# Football at the 1970 Asian Games

Football at the 1970 Asian Games was held in Bangkok, Thailand from 10 to 20 December 1970.

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | South Korea Choi Jae-mo Choi Kil-soo Choi Sang-chul Jeong Kang-ji Chung Kyu-poong Hong In-woong Kim Chang-il Kim Ho Kim Jung-nam Kim Ki-bok Kim Ki-hyo Lee Hoe-taik Lee Se-yeon Lim Guk-chan Oh In-bok Park Byung-joo Park Lee-chun Park Soo-duk Park Soo-il Seo Yoon-chan | Shared gold | India Altaf Ahmed Amar Bahadur Hishey "Jerry" Basi Subhash Bhowmick PM Shivdas Sukalyan Ghosh Dastidar Mohammed Habib Bandya Kakade Sudhir Karmakar Abdul Latif Syed Nayeemuddin Doraiswamy Nataraj Chandreshwar Prasad Magan Singh Rajvi Kalyan Saha Kuppuswami Sampath Nirmal Sengupta Ajaib Singh Manjit Singh Shyam Thapa |
| Men details | Burma Aung Kyi Aye Maung I Aye Maung II Aye Maung Gyi Aye Maung Lay Khin Maung Tint Maung Hla Htay Maung Maung Myint Maung Maung Tin Myo Win Nyunt Pe Khin Soe Paing Suk Bahadur Than Soe Tin Aung Tin Aung Moe Tin Sein Tin Win Win Maung Ye Nyunt | Shared gold | India Altaf Ahmed Amar Bahadur Hishey "Jerry" Basi Subhash Bhowmick PM Shivdas Sukalyan Ghosh Dastidar Mohammed Habib Bandya Kakade Sudhir Karmakar Abdul Latif Syed Nayeemuddin Doraiswamy Nataraj Chandreshwar Prasad Magan Singh Rajvi Kalyan Saha Kuppuswami Sampath Nirmal Sengupta Ajaib Singh Manjit Singh Shyam Thapa |

## Results
### Preliminary round
#### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| India | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 3 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
| South Vietnam | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 0 |

#### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Japan | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 6 |
| Burma | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 4 |
| Khmer Republic | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | −4 | 0 |

#### Group C

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| South Korea | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 3 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Iran | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 1 |

### Quarterfinals
#### Group Aa

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Japan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 4 |
| India | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 2 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0 |

#### Group Bb

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Burma | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Thailand | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 1 |

### Knockout round

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| 18 December | 18 December |
| Japan | 1 |
| Japan | 1 | 20 December | 20 December |
| South Korea (a.e.t.) | 2 | 20 December | 20 December |
| South Korea (a.e.t.) | 2 | South Korea (a.e.t.) | 0 |
| 18 December | 18 December | | South Korea (a.e.t.) | 0 |
| 18 December | 18 December | Burma | 0 |
| Burma | 2 | Burma | 0 |
| India | 0 | | |
| India | 0 | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| | | 19 December | 19 December |
| | | Japan | 0 |
| | | India | 1 |

#### Gold medal match
## Final standing

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| | Burma | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 10 |
| | South Korea | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 8 |
| | India | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 7 |
| 4 | Japan | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 10 |
| 5 | Indonesia | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 4 |
| 6 | Thailand | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 4 |
| 7 | Khmer Republic | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Iran | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 1 |
| 9 | South Vietnam | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 0 |
| 10 | Malaysia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | −4 | 0 |