2008 SAFF Championship squads

Football tournament squads

The 2008 SAFF Championship was an international football tournament held in Sri Lanka and Maldives from 3 to 14 June 2008. The national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 20 players. The position listed for each player is per the squad list in the official match reports by the SAFF.[1][2]

## Bangladesh

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Coach:  Abu Yusuf[3]

* Aminul Haque
* Biplob Bhattacharjee
* Hassan Al-Mamun
* Wali Faisal
* Mohammed Ariful Islam
* Rajani Kanta Barman
* Arup Kumar Baidya
* Atiqur Rahman Meshu
* Kazi Mofazzal Hossain Shaikat
* Nazrul Islam
* Anamul Haque Sharif
* Faisal Mahmud
* Zahid Parvez Chowdhury
* Mamunul Islam
* Arif Khan Joy
* Mohamed Abul Hossain
* Arman Aziz
* Mehedi Hasan Ujjal
* Zahid Hasan Ameli
* Abdul Baten Mojumdar Komol

## India

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Coach:  Bob Houghton[4]

* Baichung Bhutia
* Mahesh Gawli
* Deepak Kumar Mondal
* Steven Dias
* Climax Lawrence
* Renedy Singh
* Gouramangi Singh
* N.S. Manju
* Pappachen Pradeep
* Subrata Pal
* Sunil Chhetri
* Anwar Ali
* Sushil Kumar Singh
* Mehrajuddin Wadoo
* Samir Subash Naik
* Subhasish Roy Chowdhury
* Abhishek Yadav
* Manjit Singh
* Sampath Kuttimani
* Bungo Thomchok Singh

## Pakistan

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Coach:  Akhtar Mohiuddin[5]

* Bilal Rafiq
* Syed Sultan Rahi
* Samar Ishaq
* Muhammad Ahmed
* Naveed Akram
* Muhammad Imran
* Zesh Rehman
* Muhammad Irfan
* Nasrullah Khan
* Farooq Shah
* Abdul Aziz
* Adnan Ahmed
* Atif Bashir
* Jadid Khan Pathan
* Imran Niazi
* Zahid Hameed
* Kashif Siddiqi
* Arif Mehmood
* Muhammad Qasim
* Asif Mehmood

## Nepal

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Coach:  Thomas Flath[6]

* Nirajan Rayamajhi
* Sagar Thapa
* Rakesh Shrestha
* Bikash Malla
* Lok Bandhu Gurung
* K.C. Anjan
* Bijay Gurung
* Ju Manu Rai
* Bishan Gauchan
* Chun Bahadur Thapa
* Sandeep Rai
* Ananta Raj Thapa
* Parbat Pandey
* Raju Tamang
* Ramesh Budhathoki
* Bikash Singh Chhetri
* Suman Subedi
* Niranjan Khadka

## Maldives

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Coach:  Jozef Jankech[7]

* Ahmed Thoriq
* Mohamed Imran
* Mohamed Ismail
* Ibrahim Fazeel
* Assad Abdul Ghanee
* Ahmed Ammaty Saeed
* Mohamed Jameel
* Ali Ashfaq
* Mukhthar Naseer
* Mohamed Shifan
* Mohamed Sobah
* Ali Umar
* Shamveel Qasim
* Mohamed Bakka Arif

## References

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1. ^ "India vs Nepal: National-football teams.com". Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. ^ "National football teams.com". Retrieved 12 November 2021.
3. ^ "Booters leave for Bangkok for SAFF Championship preparation". bdnews24.com.
4. ^ "India vs Pakistan Squads". Retrieved 12 November 2021.
5. ^ "Pakistan to include four overseas players for SAFF championship". DAWN.COM. 2008-05-27. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
6. ^ "Nepal Squad". Retrieved 12 November 2021.
7. ^ "Maldives Squad". Retrieved 13 November 2021.

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