# Field hockey at the 1978 Asian Games

Field hockey was contested for men only at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | Pakistan Munir Bhatti Rana Ehsanullah Manzoor-ul-Hassan Manzoor Hussain Hanif Khan Muhammad Saeed Khan Saeed Ahmed Khan Samiullah Khan Nasim Mirza Akhtar Rasool Muhammad Shafiq Shahnaz Sheikh Saleem Sherwani Islahuddin Siddiquee Munawwaruz Zaman Qamar Zia | India Salim Abbasi Vasudevan Baskaran Pramod Batlaw Sylvanus Dung Dung Merwyn Fernandes Olympio Fernandes B. P. Govinda Sukhbir Singh Grewal Zafar Iqbal Ashok Kumar Victor Philips Surjit Singh Randhawa Allan Schofield Ranbir Singh Varinder Singh Surinder Singh Sodhi | Malaysia Sayuti Abdul Samat K. Balasingam Foo Keat Seong Avtar Singh Gill Updesh Singh Gill Awtar Singh Grewal Razak Leman Len Oliveiro K. T. Rajan Ramakrishnan Rengasamy V. Ravindran Mohinder Singh Savinder Singh Tam Chiew Seng Tam Kum Seng Azraai Zain |

## Results
### Preliminary round
#### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Pakistan | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0 | +28 | 6 |
| Japan | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 3 |
| Thailand | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | −9 | 2 |
| Bangladesh | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 24 | −22 | 1 |
* 10 December
| Thailand | 2–2 | Bangladesh |
* National Stadium, Bangkok
* 11 December
| Pakistan | 2–0 | Japan |
* National Stadium, Bangkok
* 12 December
| Japan | 5–0 | Bangladesh |
* National Stadium, Bangkok
* 13 December
| Pakistan | 9–0 | Thailand |
* National Stadium, Bangkok
* 14 December
| Japan | 0–0 | Thailand |
* National Stadium, Bangkok
* 15 December
| Pakistan | 17–0 | Bangladesh |
* National Stadium, Bangkok

#### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| India | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 4 | +12 | 6 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 4 |
| Sri Lanka | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 2 |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 16 | −14 | 0 |
* 10 December
| Malaysia | 6–0 | Hong Kong |
* National Stadium, Bangkok
* 11 December
| India | 5–3 | Malaysia |
* National Stadium, Bangkok
* 12 December
| Hong Kong | 2–3 | Sri Lanka |
* National Stadium, Bangkok
* 13 December
| India | 7–0 | Hong Kong |
* National Stadium, Bangkok
* 14 December
| Malaysia | 2–0 | Sri Lanka |
* National Stadium, Bangkok
* 15 December
| India | 4–1 | Sri Lanka |
* National Stadium, Bangkok

### Consolation round

| Semifinals | Semifinals | 5th place match | 5th place match |
| 16 December | 16 December |
| Thailand | 0 |
| Thailand | 0 | 18 December | 18 December |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 18 December | 18 December |
| Hong Kong | 2 | Hong Kong | 1 |
| 16 December | 16 December | | Hong Kong | 1 |
| 16 December | 16 December | Bangladesh | 0 |
| Sri Lanka | 0 | Bangladesh | 0 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | | |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 7th place match | 7th place match |
| | | 18 December | 18 December |
| | | Thailand | |
| | | Sri Lanka | |

#### Semifinals

* 16 December
| Thailand | 0–2 | Hong Kong |
* National Stadium, Bangkok
* 16 December
| Sri Lanka | 0–1 | Bangladesh |
* National Stadium, Bangkok

#### 7th place match

* 18 December
| Thailand | – | Sri Lanka |
* National Stadium, Bangkok

#### 5th place match

* 18 December
| Hong Kong | 1–0 | Bangladesh |
* National Stadium, Bangkok

### Final round

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| 17 December | 17 December |
| Pakistan | 5 |
| Pakistan | 5 | 19 December | 19 December |
| Malaysia | 2 | 19 December | 19 December |
| Malaysia | 2 | Pakistan | 1 |
| 17 December | 17 December | | Pakistan | 1 |
| 17 December | 17 December | India | 0 |
| India | 2 | India | 0 |
| Japan | 0 | | |
| Japan | 0 | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| | | 19 December | 19 December |
| | | Malaysia | 2 |
| | | Japan | 1 |

#### Semifinals

* 17 December
| Pakistan | 5–2 | Malaysia |
* National Stadium, Bangkok
* 17 December
| India | 2–0 | Japan |
* National Stadium, Bangkok

#### Bronze medal match

* 19 December
| Malaysia | 2–1 | Japan |
* National Stadium, Bangkok

#### Final

* 19 December
| Pakistan | 1–0 | India |
* National Stadium, Bangkok