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This article lists all the captains of the Pakistan national football team.

The first captain to lead Pakistan in their international debut in October 1950 was the goalkeeper Osman Jan,[1][2] who captained Pakistan in their first international match against Iran on 27 October 1950.[3][4]

The following table includes players who have captained the Pakistan national football team, along with the vice-captains and the international tournaments they led in.[5]

List of captains

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Tenure Incumbent Vice-captains Tournaments/Notes Ref
1950 Osman Jan [2]
1952 Abdul Wahid Durrani Ramzan Jr. 1952 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [2]
1953 Muhammad Sharif Moideen Kutty 1953 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [2]
1954 Moideen Kutty Ahmed Ali 1954 Asian Games [2][6]
1954 Jamil Akhtar Moideen Kutty 1954 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [2]
1955 Sumbal Khan 1955 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament [7]
1956 Riasat Ali Mohammad Amin [5]
1958 Nabi Chowdhury Abdul Haq 1958 Asian Games [2][8]
1959 Masoodul Hassan Butt Ibrahim [2]
1959–1960 Qayyum Changezi Kabir Ahmed 1960 Merdeka Tournament [2][9][10]
1961 Ghulam Rabbani [11][12]
1961 Moosa Ghazi [13][14]
1962–1965 Muhammad Umer Abdul Haq 1962 Merdeka Tournament [9]
1963 Mohammad Amin Abid Ghazi [9]
1964 Abid Ghazi [9]
1966–1967 Turab Ali 1967 RCD Cup [9][15]
1967 Muhammad Lateef
1967 Wali Muhammad
1968–1969 Murad Bakhsh [16]
1969 Sardar Aslam 1969 Friendship Cup

1969 RCD Cup

1970 Younus Rana Qadir Bakhsh 1970 Friendship Cup (as PFF XI) [17]
1970 Qadir Bakhsh 1970 RCD Cup [18]
1973 Maula Bakhsh [9]
1974 Ayub Dar
1974 Ali Nawaz Baloch 1974 RCD Cup [19]
1974 Abdul Ghafoor 1974 Asian Games [20]
1976 Ghulam Sarwar Sr. Afghanistan Republic Day Festival Cup

1976 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup

[21][22]
1981–1982 Akbar Raisani Naeem Gul 1981 King's Cup

1982 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup

[23][24]
1984 Muhammad Zulfiqar Ghulam Ahmed Khalid Butt, Najeeb Ullah Najmi 1984 Merdeka Tournament [25]
1985 Zulfiqar Dogar 1985 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup
1985 Arbab Hayat Shahzada 1985 South Asian Games [26][27]
1986 Shaukat Mufti Mukhtar Ali 1986 Fajr International Tournament [23]
1986–1988 Mukhtar Ali 1986 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup

1987 South Asian Games

[11][12]
1986 Muhammad Naveed Samuel Gill 1986 Asian Games [20][27]
1987 Sharafat Ali 1987 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup [28]
1989–1990 Mateen Akhtar Abdul Wahid, Zafar Iqbal 1989 South Asian Games

1990 Asian Games

[26][20]
1991 Ghulam Sarwar (Teddy) 1991 South Asian Games [29]
1992 Mohammad Riaz [5]
1993 Zafar Iqbal 1993 SAARC Gold Cup [11][12]
1993–1996 Mohammad Tariq Hussain [30][26]
1995 Mohammad Nauman Khan 1995 SAFF Gold Cup [31]
1997 Qazi Ashfaq Haroon Yousaf 1997 SAFF Gold Cup [32]
1998–2003 Haroon Yousaf 1999 SAFF Gold Cup

1999 South Asian Games

2003 SAFF Gold Cup

[32][33]
2002 Sarfraz Rasool [34][35]
2003–2011 Jaffar Khan Samar Ishaq, Adnan Ahmed, Faisal Iqbal, Abdul Aziz 2005 SAFF Gold Cup

2006 AFC Challenge Cup

2011 SAFF Championship

[36][35]
2005 Tanveer Ahmed 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games [37][35]
2006–2009 Muhammad Essa Jaffar Khan 2009 SAFF Championship [38][35]
2008 Zahid Hameed Imran Niazi 2008 SAFF Championship [39]
2010–2013 Samar Ishaq Adnan Ahmed 2013 SAFF Championship [35]
2013–2019 Zesh Rehman 2013 Philippines Peace Cup [40][35]
2014 Kaleemullah Khan Faisal Iqbal, Saddam Hussain [35]
2014 Muhammad Ahmed [41]
2015–2023 Hassan Bashir 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup

2023 SAFF Championship

[42]
2018 Saddam Hussain Hassan Bashir 2018 SAFF Championship [43]
2023 Saqib Hanif [44]
2023 Yousuf Butt 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup [45][46]
2023–present Easah Suliman Otis Khan 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup

Captains by major tournaments

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  • In Continental and International tournaments
Player Tournament(s)
Moideen Kutty
Nabi Chowdhury
Abdul Ghafoor
Muhammad Naveed
Mateen Akhtar
Jaffar Khan

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