Football at the 1954 Asian Games – Men's team squads

Squads for the Football at the 1954 Asian Games played in Manila, Philippines.

Group A[]

 Republic of China[]

Head coach: Lee Wai Tong

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Pau King-yin
2	2DF
3	2DF	Hau Yung-sang
5	2DF
7	3MF
11	3MF
12	4FW
15	4FW	Ho Ying-fan
16	4FW
20	4FW
22	4FW
	4FW	Mok Chun-wah
	4FW	Yiu Cheuk-yin

 South Vietnam[]

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK
2	2DF
3	2DF
4	3MF
5	2DF
6	3MF
7	4FW
8	4FW
9	4FW
10	4FW
11	4FW
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

 Philippines[]

Head coach: Dionisio Calvo^[1]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK
	1GK
	1GK	Victor Sison
	2DF
	2DF
	2DF
	2DF
	3MF
	3MF	Fernando Álvarez
	3MF	Ramon Gonzales
	3MF
	3MF
	3MF
	4FW	Eduardo Pacheco	(1936-01-04)4 January 1936 (aged 18)
	4FW
	4FW	Alberto Villareal
	4FW
	4FW
	4FW
	4FW
	4FW
	4FW

Group B[]

 Singapore[]

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK
2	2DF
3	2DF
4	3MF
5	2DF
	3MF	Chia Boon Leong
	4FW
8	4FW
9	4FW
10	4FW
11	4FW
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

 Pakistan[]

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK
2	2DF
3	2DF
4	3MF
5	2DF
6	3MF
7	4FW
8	4FW
9	4FW
10	4FW
11	4FW
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

 Burma[]

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
2	1GK
5	4FW
6	3MF
8	4FW
9	4FW
10	4FW
14	2DF
15	2DF
16	3MF
18	3MF	Suk Bahadur Thapa
21	4FW

Group C[]

 Japan[]

Head coach: Shigemaru Takenokoshi

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Hiroto Muraoka
	1GK	Hidemaro Watanabe
	2DF	Ryuzo Hiraki
	2DF	Yoshio Okada
	2DF	Nobuo Matsunaga
	2DF
	3MF	Takashi Takabayashi
	3MF	Arawa Kimura
	3MF	Shigeo Sugimoto
	4FW	Masao Ono
	4FW	Masanori Tokita
	4FW	Taro Kagawa
	4FW	Taizo Kawamoto
	4FW	Toshio Iwatani
	4FW	Takashi Kano
	4FW	Hirokazu Ninomiya
	4FW	Ken Naganuma
	4FW	Takashi Tokuhiro

 Indonesia[]

Head coach: Antun Pogačnik

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK					Persija Jakarta
	1GK					Persema Malang
	2DF					Persija Jakarta
	2DF					Persib Bandung
	2DF	Kwee Kiat Sek	11 January 1934 (aged 20)			Persib Bandung
	2DF					Persija Jakarta
	3MF	Tan Liong Houw	26 July 1930 (aged 23)			Persija Jakarta
	3MF	Ramlan Yatim	10 September 1922 (aged 32)			PSMS Medan
	3MF					Persebaya Surabaya
	4FW	Phwa Sian Liong				Persebaya Surabaya
	4FW		28 August 1928 (aged 25)			PSMS Medan
	4FW		25 November 1927 (aged 26)			Persija Jakarta
	4FW	Ramang	24 April 1928 (aged 26)			PSM Makassar
	4FW		3 January 1922 (aged 32)			Persebaya Surabaya
	4FW	Aang Witarsa	3 December 1930 (aged 23)			Persib Bandung
	4FW	Soegiono				PSIS Semarang

 India[]

Head coach: Balaidas Chatterjee

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Sanjeeva Uchil
	1GK
	2DF	Sailen Manna (c)	30
	2DF	Sayed Khwaja Aziz-ud-Din
	2DF	Thenmadom Varghese
	2DF	Anthony Patrick
	3MF	Muhammad Noor
	3MF	Chandan Singh Rawat
	3MF	Amal Dutta
	3MF
	4FW	Sayed Moinuddin	30
	4FW	Ahmed Khan
	4FW	Neville D'Souza
	4FW	Krishna Kittu	22
	4FW
	4FW
	4FW	Peter Thangaraj

Group D[]

 South Korea[]

Head coach: Lee Yoo-hyung

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Hong Deok-young	(1926-05-05)5 May 1926 (aged 27)
2	1GK	Ham Heung-chul	(1930-11-17)17 November 1930 (aged 23)			ROK Army Military Police Command FC
3	2DF	Park Kyu-chung	(1924-06-11)11 June 1924 (aged 29)			ROK Army Quartermaster Corps FC
4	2DF	Li Jong-kap	(1920-03-18)18 March 1920 (aged 33)			ROK Army CIC FC
5	3MF	Lee Sang-yi	(1920-03-18)18 March 1920 (aged 33)
6	3MF	Kim Ji-sung	(1924-11-07)7 November 1924 (aged 29)			ROK Army CIC FC
7	3MF	Kang Chang-gi	(1927-08-28)28 August 1927 (aged 26)
8	3MF	Han Chang-wha	(1922-01-03)3 January 1922 (aged 32)			ROK Army CIC FC
9	4FW	Chu Yung-kwang	(1920-01-12)12 January 1920 (aged 33)			ROK Navy FC
10	4FW	Choi Chung-min	(1927-07-27)27 July 1927 (aged 26)			ROK Army CIC FC
11	4FW	Sung Nak-woon	(1926-02-02)2 February 1926 (aged 27)			ROK Army Quartermaster Corps FC
12	4FW		(1932-03-27)27 March 1932 (aged 21)
13	4FW	Chung Nam-sik	(1917-02-16)16 February 1917 (aged 36)			ROK Army HID FC
14	4FW	Park Il-kap	(1926-03-21)21 March 1926 (aged 27)			ROK Army CIC FC
15	2DF	Min Byung-dae	(1918-02-20)20 February 1918 (aged 35)			ROK Army CIC FC
16	4FW	Chung Kook-chin	(1917-01-02)2 January 1917 (aged 37)			ROK Navy FC

 Hong Kong[]

Head coach: Tom Sneddon

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK
		Ho Cheung Yau

Hong Kong national team and Republic of China national team shared same fodder of players during pre-1971. Most (if not all) the players playing in the Hong Kong football league. The ROC team practically the A-team, while Hong Kong practically the B-team, with lesser quality of players.

 Afghanistan[]

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK
2	2DF
3	2DF
4	3MF
5	2DF
6	3MF
7	3MF
8	3MF
9	4FW
10	4FW
11	3MF
12	1GK
13	2DF
14	3MF
15	4FW
16	3MF
17	4FW
18	4FW

References[]

External links[]

• https://web.archive.org/web/20150524232202/http://rdfc.com.ne.kr/int/skor-intres-1948.html
• http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/jap-intres1950.html