View source for India at the 1978 Asian Games

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}

{{Infobox country at games
| NOC          = IND
| NOCname      = [[Indian Olympic Association]]
| oldcode      = 
| year         = 1978
| date         = 
| games        = Asian Games
| location     = [[Bangkok]]
| competitors  = 
| sports       = 
| flagbearer   = 
| officials    = 
| gold         = 11
| silver       = 11
| bronze       = 6
| rank         = 6
| appearances  = auto
| seealso      = 
| website      = 
}}

'''India''' competed at the '''[[1978 Asian Games]]''' held in [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]]. India ranked 6th with 11 gold medals.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/indian-football/indian-football-team-at-the-asian-games-1978-bangkok|title=Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1978 Bangkok|access-date=8 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/sport/story/19790115-will-india-be-able-to-maintain-its-1978-asiad-momentum-till-1982-games-in-delhi-821764-2014-12-15|title=Will India be able to maintain its 1978 Asiad momentum till 1982 Games in Delhi?|access-date=8 April 2023}}</ref>

==Medals by sport==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! width=200|Sport
|bgcolor=gold width=60|'''Gold''' || bgcolor=silver width=60|'''Silver''' || bgcolor=#cc9966 width=60|'''Bronze''' 
! width=60|Total
|-
|align=left| [[Athletics at the 1978 Asian Games|Athletics]] || 8 || 7 || 3 || 18
|-
|align=left| [[Boxing at the 1978 Asian Games|Boxing]] || 0 || 1 || 2 || 3
|-
|align=left| [[Field hockey at the 1978 Asian Games|Hockey]] || 0 || 1 || 0 || 1
|-
|align=left| [[Sailing at the 1978 Asian Games|Sailing]] || 0 || 1 || 0 || 1
|-
|align=left| [[Wrestling at the 1978 Asian Games|Wrestling]] || 2 || 1 || 0 || 3
|-
|align=left| [[Shooting at the 1978 Asian Games|Shooting]] || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|align=left| [[Tennis at the 1978 Asian Games|Tennis]] || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
! Total || 11 || 11 || 6 || 28
|}

==Football==
Head coach: {{flagicon|IND}} [[Arun Ghosh]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ghoshal |first=Amoy |title=Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1978 Bangkok |url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/indian-football-team-at-the-asian-games-1978-bangkok |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=www.sportskeeda.com |language=en-us}}</ref>

{{nat fs g start}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=GK|name=[[Bhaskar Ganguly]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=[[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]|clubnat=IND}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=GK|name=[[Bhaskar Maity]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=[[West Bengal football team|Bengal]]|clubnat=IND}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=GK|name=[[Surjit Singh (Indian footballer)|Surjit Singh]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=|clubnat=}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=DF|name=[[Gurdev Singh Gill]] (c)|age={{Birth date and age2|df=yes|1974|12|10|1950|4|20}} |caps=|goals=|club=[[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]|clubnat=IND}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=DF|name=[[Chinmoy Chatterjee (footballer)|Chinmoy Chatterjee]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=[[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]|clubnat=IND}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=DF|name=[[Shyamal Banerjee]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=[[West Bengal football team|Bengal]]|clubnat=IND}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=DF|name=[[Compton Dutta]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=[[West Bengal football team|Bengal]]|clubnat=IND}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=DF|name=[[Subrata Bhattacharya]]|age={{Birth date and age2|df=yes|1974|12|10|1953|3|3}} |caps=|goals=|club=[[Mohun Bagan AC|Mohun Bagan]]|clubnat=IND}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=DF|name=[[Nicholas Pereira (footballer)|Nicholas Pereira]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=|clubnat=}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=DF|name=[[D. Sekaran]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=|clubnat=}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=DF|name=[[Gurcharan Singh Parmar]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=|clubnat=}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=MF|name=[[Prasun Banerjee]]|age={{Birth date and age2|df=yes|1974|12|10|1955|4|6}} |caps=|goals=|club=[[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]|clubnat=IND}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=MF|name=[[Pushparaj Kumar]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=[[Karnataka football team|Karnataka]]|clubnat=IND}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=MF|name=[[A. Devraj Doraiswamy]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=[[Karnataka football team|Karnataka]]|clubnat=IND}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=MF|name=[[M.M. Jacob (footballer)|M.M. Jacob]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=|clubnat=}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=MF|name=[[Thomas Fernandes (Indian footballer)|Thomas Fernandes]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=|clubnat=}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=FW|name=[[Xavier Pius]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=|clubnat=}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=FW|name=[[Francis D'Souza (footballer)|Francis D'Souza]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=|clubnat=}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=FW|name=[[Mohammed Akbar (footballer)|Mohammed Akbar]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=|clubnat=}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=FW|name=[[Harjinder Singh (Indian footballer)|Harjinder Singh]]|age= |caps=|goals=|club=[[JCT FC|JCT Mills]]|clubnat=IND}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=FW|name=[[Surajit Sengupta]]|age={{Birth date and age2|df=yes|1974|12|10|1951|8|30}} |caps=|goals=|club=[[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]|clubnat=IND}}
{{nat fs g player|no=|pos=FW|name=[[Bidesh Ranjan Bose]]|age={{Birth date and age2|df=yes|1974|12|10|1953|11|15}} |caps=|goals=|club=[[West Bengal football team|Bengal]]|clubnat=IND}}
{{nat fs g end}}

=== Preliminary round ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; font-size:90% "
!width=160|Team
!width=25|{{Tooltip|Pld|Played}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|W|Won}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|D|Drawn}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|L|Lost}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|Pts|Points}}
|-bgcolor=ccffcc
|align=left|{{fb|MAS}}
|2||2||0||0||2||0||+2||'''4'''
|-bgcolor=ccffcc
|align=left|{{fb|IND}}
|2||1||0||1||3||1||+2||'''2'''
|-
|align=left|{{fb|BAN}}
|2||0||0||2||0||4||−4||'''0'''
|}

{{footballbox|date=10 December
|team1={{fb-rt|IND}}
|score=0–1
|team2={{fb|MAS}}
|stadium= [[Bangkok]] }}
----
{{footballbox|date=14 December
|team1={{fb-rt|BAN}}
|score=0–3
|team2={{fb|IND}}
|stadium= [[Bangkok]] }}

=== Semifinals ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; font-size:90% "
!width=160|Team
!width=25|{{Tooltip|Pld|Played}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|W|Won}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|D|Drawn}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|L|Lost}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|Pts|Points}}
|-bgcolor=ccffcc
|align=left|{{fb|PRK|1948}}
|3||2||1||0||6||3||+3||'''5'''
|-bgcolor=ffffcc
|align=left|{{fb|IRQ|1963}}
|3||2||0||1||6||1||+5||'''4'''
|-
|align=left|{{fb|KUW}}
|3||1||1||1||8||6||+2||'''3'''
|-
|align=left|{{fb|IND}}
|3||0||0||3||2||12||−10||'''0'''
|}

{{footballbox|date=17 December
|team1={{fb-rt|IND}}
|score=1–6
|team2={{fb|KUW}}
|stadium= [[Bangkok]] }}
----
{{footballbox|date=18 December
|team1={{fb-rt|IND}}
|score=1–3
|team2={{fb|PRK|1948}}
|stadium= [[Bangkok]] }}
----
{{footballbox|date=19 December
|team1={{fb-rt|IND}}
|score=0–3
|team2={{fb|IRQ|1963}}
|goals1 = 
|goals2 = [[Ali Hussein Mahmoud|Mahmoud]] {{goal|20}}<br> [[Nadhim Shaker|Shaker]] {{goal|25|}}<br> [[Hussein Saeed|Saeed]] {{goal|63}}
|stadium= [[Bangkok]] }}

==Field hockey==
=== Team ===
[[Salim Abbasi]]<br />[[Vasudevan Baskaran]]<br />[[Pramod Batlaw]]<br />[[Sylvanus Dung Dung]]<br />[[Merwyn Fernandes]]<br />[[Olympio Fernandes]]<br />[[B. P. Govinda]]<br />[[Sukhbir Singh Grewal]]<br />[[Zafar Iqbal (field hockey)|Zafar Iqbal]]<br />[[Ashok Kumar (field hockey)|Ashok Kumar]]<br />[[Victor Philips]]<br />[[Surjit Singh Randhawa]]<br />[[Allan Schofield]]<br />[[Ranbir Singh (field hockey)|Ranbir Singh]]<br />[[Varinder Singh (field hockey)|Varinder Singh]]<br />[[Surinder Singh Sodhi (Field Hockey)|Surinder Singh Sodhi]]

=== Preliminary round ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; font-size:90% "
!width=160|Team
!width=25|{{Tooltip|Pld|Played}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|W|Won}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|D|Drawn}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|L|Lost}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}
!width=25|{{Tooltip|Pts|Points}}
|-bgcolor="ccffcc"
|align=left|{{fh|IND}}
|3||3||0||0||16||4||+12||'''6'''
|-bgcolor="ccffcc"
|align=left|{{fh|MAS}}
|3||2||0||1||11||5||+6||'''4'''
|-
|align=left|{{fh|SRI}}
|3||1||0||2||4||8||−4||'''2'''
|-
|align=left|{{fh|HKG|1959}}
|3||0||0||3||2||16||−14||'''0'''
|}

{{fieldhockeybox
|date=11 December
|time=
|team1={{fh-rt|IND}}
|score= 5–3
|team2={{fh|MAS}}
|stadium= [[National Stadium (Thailand)|National Stadium]], [[Bangkok]]}}
----
{{fieldhockeybox
|date=13 December
|time=
|team1={{fh-rt|IND}}
|score= 7–0
|team2={{fh|HKG|1959}}
|stadium= [[National Stadium (Thailand)|National Stadium]], [[Bangkok]]}}
----
{{fieldhockeybox
|date=15 December
|time=
|team1={{fh-rt|IND}}
|score= 4–1
|team2={{fh|SRI}}
|stadium= [[National Stadium (Thailand)|National Stadium]], [[Bangkok]]}}

=== Semifinals ===
{{fieldhockeybox
|date=17 December
|time= 
|team1={{fh-rt|IND}}
|score= 2–0
|team2={{fh|JPN|1947}}
|stadium= [[National Stadium (Thailand)|National Stadium]], [[Bangkok]]}}

=== Gold medal match ===
{{fieldhockeybox
|date=19 December
|time= 
|team1={{fh-rt|PAK}}
|score= 1–0
|team2={{fh|IND}}
|stadium= [[National Stadium (Thailand)|National Stadium]], [[Bangkok]]}}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Nations at the 1978 Asian Games}}

[[Category:Nations at the 1978 Asian Games]]
[[Category:India at the Asian Games|1978]]
[[Category:1978 in Indian sport|Asian Games]]


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