Squads for the Football at the 1978 Asian Games played in Bangkok, Thailand.
Group A
China
Head coach: Nian Weisi
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1GK | Li Fusheng | ||||
| 14 | He Jia | |||||
| 4 | Lin Lefeng | |||||
| 3 | Liu Zhicai | |||||
| 2 | Xiang Hengqing | |||||
| 17 | Yang Anli | |||||
| 16 | Wang Feng | |||||
| 6 | 3MF | Chi Shangbin | ||||
| 11 | 4FW | Rong Zhixing | ||||
| 18 | Li Fubao | |||||
| 7 | Yang Yumin | |||||
| 15 | Shen Xiangfu | |||||
| Liu Jinshan | ||||||
| Liu Lifu | ||||||
| Wang Changtai |
Iraq
Head coach: Ammo Baba
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1GK | Raad Hammoudi | (1953-05-01)1 May 1953 (aged 25) | Al-Shorta
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| 1GK | Fatah Nsaief | (1951-02-02)2 February 1951 (aged 27) | Al Jaish
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| 2DF | Ibrahim Ali | (1950-07-01)1 July 1950 (aged 28) | Al-Zawraa
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| 2DF | Hassan Farhan | (1953-06-29)29 June 1953 (aged 25) | Al Jaish
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| 2DF | Wathiq Aswad | (1957-07-01)1 July 1957 (aged 21) | Al-Talaba
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| 2DF | Nadhim Shaker | (1958-12-18)18 December 1958 (aged 19) | Al Tayaran
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| 2DF | Adnan Dirjal | (1960-01-26)26 January 1960 (aged 18) | Al-Zawraa
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| 2DF | Abdul-Karim Farhan | (1956-11-26)26 November 1956 (aged 22) | Al-Talaba
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| 2DF | Adnan Jafar | (1949-12-29)29 December 1949 (aged 28) | Al-Shorta
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| 3MF | Alaa Ahmad | (1952-01-01)1 January 1952 (aged 26) | Al-Minaa
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| 3MF | Hadi Ahmed | (1951-01-01)1 January 1951 (aged 27) | Al-Minaa
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| 3MF | Dhurgham Mahdi | (1951-07-01)1 July 1951 (aged 27) | Al-Sinaa SC
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| 3MF | Hesham Mustafa | (1952-07-01)1 July 1952 (aged 26) | Al-Tayaran
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| 3MF | Hussein Ali Thajil | (1958-07-01)1 July 1958 (aged 20) | Al Tayaran
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| 4FW | Ali Hussein Mahmoud | (1953-01-01)1 January 1953 (aged 25) | Al-Shorta
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| 4FW | Ali Kadhim | (1949-01-01)1 January 1949 (aged 29) | Al-Zawraa
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| 4FW | Hussein Saeed | (1958-01-21)21 January 1958 (aged 20) | Al-Talaba
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| 4FW | Ahmed Subhi | (1952-01-01)1 January 1952 (aged 26) | Al-Amana
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| 4FW | Mahdi Abdul-Sahib | (1956-07-28)28 July 1956 (aged 22) | Al-Talaba
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| 4FW | Ara Hamparsum | (1952-07-07)7 July 1952 (aged 26) | Al-Amana
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Qatar
Head coach:
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1GK | Mohammad Sami Wafa | |||||
| 2DF | Mubarak Anbar Al-Ali | |||||
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Saudi Arabia
Head coach: 
David Woodfield
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1GK | Salem Marwan | ||||
| 2 | 2DF | Jasim al-Qartas | ||||
| 3 | 2DF | Saleh Al-Nu'eimeh | ||||
| 4 | 3MF | Issa Khalifa Al-Dosari | ||||
| 5 | 2DF | Tawfiq al-Moghren | ||||
| 7 | 3MF | Yousef Khames | ||||
| 8 | 3MF | Saleh Khalifa Al-Dosari | ||||
| 9 | 4FW | Majed Abdullah | ||||
| 11 | 3MF | Ahmad al-Saqeer | ||||
| 12 | 2DF | Ibrahim Tahseen | ||||
| 13 | 3MF | Fahad al-Habshi | ||||
| 14 | 4FW | Issa Hamdan | ||||
| 15 | 2DF | Ahmad al-Nifawi | ||||
| 18 | 4FW | Sultan bin Naseeb | ||||
| 19 | 1GK | Ibrahim al-Yousef | ||||
| 20 | 1GK | Taiseer al-Saqabi | ||||
| 4FW | Abdullah Abdraboh | |||||
| 2DF | Saad Breek | |||||
| 3MF | Issa al-Dosari | |||||
| 4FW | Saud Jassim | |||||
| 3MF | Issa Khawaji | |||||
| 2DF | Wajdi Mubarak |
Group B
Burma
Head coach:
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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North Korea
Head coach: Pak Du-Sok
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1GK | Kim Gang-Il | ||||
| 2 | Kim In-Chan | |||||
| 3 | Kim Mu-Gil | |||||
| 4 | Cha Jong-Sok | |||||
| 5 | Kim Jong-Min | |||||
| 6 | An Chang-Nam | |||||
| 7 | Hong Song-Nam | |||||
| 8 | Kim Bok-Nam | |||||
| 9 | An Se-Uk | |||||
| 10 | Pak Jong-Hon | |||||
| 11 | Ri Chang-Ha | |||||
| 17 | Kim Mun-Chol |
Thailand
Head coach: 
Peter Schnittger
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1GK | Vasin Masapong | ||||
| 2 | Manus Ratanatisol | |||||
| 3 | Jirasak Chareonchand | |||||
| 16 | Prapan Premsri | |||||
| 14 | Witoon Trikuna | |||||
| 12 | Chamreon Kamnil | |||||
| 10 | 4FW | Niwat Srisawat | ||||
| 9 | Pichai Kongsri | |||||
| 13 | Boonlert Aeochareon | |||||
| 18 | Vitheechai Sornlak | |||||
| 11 | Somcit Chuayeoomchoom | |||||
| 15 | Kition Laokeukoonpong | |||||
| 8 | Thawiwat Acklasala |
Group C
Bangladesh
Head coach: Werner Bickelhaupt
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1GK | Shahidur Rahman Shantoo (c) | (1947-11-17)17 November 1947 (aged 31) | Mohammedan SC
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| 1GK | Moinul Karim Moin | Sadharan Bima CSC
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| 2DF | Sawpan Kumar Das | (1958-11-10)10 November 1958 (aged 20) | Wari Club Dhaka
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| 2DF | Shamsul Alam Manju | (1955-03-14)14 March 1955 (aged 23) | Mohammedan SC
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| 2DF | Abul Hossain | (1957-07-02)2 July 1957 (aged 21) | Azad Sporting Club
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| 2DF | Mohammad Abu Yusuf | (1957-09-11)11 September 1957 (aged 21) | Rahmatganj MFS
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| 2DF | Mostafa Hossain Mukul | (1957-11-12)12 November 1957 (aged 21) | Team BJMC
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| 2DF | Zakir Hossain Badal | Mohammedan SC
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| 3MF | Milon Karmakar Basu | Team BJMC
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| 3MF | Ashish Bhadra | (1960-03-14)14 March 1960 (aged 18) | Rahmatganj MFS
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| 3MF | Kowsar Ali | (1958-11-20)20 November 1958 (aged 20) | Team BJMC
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| 3MF | Pranab Kumar Dey Banu | Mohammedan SC
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| 3MF | Syed Nazmul Hassan Lovan | (1958-09-20)20 September 1958 (aged 20) | Wari Club Dhaka
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| 3MF | Hasanuzzaman Khan Bablu | (1955-05-05)5 May 1955 (aged 23) | Brothers Union
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| 4FW | Yusuf Buli | Mohammedan SC
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| 4FW | Hassan Ahmedul Haque | (1958-01-02)2 January 1958 (aged 20) | Team BJMC
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| 4FW | Mohammed Mohsin | (1963-04-03)3 April 1963 (aged 15) | Brothers Union
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| 4FW | Sheikh Mohammad Aslam | (1958-03-01)1 March 1958 (aged 20) | Victoria SC
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| 4FW | Enayetur Rahman Khan | (1951-02-28)28 February 1951 (aged 27) | Mohammedan SC
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India
Head coach: Arun Ghosh
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1GK | Bhaskar Ganguly | East Bengal
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| 1GK | Bhaskar Maity | Bengal
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| 1GK | Surjit Singh | |||||
| 2DF | Gurdev Singh Gill (c) | (1950-04-20)20 April 1950 (aged 24) | East Bengal
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| 2DF | Chinmoy Chatterjee | East Bengal
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| 2DF | Shyamal Banerjee | Bengal
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| 2DF | Compton Dutta | Bengal
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| 2DF | Subrata Bhattacharya | (1953-03-03)3 March 1953 (aged 21) | Mohun Bagan
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| 2DF | Nicholas Pereira | |||||
| 2DF | D. Sekaran | |||||
| 2DF | Gurcharan Singh Parmar | |||||
| 3MF | Prasun Banerjee | (1955-04-06)6 April 1955 (aged 19) | East Bengal
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| 3MF | Pushparaj Kumar | Karnataka
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| 3MF | A. Devraj Doraiswamy | Karnataka
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| 3MF | M.M. Jacob | |||||
| 3MF | Thomas Fernandes | |||||
| 4FW | Xavier Pius | |||||
| 4FW | Francis D'Souza | |||||
| 4FW | Mohammed Akbar | |||||
| 4FW | Harjinder Singh | JCT Mills
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| 4FW | Surajit Sengupta | (1951-08-30)30 August 1951 (aged 23) | East Bengal
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| 4FW | Bidesh Ranjan Bose | (1953-11-15)15 November 1953 (aged 21) | Bengal
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Malaysia
Head coach: Chow Kwai Lam
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1GK | R. Arumugam | ||||
| 22 | Jamal Rashid | |||||
| 4 | Yahya Jusoh | |||||
| 6 | 3MF | Shukor Salleh | ||||
| 3 | 2DF | Soh Chin Aun | ||||
| 5 | 2DF | Santokh Singh | ||||
| 19 | Khor Sek Leng | |||||
| 10 | 4FW | Mokhtar Dahari | ||||
| 9 | 4FW | Isa Bakar | ||||
| 12 | Bakri Ibni | |||||
| 11 | Ali Abdullah |
Group D
Bahrain
Head coach: Jack Mansell
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1GK | Hamood Sultan | ||||
| 2 | Youssef Sharida | |||||
| 15 | Rashid Jamber | |||||
| 5 | Nazir Al-Dirzali | |||||
| 4 | Faisal Sanad | |||||
| 14 | Hamed Mohammed | |||||
| 10 | Ibrahim Suwayed | |||||
| 9 | Khalil Shwayer | |||||
| 7 | Karim Al-Mulla | |||||
| 11 | Mohammed Fahad | |||||
Japan
Head coach: Hiroshi Ninomiya
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1GK | Mitsuhisa Taguchi | (1955-02-14)14 February 1955 (aged 23) | Mitsubishi Motors
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| 2DF | Masatoshi Matsunaga | (1950-12-22)22 December 1950 (aged 27) | Mitsubishi Motors
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| 3 | 2DF | Hiroshi Ochiai | (1946-02-28)28 February 1946 (aged 32) | Mitsubishi Motors
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| 4 | 2DF | Keizo Imai | (1950-11-19)19 November 1950 (aged 28) | Fujita Industrial
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| 5 | 2DF | Kazuo Saito | (1951-07-27)27 July 1951 (aged 27) | Mitsubishi Motors
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| 6 | 3MF | Nobuo Fujishima | (1950-04-08)8 April 1950 (aged 28) | Nippon Kokan
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| 7 | 4FW | Haruhisa Hasegawa | (1957-04-14)14 April 1957 (aged 21) | Osaka University of Commerce
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| 8 | 3MF | Mitsunori Fujiguchi | (1949-08-17)17 August 1949 (aged 29) | Mitsubishi Motors
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| 9 | 4FW | Hiroyuki Usui | (1953-08-04)4 August 1953 (aged 25) | Hitachi
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| 10 | 3MF | Nobutoshi Kaneda | (1958-02-16)16 February 1958 (aged 20) | Chuo University
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| 11 | 4FW | Yoshikazu Nagai | (1952-04-16)16 April 1952 (aged 26) | Furukawa Electric
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| 12 | 2DF | Atsuyoshi Furuta | (1952-10-27)27 October 1952 (aged 26) | Toyo Industries
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| 2DF | Tsutomu Sonobe | (1958-03-29)29 March 1958 (aged 20) | Fujita Industrial
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| 14 | 3MF | Hideki Maeda | (1954-05-13)13 May 1954 (aged 24) | Furukawa Electric
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| 15 | 3MF | Hisashi Kato | (1956-04-24)24 April 1956 (aged 22) | Waseda University
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| 16 | 4FW | Hiromi Hara | (1958-10-19)19 October 1958 (aged 20) | Waseda University
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| 17 | 4FW | Masaru Kawaguchi | (1956-12-19)19 December 1956 (aged 21) | Osaka University of Commerce
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| 1GK | Tatsuhiko Seta | (1952-01-08)8 January 1952 (aged 26) | Hitachi
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South Korea
Head coach: Ham Heung-chul
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1GK | Kim Hwang-ho | (1954-08-15)15 August 1954 (aged 24) | ROK Navy FC
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| 2 | 2DF | Hong Sung-ho | (1954-12-20)20 December 1954 (aged 23) | POSCO FC
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| 3 | 2DF | Kim Ho-gon | (1950-03-26)26 March 1950 (aged 28) | Seoul Trust Bank FC
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| 4 | 2DF | Cho Kwang-rae | (1954-03-19)19 March 1954 (aged 24) | POSCO FC
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| 5 | 2DF | Hwang Jae-man | (1953-01-24)24 January 1953 (aged 25) | ROK Air Force FC
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| 6 | 2DF | Park Sung-hwa | (1955-05-07)7 May 1955 (aged 23) | POSCO FC
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| 7 | 3MF | Shin Hyun-ho | (1953-09-21)21 September 1953 (aged 25) | POSCO FC
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| 8 | 3MF | Cho Young-jeung | (1954-08-18)18 August 1954 (aged 24) | ROK Navy FC
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| 9 | 3MF | Lee Young-moo | (1953-07-26)26 July 1953 (aged 25) | POSCO FC
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| 10 | 4FW | Lee Kang-Jo | (1954-10-27)27 October 1954 (aged 24) | Korea Auto Insurance FC
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| 11 | 4FW | Cha Bum-Kun | (1953-05-22)22 May 1953 (aged 25) | ROK Air Force FC
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| 12 | 2DF | Choi Jong-Duk | (1954-06-24)24 June 1954 (aged 24) | POSCO FC
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| 15 | 3MF | Huh Jung-Moo | (1955-01-13)13 January 1955 (aged 23) | ROK Navy FC
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| 17 | 3MF | Park Sang-in | (1952-11-16)16 November 1952 (aged 26) | Commercial Bank of Korea FC
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| 18 | 3MF | Kim Sung-nam | (1954-07-19)19 July 1954 (aged 24) | ROK Navy FC
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| 19 | 3MF | Kim Kang-nam | (1954-07-19)19 July 1954 (aged 24) | ROK Navy FC
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| 20 | 4FW | Oh Seok-jae | (1958-10-13)13 October 1958 (aged 20) | Konkuk University
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| 21 | 1GK | Kim Hee-chun | (1955-10-19)19 October 1955 (aged 23) | ROK Air Force FC
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| 22 | 2DF | Kim Hee-tae | (1953-07-10)10 July 1953 (aged 25) | ROK Air Force FC
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| 23 | 1GK | Cho Byung-deuk | (1958-05-26)26 May 1958 (aged 20) | POSCO FC
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Kuwait
Head coach: 
Mario Zagallo
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1GK | Ahmed Al-Tarabulsi | ||||
| 20 | 1GK | Jasem Bahman | ||||
| 2 | 2DF | Mohammad Abbas | ||||
| 5 | 2DF | Ibrahim Al-Duraihim | ||||
| 13 | 2DF | Redha Maarafi | ||||
| 17 | 2DF | Hussein Al-Jaser | ||||
| 3 | 2DF | Mahboub Juma'a | ||||
| 14 | 2DF | Abdullah Mayoof | ||||
| 11 | 3MF | Hamad Bouhamad | ||||
| 15 | 3MF | Saud Bouhamad | ||||
| 6 | 3MF | Saad Al-Houti | ||||
| 18 | 3MF | Saleh Al-Asfoor | ||||
| 8 | 3MF | Farouk Ibrahim | ||||
| 4 | 3MF | Abdullah Al-Buloushi | ||||
| 12 | 4FW | Badir Bu Abbas | ||||
| 19 | 4FW | Mohammed Shuaeb | ||||
| 16 | 4FW | Faisal Al-Dakhil | ||||
| 9 | 4FW | Jasem Yaqoub | ||||
| 7 | 4FW | Fathi Kameel | ||||
| 10 | 4FW | Abdulaziz Al-Anberi |
References
- Ghoshal, Amoy. "Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1978 Bangkok". www.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
External links
| Football at the Asian Games | |||||
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| List of medalists | |||||