Puran Bahadur Thapa

Puran Bahadur Thapa
Personal information
Date of birth (1928-07-28)28 July 1928
Place of birth Upper Mawprem, Shillong, British India (now in Meghalaya)
Date of death 2014 (aged 85–86)
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 (28 July 1928 – 2014) was 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 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament at the Eden Gardens. It was the second hat-trick by an Indian footballer post-independence in international football after Sheoo Mewalal. Thapa died in 2014.