1964 AFC Asian Cup
Asian Cup Israel 1964
גביע אסיה בכדורגל 1964
Israel holds the Asian Cup after winning it
Tournament details
Host countryIsrael
Dates26 May – 3 June
Teams4
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 played6
Goals scored13 (2.17 per match)
Attendance99,000 (16,500 per match)
Top scorer(s)India Inder Singh
Israel Mordechai Spiegler
(2 goals each)
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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.

The tournament used a round-robin system which had to be increased in size to five teams, with the winners from the Western, Central 1 and 2 and Eastern zones, as well as the host nation (Israel) competing for the title.[2] Eleven of the 17 nations withdrew from qualification[fn 1] resulting in only one zone (a combined Central 1 and 2) playing any qualifying matches. The two remaining teams from the Western and Eastern zones respectively qualified uncontested.

The final tournament was subsequently a four-team competition, the same format as previous editions, with Israel winning the title with a perfect record of three wins.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] In keeping with previous editions of the tournament, all the matches were only 80 minutes in duration.[2]

Venues

Ramat Gan Tel Aviv
Haifa West Jerusalem
Ramat Gan Stadium Bloomfield Stadium Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Hebrew University Stadium
Capacity: 51,000 Capacity: 22,000 Capacity: 17,000 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 N/A 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 Qualification
1  Israel (H) 3 3 0 0 5 1 +4 6 Champions
2  India 3 2 0 1 5 3 +2 4 Runners-up
3  South Korea 3 1 0 2 2 4 −2 2 Third place
4  Hong Kong 3 0 0 3 1 5 −4 0 Fourth place
Source: RSSSF
(H) Hosts

Note: All the games lasted 80 minutes.


Israel 1–0 Hong Kong
Spiegler 76'
Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Patrick Nice (Malaysia)
South Korea 0–2 India
Appalraju 2'
I. Singh 57'
Kiryat Eliezer Stadium, Haifa
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Davoud Nassiri (Iran)
Israel 2–0 India
Spiegler 29' (pen.)
Aharoni 76'
Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Li Pak Tung (Malaysia)
South Korea 1–0 Hong Kong
Park Seung-ok 74'
Hebrew University Stadium, Jerusalem
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Pisit Ngarampanich (Thailand)
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)
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
1 goal

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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  6. ^ "Israel wiped from AFC history | The Australian Jewish News". Jewishnews.net.au. 2015-01-16. Archived from the original on 2015-04-21. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
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  8. ^ "Football: Israel's forgottten heroes who brought Asian Cup in 1964 - The Economic Times". Economictimes.indiatimes.com. 2014-06-04. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
  9. ^ Alper, Tim. "Asian Eye – Indian football still finding its feet :: Total Football Magazine – Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two, Non-League News". totalfootballmag.com. Total Football Magazine. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2015.

External links

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