List of Pakistan national football team captains

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

The first captain to lead Pakistan on 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 1950 tour to Iran and Iraq [1]
1952 Abdul Wahid Durrani Muhammad Ramzan Jr. 1952 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [2][6]
1953 Muhammad Sharif Moideen Kutty 1953 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [2]
1954 Moideen Kutty Ahmed Ali Phullo 1954 Asian Games [7][8]
1954 Jamil Akhtar Moideen Kutty 1954 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [2]
1955 Sumbal Khan 1955 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [9]
1956 Riasat Ali Muhammad Amin 1956 Far East tour [5]
1958 Nabi Chowdhury Abdul Haq 1958 Asian Games [2][10]
1959 Masoodul Hassan Butt Ibrahim 1959 tour to Burma [2]
1959–1960 Qayyum Changezi Kabir Ahmed 1960 Merdeka Tournament [2][11][12]
1961 Ghulam Rabbani 1961 friendly series against Burma [13][14]
1961 Moosa Ghazi 1961 friendly series against Burma [15]
1962–1965 Muhammad Umer Abdul Haq 1962 Merdeka Tournament

1965 RCD Cup

 [16]
1963 Muhammad Amin Abid Hussain Ghazi 1964 Summer Olympics qualification [11]
1964 Abid Hussain Ghazi 1964 friendly series against China [17]
1966–1967 Turab Ali 1968 AFC Asian Cup qualification [11]
1967 Wali Muhammad 1968 AFC Asian Cup qualification [18]
1967 Muhammad Latif 1967 RCD Cup [19]
1968–1969 Murad Bakhsh 1969 Friendship Cup [20][21]
1969 Sardar Aslam 1969 RCD Cup [19]
1970 Younus Rana Qadir Bakhsh 1970 Friendship Cup (as PFF XI) [22]
1970 Qadir Bakhsh Hafizuddin Ahmed 1970 RCD Cup [19]
1973 Maula Bakhsh 1973 Far East tour [11]
1974 Ayub Dar [23]
1974 Ali Nawaz Baloch 1974 RCD Cup [24]
1974 Abdul Ghafoor 1974 Asian Games [25]
1976 Ghulam Sarwar Sr. Afghanistan Republic Day Festival Cup

1976 Quaid-e-Azam International Tournament

 [26][27]
1978 Muhammad Ishaq Changezi Saudi Arabia Football Federation International Tournament
1981–1982 Muhammad Akbar Raisani Naeem Gul 1981 King's Cup

1982 Quaid-e-Azam International Tournament

 [28][29]
1982–1983 Naeem Gul 1982 Bangladesh President's Gold Cup [30]
1984–1985 Muhammad Zulfiqar Khalid Butt, Najeeb Ullah Najmi 1984 Merdeka Tournament

1985 Quaid-e-Azam International Tournament

 [31][32]
1985 Arbab Hayat Shahzada 1985 South Asian Games [33][32][34]
1986 Shaukat Mufti Mukhtar Ali 1986 Fajr International Tournament

1986 President's Gold Cup International Tournament

 [28]
1986–1988 Mukhtar Ali 1986 Quaid-e-Azam International Tournament

1987 South Asian Games

 [13][14]
1986 Muhammad Naveed Samuel Gill 1986 Asian Games [25][35]
1987 Sharafat Ali 1987 Quaid-e-Azam International Tournament [36]
1989–1990 Mateen Akhtar Abdul Wahid, Zafar Iqbal 1989 South Asian Games

1990 Asian Games

 [33][25]
1991–1992 Ghulam Sarwar (Teddy) 1991 South Asian Games [37]
1992–1993 Zafar Iqbal 1992 Jordan International Tournament

1993 SAARC Gold Cup

 [13][14]
1993–1997 Muhammad Tariq Hussain Tanveer ul Hasnain 1993 South Asian Games [33]
1995 Muhammad Nauman Khan 1995 SAARC Gold Cup [38]
1997 Qazi Ashfaq Haroon Yousaf 1997 SAFF Gold Cup [39]
1998–2003 Haroon Yousaf 1999 SAFF Gold Cup

1999 South Asian Games

2003 SAFF Gold Cup

 [39][40]
2002 Sarfraz Rasool 2002 friendly series against Sri Lanka. [41][42]
2003–2011 Jaffar Khan Samar Ishaq, Adnan Ahmed, Faisal Iqbal, Abdul Aziz 2005 SAFF Gold Cup

2006 AFC Challenge Cup

2011 SAFF Championship

 [43][42]
2005 Tanveer Ahmed 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games [44][42]
2006–2009 Muhammad Essa Jaffar Khan 2009 SAFF Championship [45][42]
2008 Zahid Hameed Imran Niazi 2008 SAFF Championship [46]
2010–2013 Samar Ishaq Adnan Ahmed 2013 SAFF Championship [42]
2013–2019 Zesh Rehman 2013 Philippines Peace Cup [47][42]
2014 Kaleemullah Khan Faisal Iqbal, Saddam Hussain Test match against Lebanon. [42]
2014 Muhammad Ahmed Test match against Lebanon. [48]
2015–2023 Hassan Bashir 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup

2023 SAFF Championship

 [49]
2018 Saddam Hussain Hassan Bashir 2018 SAFF Championship [50]
2023 Saqib Hanif Match against Maldives. [51]
2023 Yousuf Butt 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup [52][53]
2023–2024 Easah Suliman 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup
2023 Otis Khan [54]
2024–present Abdullah Iqbal [55]
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Captains by major tournaments

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