Puran Bahadur Thapa
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Date of birth
28 July 1928
Place of birth
Upper Mawprem, Shillong,[1] British India (now in Meghalaya)
Date of death
2014 (aged 85–86)
Position(s)
Midfielder
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 28 July 1928 | ||
| Place of birth | Upper Mawprem, Shillong,[1] British India (now in Meghalaya) | ||
| Date of death | 2014 (aged 85–86) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 8th Gorkha Rifles | |||
| Gorkha Brigade | |||
| Services | |||
| International career | |||
| India | ? | (4) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Puran Bahadur Thapa (28 July 1928 – 2014) was an Indian footballer who played for the India national team and the Services football team. He scored a hat-trick for the national team in a 3–1 win against Pakistan in the 1954 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament at the Eden Gardens. It was the second hat-trick by an Indian footballer post-independence in international football after Sheoo Mewalal.[2][1][3][4][5] Thapa died in 2014.[6]
Thapa was an officer in the Indian Army[7] and represented the Gorkha Brigade and Services in the Santosh Trophy and domestic tournaments.[1]
