Field hockey at the 1978 Asian Games

Field hockey at the 1978 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	10–19 December
Nations	8

Field hockey was contested for men only at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.^[1][2]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Pakistan Munir Bhatti Rana Ehsanullah Manzoor-ul-Hassan Manzoor Hussain Hanif Khan Muhammad Saeed Khan Saeed Ahmed Khan Samiullah Khan Nasim Mirza Akhtar Rasool Muhammad Shafiq Shahnaz Sheikh Saleem Sherwani Islahuddin Siddiquee Munawwaruz Zaman Qamar Zia	India Salim Abbasi Vasudevan Baskaran Pramod Batlaw Sylvanus Dung Dung Merwyn Fernandes Olympio Fernandes B. P. Govinda Sukhbir Singh Grewal Zafar Iqbal Ashok Kumar Victor Philips Surjit Singh Randhawa Allan Schofield Ranbir Singh Varinder Singh Surinder Singh Sodhi	Malaysia Sayuti Abdul Samat K. Balasingam Foo Keat Seong Avtar Singh Gill Updesh Singh Gill Awtar Singh Grewal Razak Leman Len Oliveiro K. T. Rajan Ramakrishnan Rengasamy V. Ravindran Mohinder Singh Savinder Singh Tam Chiew Seng Tam Kum Seng Azraai Zain

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Pakistan	3	3	0	0	28	0	+28	6
Japan	3	1	1	1	5	2	+3	3
Thailand	3	0	2	1	2	11	−9	2
Bangladesh	3	0	1	2	2	24	−22	1

10 December Thailand  2–2  Bangladesh National Stadium, Bangkok

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11 December Pakistan  2–0  Japan National Stadium, Bangkok

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12 December Japan  5–0  Bangladesh National Stadium, Bangkok

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13 December Pakistan  9–0  Thailand National Stadium, Bangkok

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14 December Japan  0–0  Thailand National Stadium, Bangkok

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15 December Pakistan  17–0  Bangladesh National Stadium, Bangkok

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
India	3	3	0	0	16	4	+12	6
Malaysia	3	2	0	1	11	5	+6	4
Sri Lanka	3	1	0	2	4	8	−4	2
Hong Kong	3	0	0	3	2	16	−14	0

10 December Malaysia  6–0  Hong Kong National Stadium, Bangkok

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11 December India  5–3  Malaysia National Stadium, Bangkok

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12 December Hong Kong  2–3  Sri Lanka National Stadium, Bangkok

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13 December India  7–0  Hong Kong National Stadium, Bangkok

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14 December Malaysia  2–0  Sri Lanka National Stadium, Bangkok

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15 December India  4–1  Sri Lanka National Stadium, Bangkok

Consolation round

	Semifinals				5th place match
	16 December
	Thailand	0
					18 December
	Hong Kong	2
					Hong Kong	1
	16 December
					Bangladesh	0
	Sri Lanka	0
	Bangladesh	1
					7th place match
					18 December
					Thailand
					Sri Lanka

Semifinals

16 December Thailand  0–2  Hong Kong National Stadium, Bangkok

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16 December Sri Lanka  0–1  Bangladesh National Stadium, Bangkok

7th place match

18 December Thailand  –  Sri Lanka National Stadium, Bangkok

5th place match

18 December Hong Kong  1–0  Bangladesh National Stadium, Bangkok

Final round

	Semifinals				Final
	17 December
	Pakistan	5
					19 December
	Malaysia	2
					Pakistan	1
	17 December
					India	0
	India	2
	Japan	0
					Bronze medal match
					19 December
					Malaysia	2
					Japan	1

Semifinals

17 December Pakistan  5–2  Malaysia National Stadium, Bangkok

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17 December India  2–0  Japan National Stadium, Bangkok

Bronze medal match

19 December Malaysia  2–1  Japan National Stadium, Bangkok

Final

19 December Pakistan  1–0  India National Stadium, Bangkok

References

1. "8TH ASIAN GAMES - BANGKOK (THAILAND) – 1978: Medals awarded to Pakistan". Pakistan Olympic Association. Archived from the original on 2016-06-03.
2. "Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1978 Bangkok". Sportskeeda. Yahoo. 2014-08-22. Archived from the original on 2016-06-03.

External links

• "Asian Games field hockey medalists". Todor66.com. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22.