2008 SAFF Championship squads explained

The 2008 SAFF Championship was an international football tournament held in Sri Lanka and Maldives from 3 to 14 June 2008. The national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 20 players. The position listed for each player is per the squad list in the official match reports by the SAFF.^{[1] [2]}

Bangladesh

Coach: Abu Yusuf^[3]

• Aminul Haque
• Biplob Bhattacharjee
• Hassan Al-Mamun
• Wali Faisal
• Mohammed Ariful Islam
• Rajani Kanta Barman
• Arup Kumar Baidya
• Atiqur Rahman Meshu
• Kazi Mofazzal Hossain Shaikat
• Nazrul Islam
• Anamul Haque Sharif
• Faisal Mahmud
• Zahid Parvez Chowdhury
• Mamunul Islam
• Arif Khan Joy
• Mohamed Abul Hossain
• Arman Aziz
• Mehedi Hasan Ujjal
• Zahid Hasan Ameli
• Abdul Baten Mojumdar Komol

India

Coach: Bob Houghton^[4]

• Baichung Bhutia
• Mahesh Gawli
• Deepak Kumar Mondal
• Steven Dias
• Climax Lawrence
• Renedy Singh
• Gouramangi Singh
• N.S. Manju
• Pappachen Pradeep
• Subrata Pal
• Sunil Chhetri
• Anwar Ali
• Sushil Kumar Singh
• Mehrajuddin Wadoo
• Samir Subash Naik
• Subhasish Roy Chowdhury
• Abhishek Yadav
• Manjit Singh
• Sampath Kuttimani
• Bungo Thomchok Singh

Pakistan

Coach: Akhtar Mohiuddin^[5]

• Bilal Rafiq
• Syed Sultan Rahi
• Samar Ishaq
• Muhammad Ahmed
• Naveed Akram
• Muhammad Imran
• Zesh Rehman
• Muhammad Irfan
• Nasrullah Khan
• Farooq Shah
• Abdul Aziz
• Adnan Ahmed
• Atif Bashir
• Jadid Khan Pathan
• Imran Niazi
• Zahid Hameed
• Kashif Siddiqi
• Arif Mehmood
• Muhammad Qasim
• Asif Mehmood

Nepal

Coach: Thomas Flath^[6]

• Nirajan Rayamajhi
• Sagar Thapa
• Rakesh Shrestha
• Bikash Malla
• Lok Bandhu Gurung
• K.C. Anjan
• Bijay Gurung
• Ju Manu Rai
• Bishan Gauchan
• Chun Bahadur Thapa
• Sandeep Rai
• Ananta Raj Thapa
• Parbat Pandey
• Raju Tamang
• Ramesh Budhathoki
• Bikash Singh Chhetri
• Suman Subedi
• Niranjan Khadka

Maldives

Coach: Jozef Jankech^[7]

• Ahmed Thoriq
• Mohamed Imran
• Mohamed Ismail
• Ibrahim Fazeel
• Assad Abdul Ghanee
• Ahmed Ammaty Saeed
• Mohamed Jameel
• Ali Ashfaq
• Mukhthar Naseer
• Mohamed Shifan
• Mohamed Sobah
• Ali Umar
• Shamveel Qasim
• Mohamed Bakka Arif

Notes and References

1. Web site: India vs Nepal: National-football teams.com. 12 November 2021.
2. Web site: National football teams.com. 12 November 2021.
3. Web site: Booters leave for Bangkok for SAFF Championship preparation. bdnews24.com.
4. Web site: India vs Pakistan Squads. 12 November 2021.
5. Web site: 2008-05-27 . Pakistan to include four overseas players for SAFF championship . 2024-08-12 . DAWN.COM . en.
6. Web site: Nepal Squad. 12 November 2021.
7. Web site: Maldives Squad. 13 November 2021.