India at the 1974 Asian Games

India at the
1974 Asian Games
India at the; 1974 Asian Games
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
in Tehran
Medals; Ranked 7th	Gold 4 Silver 12 Bronze 12 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;

India participated in the 1974 Asian Games held in Tehran, Iran from 1 to 16 September 1974. Athletes from India won overall 28 medals, including four gold, and finished seventh in a medal table.^[1]

Medals by sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	4	7	4	15
Boxing	0	3	2	5
Badminton	0	0	1	1
Hockey	0	1	0	1
Shooting	0	1	1	2
Wrestling	0	0	4	4
Total	4	12	12	28

Football

Head coach: P. K. Banerjee

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1GK	E.N. Sudhir		Maharashtra
1GK	Prasanta Mitra		Bengal
2DF	Nicholas Pereira		Goa
2DF	Shyamal Ghosh		East Bengal
2DF	Kajal Dhali		East Bengal
2DF	Prabir Majumdar		Bengal
2DF	Pradeep Chowdhury		Maharashtra
2DF	Gurdev Singh Gill	(1950-04-20)20 April 1950 (aged 24)	Punjab Police
2DF	Dilip Palit		Railways
3MF	Shyam Sunder Manna		Bengal
3MF	Doraiswami Nataraj		Mysore
3MF	Gautam Sarkar	(1950-01-08)8 January 1950 (aged 24)	Bengal
3MF	Prasun Banerjee	(1955-04-06)6 April 1955 (aged 19)	Bengal
4FW	Surajit Sengupta	(1951-08-30)30 August 1951 (aged 23)	East Bengal
4FW	Subhash Bhowmick	(1950-10-02)2 October 1950 (aged 23)	East Bengal
4FW	Mohammed Habib	(1949-07-17)17 July 1949 (aged 25)	East Bengal
4FW	Shyam Thapa	(1948-05-01)1 May 1948 (aged 26)	Maharashtra
4FW	Magan Singh Rajvi		RAC Bikaner

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Iraq	3	3	0	5	0	+5	6
2	North Korea	3	2	1	6	2	+4	4
3	China	3	1	2	7	4	+3	2
4	India	3	0	3	2	14	−12	0

Source: RSSSF

2 September

16:30

India	0–3	Iraq
		Jassam 19' Hassan 27' Kadhim 58'

Amjadieh Stadium, Tehran

Referee: Yoshiyuki Maruyama (Japan)

4 September

18:30

China	7–1	India
Wang Jilian 4', 25' Li Guoning 10' (pen.), 58' Liu Qingquan 50' Rong Zhixing 76' Chi Shangbin 82'		Rajvi 74'

Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran

Referee: Mohsen Zamani (Iran)

6 September

18:30

India	1–4	North Korea
Rajvi		Hong Song-nam Yang Song-guk Myong Dong-chan

Amjadieh Stadium, Tehran

References

^ "Overall medal standings – Tehran 1974". Olympic Council of Asia. ocasia.org. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2011.

[ocasia2-1] "Overall medal standings – Tehran 1974". Olympic Council of Asia. ocasia.org. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2011.

[1]