India at the 1966 Asian Games

India at the 1966 Asian Games
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
in Bangkok
Medals Ranked 5th	Gold 7 Silver 3 Bronze 11 Total 21
Asian Games appearances (overview)
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India participated in the 1966 Asian Games—The Fifth Asian Games, held in the Bangkok, Thailand from 9 to 20 December 1966. Indian athletes won total 21 medals with 7 golds and ranked fifth in a medal table.^[1]

Medals by sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	5	1	5	11
Boxing	1	1	0	2
Hockey	1	0	0	1
Tennis	0	0	1	1
Wrestling	0	1	5	6
Total	7	3	11	21

Football

Head coach: Mohammed Hussain^[2]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Peter Thangaraj	(1935-12-24)24 December 1935 (aged 30)			East Bengal
	1GK	C Mustafa				Mohammedan Sporting
	2DF	Jarnail Singh (c)	(1936-02-20)20 February 1936 (aged 30)			Mohun Bagan
	2DF	Chandreswar Prasad				Bengal
	2DF	Syed Nayeemuddin				Bengal
	2DF	Arun Ghosh	(1941-07-07)7 July 1941 (aged 25)			Bengal
	2DF	Altaf Ahmed				East Bengal
	3MF	Kajal Mukherjee				Bengal
	3MF	Yousuf Khan	(1937-08-05)5 August 1937 (aged 29)			Andhra Pradesh
	3MF	Prasanta Sinha				Bengal
	3MF	Krisnaji Rao				Mysore
	4FW	Ashok Chatterjee				Bengal
	4FW	Pradip Kumar Banerjee	(1936-06-23)23 June 1936 (aged 30)			Railways
	4FW	Inder Singh	(1943-12-23)23 December 1943 (aged 22)			Leaders Club
	4FW	Arumai Nayagam				Mohun Bagan
	4FW	Parimal Dey	(1941-05-04)4 May 1941 (aged 25)			East Bengal
	4FW	P. Kannan				Bengal

Preliminary round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAV	Pts
Japan	3	3	0	0	6	2	3.000	6
Iran	3	2	0	1	7	4	1.750	4
India	3	1	0	2	4	7	0.571	2
Malaysia	3	0	0	3	1	5	0.200	0

10 December

Japan	2–1	India
Teruki Myamoto 50', 53'	Report	Ashok Chatterjee 48'

Chulalongkorn University Stadium, Bangkok

Attendance: 10,000

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12 December

Malaysia	1–2	India
		Inder Singh [3] Jarnail Singh (pen.)[3]

Bangkok

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13 December

India	1–4	Iran
Jarnail Singh [3]

Bangkok

References

1. "Asian Games – Medal Tally" (PDF). Indian Olympic Association. Archived from the original (pdf) on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
2. "India 1966 Asian Games". indianfootball.de. Indian Football. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
3. Ghoshal, Amoy. "Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1966 Bangkok". Sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 19 June 2016.