# Kabaddi at the 2006 Asian Games

Kabaddi was contested by five teams at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar from December 2 to December 6. The competition took place at the Aspire Hall 4.

## Schedule

| P | Preliminary round | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 2nd Sat | 3rd Sun | 4th Mon | 5th Tue | 6th Wed |
| Men | P | P | P | P | F |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | India Navneet Gautam Vikash Kumar Suresh Kumar Dinesh Kumar Manpreet Singh Ramesh Kumar Rakesh Kumar Sukhvir Singh Naveen Kumar Gaurav Shetty Pankaj Shirsat Rajeev Kumar Singh | Pakistan Muhammad Akram Nasir Ali Badshah Gul Wajid Ali Waseem Sajjad Muhammad Arshad Maqsood Ali Rahat Maqsood Naveel Akram Abrar Khan Faryad Ali Faisal Qadeer | Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman Badsha Miah Kazi Yunus Ahmed Md Abdur Rouf Kamal Hossain Abu Salah Musa Md Mizanur Rahman Mozammal Haque Bozlur Rashid Mosharrof Hossain Abul Kalam Razu Ahmed |

## Draw

The draw ceremony for the team sports was held on 7 September 2006 at Doha. The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2002 Asian Games.
* The format was changed to five-team round-robin after Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand withdrew.

## Squads

| Bangladesh | India | Iran | Japan |
| Ziaur Rahman Badsha Miah Kazi Yunus Ahmed Md Abdur Rouf Kamal Hossain Abu Salah Musa Md Mizanur Rahman Mozammal Haque Bozlur Rashid Mosharrof Hossain Abul Kalam Razu Ahmed | Navneet Gautam Vikash Kumar Suresh Kumar Dinesh Kumar Manpreet Singh Ramesh Kumar Rakesh Kumar Sukhvir Singh Naveen Kumar Gaurav Shetty Pankaj Shirsat Rajeev Kumar Singh | Mohammad Shabani Behzad Bamedi Abdolhamid Maghsoudloo Ramezan Ali Paeinmahalli Aref Fojerdi Farhad Kamal Gharibi Mostafa Nodehi Ali Doustmohammadi Ali Roshanshomal Hossein Nosrati Kianoush Naderian Nasser Roumiani | Terukazu Nitta Shojun Shimizutani Tatsuhiko Yamada Yoshinori Suga Takeshi Kozu Kazuaki Murakami Ryoki Nishioka Koji Matsuhashi Kokei Ito Masayuki Ota Hiromi Takahashi Kazuhiro Takano |
| Pakistan | | | |
| Muhammad Akram Nasir Ali Badshah Gul Wajid Ali Waseem Sajjad Muhammad Arshad Maqsood Ali Rahat Maqsood Naveel Akram Abrar Khan Faryad Ali Faisal Qadeer | | | |

## Results

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

### Round robin

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | India | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 153 | 83 | +70 | 8 | Gold medal match |
| 2 | Pakistan | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 141 | 107 | +34 | 6 | Gold medal match |
| 3 | Iran | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 122 | 146 | −24 | 3 | Bronze medal match |
| 4 | Bangladesh | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 129 | 165 | −36 | 2 | Bronze medal match |
| 5 | Japan | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 92 | 136 | −44 | 1 | |
* 2 December 9:00
| Pakistan | 34–16 (HT: 23–6) | Japan |
* Aspire Hall 4, Doha
* 2 December 10:00
| India | 40–21 (HT: 24–14) | Bangladesh |
* Aspire Hall 4, Doha
* 2 December 17:00
| Japan | 25–44 (HT: 11–29) | India |
* Aspire Hall 4, Doha
* 2 December 18:00
| Iran | 25–45 (HT: 11–20) | Pakistan |
* Aspire Hall 4, Doha
* 3 December 17:00
| Japan | 24–24 (HT: 7–11) | Iran |
* Aspire Hall 4, Doha
* 3 December 18:00
| Pakistan | 42–35 (HT: 17–24) | Bangladesh |
* Aspire Hall 4, Doha
* 4 December 17:00
| Bangladesh | 39–56 (HT: 20–31) | Iran |
* Aspire Hall 4, Doha
* 4 December 18:00
| India | 31–20 (HT: 9–11) | Pakistan |
* Aspire Hall 4, Doha
* 5 December 17:00
| Iran | 17–38 (HT: 10–14) | India |
* Aspire Hall 4, Doha
* 5 December 18:00
| Bangladesh | 34–27 (HT: 10–11) | Japan |
* Aspire Hall 4, Doha

### Final round
#### Bronze medal match

* 6 December 17:00
| Iran | 26–37 (HT: 9–15) | Bangladesh |
* Aspire Hall 4, Doha

#### Gold medal match

* 6 December 18:00
| India | 35–23 (HT: 21–14) | Pakistan |
* Aspire Hall 4, Doha

## Final standing

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
| | India | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| | Pakistan | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| | Bangladesh | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Iran | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Japan | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 |