# Football at the 1966 Asian Games

Football at the 1966 Asian Games was held in Bangkok, Thailand from 10 to 20 December 1966.

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | Burma Ba Pu Han Thien Hla Htay Hla Kyi Hla Pe Hla Shwe Kay Khin Maung Lay Kyaw Thaung Maung Maung Maung Maung Aye Maung Tin Han Ohn Pe Soe Myint Suk Bahadur Than Lwin Thein Aung Tin Aung Tin Aye Win Kyi | Iran Hamid Aminikhah Mostafa Arab Aziz Asli Homayoun Behzadi Akbar Eftekhari Fariborz Esmaeili Gholam Hossein Farzami Parviz Ghelichkhani Hassan Habibi Goudarz Habibi Ali Jabbari Hamid Jasemian Parviz Mirzahassan Mohammad Ranjbar Abdollah Saedi Mehrab Shahrokhi Hamid Shirzadegan Jalal Talebi Faramarz Zelli | Japan Masahiro Hamazaki Kazuo Imanishi Shio Kada Kunishige Kamamoto Hisao Kami Hiroshi Katayama Takeo Kimura Yasuyuki Kuwahara Ikuo Matsumoto Masakatsu Miyamoto Teruki Miyamoto Takaji Mori Aritatsu Ogi Ryuichi Sugiyama Ryozo Suzuki Masashi Watanabe Shigeo Yaegashi Yoshitada Yamaguchi Kenzo Yokoyama |

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

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAV | Pts |
| Thailand | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4.000 | 3 |
| Burma | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2.000 | 3 |
| South Korea | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0.000 | 0 |

#### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAV | Pts |
| Japan | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3.000 | 6 |
| Iran | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1.750 | 4 |
| India | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0.571 | 2 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0.200 | 0 |

#### Group C

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAV | Pts |
| Indonesia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6.000 | 5 |
| Singapore | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 1.333 | 3 |
| South Vietnam | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0.333 | 3 |
| Republic of China | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 0.625 | 1 |

### Quarterfinals
#### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAV | Pts |
| Japan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 5.000 | 4 |
| Singapore | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0.600 | 2 |
| Thailand | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0.143 | 0 |

#### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAV | Pts |
| Burma | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1.500 | 3 |
| Iran | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | 2 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.667 | 1 |

### Knockout round

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| 18 December | 18 December |
| Japan | 0 |
| Japan | 0 | 19 December | 19 December |
| Iran | 1 | 19 December | 19 December |
| Iran | 1 | Iran | 0 |
| 18 December | 18 December | | Iran | 0 |
| 18 December | 18 December | Burma | 1 |
| Burma | 2 | Burma | 1 |
| Singapore | 0 | | |
| Singapore | 0 | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| | | 20 December | 20 December |
| | | Japan | 2 |
| | | Singapore | 0 |

#### Gold medal match
## Final standing

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| | Burma | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 10 |
| | Iran | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 8 |
| | Japan | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 5 | +13 | 12 |
| 4 | Singapore | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 15 | −4 | 5 |
| 5 | Indonesia | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6 |
| 6 | Thailand | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 3 |
| 7 | South Vietnam | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 3 |
| 8 | India | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 2 |
| 9 | Republic of China | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 1 |
| 10 | Malaysia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0 |
| 11 | South Korea | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | −4 | 0 |