Pakistan men's national field hockey team

Pakistan
Nickname(s)	Green Shirts; Green Machines
Association	Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF)
Confederation	ASHF (Asia)
Head Coach	Siegfried Aikman
Assistant coach(es)	Waseem Ahmed; Sameer Hussain; Ajmal Khan
Manager	Khawaja Junaid
Captain	Muhammad Umar Bhutta
Most caps	Waseem Ahmad (410)
Top scorer	Sohail Abbas (348)
	Home
	Away
FIH ranking
Current	18 (23 December 2021)
Highest	4 (2001)
Lowest	18 (June 2021–present)
First international
	Pakistan 2-1 Belgium; (London, United Kingdom; 2 August 1948)
Biggest win
	Pakistan 22-0 ; (Madras, India; 26 December 1995)
Biggest defeat
	Australia 9-1 Pakistan; (Melbourne, Australia; 8 November 2017)
Olympic Games
Appearances	17 (first in 1948)
Best result	Champions (1960, 1968, 1984)
World Cup
Appearances	13 (first in 1971)
Best result	Champions (1971, 1978, 1982 and 1994)
Champions Trophy
Appearances	31 (first in 1978)
Best result	Champions (1978, 1980 and 1994)
Asian Games
Appearances	16 (first in 1958)
Best result	Champions (1958, 1962, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1990, 2010)
Medal record

The Pakistan national field hockey team (Urdu: پاکستان قومى ہاكى ٹیم)^[4] represents Pakistan in international field hockey since its first match in 1948. It is administered by the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF), the governing body for hockey in Pakistan. They have been a member of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) since 1948 and founding member of the Asian Hockey Federation (ASHF) which formed in 1958.^[5]

Pakistan is one of the most successful national field hockey teams in the world with a record four championships in Hockey World Cup (1971, 1978, 1982,1994). Pakistan also has the best overall performance in World Cup history in both proportional and absolute terms with 53 victories in 84 matches played, seven time draws, six appearances in the finals and only 24 losses. Pakistan national team has played in all FIH World Cup editions with only one absence in 2014. The green shirts is also one of the most successful national teams in the Asian Games with eight gold medals: 1958, 1962, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1990 and 2010, the highest number of times a country has come first, and the only Asian team to have won the prestigious Champions Trophy with three championships: 1978, 1980 and 1994. Pakistan have won a total of 29 official international titles to professional and grassroots level selections, with three gold medals in the Olympic Games field hockey tournaments in Rome 1960, Mexico City 1968 and Los Angeles 1984.

Field hockey being the national sport of the country,^[6]^[7] Pakistan national team has been ranked as the #1 team in the world from 2000 till 2001 by FIH, and former captain Sohail Abbas holds the world record for the most international goals scored by a player^[8] in the history of international field hockey, with a tally of 348 goals. Waseem Ahmad holds the record for Pakistan appearances, having played 410 times between 1996 and 2013.^[9]

Pakistan is known for having fierce rivalry with India, having a record of playing each other in South Asian Games and Asian Games finals. They have competed against one another in twenty major tournaments finals so far, out of which Pakistan has won thirteen titles in total. Pakistan have a record of winning the first three championships of Hockey Asia Cup in 1982, 1985 and 1989 against India in row. Apart from them Pakistan has notable competitive rivalries with Netherlands and Australia. Pakistan's home ground is National Hockey Stadium, in Lahore, and the current team head coach is Siegfried Aikman and the team manager is Khawaja Muhammad Junaid.^[10]

History[]

Early history (1948–1958)[]

The first Pakistan national hockey team ever, 1948.

Originally, the game had been brought by British servicemen to British India, and like cricket it soon became a popular sport with the local population. Following the independence of Pakistan in 1947, soon after the Pakistan Hockey Federation came into being in 1948. Prior to the partition of India, players playing for Pakistan competed for the Indian side. The Federation soon established and organized the Provincial Hockey/Sports Associations of West Punjab, East Bengal, Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Bahawalpur & Services Sports Board. Despite the limited resources available on 2 August 1948, Pakistan national team, led by Ali Iqtidar Shah Dara, officially went on to play their first international game against Belgium winning the game 2–1 at the 1948 London Olympics. Pakistan remained unbeaten defeating the Netherlands, Denmark and France during the group stage round and ended up placing fourth. During the group stages Pakistan defeat of Netherlands by 6-1 was the highlight for the team. Following the Olympics Pakistan went on a tour of Europe where the played Belgium, Netherlands and Italy and remained undefeated during the tour.

The next international outing of the team came after a gap of two years when Pakistan participated in an invitational competition in Spain in 1950. Pakistan were declared joined winners with Netherlands after the final ended in a draw and organizers decided to end the game rather than going for a deciding period of play, this was Pakistan's first international tournament victory. Again there was a gap of two years before Pakistan again appeared in an international event and this time it was the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki. Pakistan won the first knock-out game against France 6-0 but lost to Netherlands and Great Britain to again finish fourth at the event. Over the four years Pakistan made tours to European teams and also hosted them in their own country and in Asia Pakistan particularly made regular tours to Malaysia and Singapore with whom they played quite a few times.

Pakistan won their first Olympic medal in 1956 at Melbourne when they reached the final but lost to India 1–0 to earn a silver medal, first podium finish this was also Pakistan's first medal at the Olympics. Field hockey was included in the Asian Games for the first time in 1958 at Tokyo. Pakistan were drawn against Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and archrivals India. They beat Japan 5–0 in their first match, then followed two consecutive victories over South Korea (8–0) and Malaysia (6–0). In the last match Pakistan drew 0–0 with India finishing top of the table in the round-robin format and clinched its first gold medal in an international competition.^[11]

The Rise in Olympics (1960–1970)[]

Pakistan playing against Australia, at the 1960 Rome Olympics.

In 1960 Rome Olympics where Pakistan played against in a group with Australia, Poland and Japan, winning all the matches. Pakistan then played the quarter-final round with Germany, winning the match 2–1 and advanced to the semi-final round where they defeated Spain. Pakistan eventually won the gold medal, defeating India 1–0 with a goal by Naseer Bunda in the final round held at the Olympic Velodrome and ended India's run of six successive gold medals at the Summer Olympic Games.^[12]

In the 1962 Asian Games, Pakistan earned its second gold medal with Chaudhry Ghulam Rasool^[13] as the captain leading the team to another successive award.^[14] However, during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics the national team ended up as runners-up for the second time after losing 1–0 to India in the final as well as finishing runners-up in the 1966 Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand. Pakistan won its second Olympic Games gold medal in Mexico at the 1968 Summer Olympics.^[15] It fielded what has since then often been considered the best hockey squad ever led by captain Tariq Aziz with Saeed Anwar, Khalid Mahmood, Gulraiz Akhtar and Tariq Niazi. Even though Rasool had retired, this team was still a force to be reckoned with. They won all six of their games—against Kenya, Great Britain, Malaysia, Australia, France and the Netherlands during group play, and against West Germany in the knockout round. Pakistan made the final for the fourth straight Olympics, and won the gold medal, as they had in 1960, this time by defeating Australia, 2–1 with goals from Muhammad Asad Malik and Abdul Rashid. Rashid was the top scorer for Pakistan with seven goals; Tanvir Dar finished with six goals.

In 1969, President of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF), Air Marshal Nur Khan was the first senior hockey official who had floated the idea of organizing field hockey's very own World Cup. He proposed his idea to the FIH through Patrick Rowley, the first editor of World Hockey magazine. Their idea was approved on 26 October 1969, and adopted by the FIH Council at a meeting in Brussels on 12 April 1970. The FIH decided that the inaugural World Cup would be held in October 1971, in Pakistan. Khan went on to donate the World Cup trophy and later the Champions Trophy to the International Hockey Federation.^[16]

The Golden Era (1970–1984)[]

In the group stage of the 1970 Asian Games, Pakistan was competing with tournament hosts Thailand and contenders Japan for top spot and a place in the finals. In their first match of the group, Pakistan scored thrice against Japan to clinch their first win, followed by defeating Hong Kong 10–0 to go to the top of the group. The team then draw 0–0 with Thailand and progressed to the knock-out round, where they won 5–0 over Malaysia. In the final, Pakistan faced India, winning 1–0 and sealing their third Asian Games gold medal.

PHF President (1967–69, 1976–84) Air Marshal Nur Khan conceived the idea of Hockey World Cup to FIH in 1969 and founded the Champions Trophy in 1978.

In 1971, the first-ever Hockey World Cup was to be hosted by Pakistan. However, political issues would prevent that first competition from being played in Pakistan. The FIH had inadvertently scheduled the first World Cup to be played in Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Furthermore, Pakistan and India had been at war with each other only six years earlier. When Pakistan invited India to compete in the tournament, a crisis arose. Pakistanis, led by cricketer Abdul Hafeez Kardar, protested against India's participation in the Hockey World Cup. Given the intense political climate between Pakistan and India, the FIH decided to move the tournament elsewhere. In March 1971, coincidentally in the same month Bangladesh declared independence from Pakistan, the FIH decided to move the first Hockey World Cup to the Real Club de Polo grounds in Barcelona, Spain, which was considered a neutral and peaceful European site.^[17] On 27 March 1971, in Brussels, the trophy was formally handed to FIH President Rene Frank by H.E Masood, the Pakistani Ambassador to Belgium. A total number of 10 teams qualified for the event and were broken up into two groups. The Pakistani team was drawn in a group with hosts Spain, Australia, Japan and the Netherlands. The group was topped by Spain and Pakistan respectively, and both the teams advanced into the semi-finals. In the first semi-final of the tournament Pakistan ousted India 2–1 in a tense and closely contested game and in the second semi-final Spain played safe and defeated a spirited Kenya 1–0 to enter the finals against Pakistan. In the final Pakistan scored early but then strengthened its defense to hold out a 1–0 victory and win the first hockey World Cup, retaining its number one position in the world hockey rankings, closely followed by India and the Netherlands. Tanvir Dar finished as the top goal scorer at the tournament with eight goals. The 1972 Munich Olympics, Pakistan lost the final to hosts West Germany losing the game 1–0 with a goal by Michael Krause and finished at fourth place, the following year, in the 1973 Hockey World Cup. The national team made a comeback in the international competition, by winning and retaining their title at the 1974 Asian Games but lost to their rivals India in the finals of the third hockey World Cup in 1975. 1976 Montreal Olympics saw the team secure their first bronze medal in the competition. The year 1978 saw Pakistan national team win three major international tournaments: the third Hockey World Cup held at Buenos Aires, Argentina along with 1978 Asian Games^[18] and the first Champions Trophy. This was the first time a national team won three major titles in the history of international field hockey. In 1980, Pakistan Olympic Association, along with 65 countries, boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.^[19] This resulted in Pakistan hockey team not participating at the field hockey competition at the tournament. Pakistan hosted the 1980 and 1981 Champions Trophy tournaments, winning the title against West Germany in the final round in 1980 and finishing at fourth position^[20] a year later, held at the Hockey Club of Pakistan, Karachi. In the 1980s Pakistan won every international tournament it participated in including the 1982 World Cup in Mumbai and the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles where Pakistan won the gold medal defeating West Germany in the final. Pakistan also won the Asian Games and Asia Cup consecutively in this period.

Surface change, crisis and resurgence (1986–1996)[]

Although hockey was being played at synthetic surfaces from 1970s but it was only till the 1986 World Cup in London the FIH completely moved on from grass pitches to AstroTurf, synthetic turf made from plastic fibers to give a grass like look. The change of surface made the game much more fasted paced and to align the game with the new conditions the governing body vastly changed the rules of the game which focused more on strength and pace rather than stick work and technique which was the hallmark of Asian style of hockey. This negatively effected Pakistan since they couldn't replace all of the grass pitches with more expensive synthetic surfaces compared to more affluent European nations. This resulted in Pakistan performing very poorly at the World Cup in London where they won just one pool game and finished second last at 11th place. Pakistan however managed to cope up with the new changes in the game in the following years and started to regain some of its past dominance. Pakistan first finished runner-up at the 1990 World Cup at home in Lahore after losing the final to Netherlands and won a bronze medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. The most glorious highlight of the decade came in 1994 when Pakistan first won the 1994 Champions Trophy at home ground, their first title in the competition after 14 years and later in the year Pakistan won the Hockey World Cup in Sydney after winning a penalty shootout against Netherlands.

Post-Atlanta Olympics (1998–2006)[]

Pakistan playing against Argentina in 2005.

The national team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

After Atlanta 1996 the first major competition was the 1998 Hockey World Cup in Utrecht Pakistan finished 5th at the tournament. The following year Pakistan won the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup for the first time in 1999. Pakistan finished fourth at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney after losing the bronze medal match to Australia, this was the last time Pakistan played for a medal at the Olympics. Pakistan finished 5th at 2002 World Cup and Kuala Lumpur and won bronze medal at the Champions Trophy the same year. At the 2002 Asian Games Pakistan finished fourth, the first time the team didn't won a medal at the competition. In 2003 Pakistan lost the Hockey Asia Cup final to India and in 2004 Pakistan had a busy schedule where they played in many tournaments in lead up to the Olympics but Pakistan finished 5th at the 2004 Athens Olympics later in December Pakistan finished third at the 2004 Champions Trophy in Lahore, the third consecutive bronze medal. In 2005 Pakistan had a highlight when they defeated Olympic champion Australia to win the 2005 Hockey RaboTrophy in Netherlands. Pakistan finished 6th the 2006 World Cup and failed even to progress from the pool stages of the 2007 Asia Cup.

Beijing Olympics and competitive decline (2008–2012)[]

The 2008 Beijing Olympics proved to be the worst performance of the team at the event where they finished 8th.^[21] The year 2010 started with another record worst performance at the 2010 World Cup in New Delhi where the team finished last at 12th place but later in the same year Pakistan had a major success by winning the gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games in China.^[22] In 2011 Pakistan played in many minor tournaments in lead up to the 2012 Olympics where they finished 7th. Later in the year 2012 Pakistan won bronze medal at the 2012 Champions Trophy in Melbourne after upsetting tournaments favorites like Germany. The Pakistani national team most successful tournament, in this period, was the Asian Hockey Champions Trophy winning the trophy first in 2012 against India and finishing as runners-up in the first edition of Asian Hockey Champions Trophy in 2011. During this period despite not any major team honor won the Pakistan team had world renowned individual players in world hockey in the likes of Sohail Abbas who remained top scorer at the 2002 World Cup and 2004 Olympics, he later broke the record of highest goalscorer in international hockey with a total of 348 goals and Rehan Butt who was twice voted as the Best Asian Player by Asian Hockey Federation, Shakeel Abbasi, Salman Akbar and Muhammad Saqlain.

World Cup and Olympic Absentee (2013–2020)[]

Pakistan after having failed to get a direct entrance for the 2014 World Cup were handed a last chance to qualify for the event by winning the 2013 Asia Cup but they finished third and failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in history.^[23] Pakistan failed to qualify for the Olympics for the first time for Rio 2016 after failing a qualification birth at the 2014-15 FIH Hockey World League. From 2016 to 2017 Pakistan performed poorly in different competitions even featuring a record defeat of 9–1 against Australia in 2017. In 2018 Roelant Oltmans of Netherlands was brought in as coach and the team showed some improvements but still performed poorly at the 2018 World Cup failing to win a single match. Pakistan again failed to qualify for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo losing the Olympic Qualifiers against Netherlands over a two legged tie in 2019. Due to the financial crisis faced by Pakistan Hockey Federation and lack of resources Pakistan's participation in international events dropped sharply and the team didn't played in any international match since 2019.^{[citation needed]}

Present era (2021–present)[]

PHF announced Pakistan's participation for the 2021 Asian Champions Trophy, the team's first appearance in an international competition after a gap of two years. A 20-man squad was announced with Siegfried Aikman as head coach prior to the tournament.^[24]

Logo[]

The motif of the Pakistan national field hockey team has a star and crescent on a dark green field; with a vertical white stripe at the hoist, usually in green, white color, as represented in the flag of Pakistan.^{[citation needed]}

Pakistan played at a number of different venues across the country, though by the time of 1978 this had largely settled down to having National Hockey Stadium (also known as Gadaffi Hockey Stadium, named after former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi) in Lahore as the primary venue, with Faisalabad Hockey Stadium and Hockey Club of Pakistan used on occasions where the National Hockey Stadium was unavailable for home matches. The stadium is considered to be the biggest international field hockey stadium in the world and holds a capacity of 45,000 spectators.^[25]

The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has its headquarters in the stadium. It has hosted many international matches and competitions such as the Hockey Asia Cup of 1982 and Champions Trophy tournament in 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998 and 2004 along with the 1990 Hockey World Cup, where Pakistan lost 3–1 to the Netherlands in the final.^{[citation needed]}

Honors and recognition[]

Since its breakthrough in the 1948 Summer Olympics, Pakistan has won more than 20 official titles, which are detailed below:

World Cup:
- Gold medal: 1971, 1978, 1982, 1994
- Silver medal: 1975, 1990
Summer Olympics:
- Gold medal: 1960 Rome, 1968 Mexico City, 1984 Los Angeles
- Silver medal: 1956 Melbourne, 1964 Tokyo, 1972 Munich
- Bronze medal: 1976 Montreal, 1992 Barcelona
Champions Trophy:
- Gold medal: 1978, 1980, 1994
- Silver medal: 1983, 1984, 1988, 1991, 1996, 1998, 2014
- Bronze medal: 1986, 1992, 1995, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2012,
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup:
- Gold medal: 1998, 2000, 2003
- Silver medal: 1983, 1987, 1991, 1994, 2004, 2011
- Bronze medal: 1985, 2005
Asian Champions Trophy:
- Gold medal: 2012, 2013, 2018
- Silver medal: 2011, 2016
Asia Cup:
- Gold medal: 1982, 1985, 1989
- Silver medal: 1999, 2003, 2009
- Bronze medal: 1993, 2013, 2017
Asian Games:
- Gold medal: 1958, 1962, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1990, 2010
- Silver medal: 1966, 1986, 2014
- Bronze medal: 1994, 1998, 2006
Commonwealth Games:
- Silver medal: 2006
- Bronze medal: 2002
South Asian Games:
- Gold medal: 2006, 2010, 2016
- Silver medal: 1995
Afro-Asian Games:
- Silver medal: 2003
Hockey Champions Challenge:
- Silver medal: 2009

Competitive record[]

Team performance[]

TBD (to be determined), DNQ (did not qualify), DNP (did not participate)

World Cup^[26]^[27]
Year	Host city	Position
1971	Barcelona, Spain	1st
1973	Amstelveen, Netherlands	4th
1975	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2nd
1978	Buenos Aires, Argentina	1st
1982	Mumbai, India	1st
1986	London, England	11th
1990	Lahore, Pakistan	2nd
1994	Sydney, Australia	1st
1998	Utrecht, Netherlands	5th
2002	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	5th
2006	Mönchengladbach, Germany	6th
2010	New Delhi, India	12th
2014	The Hague, Netherlands	DNQ
2018	Bhubaneswar, India	12th

Olympic Games^[28]
Year	Host city	Position
1948	London, United Kingdom	4th
1952	Helsinki, Finland	4th
1956	Melbourne, Australia	2nd
1960	Rome, Italy	1st
1964	Tokyo, Japan	2nd
1968	Mexico City, Mexico	1st
1972	Munich, West Germany	2nd
1976	Montreal, Canada	3rd
1980	Moscow, Soviet Union	DNP
1984	Los Angeles, United States	1st
1988	Seoul, South Korea	5th
1992	Barcelona, Spain	3rd
1996	Atlanta, United States	6th
2000	Sydney, Australia	4th
2004	Athens, Greece	5th
2008	Beijing, China	8th
2012	London, United Kingdom	7th
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	DNQ
2020	Tokyo, Japan	DNQ

Champions Trophy^[29]
Year	Host city	Position
1978	Lahore, Pakistan	1st
1980	Karachi, Pakistan	1st
1981	Karachi, Pakistan	4th
1982	Amstelveen, Netherlands	4th
1983	Karachi, Pakistan	2nd
1984	Karachi, Pakistan	2nd
1985	Perth, Australia	4th
1986	Karachi, Pakistan	3rd
1987	Amstelveen, Netherlands	7th
1988	Karachi, Pakistan	2nd
1989	Berlin, West Germany	4th
1990	Melbourne, Australia	4th
1991	Berlin, Germany	2nd
1992	Karachi, Pakistan	4th
1993	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	4th
1994	Lahore, Pakistan	1st
1995	Berlin, Germany	3rd
1996	Madras, India	2nd
1997	Adelaide, Australia	5th
1998	Lahore, Pakistan	2nd
1999	Brisbane, Australia	6th
2000	Amstelveen, Netherlands	DNP
2001	Rotterdam, Netherlands	4th
2002	Cologne, Germany	3rd
2003	Amstelveen, Netherlands	3rd
2004	Lahore, Pakistan	3rd
2005	Chennai, India	5th
2006	Terrassa, Spain	5th
2007	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	7th
2008	Rotterdam, Netherlands	DNP
2009	Melbourne, Australia	DNP
2010	Mönchengladbach, Germany	DNP
2011	Auckland, New Zealand	7th
2012	Melbourne, Australia	3rd
2014	Bhubaneswar, India	2nd
2016	London, England	DNP
2018	Breda, Netherlands	6th

Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
Year	Host city	Position
1983	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2nd
1985	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	3rd
1987	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2nd
1991	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2nd
1994	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2nd
1995	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	DNP
1996	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	DNP
1998	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	1st
1999	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	DNP
2000	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	1st
2001	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	4th
2003	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	1st
2004	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2nd
2005	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	3rd
2006	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	5th
2007	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	6th
2008	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	4th
2009	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	4th
2010	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	5th
2011	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2nd
2012	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	7th
2013	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	6th
2014	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2nd
2015	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	DNP
2016	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	5th
2017	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	DNP
2018	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	DNP
2019	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	DNP

Asian Hockey Champions Trophy
Year	Host city	Position
2011	Ordos, China	2nd
2012	Doha, Qatar	1st
2013	Kakamigahara, Japan	1st
2016	Kuantan, Malaysia	2nd
2018	Muscat, Oman	1st

Asia Cup
Year	Host city	Position
1982	Karachi, Pakistan	1st
1985	Dhaka, Bangladesh	1st
1989	New Delhi, India	1st
1994	Hiroshima, Japan	3rd
1999	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2nd
2003	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2nd
2007	Chennai, India	6th
2009	Kuantan, Malaysia	2nd
2013	Ipoh, Malaysia	3rd
2017	Dhaka, Bangladesh	3rd

Asian Games
Year	Host city	Position
1958	Tokyo, Japan	1st
1962	Jakarta, Indonesia	1st
1966	Bangkok, Thailand	2nd
1970	Bangkok, Thailand	1st
1974	Tehran, Iran	1st
1978	Bangkok, Thailand	1st
1982	New Delhi, India	1st
1986	Seongnam, South Korea	2nd
1990	Beijing, China	1st
1994	Hiroshima, Japan	3rd
1998	Bangkok, Thailand	3rd
2002	Busan, South Korea	4th
2006	Doha, Qatar	3rd
2010	Guangzhou, China	1st
2014	Incheon, South Korea	2nd
2018	Jakarta-Palembang, Indonesia	4th

Commonwealth Games
Year	Host city	Position
1998	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	10th
2002	Manchester, England	3rd
2006	Melbourne, Australia	2nd
2010	New Delhi, India	6th
2014	Glasgow, Scotland	DNP
2018	Gold Coast, Australia	7th

South Asian Games
Year	Host city	Position
1995	Madras, India	2nd
2006	Colombo, Sri Lanka	1st
2010	Dhaka, Bangladesh	1st
2016	Guwahati, India	1st

Afro-Asian Games
Year	Host city	Position
2003	Hyderabad, India	2nd

FIH Hockey World League
Year	Host city	Position
2012–13	New Delhi, India	13th
2014–15	Raipur, India	15th
2016–17	India	14th

Records[]

As of 27 October 2019

Players in bold text are still active with Pakistan

Top goal scorers[]

Rank	Player	Goals	Matches	Career	Ref
1	Sohail Abbas	348	311	1998-2012	^[30]
2	Hassan Sardar	150	148	1979-1987	^[31]
3	Tahir Zaman	134	252	1987-1998	^[31]
4	Kamran Ashraf	129	166	1993-2002	^[31]
5	Hanif Khan	127	177	1976-1985	^[31]
6	Rehan Butt	110	274	2002-2012	[?]
7	Muhammad Imran	106	289	2004-2015	[?]
8	Shakeel Abbasi	103	309	2003–2014	^[32]
9	Manzoor-ul-Hassan	101	154	1972-1982	^[31]
10	Shahbaz Ahmed	98	304	1986-2002	^[31]

Most-capped players[]

Rank	Player	Matches	Goals	Career	Ref
1	Waseem Ahmed	410	10	1996-2013	^[33]
2	Sohail Abbas	311	348	1998-2012	[?]
3	Shakeel Abbasi	309	103	2003-2014	^[32]
4	Shahbaz Ahmed	304	98	1986-2002	^[31]
5	Muhammad Imran	289	106	2004-2015	[?]
6	Rehan Butt	274	110	2002-2012	[?]
7	Tahir Zaman	252	134	1987-1998	^[31]
8	Mansoor Ahmed	238	0	1986-1997	^[31]
9	Zeeshan Ashraf	235	3	2001-2010	[?]
10	Muhammad Saqlain	233	32	1999-2009	[?]

Players[]

Coaching Staff[]

Position	Name	Nationality
Head Coach:	Siegfried Aikman
Assistant Coach:
Assistant Coach:
Assistant Coach:	Waseem Ahmed
Goalkeeping Coach:	Ahmed Alam
Video Analyst:

Current players[]

Squad as of 14 December 2012 for the 2021 Asian Champions Trophy^[34]

No.	Pos.	Player
1	GK
12	GK
2	DF
3	DF
15	DF
16	DF
19	DF
7	MF
9	MF
13	MF

No.	Pos.	Player
17	MF
27	MF
4	FW
8	FW
10	FW
14	FW	Muhammad Umar Bhutta (C)
18	FW
21	FW
23	FW
24	FW

Results and fixtures[]

2019[]

Test series

22 October 2019 Match 1	Germany	6 - 1	Pakistan	Mönchengladbach, Germany
14:30 UCT +01:00	Rühr 12', 37', 46' Miltkau 20' Häner 31' Staib 39'	Report	Bhutta 46'	Stadium: Warsteiner HockeyPark

23 October 2019 Match 2	Germany	6 - 2	Pakistan	Mönchengladbach, Germany
18:30 UTC +01:00	Miltkau 32' Fuchs 45' Rühr 47', 56' Große 57'	Report	45' R. Mehmood 55'	Stadium: Warsteiner HockeyPark

2019 Olympic Qualifiers

26 October Match 1	Netherlands	4 - 4	Pakistan	Amstelveen, Netherlands
16:00 UTC +01:00	Van der Weerden 20', 60' Kellerman 21' Kemperman 52'	Report	5', 58' 25' Rizwan Sr. 38'	Stadium: Wagener Stadium

27 October 2019 Match 2	Netherlands	6 - 1	Pakistan	Amstelveen, Netherlands
16:00 UTC +01:00	Kellerman 9' Van der Weerden 17', 29' Pruyser 22' 39' Janssen 43'	Report	53'	Stadium: Wagener Stadium

2021[]

Asian Hockey Champions Trophy

14 December Pool Stage	Japan	0 - 0	Pakistan	Dhaka, Bangladesh
20:30 BST (UTC +06:00)		Report		Stadium: Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium

16 December Pool Stage	India	3 - 1	Pakistan	Dhaka, Bangladesh
15:30 BST (UTC +06:00)	Harmanpreet 9', 53' Akashdeep 42'	Report	45'	Stadium: Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium

18 December Pool Stage	Pakistan	3 - 3	South Korea	Dhaka, Bangladesh
20:30 BST (UTC +06:00)	24' 33', 57'	Report	14' 42' Jong-hyun 56'	Stadium: Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium

19 December Pool Stage	Pakistan	6 - 2	Bangladesh	Dhaka, Bangladesh
20:30 BST (UTC +06:00)	14', 26' 18', 38' 24' 34'	Report	13', 35'	Stadium: Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium

21 December Semifinal	South Korea	6 - 5	Pakistan	Dhaka, Bangladesh
15:30 BST (UTC +06:00)	Jong-hyun 11', 12', 25', 56' 30' 44'	Report	Bhutta 3' 22' 30' 47', 51'	Stadium: Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium

22 December Third and fourth place	Pakistan	3 - 4	India	Dhaka, Bangladesh
15:30 BST (UTC +06:00)	10' 33' 57'	Report	Harmapreet 2' Sumit 45' Varun 54' Akashdeep 57'	Stadium: Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium

Head-to-head record[]

Record last updated as of the following matches:

India vs Pakistan at Dhaka Bronze medal match, 2021 Asian Champions Trophy, 22 December 2021

	Won more matches than lost
	Won equal matches to lost
	Lost more matches than won

Opponent	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Win %	Last meeting
Argentina	34	21	3	10	108	58	61.76%	2018
Australia	122	43	19	60	256	329	35.24%	2018
Bangladesh	14	14	0	0	100	5	100%	2021
Belarus	2	2	0	0	8	0	100%	2000
Belgium	38	24	4	10	95	62	63.15%	2018
Canada	29	21	4	4	89	46	72.41%	2018
China	32	26	2	4	138	38	81.25%	2017
Chinese Taipei	2	2	0	0	22	0	100%	2013
Cuba	2	0	1	1	2	3	0%	1993
Denmark	1	1	0	0	9	0	100%	1948
East Germany	3	0	0	3	2	6	0%	1968
Egypt	10	10	0	0	53	5	100%	2010
England	36	15	8	13	81	79	41.66%	2018
France	25	19	3	3	108	29	76%	2015
Germany	125	47	18	60	248	281	37.6	2019
Great Britain	49	27	7	15	123	81	55.10%	2015
Hong Kong	7	7	0	0	62	2	100%	2010
India	173	82	25	66	395	351	47.39%	2021
	3	3	0	0	24	0	100%	1965
Iran	2	2	0	0	29	0	100%	1985
Ireland	15	10	2	3	45	18	66.66%	2017
Italy	4	4	0	0	20	0	100%	2009
Japan	57	42	9	6	209	52	73.68%	2021
Kazakhstan	2	2	0	0	19	1	100%	2018
Kenya	52	33	12	7	126	37	63.46%	1998
Malaysia	107	80	18	9	291	124	74.76	2018
	1	1	0	0	22	0	100%	1995
Netherlands	146	60	30	56	311	343	42.85	2019
New Zealand	55	37	7	11	179	100	67.27	2017
Nigeria	2	2	0	0	16	3	100%	2003
Oman	9	8	1	0	69	8	88.88%	2018
Poland	13	10	2	1	41	16	76.92	2015
Rhodesia	1	1	0	0	6	0	100%	1968
Russia	2	2	0	0	11	2	100%	2009
Scotland	5	4	1	0	17	4	80%	2017
Singapore	13	13	0	0	76	7	100%	2007
South Africa	14	11	1	2	59	23	78.57%	2013
South Korea	71	38	12	21	214	134	53.52%	2021
Soviet Union	17	14	1	2	59	20	82.35%	1992
Spain	72	42	17	13	177	109	58.33%	2012
Sri Lanka	11	11	0	0	103	2	100%	2016
Switzerland	6	5	1	0	29	14	83.33%	2000
Tanzania	1	1	0	0	3	1	100%	1965
Thailand	6	5	1	0	60	0	83.33%	2018
Trinidad and Tobago	1	1	0	0	7	1	100%	2007
Uganda	2	2	0	0	5	2	100%	1972
Ukraine	1	1	0	0	5	0	100%	2007
United States	3	3	0	0	13	1	100%	1996
Wales	5	4	1	0	17	3	80%	2018
Zimbabwe	9	9	0	0	47	4	100%	1988