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.
[6] Thapa was an officer in the Indian Army[7] and represented the Gorkha Brigade and Services in the Santosh Trophy and domestic tournaments.
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