Football at the 2004 South Asian Games – Men's team squads explained

See main article: Football at the 2004 South Asian Games. Below are the squads for the 2004 South Asian Games, hosted by Islamabad, Pakistan, which took place between March 28 and April 5, 2004.^{[1] [2]}

Group A

Pakistan U23

See main article: Pakistan national under-23 football team.

Chief coach	Wang Xiaohe
Assistant coach	Tariq Lutfi
Manager	Ch. Abdul Rasheed
Official	Arif Gul

GK:

• Jaffar Khan (Army) D.O.B: 20 March 1981
• Muhammad Shahzad (Habib Bank) D.O.B: 25 August 1983

DF:

• Naveed Akram (WAPDA) D.O.B: 16.05.1984
• Muhammad Sharif (Army) D.O.B: 20.04.1981
• Arif Ali (Balochistan) D.O.B: 04.03.1986
• Ejaz Ahmed (Army) D.O.B: 1984
• Mehmood Khan (Balochistan), D.O.B: 20.03.1981
• Muhammad Zahid (Army) D.O.B: 10.10.1981

MF:

• Nasir Iqbal (Army) D.O.B: 15.06.1982
• Zahid Hameed (PTCL) 01.08.1985
• Burhan Ali (PTCL) 25.10.1984
• Attique-ur-Rehman (KRL) 05.05.1984
• Imran Niazi (WAPDA) 17.11.1985
• Arif Mehmood (WAPDA) 09.11.1981
• Qamar Zaman (WAPDA) 15.01.1986

FW:

• Adeel Ahmed (PTCL) 25.11.1983
• Muhammad Essa (PTCL) 20.11.1983
• Shahid Ahmed (PTCL) 01.03.1983
• Mudassar Saeed (KRL) 03.07.1981
• Abdul Aziz (Sindh Govt Press) 11.01.1986
• Farooq Shah (SSGC) 19.10.1985

Afghanistan U23

See main article: Afghanistan national under-23 football team.

Head coach	Abdul Rasul Rasekh
Assistant coach
Manager	Mohammad Hamed Maiwand
Official	Abdul Saboor Walizada

• Abadullah Barak
• Abaseen Atai
• Abdul Ahmad Tanhah
• Abdul Tawab Sultani
• Ahmadullah Ahmadi
• Farid Ahmadi
• Hadi Razai
• Mohammad Aslam Askaryar
• Mohammad Haneef Jabar Khil
• Mohammad Khalid Dilwar
• Mohammad Nasim Hussaini
• Nangialai Sayedi
• Qasim Ali Rahimi
• Rahman Ali Nazari
• Raza Mohammadi
• Raza Razai
• Rozeddin Omidwar
• Syed Hameed
• Shams Uddin Amiri
• Wahidullah Nazari

Bangladesh U23

See main article: Bangladesh national under-23 football team.

• Masud Parvez Kaiser
• Rashed Ahmed
• Ashraful Kader Manju
• Abdullah Al Parvez
• Aminul Islam
• Mehedi Hasan Ujjal
• Mustafa Anwar Parvez Babu
• Firoj Mahmud Titu
• Zahid Hasan Ameli
• Monwar Hossain
• Mohammed Sujan
• Ziaur Rahman
• Atiqul Islam Tariq
• Ashraful Karim
• Arman Aziz
• Kamal Hossain
• AKM Harisuzzaman
  • Zahidul Hasan Dalim Yousuf Ali Khan
• Akram Hossain

India U20

See main article: India national under-19 football team.

Head coach	Aloke Mukherjee
Assistant coach	Satheevan Balan
Goalkeeping coach	Virender Singh
Manager	Rakesh Kumar Bakshi

GK:

• Subhasish Roy Chowdhury (Tata Football Academy)
• Machindra Singh (Punjab)
• Amit Nandy (Bengal)

DF:

• Habibur Rehman Mondal (Tata Football Academy)
• Gurpreet Singh (Tata Football Academy)
• Warundeep Singh (Tata Football Academy)
• Subhas Mondal (Tata Football Academy)
• N. S. Manju (DYS, Karnataka)

MF:

• Gouramangi Singh (Tata Football Academy)
• Malswama (Tata Football Academy)
• Jerry Zirsanga (Tata Football Academy)
• Debabrata Roy (Tata Football Academy)
• Chitrasen Chandam Singh (Tata Football Academy)
• Shylo Malsawmtluanga (East Bengal)
• Naduparambil Pappachan Pradeep (Kerala)

FW:

• Vimal Pariyar (Tata Football Academy)
• Vanlal Rova (Tata Football Academy)
• Sunil Chhetri (Mohun Bagan)
• Sutang Marlanki (Fransa FC, Goa)
• Sampath Kuttymani (Indian Telephone Industries)

Group B

Bhutan U23

See main article: Bhutan national under-23 football team.

Head coach	Kharga Bahadur Basnet
Manager	Ugyen Wangchuck
Doctor	Tenzin Duckpa

• Chencho Gyeltshen
• Dorji Khandu
• Gyeltshen
• Singye Jigme
• Kinley Dorji
• Subba Krishna
• Kunzang Wangchuk
• Nawang Dhendup
• Passang Tshering
• Pema Chophel
• Pema Dorji
• Sangay Khandu
• Sonam Tenzin
• Tashi Dorji
• Tashi Jamtsho
• Ugyen Dorji
• Wangchuck

Nepal U23

See main article: Nepal national under-23 football team. GK:

• Dillip Chhetri (RCT)
• Bikash Malla (Friends Club/ANFA Academy U-20)
• Ritesh Thapa (Three Star Club)

DF:

• Sagar Thapa (Sankata)
• Pralya Rajbhandari (Friends Club/ANFA Academy U-20)
• Umesh Upreti (Manang Marsyangdi Club)
• Janak Singh (Three Star Club),
• Anjan K.C. (Friends Club/ANFA Academy U-20)
• Sanjeev Budathoki (Mahendra Police Club)
• Santosh Shrestha (Waling)

MF:

• Bijaya Gurung (Friends Club/ANFA Academy U-20)
• Pradeep Dangol (Friends Club/ANFA Academy U-20)
• Prabesh Katuwal (Friends Club)
• Raju Katuwal (Mahendra Police Club)
• Vishan Gauchan (Friends Club)
• Naveen Neupane (Manang Marsyangdi Club)

FW:

• Raj Kumar Ghising (Sankata U-17)
• Jibesh Pandey (Sankata),
• Prabin Manandhar (Friends Club/ANFA Academy U-20)

See also

• South Asian Games
• Football at the South Asian Games

Notes and References

1. Web site: 9th South Asian Federation Games 2004 (Pakistan). Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1 June 2014.
2. Web site: The Indian U20 Team at the 2004 Islamabad SAF Games. indianfootball. 1 June 2014.
3. Web site: The Booters' gold hunt starts today. archive.thedailystar.net. 2022-12-08. 2023-05-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20230515050548/https://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/03/28/d40328040436.htm. live.