1964 AFC Asian Cup

1964 AFC Asian CupAsian 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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International football competition

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

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Ramat Gan |

Ramat Gan

Haifa

Tel Aviv

Jerusalem

| Tel Aviv

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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

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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

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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

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Main article: 1964 AFC Asian Cup squads

## Results

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Pos | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification

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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

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Spiegler 76' |  |

Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Patrick Nice (Malaysia)

* * *

27 May 1964

16:30

South Korea | 0–2|  India

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|  | Appalraju 2'
I. Singh 57'

Kiryat Eliezer Stadium, Haifa

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Davoud Nassiri (Iran)

* * *

29 May 1964

16:00

Israel | 2–0|  India

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Spiegler 29' (pen.)
Aharoni 76' |  |

Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Li Pak Tung (Malaysia)

* * *

30 May 1964

16:30

South Korea | 1–0|  Hong Kong

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Park Seung-ok 74' |  |

Hebrew University Stadium, Jerusalem

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Pisit Ngarampanich (Thailand)

* * *

2 June 1964

16:30

India | 3–1|  Hong Kong

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I. Singh 45'
Samajapati 60'
Goswami 77' |  | Cheung Yiu Kwok 39'

Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Patrick Nice (Malaysia)

* * *

3 June 1964

16:00

South Korea | 1–2|  Israel

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Lee Soon-myung 79' |  | Leon 20'
Tish 38'

Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Davoud Nassiri (Iran)

## Winners

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1964 AFC Asian Cup winners

Israel
First title

## Goalscorers

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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

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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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2. ^ a b "Inside World Football - Asian Cup 1964". Retrieved 13 June 2023.
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4. ^ Dann, Uzi (2015-01-22). "Israel erased from Asian Cup history video - World - Israel News". Haaretz.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
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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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* Korean scorers (in Korean) (archived 22 July 2011)
* Details at the RSSSF

* v
* t
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1964 AFC Asian Cup finalists

Champions|

*  Israel

Runners-up|

*  India

Third place|

*  South Korea

Fourth place|

*  Hong Kong

* v
* t
* e

AFC Asian Cup

Tournaments|

* Hong Kong 1956
* South Korea 1960
* Israel 1964
* Iran 1968
* Thailand 1972
* Iran 1976
* Kuwait 1980
* Singapore 1984
* Qatar 1988
* Japan 1992
* United Arab Emirates 1996
* Lebanon 2000
* China 2004
* Indonesia / Malaysia / Thailand / Vietnam 2007
* Qatar 2011
* Australia 2015
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* TBD 2031

Qualification|

* 1956
* 1960
* 1964
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* 1972
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* 1980
* 1984
* 1988
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Finals|

* 1956
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* 1964
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* 1972
* 1976
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Squads|

* 1956
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* 1964
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* 1972
* 1976
* 1980
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* 1988
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Bids|

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Records and lists|

* Awards
* Records and statistics
* Hat-tricks
* Qualification
* Finals

Miscellaneous|

* Music
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* Match balls

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*[Pld]: Played
*[W]: Won
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*[L]: Lost
*[GF]: Goals for
*[GA]: Goals against
*[GD]: Goal difference
*[Pts]: Points
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