1964 AFC Asian Cup

The 1964 AFC Asian Cup was the 3rd edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).^[1] The finals were held in Israel from 26 May to 3 June 1964.

1964 AFC Asian Cup

Asian Cup Israel 1964 גביע אסיה בכדורגל 1964
Israel holds the Asian Cup after winning it
Tournament details
Host country	Israel
Dates	26 May – 3 June
Teams	4
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Israel (1st title)
Runners-up	India
Third place	South Korea
Fourth place	Hong Kong
Tournament statistics
Matches played	6
Goals scored	13 (2.17 per match)
Attendance	99,000 (16,500 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Inder Singh Mordechai Spiegler (2 goals each)
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The tournament used a round-robin system with the winners from the West, Central 1 and 2 and East Asia zones and the team from the host nation (Israel) competing for the title. 11 of the 17 nations withdrew^{[fn 1]} with the result that only one zone (combined Central 1 and 2) played any qualifying matches and the winners of 2 zones and host Israel qualified uncontested. Israel won the title with three wins.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Venues

Ramat Gan	Haifa	Ramat Gan   Haifa   Tel Aviv   Jerusalem	Tel Aviv	Jerusalem
Ramat Gan Stadium	Kiryat Eliezer Stadium		Bloomfield Stadium	Hebrew University Stadium
Capacity: 51,000	Capacity: 17,000		Capacity: 22,000	Capacity: 16,000

Qualification

Main article: 1964 AFC Asian Cup qualification

 

  Qualified

  Did not qualify

  Withdrew before playing any matches

  Did not enter

  Not an AFC member

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearance
Israel	Hosts		2 (1956, 1960)
Hong Kong	Central Zone winners	14 December 1963	1 (1956)
South Korea	Eastern zone winners (automatically qualified)	1963	2 (1956, 1960)
India	Western Zone winners (automatically qualified)	1963	0 (debut)

Squads

Main article: 1964 AFC Asian Cup squads

Results

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Israel (H, C)	3	3	0	0	5	1	+4	6
2	India	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	4
3	South Korea	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	2
4	Hong Kong	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

Source: RSSSF
(C) Champion; (H) Host

Note: All the games lasted 80 minutes.

26 May 1964

16:30

Israel	1–0	Hong Kong
Spiegler   76'

Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Patrick Nice (Malaysia)

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27 May 1964

16:30

South Korea	0–2	India
		Appalraju   2' I. Singh   57'

Kiryat Eliezer Stadium, Haifa

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Davoud Nassiri (Iran)

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29 May 1964

16:00

Israel	2–0	India
Spiegler   29' (pen.) Aharoni   76'

Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Li Pak Tung (Malaysia)

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30 May 1964

16:30

South Korea	1–0	Hong Kong
Park Seung-ok   74'

Hebrew University Stadium, Jerusalem

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Pisit Ngarampanich (Thailand)

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2 June 1964

16:30

India	3–1	Hong Kong
I. Singh   45' Samajapati   60' Goswami   77'		Cheung Yiu Kwok   39'

Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Patrick Nice (Malaysia)

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3 June 1964

16:00

South Korea	1–2	Israel
Lee Soon-myung   79'		Leon   20' Tish   38'

Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Davoud Nassiri (Iran)

Winners

1964 AFC Asian Cup winners
Israel First title

Goalscorers

 

Israeli teammates (Mordechai Spiegler in the middle) holding the 1964 AFC Asian Cup after beating South Korea in the final round

With two goals, Inder Singh and Mordechai Spiegler were the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 13 goals were scored by 11 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

2 goals

•   Inder Singh
•   Mordechai Spiegler

1 goal

•   Cheung Yiu Kwok
•   K. Appalaraju
•   Chuni Goswami
•   Sukumar Samajpati
•   Yohai Aharoni
•   Moshe Leon
•   Gideon Tish
•   Park Seoung-ok
•   Lee Soon-Myung

Notes

1. Nations that withdrew: Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Republic of China, and Singapore.

References

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External links

• (in Korean)
• Details at RSSSF