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).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref Name="insideworldfootball">Template:Cite web</ref> Eleven of the 17 nations withdrew from qualificationTemplate:Refn 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In keeping with previous editions of the tournament, all the matches were only 80 minutes in duration.<ref Name="insideworldfootball"/>

Venues

Ramat Gan	Template:Location map+	Tel Aviv
Ramat Gan Stadium		Bloomfield Stadium
Capacity: 51,000		Capacity: 22,000
File:Lev Yashin, fails to stop a goal during the soccer match agains Israel, 1958 D448-092.jpg		File:Daniel Borsuk 1965-02-03.jpg
Haifa		Jerusalem
Kiryat Eliezer Stadium		Hebrew University Stadium
Capacity: 17,000		Capacity: 16,000
File:Kiryat Eliezer stadium 50's.jpg		File:Maats University Stadium 2.jpg

Qualification

File:1964 AFC Asian Cup qualification.png

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Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearance
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:N/A	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Central Zone winners	14 December 1963	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Eastern zone winners (automatically qualified)	1963	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Western Zone winners (automatically qualified)	1963	0 (debut)

Results

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Note: All the games lasted 80 minutes.

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Goalscorers

File:Israel soccer team holding Asian cup 1964a.jpg

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

• Template:Flagicon Inder Singh
• Template:Flagicon Mordechai Spiegler

1 goal

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

External links

• Korean scorers Template:In lang (archived 22 July 2011)
• Details at the RSSSF

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