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
MenMahdi Abdul-SahibHassan AliKarim AllawiKhalil AllawiWathiq AswadFaisal AzizAdnan DirjalRaad HammoudiNatik HashimAli HusseinSadiq JaberEmad JassimSaad JassimHaris MohammedOsama NooriAyoub OdishoAhmed RadhiHussein SaeedAdam MarjanNaeem SaadMahboub Juma'aJamal Al-QabendiWaleed Al-JasemMubarak MarzouqFathi KameelAbdullah Al-BuloushiHamad AbdulrazzaqAbdulaziz Al-AnberiNassir Al-GhanimYussef Al-SuwayedBasil Abdul NabiMuayad Al-HaddadAnbar SaeedHamoud Al-ShemmariMohammad KaramJasem BahmanKhalid Al-DosariHussein Al-BishiNawaf KhamisSameer AbdulshakerSaleh Nu'eimehOthman MarzouqSaleh KhalifaAbdulrahman Al-QahtaniMajed AbdullahFahad Al-MusaibeahAdel AbdulrahimJamal FarhanAhmed BayazidShaye Al-NafisahAmin DaboHamed SubhiMohammed Al-MutlaqAbdullah Al-Deayea
Draw The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 1978 Asian Games.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
* Oman and North Yemen withdrew, South Yemen was moved to group D to balance the number of teams in each group.
Squads
Results
Preliminary round
Group A Team312063+34312043+14310235−22302135−22
Group B Team330092+76320182+64310238−52300319−80
Group C Team321052+35321042+25310224−22300314−30
Group D Team330062+46320131+24310243+12300318−70
Knockout round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
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 RankTeam 6501112+910 6501135+810 632174+38 4 622298+16 5 430163+36 6 421153+25 7 421143+15 8 420232+14 9 310243+12 10 302135−22 10 310235−22 12 310224−22 13 310238−52 14 300314−30 15 300318−70 16 300319−80
References
The 1982 Asian Games on rsssf.com