Israel at the 1964 AFC Asian Cup

Israel at international football competitions

Israel Football Association
Teams	Mandatory Palestine (men's) Israel (men's) Israel (women's)
Results
Men's FIFA World Cup 1970 AFC Asian Cup 1956 1960 1964 1968 UEFA European Championship Women's FIFA Women's World Cup UEFA Women's Championship

Israel competed at the 1964 AFC Asian Cup. This was the third AFC Asian Cup and Israel’s third appearance.^[1]

Host nation

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 including Iran and Japan 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 qualifed uncontested. In this diminished competition Israel won the title with three wins.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Venues

Ramat Gan	Haifa	Ramat Gan Haifa Jaffa Jerusalem	Jaffa	Jerusalem
Ramat Gan Stadium	Kiryat Eliezer Stadium		Bloomfield Stadium	Hebrew University Stadium
Capacity: 41,583	Capacity: 14,002		Capacity: 17,500	Capacity: 10,000

Qualification

Israel as the host nation automatically qualified for the tournament.^[9]

Tournament results

Standings

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Israel	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

Matches

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Israel  v  Hong Kong

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

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Israel  v  India

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

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South Korea  v  Israel

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

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Goal scorers

2 goals

• Mordechai Spiegler

1 goal

• Yohai Aharoni
• Moshe Leon
• Gideon Tish

Squad

Head coach: Yosef Merimovich

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	GK	Haim Levin	3 March 1937 (aged 27)	1	0	Maccabi Tel Aviv
	GK	Itzhak Vissoker	18 September 1944 (aged 19)	4	0	Hapoel Petah Tikva
	DF	Avraham Kalmi		1	0	Maccabi Jaffa
	DF	David Primo	5 May 1946 (aged 18)	2	0	Hapoel Tel Aviv
	DF	Haim Bahar	10 April 1943 (aged 21)	0	0	Hapoel Petah Tikva
	DF	Moshe Leon	9 January 1944 (aged 20)	7	0	Maccabi Jaffa
	DF	Shaul Matania	8 March 1937 (aged 19)	17	0	Maccabi Tel Aviv
	MF	Amatzia Levkovich	27 December 1937 (aged 18)	36	1	Hapoel Tel Aviv
	MF	Gideon Tish	13 October 1939 (aged 16)	34	0	Hapoel Tel Aviv
	MF	Mordechai Spiegler	19 August 1944 (aged 19)	4	1	Maccabi Netanya
	MF	Nahum Stelmach	19 July 1936 (aged 27)	45	20	Hapoel Petah Tikva
	MF	Yehezkel Katsav	1945 (aged 19)	0	0	Maccabi Jaffa
	MF	Yosef Mahalal	25 December 1939 (aged 24)	4	2	Bnei Yehuda
	FW	Einstein Kalish	1939 (aged 25)	2	0	Maccabi Jaffa
	FW	Rahamim Talbi	17 May 1943 (aged 21)	0	0	Maccabi Tel Aviv
	FW	Roby Young	15 May 1942 (aged 22)	13	2	Hapoel Haifa
	FW	Shlomo Levi	1 June 1934 (aged 29)	11	6	Hapoel Ramat Gan
	FW	Yohai Aharoni	8 June 1943 (aged 20)	0	0	Hapoel Mahane Yehuda

References

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9. Asian Nations Cup 1964