# List of Pakistan national football team captains

This article lists all the captains of the Pakistan national football team.
The first captain to lead Pakistan in their international debut in October 1950 was the goalkeeper Osman Jan, who captained Pakistan in their first international match against Iran on 27 October 1950.
The following table includes players who have captained the Pakistan national football team, along with the vice-captains and the international tournaments they led in.

## List of captains

| Tenure | Incumbent | Vice-captains | Tournaments/Notes |
| 1950 | Osman Jan | | |
| 1952 | Abdul Wahid Durrani | Ramzan Jr. | 1952 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament |
| 1953 | Muhammad Sharif | Moideen Kutty | 1953 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament |
| 1954 | Moideen Kutty | Ahmed Ali | 1954 Asian Games |
| 1954 | Jamil Akhtar | Moideen Kutty | 1954 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament |
| 1955 | Sumbal Khan | | 1955 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament |
| 1956 | Riasat Ali | Mohammad Amin | |
| 1958 | Nabi Chowdhury | Abdul Haq | 1958 Asian Games |
| 1959 | Masoodul Hassan Butt | Ibrahim | |
| 1959–1960 | Qayyum Changezi | Kabir Ahmed | 1960 Merdeka Tournament |
| 1961 | Ghulam Rabbani | | |
| 1961 | Moosa Ghazi | | |
| 1962–1965 | Muhammad Umer | Abdul Haq | 1962 Merdeka Tournament 1965 RCD Cup |
| 1963 | Mohammad Amin | Abid Ghazi | |
| 1964 | Abid Ghazi | | |
| 1966–1967 | Turab Ali | | |
| 1967 | Muhammad Lateef | | 1967 RCD Cup |
| 1967 | Wali Muhammad | | |
| 1968–1969 | Murad Bakhsh | | |
| 1969 | Sardar Aslam | | 1969 Friendship Cup 1969 RCD Cup |
| 1970 | Younus Rana | Qadir Bakhsh | 1970 Friendship Cup (as PFF XI) |
| 1970 | Qadir Bakhsh | | 1970 RCD Cup |
| 1973 | Maula Bakhsh | | |
| 1974 | Ayub Dar | | |
| 1974 | Ali Nawaz Baloch | | 1974 RCD Cup |
| 1974 | Abdul Ghafoor | | 1974 Asian Games |
| 1976 | Ghulam Sarwar Sr. | | Afghanistan Republic Day Festival Cup 1976 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup |
| 1981–1982 | Akbar Raisani | Naeem Gul | 1981 King's Cup 1982 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup |
| 1982–1983 | Naeem Gul | | 1982 Bangladesh President's Gold Cup |
| 1984 | Muhammad Zulfiqar | Khalid Butt, Najeeb Ullah Najmi | 1984 Merdeka Tournament |
| 1985 | Zulfiqar Hussain Dogar | | 1985 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup |
| 1985 | Arbab Hayat Shahzada | | 1985 South Asian Games |
| 1986 | Shaukat Mufti | Mukhtar Ali | 1986 Fajr International Tournament 1986 Pakistan President's Gold Cup |
| 1986–1988 | Mukhtar Ali | | 1986 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup 1987 South Asian Games |
| 1986 | Muhammad Naveed | Samuel Gill | 1986 Asian Games |
| 1987 | Sharafat Ali | | 1987 Quaid-e-Azam International Cup |
| 1989–1990 | Mateen Akhtar | Abdul Wahid, Zafar Iqbal | 1989 South Asian Games 1990 Asian Games |
| 1991 | Ghulam Sarwar (Teddy) | | 1991 South Asian Games |
| 1992 | Mohammad Riaz | | |
| 1993 | Zafar Iqbal | | 1993 SAARC Gold Cup |
| 1993–1996 | Mohammad Tariq Hussain | Tanveer ul Hasnain | 1993 South Asian Games |
| 1995 | Mohammad Nauman Khan | | 1995 SAFF Gold Cup |
| 1997 | Qazi Ashfaq | Haroon Yousaf | 1997 SAFF Gold Cup |
| 1998–2003 | Haroon Yousaf | | 1999 SAFF Gold Cup 1999 South Asian Games 2003 SAFF Gold Cup |
| 2002 | Sarfraz Rasool | | |
| 2003–2011 | Jaffar Khan | Samar Ishaq, Adnan Ahmed, Faisal Iqbal, Abdul Aziz | 2005 SAFF Gold Cup 2006 AFC Challenge Cup 2011 SAFF Championship |
| 2005 | Tanveer Ahmed | | 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games |
| 2006–2009 | Muhammad Essa | Jaffar Khan | 2009 SAFF Championship |
| 2008 | Zahid Hameed | Imran Niazi | 2008 SAFF Championship |
| 2010–2013 | Samar Ishaq | Adnan Ahmed | 2013 SAFF Championship |
| 2013–2019 | Zesh Rehman | | 2013 Philippines Peace Cup |
| 2014 | Kaleemullah Khan | Faisal Iqbal, Saddam Hussain | |
| 2014 | Muhammad Ahmed | | |
| 2015–2023 | Hassan Bashir | | 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup 2023 SAFF Championship |
| 2018 | Saddam Hussain | Hassan Bashir | 2018 SAFF Championship |
| 2023 | Saqib Hanif | | |
| 2023 | Yousuf Butt | | 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup |
| 2023–present | Easah Suliman | Otis Khan | 2023 Mauritius Four Nations Cup |

### Captains by major tournaments

* In Continental and International tournaments
| Player | Tournament(s) |
| Moideen Kutty | 1954 Asian Games |
| Nabi Chowdhury | 1958 Asian Games |
| Abdul Ghafoor | 1974 Asian Games |
| Muhammad Naveed | 1986 Asian Games |
| Mateen Akhtar | 1990 Asian Games |
| Jaffar Khan | 2006 AFC Challenge Cup |