Puran Bahadur Thapa
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1928 | ||
| Place of birth |
Upper Mawprem, British India (now in Meghalaya ) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 8th Gorkha Rifles | |||
| Gorkha Brigade | |||
| Services | |||
| International career | |||
| India | ? | (4) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Puran Bahadur Thapa (born 1928) is an Indian footballer who played for the India national team and the Services football team. He scored a hat-trick for the national team in a 3–1 win against Pakistan in the 1954 Colombo Cup at the Eden Gardens. It was the second hat-trick by an Indian footballer post-independence in international football after Sheoo Mewalal.[2][1][3][4][5]
Career
Thapa was an officer in the Indian Army[6] and represented the Gorkha Brigade and Services in the Santosh Trophy and domestic tournaments.[1]
International goals
- Scores and results list India's goal tally first.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 23 December 1954 | Calcutta, India |
 Burma |
2–1 | 1954 Colombo Cup |
| 2. | 26 December 1954 | Calcutta, India |
 Pakistan |
3–1 | 1954 Colombo Cup |
| 3. | |||||
| 4. |
Honours
India
References
- ^ a b c d Kapadia, Novy (24 April 1983). "Puran Bahadur Thapa: India's first hat-trick man". Sportskeeda.
- ^ "10 players who have scored a hat-trick while playing for Indian national team | Goal.com India". www.goal.com. 22 April 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
Sheoo Mewalal scored the first hat-trick post-independence in a 4-0 win against Burma in the Colombo Quadrangular tournament.
- ^ "Meet India's first hat-trick scorer from Meghalaya". The Northeast Today. 16 June 2018.
- ^ Chatterjee, Sayan (10 December 2020). "Who was the first Indian to score an international hat-trick in football". The Bridge.
- ^ "International hat-tricks scored by Indian footballers". Sportstar. 3 May 2020.
Two years after Mewalal, Puran Bahadur Thapa bagged a hat-trick to steer India to a 3-1 triumph against Pakistan in the Calcutta Quadrangular tournament held at the Eden Gardens.
- ^ Basu, Jaydeep (26 February 2020). "No Country for Strikers: The Forgotten Goal Poachers of Indian Football". newsclick.in. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
- ^ Morrison, Neil (1999). "Asian Quadrangular Tournament 1954 (Calcutta, India)". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
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