1968 AFC Asian Cup

The 1968 AFC Asian Cup was the 4th AFC Asian Cup, a football tournament that happens every four years. It is organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The tournament was played in Iran from 10 to 19 May 1968.

The tournament was a round-robin. The hosts Iran won every game.

Besides Iran, the other four teams have never qualified in the Asian Cup again.

 Qualification 

TeamQualified asQualified onPrevious appearance0Central Zone winners2 April 1967Eastern zone winners7 August 1967Western Zone 1 winners1967Western Zone 2 winners16 November 19670 (debut)

 Squads 

 Venues 
TehranAmjadieh StadiumCapacity: 30,000200x200px

 Results 

 Goalscorers 

Homayoun Behzadi, Giora Spiegel and Moshe Romano scored the most goals. They each scored 4 goals. 32 goals were scored by 19 or 20 different players. There were no own goals.

 4 goals

  Homayoun Behzadi
  Giora Spiegel
  Moshe Romano

 2 goals

 Akbar Eftekhari
 Hossein Kalani
 Mordechai Spiegler

 1 goal

 Aung Khi
 Maung Hla Htay
 Suk Bahadur
 Ali Jabbari
 Gholam Hossein Farzami
 Parviz Ghelichkhani
 Shmuel Rosenthal
 Li Kwok Keung
 Yuan Kuan Yick
 Lim Lu-shoor
 Li Huan-wen
 Lo Kwok Tai

 References 

 Other websites 

 Garin, Erik; Jovanovic, Bojan; Panahi, Majeed; Veroeveren, Pieter. "Asian Nations Cup 1968". RSSSF.
 AFC Report for 1968 Asian Cup

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