1964 AFC Asian Cup

The 1964 AFC Asian Cup was the 3rd AFC Asian Cup, a football tournament that happens every four years. It is organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The tournament was played in Israel from 26 May to 3 June 1964.

1964 AFC Asian Cup

Asian Cup Israel 1964 גביע אסיה בכדורגל 1964
Israel holds the Asian Cup after winning it
Tournament details
Host country	{{country data Israel|flag/core|name=Israel|variant= |size=}}
Dates	26 May – 3 June
Teams	4
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Israel (1st title)
Runner-up	India
Third place	Korea Republic
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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The tournament was a round-robin. The hosts Israel won every game.

Venues

Ramat Gan	Haifa		Tel Aviv	Jerusalem
Ramat Gan Stadium	Kiryat Eliezer Stadium		Bloomfield Stadium	Hebrew University Stadium
Capacity: 51,000	Capacity: 17,000		Capacity: 22,000	Capacity: 16,000

Qualification

11 out of the 16 nations withdrew from qualifying. That meant South Korea and India automatically qualified.

     Qualified      Did not qualify      Withdrew before playing any matches      Did not enter      Not an AFC member

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearance
Israel	* Hosts		02 2
Hong Kong	Central Zone winners	14 December 1963	01 1
Korea Republic	Eastern zone winners (automatically qualified)	1963	02 2
India	Western Zone winners (automatically qualified)	1963	0

Results

26 May 1964 16:30	Israel	1–0	Hong Kong	Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Patrick Nice (Malaysia)
	Spiegler  76'

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27 May 1964 16:30	Korea Republic	0–2	India	Kiryat Eliezer Stadium, Haifa Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Davoud Nassiri (Iran)
			Appalraju  2' I. Singh  57'

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29 May 1964 16:00	Israel	2–0	India	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Li Pak Tung (Malaysia)
	Spiegler  29' (pen.) Yohai Aharoni  76'

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30 May 1964 16:30	Korea Republic	1–0	Hong Kong	Hebrew University Stadium, Jerusalem Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Pisit Ngarampanich (Thailand)
	Park Seung-ok  74'

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2 June 1964 16:30	India	3–1	Hong Kong	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Patrick Nice (Malaysia)
	I. Singh  45' Samajapati  60' Goswami  77'		Cheung Yiu Kwok  39'

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3 June 1964 16:00	Korea Republic	1–2	Israel	Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Davoud Nassiri (Iran)
	Lee Soon-myung  79'		Leon  20' Tish  38'

Winners

1964 AFC Asian Cup Winners
Israel First title

Scorers

Israeli teammates (Mordechai Spiegler in the middle) holding the 1964 AFC Asian Cup after beating South Korea in the final round

Inder Singh and Mordechai Spiegler scored the most goals. They each scored 2 goals. 13 goals were scored by 11 different players. There were no own goals.

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

1964 AFC Asian Cup Media

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  Lev Yashin, fails to stop a goal during the soccer match agains Israel, 1958 D448-092

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  DANIEL BARSUK FROM HAPOEL TEL AVIV ATAACKING THE GOAL OF THE VISITING TEAM FROM BRATISLAVA DURING A FRIENDLY MATCH HELD AT THE BLOOMFIELD SATDIUM IN TEL AVIV.

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  Kiryat Eliezer stadium 50's

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  Maats University Stadium 2

Other websites

• Korean scorers (in Korean)
• RSSSF