# 1960 Merdeka Tournament

The 1960 Merdeka Tournament was the fourth edition of the annual football tournament hosted by Malaya. It took place from August 5 to August 14 with nine participating nations. Malaya and South Korea shared the trophy after finishing the final match by 0-0.

## Group stage
### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| South Korea | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +2 | 6 |
| Indonesia | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 9 | +7 | 6 |
| Hong Kong | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 9 | −1 | 4 |
| South Vietnam | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 3 |
| Singapore | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 16 | −7 | 1 |

### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Malaya | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 6 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 4 |
| Japan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 2 |
| Thailand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 18 | −15 | 0 |

## Squads

Players sorted by jersey numbers.

### Malaya

Head coach:
| No. | Player | Date of birth (age) |
| 1 | Sexton Lourdes | 1931 (aged 29) |
| 2 | Yee Seng Choy | |
| 3 | Ng Mun Keal | |
| 4 | Mok Wai Hong | |
| 5 | Pang Siang Teik | |
| 6 | Edwin C. Dutton (captain) | (1928-03-30)30 March 1928 (aged 32) |
| 7 | Govindarajoo | |
| 8 | Arthur Koh | 1936 (aged 24) |
| 9 | Robert Choe | (1940-01-13)13 January 1940 (aged 20) |
| 10 | Abdul Ghani Minhat | (1935-11-23)23 November 1935 (aged 24) |
| 11 | Stanley Gabrielle | |
| 12 | Abdullah Yeop Noordin | (1941-03-07)7 March 1941 (aged 19) |
| 13 | Wong Kim Seng | |
| 14 | Nordin | |
| 15 | M. Joseph | |
| 16 | Ng Boon Bee | (1937-12-17)17 December 1937 (aged 22) |
| 17 | P.A. Gunasegaran | |
| 18 | Teh Cheng Lee | |

### Japan

Head coach:
| No. | Player | Date of birth (age) |
| 1 | Tsukasa Hosaka | (1937-03-03)3 March 1937 (aged 23) |
| 2 | N. Nishigaki | |
| 3 | Mitsuo Kamata | (1937-12-16)16 December 1937 (aged 22) |
| 4 | Seishiro Shimatani | (1938-11-06)6 November 1938 (aged 21) |
| 5 | Y. Yoshida | |
| 6 | H. Sato | |
| 7 | H. Suzuki | |
| 8 | Kosaku Sugimura | (1936-08-08)8 August 1936 (aged 23) |
| 9 | M. Mukoyama | |
| 10 | Hiroshi Saeki | (1936-05-26)26 May 1936 (aged 24) |
| 11 | J. Ando | |
| 12 | S. Chida | |
| 13 | O. Kanda | |
| 14 | Teruki Miyamoto | (1940-12-26)26 December 1940 (aged 19) |
| 15 | H. Oshima | |
| 16 | Ryūichi Sugiyama | (1941-07-04)4 July 1941 (aged 19) |

### Pakistan

Head coach: Sheikh Shaheb Ali
| No. | Player | Date of birth (age) |
| 1 | Mohammad Siddiq | 1933 (aged 27) |
| 2 | Irshad | |
| 3 | Qayyum Changezi (captain) | (1935-12-25)25 December 1935 (aged 24) |
| 4 | Abid Ghazi | 1935 (aged 25) |
| 5 | Masoodul Hassan Butt | 1933 (aged 27) |
| 6 | Abdul Ghafoor | (1938-08-03)3 August 1938 (aged 22) |
| 7 | Ghulam Rabbani | |
| 8 | Kabir Ahmed | (1935-02-02)2 February 1935 (aged 25) |
| 9 | Muhammad Umer | 1935 (aged 25) |
| 10 | Abdullah Rahi | 1938 (aged 22) |
| 11 | Moosa Ghazi | 1938 (aged 22) |
| 12 | Ghulam Hussain | |
| 13 | Niamatullah Durrani | |
| 14 | Mohammad Hussain | |
| 15 | Ghulam Sabir | |
| 16 | M.N. Jehan | (1940-04-11)11 April 1940 (aged 20) |
| 17 | Mohammad Haroon | |

### Thailand

Head coach:
| No. | Player |
| 1 | Lek Amaruktanond |
| 2 | Suebswasdi Chanvicha-Sena |
| 3 | Suraphol Chaicharoen |
| 4 | Suphot Phanich |
| 5 | Luen Phan-Ngam |
| 6 | Asdang Phanikbutr |
| 7 | Vichit Yam-Boonruang |
| 8 | Prakob Rasmee-Mala |
| 9 | Pipop Singh-Tongvan |
| 10 | Suchat Mutukan |
| 11 | Tonglor Jaroendej |
| 12 | Yanyong Nilpirom |
| 13 | Sanong Phakdiphol |
| 14 | Parroj Vanichaka |
| 15 | Prathet Sutabutr |
| 16 | Swang Changchuen |
| 17 | Prasith Chaya-Taveep |

### Hong Kong

Head coach:
| No. | Player | Date of birth (age) |
| 1 | Wong Shau Wo | |
| 2 | Seto You | |
| 3 | Lee Kwoh Wah | |
| 4 | J.H. Toledo | |
| 5 | Kung Wah Kit | |
| 6 | Chan Chi Kong | |
| 7 | Au Pang Nin | |
| 8 | Lau Chi Lam | |
| 9 | Lau Kai Chiu | |
| 10 | Ho Cheng Yau (captain) | 1933 (aged 27) |
| 11 | Leung Wai Hung | |
| 12 | Kwok Chow Ming | |
| 13 | Ng Tim Loy | |
| 14 | Lok Tak Hing | |
| 15 | Tse Ping Kung | |
| 16 | Fung Kee Wan | |
| 17 | Lee Tak Wai | |

### South Vietnam

Head coach:
| No. | Player |
| 1 | Duc |
| 2 | Ngoc |
| 3 | Ti |
| 4 | Cut |
| 5 | Ty |
| 6 | Hiew |
| 7 | Ho Tu Myo |
| 8 | Thanh |
| 9 | Bon |
| 10 | Lang |
| 11 | Manh |
| 12 | Ha-Tam ti Ha |
| 13 | Cam |
| 14 | Nhung |
| 15 | Don Tu Kane |
| 16 | Thach |
| 17 | Vinh |
| 18 | Ron |
| 18 | Ngau |

### South Korea

Head coach:
| No. | Player | Date of birth (age) |
| 1 | Ham Heung-chul | (1930-11-17)17 November 1930 (aged 29) |
| 2 | Pak Sang Hoon | |
| 3 | Kim Chong Seark | |
| 4 | Kim Hong-bok | (1935-03-04)4 March 1935 (aged 25) |
| 5 | Sim Keun Taik | |
| 6 | Son Myung Sup | |
| 7 | Yoo Kwan Jun | |
| 8 | Kim Chan-ki | (1931-12-30)30 December 1931 (aged 28) |
| 9 | Oum Kyun Jin | |
| 10 | Yoo Pan Soon | |
| 11 | Moon Jung-sik | (1930-06-23)23 June 1930 (aged 30) |
| 12 | Cha Tae-sung | (1934-10-08)8 October 1934 (aged 25) |
| 13 | Woo Sang-kwon | (1926-02-02)2 February 1926 (aged 34) |
| 14 | Choi Chung-min | (1930-08-30)30 August 1930 (aged 29) |
| 15 | Pak Kyung Hwa | |
| 16 | Yoo Chung Suk | |
| 17 | Chung Soon Chun | |

### Indonesia

Head coach:
| No. | Player | Date of birth (age) |
| 1 | Joe Etek | |
| 4 | Phwa Sian Liong | (1931-01-26)26 January 1931 (aged 29) |
| 5 | Il Jas | |
| 6 | Sanpara | |
| 7 | Fattah Hidajat | |
| 8 | Idris Mapakaja | |
| 9 | Rukma Sudjana | |
| 10 | Zulkifli | |
| 12 | Omo Suratmo | (1931-02-11)11 February 1931 (aged 29) |
| 13 | Manan | |
| 14 | Piet Timisela | |
| 15 | Isak Udin | |
| 16 | Henky Timisela | (1937-11-22)22 November 1937 (aged 22) |
| 17 | Soenarto | |
| 18 | Muslim | |
| 19 | Hoesein | |
| 20 | Kaelani | |
| 21 | Suhendar | |

### Singapore

Head coach:
| No. | Player | Date of birth (age) |
| 1 | Wilfred Skinner | (1934-05-31)31 May 1934 (aged 26) |
| 2 | Lee Wah Chin | |
| 3 | Matmoon Sudasee | |
| 4 | M. Sutton | |
| 5 | Lee Kok Seng (captain) | |
| 6 | Osman Johan | |
| 7 | Ibrahim Hassan | |
| 8 | Rahim Omar | 1934 (aged 26) |
| 9 | Mahat Ambu | |
| 10 | Quah Kim Swee | |
| 11 | Ibrahim Mansoor | |
| 12 | Idros Albar | |
| 13 | Majid Ariff | (1937-06-02)2 June 1937 (aged 23) |
| 14 | Ali Samijan | |
| 15 | Lazlo Toth | |
| 16 | Umar Rahmat | |
| 17 | Sahar Hussein | |
| 18 | Mokhtar Tabri | |