1974 RCD Cup

1974 RCD Cup
Tournament details
Country	Pakistan
Venue(s)	Hockey Stadium, Karachi
Dates	17 January – 20 January
Teams	3
Defending champions	Iran
Final positions
Champions	Turkey (3rd title)
Runner-up	Malavan (Iran)
Third place	Pakistan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	3
Goals scored	8 (2.67 per match)
Attendance	5,000 (1,667 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Melih Atacan (2 goals)
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The RCD Cup 1974 was the fifth edition of the RCD Cup tournament, held in Karachi, Pakistan in 1974. This was a three nation tournament played in league format between Malavan F.C. (from Iran), Pakistan and Turkey.

This was the last tournament under the name of RCD Cup. This tournament was also the first time that Pakistan did not have any Bangali players due to Independence of East Pakistan in 1971 which became known as Bangladesh.

Iran did not send her national team for this tournament and it was Malavan F.C. that represented Iran at the tournament.

Venue

Karachi	Karachi
Hockey Stadium
Capacity: 30,000

Results

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Turkey	3	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1
Malavan (Iran)	2	2	1	0	1	2	2	0
Pakistan	1	2	0	1	1	3	4	−1

January 17, 1974
00:00 UTC-3

Malavan (Iran)	2 – 1	Pakistan
Jahani 28' Espandar 73'	Report	19' ?

Hockey Stadium, Karachi

Attendance: 5,000

January 18, 1974
00:00 UTC-3

Pakistan	2 – 2	Turkey
Sarwar 45' (pen.) Idrees 85'	Report	Melih Atacan 8', 49'

Hockey Stadium, Karachi

Referee:

Mohsen Zamani

January 20, 1974
00:00 UTC-3

Malavan (Iran)	0 – 1	Turkey
	Report	Sinan

Hockey Stadium, Karachi

Referee:

Yakup Ahmet

Top scorers

2 Goals

Melih Atacan

Squads

Malavan (Iran)

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Ali Sayyad		Malavan F.C.
2	2DF	Qader Ezatollahi		Malavan F.C.
3	2DF	Bahman Salehnia (c)	(1939-03-11)11 March 1939 (aged 34)	Malavan F.C.
4	2DF	Farrokhi		Malavan F.C.
5	2DF	Majid Janani		Malavan F.C.
6	3MF	Mohammad Reza Vishgahi		Malavan F.C.
7	3MF	Qasem Soltanzadi		Malavan F.C.
8	3MF	Nosrat Irandoost	(1949-05-01)1 May 1949 (aged 24)	Malavan F.C.
9	4FW	Yaghoubi		Malavan F.C.
10	4FW	Ghafour Jahani	(1951-06-19)19 June 1951 (aged 22)	Malavan F.C.
11	4FW	Aziz Espandar		Malavan F.C.
12		Manouchehr Navaran		Malavan F.C.
13		Javid Jahangiri		Malavan F.C.
14		Ali Niakani		Malavan F.C.
15	2DF	Farhad Sayyad-Mosleh		Malavan F.C.

Pakistan

No.	Pos.	Player	Club
1	1GK	Iqbal
2	2DF	Ewaz Ali
3	2DF	Mohammed
4	2DF	Mujahid Tareen
5	2DF	Miskeen
6	3MF	Amir Bakhsh Doda
7	3MF	Sharif
8	3MF	Sarwar
9	3MF	Qadir Bakhsh	Sindh Red
10	4FW	Ali Nawaz Baloch (c)
11	4FW	Muhammad Idrees
12	1GK	Afzal

Turkey

Head coach: Coskun Özari

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Sabri Dino	(1942-01-01)1 January 1942 (aged 32)	Beşiktaş J.K.
2	2DF	Ekrem Günalp	(1947-01-01)1 January 1947 (aged 27)	Galatasaray
3	2DF	Tuncay Temeller	(1948-01-01)1 January 1948 (aged 26)	Galatasaray
4	2DF	İsmail Arca (c)	(1948-09-05)5 September 1948 (aged 25)	Eskisehirspor
5	2DF	Müjdat Yalman	(1949-08-14)14 August 1949 (aged 24)	Ankaragücü
6	3MF	Köksal Mesci	(1945-01-01)1 January 1945 (aged 29)	Adanaspor
7	3MF	Bülent Ünder	(1942-01-16)16 January 1942 (aged 32)	Galatasaray
8	3MF	Ahmet Börtücene	(1947-01-01)1 January 1947 (aged 27)	Beşiktaş J.K.
9	4FW	Melih Atacan	(1951-01-01)1 January 1951 (aged 23)	Ankaragücü
10	4FW	Sinan Alayoğlu	(1949-01-01)1 January 1949 (aged 25)	Boluspor
11	4FW	Tuğrul Şener	(1949-05-19)19 May 1949 (aged 24)	Beşiktaş J.K.
12	1GK	Yasin Özdenak	(1948-10-11)11 October 1948 (aged 25)	Galatasaray
13	3MF	Ömer Kaner	(1951-05-21)21 May 1951 (aged 22)	Eskisehirspor
14	2DF	Nikos Kovis	(1953-01-06)6 January 1953 (aged 21)	Beşiktaş J.K.
15	4FW	Mehmet Türkkan	(1948-03-30)30 March 1948 (aged 25)	Göztepe A.Ş.
16	4FW	Doğan Küçükduru	(1949-01-01)1 January 1949 (aged 25)	Göztepe A.Ş.

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