Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Asian Qualifiers

Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Asian Qualifiers
Tournament details
Dates	27 August 1959 – 30 April 1960
Teams	7
Tournament statistics
Matches played	9
Goals scored	29 (3.22 per match)
	← 1956 1964 →

The Asian section of the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Football Qualifiers acted as qualifiers for the 1960 Summer Olympics football tournament, held in Italy, for national teams that are members of Asia.^[1]

Entrants

Eight national teams initially entered qualification, but Australia withdrew, leaving seven teams entering qualification.

Entered qualification	Withdrew before playing
Afghanistan India Indonesia Japan South Korea Taiwan Thailand	Australia

Format

First round: Eight teams played home-and-away over two legs. The four winners advanced to the second round.
Second round: Four teams from the first round played home-and-away over two legs. The two winners qualified for the Summer Olympics.

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Indonesia	w/o^{[note 1]}	Australia	–	–
Afghanistan	w/o^{[note 2]}	India	2–5	–
Thailand	2–6	Taiwan	1–3	1–3
Japan	1–2	South Korea	0–2	1–0

27 August 1959

Afghanistan	2–5	India
Ayubi Mosa		Banerjee Goswami Kempiah Rehmatullah Lahiri

Kabul

December 1959

India	w/o	Afghanistan

India advance.

30 August 1959

Thailand	1–3	Republic of China

Bangkok

13 September 1959

Republic of China	3–1	Thailand

Taipei

Republic of China win 6–2 on aggregate.

13 December 1959

Japan	0–2	South Korea
	Report	Choi 51' Moon 65'

Korakuen Velodrome, Tokyo

Attendance: 20,000

20 December 1959

South Korea	0–1	Japan
	Report	Ninomiya 70'

Korakuen Velodrome, Tokyo

Attendance: 10,000

South Korea win 2–1 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Taiwan	2–2^{[note 3]}	South Korea	1–2	1–0
India	6–2	Indonesia	4–2	2–0

25 April 1960

Republic of China	1–2	South Korea
Wong		Cha Choi 73'

Taipei

30 April 1960

South Korea	0–2	Republic of China
		Wong 16'

Taipei

Referee: John Petrie (England)

Republic of China qualified.

14 April 1960

India	4–2	Indonesia
Sundararaj 10', 63' Kannan 21' Balaram 73'		Suratmo 9' Timisela 84'

Calcutta

30 April 1960

Indonesia	0–2	India
		Goswami 78' Sundararaj 87'

Jakarta

India won 6–2 on aggregate and qualified.

Qualified teams

The following two teams from the Asian qualified for the final tournament.^[2]

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in the Summer Olympics
Taiwan	Second round winners	30 April 1960	2 (1936, 1936)
India	Second round runners-up	30 April 1960	2 (1948, 1956)

Notes

^ The tie was awarded to Indonesia, as Australia withdrew.
^ The tie was awarded to India, as Afghanistan withdrew prior to the second leg.
^ The tie was awarded to Taiwan, as the second leg was abandoned at 23rd minute, with Taiwan winning 1–0, as South Korea players attacked referee John Petrie after he awarded a penalty to Taiwan.

References

^ "Games of the XVII. Olympiad - Football Qualifying Tournament Amlast". RSSSF. 12 May 2021.
^ "Men Football XVII Olympic Games Roma, Italy 1960 Qualifications – Asia". todor66.com. Retrieved 20 July 2024.

[IDNvAUS-2] The tie was awarded to Indonesia, as Australia withdrew.

[AFGvIND-3] The tie was awarded to India, as Afghanistan withdrew prior to the second leg.

[TAIvKOR-4] The tie was awarded to Taiwan, as the second leg was abandoned at 23rd minute, with Taiwan winning 1–0, as South Korea players attacked referee John Petrie after he awarded a penalty to Taiwan.

[1] "Games of the XVII. Olympiad - Football Qualifying Tournament Amlast". RSSSF. 12 May 2021.

[5] "Men Football XVII Olympic Games Roma, Italy 1960 Qualifications – Asia". todor66.com. Retrieved 20 July 2024.

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