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

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.