1968 AFC Asian Cup

The 1968 AFC Asian Cup was the 4th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were held in Iran between 10 and 19 May 1968, with five teams competing in a round-robin format with no final for what would be the last time. It was also the first tournament with 90-minute games, after 80-minute games in the first three editions.<ref Name="insideworldfootball">Template:Cite web</ref>

The home team Iran won with a perfect record of four wins.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Qualification

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearance
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:N/A	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Central Zone winners	2 April 1967	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Eastern zone winners	7 August 1967	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Western Zone 1 winners	1967	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Western Zone 2 winners	16 November 1967	0 (debut)

Venues

Template:Location map	Tehran
	Amjadieh Stadium
	Capacity: 30,000
	File:Amjadieh Stadium.jpg

Results

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Goalscorers

With 4 goals, Homayoun Behzadi of Iran, Giora Spiegel and Moshe Romano of Israel are the top scorers of the tournament. In total, 32 goals were scored by 18 players, with none of them credited as own goal.

4 goals

• Template:Flagicon Homayoun Behzadi
• Template:Flagicon Giora Spiegel
• Template:Flagicon Moshe Romano

2 goals

• Template:Flagicon Akbar Eftekhari
• Template:Flagicon Hossein Kalani
• Template:Flagicon Mordechai Spiegler

1 goal

• Template:Flagicon Aung Khi
• Template:Flagicon Maung Hla Htay
• Template:Flagicon Suk Bahadur
• Template:Flagicon Hla Htay
• Template:Flagicon Ali Jabbari
• Template:Flagicon Gholam Hossein Farzami
• Template:Flagicon Parviz Ghelichkhani
• Template:Flagicon Shmuel Rosenthal
• Template:Flagicon Li Kwok Keung
• Template:Flagicon Yuan Kuan Yick
• Template:Flagicon Lim Lu-shoor
• Template:Flagicon Li Huan-wen
• Template:Flagicon Lo Kwok Tai
• Template:Flagicon Wong Chi-keung

External links

• Garin, Erik; Jovanovic, Bojan; Panahi, Majeed; Veroeveren, Pieter. "Asian Nations Cup 1968". RSSSF.
• AFC Report for 1968 Asian Cup

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