1956 AFC Asian Cup

The 1956 AFC Asian Cup was the inaugural AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial continental association football competition introduced and organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The final tournament was held in Hong Kong from 1 September to 15 September 1956 as a four-team round-robin competition with no final. It was won by South Korea.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

An unusual ruling meant that all games were 80 minutes long, with an extra 30 minutes extra time if the game was drawn at full time (although this didn’t happen due to bad light).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Venues

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	Government Stadium
	Capacity: 28,000
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Qualification

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Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearance
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:N/A	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Central Zone winners	24 May 1956	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Eastern Zone winners	2 September 1956	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Western Zone winners (Automatically qualified since other nations withdrew)	1956	0 (debut)

Results

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Goalscorers

With four goals, Nahum Stelmach is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 27 goals were scored by 15 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

4 goals

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3 goals Template:Colbegin

• Template:Flagicon Sung Nak-woon
• Template:Flagicon Woo Sang-kwon
• Template:Flagicon Lê Hữu Đức

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• Template:Flagicon Yehoshua Glazer
• Template:Flagicon Choi Chung-min
• Template:Flagicon Trần Văn Tổng

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• Template:Flagicon Kim Ji-sung
• Template:Flagicon Trải Văn Đào

References

• Jovanovic, Bojan; Panahi, Majeed; Veroeveren, Pieter. "Asian Nations Cup 1956". RSSSF.

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