Reporting snapshot · 29 September 2026. Pakistan's PUBG Mobile team won bronze in the esports competition at the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on Tuesday, 29 September. This account draws on same-day reports by Dawn and The Express Tribune and on the organisers' information for the esports discipline. The official match-by-match result sheet could not be retrieved directly, so the standings below rest on the two newspapers, which agree on the medal positions, the points totals and Pakistan's line-up.
What happened
Pakistan won bronze in the PUBG Mobile competition at the 2026 Asian Games on Tuesday, 29 September, finishing third in the 12-match battle-royale final at the Aichi Sky Expo in Tokoname, Japan. Thailand took gold and China silver.
Pakistan ended the two-day final on 100 points, behind Thailand’s 128 and China’s 114, Dawn reported. The team entered the second and final day in medal contention and added 61 points across the closing six matches to the 39 it had collected on the opening day. Its best returns came in the seventh match, worth 16 points, and in each of the last two matches, worth 12 apiece. In the closing match Pakistan placed third for 12 points — four placement points and eight elimination points — behind match winner Japan and second-placed Thailand.
The Express Tribune reported that 12 teams contested the event and named Pakistan’s line-up as Mohammad Huzaifa, Shayan Asad, Falak Sher Memon, Hasnain Rahman and Syed Sameer. Both newspapers recorded the same podium: Thailand first, China second, Pakistan third.
Behind the medallists, Vietnam and Indonesia finished level on 95 points, ahead of South Korea on 71, Chinese Taipei on 62 and Jordan on 61. The competition was decided on aggregate points from all 12 matches rather than a single decisive final, with teams collecting placement points for where they finished each match and elimination points for the players they removed.
A fifth bronze for Pakistan
The esports result was Pakistan’s fifth medal of the Games, and its fifth of the same colour. The women’s cricket team opened the tally on 22 September by beating Bangladesh by 31 runs in the third-place match. Mohammad Asim Khan then won bronze in mixed martial arts, and squash players Noor Zaman and Mohammad Ashab Irfan each secured a bronze by reaching the men’s singles semi-finals.
The PUBG Mobile bronze adds esports to the sports in which Pakistan has medalled at these Games. Dawn described the outcome as a podium finish for Pakistan in an esports discipline. For a country whose Asian Games medals have most often come from a handful of traditional sports, the result places competitive gaming alongside cricket, hockey and squash in the delegation’s results sheet.
The margin was also a measure of the field Pakistan beat to the podium. The team finished ahead of Vietnam, Indonesia, South Korea and Chinese Taipei, several of which have established esports scenes and entered the final with competitive line-ups. Thailand’s winning margin over Pakistan was 28 points and China’s buffer for silver was 14, leaving Pakistan’s hold on third place secure on the final day rather than dependent on a single match.
The competition and the days ahead
The Aichi Sky Expo, a convention centre connected to Chubu Centrair International Airport, is one of the Games’ principal venues and is hosting esports along with breaking, BMX freestyle, fencing and skateboarding, according to the organisers. Esports is on the Aichi-Nagoya programme across several medal events, and PUBG Mobile was one of the titles contested.
For Pakistan, the esports bronze sits within a broader campaign. The Games opened in Nagoya on 19 September with a 246-member contingent across 23 sports, and several of the delegation’s strongest remaining medal chances lie in team events. The men’s hockey team is through to the semi-finals, where it will face India, while the men’s cricket side has also reached the last four. Both competitions continue into early October.
What is still uncertain
The official match-by-match result sheet for the PUBG Mobile final could not be retrieved directly, and the standings here follow the two newspapers rather than a primary record. Dawn and The Express Tribune agree on the podium, the points totals and the Pakistan squad, but neither published a full match-by-match breakdown for every team, so the gaps between the chasing nations cannot be independently checked beyond the final standings.
Several of Pakistan’s other medal chances also remain open. The hockey and cricket semi-finals will determine whether the delegation adds to its five bronzes, and the weather that has already washed out cricket matches at the Games could yet disrupt the schedule. Whether Pakistan can convert its remaining opportunities into a medal of a different colour, or add to the bronze count, will become clearer over the next week.
Sources & reporting notes
This is a synthesis of published reporting, not eyewitness coverage. Sources were reviewed on 29 September 2026. The official result sheet for the PUBG Mobile final was not retrieved directly, so the result and standings rest on the two independent newspaper reports cited below, together with the organisers' own information about the esports competition and its venue.
- Dawn — Pakistan secure fifth Asian Games medal with PUBG Mobile bronze29 September 2026 · The bronze medal, the 100-128-114 points split with Thailand and China, Pakistan's match-by-match returns and final-match scoring, the full field order, the squad and the wider Pakistan medal tally.
- The Express Tribune — Pakistan secure eSports bronze at Asian Games29 September 2026 · Independent confirmation of the result, the 12-team field at the Aichi Sky Expo, the Pakistan line-up and the Thailand and China medal finishes.
- Aichi-Nagoya 2026 organising committee — EsportsReviewed 29 September 2026 · Official confirmation that esports is on the Games programme and that the competition is held at the Aichi Sky Expo.
- Aichi-Nagoya 2026 — Official results platformReviewed 29 September 2026 · The organisers' live results portal listing esports among the Games disciplines and its schedule.
