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Israel at the AFC Asian Cup

Main article: Israel national football team § Asian Football Confederation membership

Israel competed at the AFC Asian Cup four times. In 1956 and 1960 Israel finished second, in 1964 they finished first, and in 1968 they finished third.[1] In 1972 Israel qualified for the tournament as hosts but later had to withdraw.[2]

The Israel national team winning the 1964 AFC Asian Cup
See also: Muslim and Arab World boycott, Mediterranean Games boycott, and AFC boycott

Israel was one of the founding members of the AFC (Asian Football Confederation) following its own independence in 1948 (prior to that it played under the banner of the "British Mandate of Palestine").[3] After the 1974 Asian Games in Iran, and Israel's 0–1 tense loss to Iran in the finals,[4] Kuwait and other Muslim and Arab countries refused to play them. Following this, Israel were expelled from the confederation and spent a few years trying to qualify from such continental bodies as the OFC (Oceania), before eventually joining UEFA (Europe) officially.[5]

Record

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AFC Asian Cup record
Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA
  1956 Runners-up 2nd 3 2 0 1 6 5
  1960 Runners-up 2nd 3 2 0 1 6 4
  1964 Champions 1st 3 3 0 0 5 1
  1968 Third Place 3rd 4 2 0 2 11 5
  1972 Withdrew
Total Champions 4/15 13 9 0 4 28 15
Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

1956 AFC Asian Cup

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Israel competed at the 1956 AFC Asian Cup. This was the first AFC Asian Cup and Israel’s first appearance.[6]

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  South Korea 3 2 1 0 9 6 +3 5
  Israel 3 2 0 1 6 5 +1 4
  Hong Kong 3 0 2 1 6 7 −1 2
  South Vietnam 3 0 1 2 6 9 −3 1
Matches
Hong Kong  2 – 3  Israel
Au Chi Yin   12', 66' Glazer   37', 76'
Stelmach   69'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: H.A. Sheppard (England)
Israel  1 – 2  South Korea
Stelmach   71' Woo Sang-kwon   52'
Sung Nak-woon   64'
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Trương Văn Ky (South Vietnam)
Israel  2 – 1  South Vietnam
Stelmach   14', 27' Trần Văn Tổng   58'
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Tommy Tucker (England)
Goalscorers

With four goals, Nahum Stelmach is the top scorer in the tournament.

4 goals
2 goals
Squad

Head coach:   Jackie Gibbons

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Ya'akov Hodorov (1927-06-16)16 June 1927 (aged 29) 12 0   Hapoel Tel Aviv
1GK Ya'akov Vissoker (1930-09-05)5 September 1930 (aged 25) 0 0   Hapoel Petah Tikva
2DF David Kremer (1929-04-06)6 April 1929 (aged 27) 2 0   Hapoel Petah Tikva
2DF Shaul Matania (1937-03-08)8 March 1937 (aged 19) 2 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
3MF Jerry Haldi (1935-08-14)14 August 1935 (aged 21) 2 0   Hapoel Petah Tikva
3MF Binyamin Rabinovich 1936 (aged 20) 2 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
3MF Itzhak Schneor (1925-12-11)11 December 1925 (aged 30) 11 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
3MF Asher Balut (1932-01-06)6 January 1932 (aged 24) 5 0   Hapoel Tel Aviv
3MF Zigi Silberstein 0 0   Maccabi Petah Tikva
4FW Yehoshua Glazer (1927-12-29)29 December 1927 (aged 28) 11 8   Maccabi Tel Aviv
4FW Yosef Mirmovich (1924-07-24)24 July 1924 (aged 32) 11 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
4FW Nahum Stelmach (1936-07-19)19 July 1936 (aged 20) 2 1   Hapoel Petah Tikva
4FW Boaz Kofman (1935-03-29)29 March 1935 (aged 21) 1 0   Hapoel Petah Tikva
4FW Rehavia Rozenboim (1934-04-29)29 April 1934 (aged 22) 5 0   Hapoel Tel Aviv
4FW Shmuel Israeli (1928-10-15)15 October 1928 (aged 27) 2 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
4FW Eliezer Spiegel (1922-06-20)20 June 1922 (aged 34) 2 0   Maccabi Petah Tikva

1960 AFC Asian Cup

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Israel competed at the 1960 AFC Asian Cup. This was the second AFC Asian Cup and Israel’s second appearance.[6]

Qualification – Western Zone

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Israel 6 3 2 1 10 8 +2 8
  Iran 6 3 1 2 12 10 +2 7
  Pakistan 6 2 1 3 8 10 –2 5
  India 6 2 0 4 7 9 –2 4
Matches
Israel  0 – 3  Iran
Hajari   49'
Barmaki   59'
Dehdari   65'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: P. Chakravarthy (India)
India  1 – 3  Israel
Devadas   60' R. Levi   35', 43', 53'
Attendance: 30,000
Israel  2 – 0  Pakistan
R. Levi   55'
Stelmach   65'
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: P. Chakravarthy (India)
Israel  1 – 1  Iran
Menchel   9' Hajari   49'
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: P. Chakravarthy (India)
India  1 – 2  Israel
Rehmatullah   19' Stelmach   11'
R. Levi   75'
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Natarajan (Malaya)
Pakistan  2 – 2  Israel
Omar   49'
Ghafoor   57'		 Menchel   60'
Ratzabi   68'
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: A. N. Jayaraman (India)

Tournament results

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  South Korea 3 3 0 0 9 1 +8 6
  Israel 3 2 0 1 6 4 +2 4
  Republic of China 3 1 0 2 2 2 0 2
  South Vietnam 3 0 0 3 2 12 −10 0
Matches
South Korea  3 – 0  Israel
Cho Yoon-Ok   17', 60'
Woo Sang-Kwon   30'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Yozo Yokoyama (Japan)
South Vietnam  1 – 5  Israel
Trần Văn Nhung   68' (pen.) R. Levi   13'
Stelmach   18'
S. Levi   25'
Menchel   32'
Aharonskind   70'
Attendance: 15,000
Israel  1 – 0  Republic of China
S. Levi   72'
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Yozo Yokoyama (Japan)

Goal scorers

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2 goals
1 goal

Squad

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Squad

Head coach:   Gyula Mándi

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Ya'akov Hodorov (1927-06-16)16 June 1927 (aged 33) 23 0   Hapoel Tel Aviv
1GK Ya'akov Vissoker (1930-09-05)5 September 1930 (aged 30) 2 0   Hapoel Petah Tikva
2DF Amatzia Levkovich (1937-12-27)27 December 1937 (aged 22) 14 0   Hapoel Tel Aviv
2DF Dov Atzmon 0 0   Hapoel Jerusalem
2DF Mordechai Benbenishti (1938-03-01)1 March 1938 (aged 22) 3 0   Hapoel Jerusalem
2DF Zvi Moisescu (1939-08-13)13 August 1939 (aged 21) 3 0   Maccabi Netanya
3MF Avraham Klemi 0 0   Maccabi Jaffa
3MF Avraham Menchel (1935-12-12)12 December 1935 (aged 24) 13 4   Maccabi Haifa
3MF Gideon Tish (1939-10-13)13 October 1939 (aged 21) 16 0   Hapoel Tel Aviv
3MF Yosef Goldstein (1932-03-29)29 March 1932 (aged 28) 20 1   Maccabi Tel Aviv
4FW Aharon Amar 1937 (aged 23) 8 0   Maccabi Haifa
4FW Amnon Aronskind 0 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
4FW Nahum Stelmach (1936-07-19)19 July 1936 (aged 24) 23 13   Hapoel Petah Tikva
4FW Rafi Levi (1938-02-22)22 February 1938 (aged 22) 14 10   Maccabi Tel Aviv
4FW Shlomo Levi (1934-06-01)1 June 1934 (aged 26) 0 0   Hapoel Haifa
4FW Shlomo Nahari (1934-10-17)17 October 1934 (aged 25) 8 1   Hapoel Petah Tikva
4FW Yehoshua Glazer (1927-12-29)29 December 1927 (aged 32) 32 15   Maccabi Tel Aviv

1964 AFC Asian Cup

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Israel competed at the 1964 AFC Asian Cup. This was the third AFC Asian Cup and Israel’s third appearance.[6]

Host nation

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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 qualified uncontested. In this diminished competition Israel won the title with three wins.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Venues

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Ramat Gan Haifa
Tel Aviv Jerusalem
Ramat Gan Stadium Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Bloomfield Stadium Hebrew University Stadium
Capacity: 41,583 Capacity: 17,000 Capacity: 22,000 Capacity: 16,000
       

Qualification

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Israel as the host nation automatically qualified for the tournament.[14]

Tournament results

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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
Israel  1 – 0  Hong Kong
Spiegler   76'
Attendance: 25,000
Israel  2 – 0  India
Spiegler   29' (pen.)
Aharoni   76'
Attendance: 20,000
South Korea  1 – 2  Israel
Lee Soon-Myung   79' Leon   20'
Tish   38'
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Davoud Nassiri (Iran)

Goal scorers

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2 goals
1 goal

Squad

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Squad

Head coach:   Yosef Merimovich

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Haim Levin (1937-03-03)3 March 1937 (aged 27) 1 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
1GK Itzhak Vissoker (1944-09-18)18 September 1944 (aged 19) 4 0   Hapoel Petah Tikva
2DF Avraham Kalmi 1 0   Maccabi Jaffa
2DF David Primo (1946-05-05)5 May 1946 (aged 18) 2 0   Hapoel Tel Aviv
2DF Haim Bahar (1943-04-10)10 April 1943 (aged 21) 0 0   Hapoel Petah Tikva
2DF Moshe Leon (1944-01-09)9 January 1944 (aged 20) 7 0   Maccabi Jaffa
2DF Shaul Matania (1937-03-08)8 March 1937 (aged 19) 17 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
3MF Amatzia Levkovich (1937-12-27)27 December 1937 (aged 18) 36 1   Hapoel Tel Aviv
3MF Gideon Tish (1939-10-13)13 October 1939 (aged 16) 34 0   Hapoel Tel Aviv
3MF Mordechai Spiegler (1944-08-19)19 August 1944 (aged 19) 4 1   Maccabi Netanya
3MF Nahum Stelmach (1936-07-19)19 July 1936 (aged 27) 45 20   Hapoel Petah Tikva
3MF Yehezkel Katsav 1945 (aged 19) 0 0   Maccabi Jaffa
3MF Yosef Mahalal (1939-12-25)25 December 1939 (aged 24) 4 2   Bnei Yehuda
4FW Einstein Kalish 1939 (aged 25) 2 0   Maccabi Jaffa
4FW Rahamim Talbi (1943-05-17)17 May 1943 (aged 21) 0 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
4FW Roby Young (1942-05-15)15 May 1942 (aged 22) 13 2   Hapoel Haifa
4FW Shlomo Levi (1934-06-01)1 June 1934 (aged 29) 11 6   Hapoel Ramat Gan
4FW Yohai Aharoni (1943-06-08)8 June 1943 (aged 20) 0 0   Hapoel Mahane Yehuda

1968 AFC Asian Cup

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Israel competed at the 1968 AFC Asian Cup. This was the fourth AFC Asian Cup and Israel’s fourth and last appearance.[6]

After the 1968 tournament Israel did not compete in a regional football tournament for many years. Israel was expelled from the AFC in the early 1970s and eventually became a member of UEFA.[15] After joining the UEFA Israel began competing in the UEFA European Championship in 1996.

Qualification – West Zone 1

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Israel qualified for the tournament by default after all other teams in their zone withdrew from the tournament.[16]

Tournament results

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Iran 4 4 0 0 11 2 +9 8
  Burma 4 2 1 1 5 4 +1 5
  Israel 4 2 0 2 11 5 +6 4
  Republic of China 4 0 2 2 3 10 −7 2
  Hong Kong 4 0 1 3 2 11 −9 1
Matches
Hong Kong  1–6  Israel
Yuan Kuan Yick   76' Spiegler   9', 53'
Spiegel   52', 65'
Romano   61', 71'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Batha Chaterchi (India)
Burma  1–0  Israel
Suk Bahadur   42'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Norman Boswell (Malaysia)
Israel  4–1  Republic of China
Romano   2', 60'
Rosenthal   70'
Spiegel   76'		 Li Huan-wen   45+1'
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Narayan Ghosh (India)
Iran  2–1  Israel
Behzadi   75'
Ghelichkhani   86'		 Spiegel   56'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Alex Joseph Vaz (India)

Goal scorers

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With 4 goals, Giora Spiegel and Moshe Romano of Israel tied with Homayoun Behzadi of Iran as the top scorers of the tournament.

4 goals
2 goals
1 goal

Squad

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Squad

Head coach:   Milovan Ćirić

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Itzhak Vissoker (1944-09-18)18 September 1944 (aged 23) 14 0   Hapoel Petah Tikva
1GK Haim Levin (1937-03-03)3 March 1937 (aged 27) 15 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
2DF Menahem Bello (1947-12-26)26 December 1947 (aged 20) 14 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
2DF Dani Shmulevich (1940-11-29)29 November 1940 (aged 27) 23 0   Maccabi Haifa
2DF Itzhak Marili (1945-05-12)12 May 1945 (aged 22) 2 0   Hapoel Jerusalem
2DF David Karako (1944-02-11)11 February 1944 (aged 24) 3 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
2DF Itzhak Drucker (1947-06-03)3 June 1947 (aged 20) 6 0   Hapoel Petah Tikva
2DF Zvi Rosen (1947-06-23)23 June 1947 (aged 20) 2 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
3MF Dani Borsuk (1944-02-16)16 February 1944 (aged 24) 6 0   Hapoel Tel Aviv
3MF Haim Nurieli (1943-05-01)1 May 1943 (aged 25) 2 0   Hapoel Tel Aviv
3MF Moshe Asis (1943-10-09)9 October 1943 (aged 24) 13 1   Maccabi Tel Aviv
3MF Shmuel Rosenthal (1947-04-22)22 April 1947 (aged 21) 14 1   Hapoel Petah Tikva
4FW George Borba (1944-07-12)12 July 1944 (aged 23) 9 4   Hapoel Tel Aviv
4FW Giora Spiegel (1947-07-27)27 July 1947 (aged 20) 10 5   Maccabi Tel Aviv
4FW Mordechai Spiegler (1944-08-19)19 August 1944 (aged 23) 27 13   Maccabi Netanya
4FW Moshe Romano (1946-05-06)6 May 1946 (aged 22) 5 1   Shimshon Tel Aviv
4FW Rahamim Talbi (1943-05-17)17 May 1943 (aged 24) 18 5   Maccabi Tel Aviv
4FW Roby Young (1942-05-15)15 May 1942 (aged 25) 37 5   Hapoel Haifa

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Asian Nations Cup
  2. ^ "Malaysia, Singapore stay in Asian Cup central zone". The Straits Times. 16 August 1970. Archived from the original on 13 February 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Site-Map-Israel-Football-Facts—Stats". Archived from the original on 6 May 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  4. ^ "Bayati recalls Iran's tense win over Israel". Archived from the original on 7 April 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  5. ^ Montague, James (27 February 2008). "Time is right for Israel to return to its Asian roots". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  6. ^ a b c d Asian Cup: Know Your History – Part One (1956-1988)
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  8. ^ Dann, Uzi (22 January 2015). "Israel erased from Asian Cup history video - World - Israel News". Haaretz.com. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  9. ^ Michael Safi (22 January 2015). "Israel omitted from Asian Cup video history | Football". The Guardian. Theguardian.com. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  10. ^ "Israel wiped from AFC history | The Australian Jewish News". Jewishnews.net.au. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  11. ^ Dominic Bossi (30 January 2015). "Winners and losers of the 2015 Asian Cup". Smh.com.au. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  12. ^ "Football: Israel's forgottten heroes who brought Asian Cup in 1964 - The Economic Times". Economictimes.indiatimes.com. 4 June 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  13. ^ "Asian Eye - Indian football still finding its feet :: Total Football Magazine - Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two, Non-League News". Totalfootballmag.com. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  14. ^ Asian Nations Cup 1964
  15. ^ "About the IFA". The Israel Football Association. Archived from the original on 2 May 2008. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  16. ^ Asian Nations Cup 1968
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