India at the 1978 Asian Games

India competed at the 1978 Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand. India ranked 6th with 11 gold medals.

India at the 1978 Asian Games
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
in Bangkok
Medals Ranked 6th	Gold 11 Silver 11 Bronze 6 Total 28
Asian Games appearances (overview)
1951 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026

Medals by sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	8	7	3	18
Boxing	0	1	2	3
Hockey	0	1	0	1
Sailing	0	1	0	1
Wrestling	2	1	0	3
Shooting	1	0	0	1
Tennis	0	0	1	1
Total	11	11	6	28

Football

Head coach: Arun Ghosh

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Bhaskar Ganguly				East Bengal
	1GK	Bhaskar Maity				Bengal
	1GK	Surjit Singh
	2DF	Gurdev Singh Gill (c)	(1950-04-20)20 April 1950 (aged 24)			East Bengal
	2DF	Chinmoy Chatterjee				East Bengal
	2DF	Shyamal Banerjee				Bengal
	2DF	Compton Dutta				Bengal
	2DF	Subrata Bhattacharya	(1953-03-03)3 March 1953 (aged 21)			Mohun Bagan
	2DF	Nicholas Pereira
	2DF	D. Sekaran
	2DF	Gurcharan Singh Parmar
	3MF	Prasun Banerjee	(1955-04-06)6 April 1955 (aged 19)			East Bengal
	3MF	Pushparaj Kumar				Karnataka
	3MF	A. Devraj Doraiswamy				Karnataka
	3MF	M.M. Jacob
	3MF	Thomas Fernandes
	4FW	Xavier Pius				Mohun Bagan
	4FW	Francis D'Souza
	4FW	Mohammed Akbar
	4FW	Harjinder Singh				JCT Mills
	4FW	Surajit Sengupta	(1951-08-30)30 August 1951 (aged 23)			East Bengal
	4FW	Bidesh Ranjan Bose	(1953-11-15)15 November 1953 (aged 21)			Bengal

Preliminary round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Malaysia	2	2	0	0	2	0	+2	4
India	2	1	0	1	3	1	+2	2
Bangladesh	2	0	0	2	0	4	−4	0

10 December

India	0–1	Malaysia

Bangkok

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14 December

Bangladesh	0–3	India

Bangkok

Semifinals

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
North Korea	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	5
Iraq	3	2	0	1	6	1	+5	4
Kuwait	3	1	1	1	8	6	+2	3
India	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0

17 December

India	1–6	Kuwait

Bangkok

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18 December

India	1–3	North Korea

Bangkok

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19 December

India	0–3	Iraq
		Mahmoud 20' Shaker 25' Saeed 63'

Bangkok

Field hockey

Team

Salim Abbasi
Vasudevan Baskaran
Pramod Batlaw
Sylvanus Dung Dung
Merwyn Fernandes
Olympio Fernandes
B. P. Govinda
Sukhbir Singh Grewal
Zafar Iqbal
Ashok Kumar
Victor Philips
Surjit Singh Randhawa
Allan Schofield
Ranbir Singh
Varinder Singh
Surinder Singh Sodhi

Preliminary round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
India	3	3	0	0	16	4	+12	6
Malaysia	3	2	0	1	11	5	+6	4
Sri Lanka	3	1	0	2	4	8	−4	2
Hong Kong	3	0	0	3	2	16	−14	0

11 December India  5–3  Malaysia National Stadium, Bangkok

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13 December India  7–0  Hong Kong National Stadium, Bangkok

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15 December India  4–1  Sri Lanka National Stadium, Bangkok

Semifinals

17 December India  2–0  Japan National Stadium, Bangkok

Gold medal match

19 December Pakistan  1–0  India National Stadium, Bangkok