| Event: | Kabaddi |
| Games: | 1998 Asian Games |
| Venue: | Srinakharinwirot University |
| Dates: | 13–16 December 1998 |
| Nations: | 7 |
| Prev: | 1994 |
| Next: | 2002 |
Kabaddi was contested by six teams at the 1998 Asian Games in Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand from December 13 to December 16.
India won the gold medal in a round robin competition by winning all six matches. Pakistan finished second and won the silver medal while Bangladesh finished in bronze medal position.
| ● | Round | ● | Last round |
| Event↓/Date → | 13th Sun | 14th Mon | 15th Tue | 16th Wed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Men | C. Honappa Sanjeev Kumar Virender Kumar Muruga Nantham Biswajit Palit B. C. Ramesh Rambir Singh Sangwan Kiranpal Singh Ram Mehar Singh Shamsher Singh | Zubair Ahmed Muhammad Akram Muhammad Ghulam Badshah Gul Mehmood Hussain Iqbal Javid Abdul Majeed Muhammad Mansha F. Muhammad Muhammad Sarwar | valign=top |
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| width=40 | Rank | width=180 | Team | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |||||||
| 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |