Field hockey at the 1966 Asian Games

Field hockey was contested for men only at the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.

Field hockey at the 1966 Asian Games
Venue	Thephasadin Stadium
Location	Bangkok, Thailand
Dates	12–19 December
Teams	8
Medalists
India    Pakistan    Japan
← 1962 1970 →

India won its first gold medal by defeating the two-time defending champions Pakistan 1–0 after extra time in the final. Japan won its first medal by defeating Malaysia 1–0 in the bronze medal match.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	India A. L. Frank Balbir Singh Grewal Haripal Kaushik Balbir Singh Kular Balbir Singh Kullar Mohinder Lal Shankar Lakshman John Peter Dharam Singh Gurbux Singh Harbinder Singh Harmik Singh Inder Singh Jagdeep Singh Jagjit Singh Prithipal Singh Tarsem Singh Noel Toppo	Pakistan Muhammad Ashfaq Laeeq Ahmed Muhammad Akhtar Saeed Anwar Tariq Aziz Khizer Nawaz Bajwa Jahangir Butt Munir Dar Abdul Hamid Jahangir Khan Khalid Mahmood Muhammad Asad Malik Riazuddin Moghal Tariq Niazi Fazal-ur-Rehman Muhammad Rashid Abdul Waheed Khwaja Zakauddin	Japan Hiroshi Fujishima Seiji Hashimoto Yukitoshi Hata Nobuo Ide Yukio Kamimura Shigeo Kaoku Akio Kudo Norihiko Matsumoto Shozo Nishimura Satokazu Otsuka Katsumi Shirato Takashi Sugiura Hiroyuki Takagi Akio Takashima Akihito Wada Minoru Yoshimura Katsuhiro Yuzaki Tsuneya Yuzaki

Draw

The draw for hockey competition was held on 5 December 1966.^[1]

Group A  Pakistan  Japan  Hong Kong  Thailand

Group B  India  Malaysia  South Korea  Ceylon

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Pakistan	3	2	1	0	18	0	+18	5	Semi-finals
2	Japan	3	2	1	0	5	0	+5	5
3	Hong Kong	3	1	0	2	2	6	−4	2
4	Thailand (H)	3	0	0	3	0	19	−19	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(H) Hosts

12 December 1966 Pakistan  0–0  Japan

12 December 1966 Hong Kong  2–0  Thailand

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13 December 1966 Pakistan  5–0  Hong Kong

13 December 1966 Japan  4–0  Thailand

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15 December 1966 Pakistan  13–0  Thailand

15 December 1966 Japan  1–0  Hong Kong

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	India	3	3	0	0	9	0	+9	6	Semi-finals
2	Malaysia	3	1	1	1	2	1	+1	3
3	South Korea	3	1	0	2	1	7	−6	2
4	Ceylon	3	0	1	2	0	4	−4	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

12 December 1966 South Korea  1–0  Ceylon

12 December 1966 India  1–0  Malaysia

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13 December 1966 Malaysia  2–0  South Korea

13 December 1966 India  3–0  Ceylon

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14 December 1966 India  5–0  South Korea

14 December 1966 Malaysia  0–0  Ceylon

Consolation round

	5–8th place semi-finals				5th place
	16 December
	Hong Kong	1
					17 December
	Ceylon	3
					Ceylon	1
	16 December
					South Korea	0
	South Korea	1
	Thailand	0

5–8th place semi-finals

16 December 1966 Hong Kong  1–3  Ceylon

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16 December 1966 South Korea  1–0  Thailand

5th place match

17 December 1966 Ceylon  1–0  South Korea

Medal round

	Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	16 December
	Pakistan	5
					19 December
	Malaysia	1
					Pakistan	0
	16 December
					India (a.e.t.)	1
	India	3
	Japan	0
					Bronze medal match
					19 December
					Malaysia	0
					Japan	1

Semi-finals

16 December 1966 Pakistan  5–1  Malaysia

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16 December 1966 India  3–0  Japan

Bronze medal match

19 December 1966 Malaysia  0–1  Japan

Gold medal match

19 December 1966 Pakistan  0–1 (a.e.t.)  India Report Balbir Singh  90'

Final standings

1.  India
2.  Pakistan
3.  Japan
4.  Malaysia
5.  Ceylon
6.  South Korea
7.  Hong Kong
8.  Thailand