# Football at the 1982 Asian Games

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

## 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 |

#### 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 |

#### 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 |

#### 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 |

### Knockout round

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

#### Bronze medal match

* 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
## 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 |