Men at the 1982 Asian Games
Medalists
Iraq    Kuwait    Saudi Arabia
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Football at the 1982 Asian Games was held in New Delhi, India from 20 November to 3 December 1982. In this tournament, 16 teams played in the men's competition.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Iraq Mahdi Abdul-Sahib Hassan Ali Karim Allawi Khalil Allawi Wathiq Aswad Faisal Aziz Adnan Dirjal Raad Hammoudi Natik Hashim Ali Hussein Sadiq Jaber Emad Jassim Saad Jassim Haris Mohammed Osama Noori Ayoub Odisho Ahmed Radhi Hussein Saeed	Kuwait Adam Marjan Naeem Saad Mahboub Juma'a Jamal Al-Qabendi Waleed Al-Jasem Mubarak Marzouq Fathi Kameel Abdullah Al-Buloushi Hamad Abdulrazzaq Abdulaziz Al-Anberi Nassir Al-Ghanim Yussef Al-Suwayed Basil Abdul Nabi Muayad Al-Haddad Anbar Saeed Hamoud Al-Shemmari Mohammad Karam Jasem Bahman	Saudi Arabia Khalid Al-Dosari Hussein Al-Bishi Nawaf Khamis Sameer Abdulshaker Saleh Nu'eimeh Othman Marzouq Saleh Khalifa Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani Majed Abdullah Fahad Al-Musaibeah Adel Abdulrahim Jamal Farhan Ahmed Bayazid Shaye Al-Nafisah Amin Dabo Hamed Subhi Mohammed Al-Mutlaq Abdullah Al-Deayea

Draw

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 1978 Asian Games.^[1]

* Oman and North Yemen withdrew, South Yemen was moved to group D to balance the number of teams in each group.

Squads

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
North Korea	3	1	2	0	6	3	+3	4
Saudi Arabia	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1	4
Thailand	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	2
Syria	3	0	2	1	3	5	−2	2

20 November

North Korea	1–1	Syria
Jang Bong-yong 21'		Khalil 86'

Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi

20 November

Saudi Arabia	1–0	Thailand
Al-Qahtani 42'

Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi

22 November

North Korea	3–0	Thailand
Han Hyong-il 28', 56', 62'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

22 November

Saudi Arabia	1–1	Syria
Al-Qahtani 54'		Madarati 16'

Chhatrasal Stadium, New Delhi

24 November

North Korea	2–2	Saudi Arabia
Kim Jong-man 33' Hwang Sang-hoi 40'		Bayazid 11' Abdulshaker 13'

Chhatrasal Stadium, New Delhi

24 November

Thailand	3–1	Syria
Boonnum 8', 23' Piyapong 60'		Keshek 30'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Kuwait	3	3	0	0	9	2	+7	6
Iraq	3	2	0	1	8	2	+6	4
Burma	3	1	0	2	3	8	−5	2
Nepal	3	0	0	3	1	9	−8	0

21 November

Kuwait	3–1	Nepal
Al-Suwayed ?' Abdull. Al-Buloushi ?' Saeed ?'		B.Ghale ?'

New Delhi

21 November

Iraq	4–0	Burma
Hashim 10' Saeed 32' Shihab 54' Mohammed 86'

New Delhi

23 November

Kuwait	4–0	Burma
Al-Ghanim 30' Al-Anberi 44' Al-Suwayed 81' Al-Haddad 86'

New Delhi

23 November

Iraq	3–0	Nepal
Odisho 3' Saeed 56', 75'

New Delhi

25 November

Iraq	1–2	Kuwait
Shihab 73'		Al-Suwayed 35' Al-Anberi 37'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

25 November

Burma	3–0	Nepal
Tin Hlaing 41' Aye Maung 80' Maung Win 81'

New Delhi

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
India	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	5
China	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	5
Bangladesh	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	2
Malaysia	3	0	0	3	1	4	−3	0

20 November

China	1–0	Malaysia
Liu Chengde 23'

Chhatrasal Stadium, New Delhi

20 November

India	2–0	Bangladesh
Prasun Banerjee 1', 90+5'[2]

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

22 November

India	1–0	Malaysia
Kartick Sett 68'[2]

Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi

22 November

China	1–0	Bangladesh
Huang Xiangdong 22'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

24 November

India	2–2	China
Shabbir Ali 53'[2] Kartick Seth 60'[2]		Shen Xiangfu 25' Zuo Shusheng 82'

Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi

24 November

Malaysia	1–2	Bangladesh
? ?'		Ashish Bhadra ?'[3] Badal Roy ?'[3]

New Delhi

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Japan	3	3	0	0	6	2	+4	6
Iran	3	2	0	1	3	1	+2	4
South Korea	3	1	0	2	4	3	+1	2
South Yemen	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0

21 November

Japan	1–0	Iran
Kimura 79'

Chhatrasal Stadium, New Delhi

21 November

South Korea	3–0	South Yemen
Chung Hae-won 25' Choi Soon-ho 75', 80'

Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi

23 November

South Korea	0–1	Iran
		Derakhshan 47'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

23 November

Japan	3–1	South Yemen
Hara 66', 79' Totsuka 84'		Ahmed 50'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

25 November

South Korea	1–2	Japan
Kang Shin-woo 21'		Kimura 58' Kaneda 79'

Chhatrasal Stadium, New Delhi

25 November

Iran	2–0	South Yemen
Mohammadkhani 47' Firouzi 67'

Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi

Knockout round

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal match
	27 November
	North Korea	1
					30 November
	China	0
					North Korea	2
	28 November
					Kuwait (a.e.t.)	3
	Kuwait (a.e.t.)	1
									3 December
	Iran	0
									Kuwait	0
	27 November
									Iraq	1
	India	0
					1 December
	Saudi Arabia	1
					Saudi Arabia	0
	28 November
					Iraq	1			Bronze medal match
	Japan	0
									2 December
	Iraq (a.e.t.)	1
									North Korea	0
									Saudi Arabia	2

Quarterfinals

27 November

North Korea	1–0	China
Kim Jong-man 58'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

27 November

India	0–1	Saudi Arabia
		Bayazid 89'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

28 November

Japan	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Iraq
		E. Jassim 102'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

28 November

Kuwait	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Iran
Al-Haddad 97'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

Semifinals

30 November

North Korea	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Kuwait
Kim Jong-man 76' Kim Won-chol 112'		Juma'a 82' (pen.) Al-Haddad 102' Al-Anberi 104'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

1 December

Saudi Arabia	0–1	Iraq
		Mohammed 17'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

Bronze medal match

2 December

North Korea	0–2 Awarded	Saudi Arabia

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

• The match was scratched and Saudi Arabia were awarded the bronze medal 2–0 after the North Korean team (including officials and competitors from other sports) were handed a two-year suspension for assaulting the referee, Vijit Getkaew of Thailand, and his linesman after the final whistle of their semi-final.

Gold medal match

3 December

Kuwait	0–1	Iraq
		Saeed 82'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

Final standing

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	Iraq	6	5	0	1	11	2	+9	10
	Kuwait	6	5	0	1	13	5	+8	10
	Saudi Arabia	6	3	2	1	7	4	+3	8
4	North Korea	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1	6
5	Japan	4	3	0	1	6	3	+3	6
6	India	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2	5
7	China	4	2	1	1	4	3	+1	5
8	Iran	4	2	0	2	3	2	+1	4
9	South Korea	3	1	0	2	4	3	+1	2
10	Syria	3	0	2	1	3	5	−2	2
10	Thailand	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	2
12	Bangladesh	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	2
13	Burma	3	1	0	2	3	8	−5	2
14	Malaysia	3	0	0	3	1	4	−3	0
15	South Yemen	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0
16	Nepal	3	0	0	3	1	9	−8	0