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). 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. Eleven of the 17 nations withdrew from qualification 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. In keeping with previous editions of the tournament, all the matches were only 80 minutes in duration.
Venues
Ramat Gan Tel Aviv Ramat Gan Stadium Bloomfield Stadium Capacity: 51,000 Capacity: 22,000 HaifaJerusalemKiryat Eliezer StadiumHebrew University StadiumCapacity: 17,000Capacity: 16,000
Qualification
Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearance Central Zone winners 14 December 1963 Eastern zone winners (automatically qualified) 1963 Western Zone winners (automatically qualified) 1963 0 (debut)
Squads
Results
All times are Israel Standard Time (UTC+2).
Winners
Goalscorers
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
Inder Singh Mordechai Spiegler
1 goal
Cheung Yiu Kwok K. Appalaraju Chuni Goswami Sukumar Samajpati Yohai Aharoni Moshe Leon Gideon Tish Park Seung-ok Lee Soon-Myung
Notes
References
External links Korean scorers (archived 22 July 2011) Details at the RSSSF