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
Israeli team holds the Asian Cup
Tournament details
Host countryIsrael
Dates26 May – 3 June
Teams4
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 played6
Goals scored13 (2.17 per match)
Attendance99,000 (16,500 per match)
Top scorer(s) Inder Singh
Mordechai Spiegler
(2 goals each)

The tournament used a round-robin system with the winners from the West, Central 1 and 2 and East Asia zones and the team from the host nation (Israel) competing for the title. 11 of the 16 nations withdrew[fn 1] with the result that only one zone (combined Central 1 and 2) played any qualifying matches and the winners of 2 zones and host Israel qualified uncontested. Israel won the title with three wins.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Venues
Ramat Gan Haifa Tel Aviv Jerusalem
Ramat Gan Stadium Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Bloomfield Stadium Hebrew University Stadium
Capacity: 41,583 Capacity: 17,000 Capacity: 22,000 Capacity: 16,000

Qualification
Main article: 1964 AFC Asian Cup qualification
Qualifiers

Squads
Main article: 1964 AFC Asian Cup squads

Results
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Israel (C) 3 3 0 0 5 1 +4 6
 India 3 2 0 1 5 3 +2 4
 South Korea 3 1 0 2 2 4 −2 2
 Hong Kong 3 0 0 3 1 5 −4 0
Source:
(C) Champion.
Israel 1–0 Hong Kong
Spiegler  76'
Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Patrick Nice (Malaysia)
South Korea 0–2 India
Appalaraju  2'
I. Singh  57'
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Davoud Nassiri (Iran)
Israel 2–0 India
Spiegler  29' (pen.)
Aharoni  76'
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Li Pak Tung (Malaysia)
South Korea 1–0 Hong Kong
Park Seung-ok  74'
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Pisit Ngarampanich (Thailand)
India 3–1 Hong Kong
I. Singh  45'
Samajpati  60'
Goswami  77'		 Cheung Yiu Kwok  39'
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Patrick Nice (Malaysia)
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

Scorers

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
1 goal

Notes
  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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  6. Dominic Bossi (2015-01-30). "Winners and losers of the 2015 Asian Cup". Smh.com.au. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
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