian Games [28][29][30]
1986   Shaukat Mufti Mukhtar Ali 1986 Fajr International Tournament [25]
1986–1988   Mukhtar Ali 1986 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup

1987 South Asian Games

[12][13]
1986 Muhammad Naveed Samuel Gill 1986 Asian Games [22][31]
1987   Sharafat Ali 1987 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup [32]
1989–1990 Mateen Akhtar Abdul Wahid, Zafar Iqbal 1989 South Asian Games

1990 Asian Games

[28][22]
1991 Ghulam Sarwar (Teddy) 1991 South Asian Games [33]
1992 Mohammad Riaz [5]
1993   Zafar Iqbal 1993 SAARC Gold Cup [12][13]
1993–1996 Mohammad Tariq Hussain [28]
1995   Mohammad Nauman Khan 1995 SAFF Gold Cup [34]
1997   Qazi Ashfaq Haroon Yousaf 1997 SAFF Gold Cup [35]
1998–2003   Haroon Yousaf 1999 SAFF Gold Cup

1999 South Asian Games

2003 SAFF Gold Cup

[35][36]
2002   Sarfraz Rasool [37][38]
2003–2011   Jaffar Khan Samar Ishaq, Adnan Ahmed, Faisal Iqbal, Abdul Aziz 2005 SAFF Gold Cup

2006 AFC Challenge Cup

2011 SAFF Championship

[39][38]
2005 Tanveer Ahmed 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games [40][38]
2006–2009 Muhammad Essa Jaffar Khan 2009 SAFF Championship [41][38]
2008 Zahid Hameed Imran Niazi 2008 SAFF Championship [42]
2010–2013   Samar Ishaq Adnan Ahmed 2013 SAFF Championship [38]
2013–2019   Zesh Rehman 2013 Philippines Peace Cup [43][38]
2014   Kaleemullah Khan Faisal Iqbal, Saddam Hussain [38]
2014   Muhammad Ahmed [44]
2015–2023   Hassan Bashir 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup

2023 SAFF Championship

[45]
2018 Saddam Hussain Hassan Bashir 2018 SAFF Championship [46]
2023 Saqib Hanif [47]
2023   Yousuf Butt 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup [48][49]
2023–present Easah Suliman Otis Khan 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup

Captains by major tournaments

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  • In Continental and International tournaments
Player Tournament(s)
Moideen Kutty
Nabi Chowdhury
Abdul Ghafoor
Muhammad Naveed
Mateen Akhtar
Jaffar Khan

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