India at the 1966 Asian Games
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
in Bangkok
Medals Ranked 5th	Gold 7 Silver 3 Bronze 11 Total 21
Asian Games appearances (overview)
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India participated in the 1966 Asian Games—The Fifth Asian Games, held in the Bangkok, Thailand from 9 to 20 December 1966. Indian athletes won total 21 medals with 7 golds and ranked fifth in a medal table.^[1]

Medals by sport

Football

Head coach: Mohammed Hussain^[2]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Peter Thangaraj	(1935-12-24)24 December 1935 (aged 30)			East Bengal
	1GK	C Mustafa				Mohammedan Sporting
	2DF	Jarnail Singh (c)	(1936-02-20)20 February 1936 (aged 30)			Mohun Bagan
	2DF	Chandreswar Prasad				Bengal
	2DF	Syed Nayeemuddin				Bengal
	2DF	Arun Ghosh	(1941-07-07)7 July 1941 (aged 25)			Bengal
	2DF	Altaf Ahmed				East Bengal
	3MF	Kajal Mukherjee				Bengal
	3MF	Yousuf Khan	(1937-08-05)5 August 1937 (aged 29)			Andhra Pradesh
	3MF	Prasanta Sinha				Bengal
	3MF	Krisnaji Rao				Mysore
	4FW	Ashok Chatterjee				Bengal
	4FW	Pradip Kumar Banerjee	(1936-06-23)23 June 1936 (aged 30)			Railways
	4FW	Inder Singh	(1943-12-23)23 December 1943 (aged 22)			Leaders Club
	4FW	Arumai Nayagam				Mohun Bagan
	4FW	Parimal Dey	(1941-05-04)4 May 1941 (aged 25)			East Bengal
	4FW	P. Kannan				Bengal

Preliminary round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAV	Pts
Japan	3	3	0	0	6	2	3.000	6
Iran	3	2	0	1	7	4	1.750	4
India	3	1	0	2	4	7	0.571	2
Malaysia	3	0	0	3	1	5	0.200	0

10 December

Japan	2–1	India
Teruki Myamoto 50', 53'	Report	Ashok Chatterjee 48'

Chulalongkorn University Stadium, Bangkok

Attendance: 10,000

12 December

Malaysia	1–2	India
		Inder Singh [3] Jarnail Singh (pen.)[3]

Bangkok

13 December

India	1–4	Iran
Jarnail Singh [3]

Bangkok