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1956 AFC Asian Cup

Field	Value
tourney_name	AFC Asian Cup
year	1956
other_titles	Asian Cup Hong Kong 1956
1956年亞洲盃足球賽
image	HKStadium KOR 1956AsianCup.jpg
caption	South Korea, the winner of 1956 AFC Asian Cup, at Hong Kong Stadium
country	Hong Kong
dates	1–15 September
num_teams	4
venues	1
cities	1
champion	KOR
champion-flagvar	1949
count	1
second	ISR
third	HKG
third-flagvar	1955
fourth	South Vietnam
matches	6
goals	27
attendance	121000
top_scorer	Israel Nahum Stelmach
(4 goals)
nextseason	[1960](1960-afc-asian-cup)

1956年亞洲盃足球賽 | champion-flagvar = 1949 | third-flagvar = 1955 (4 goals)

The 1956 AFC Asian Cup was the inaugural AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial continental association football competition introduced and organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The final tournament was held in Hong Kong from 1 September to 15 September 1956 as a four-team round-robin competition with no final. It was won by South Korea.

An unusual ruling meant that all games were 80 minutes long, with an extra 30 minutes extra time if the game was drawn at full time (although this didn’t happen due to bad light).

Venues

{{location map	Hong Kong	float=none	width=300	caption=	lat=22.2670	long=114.1880	label=Hong Kong	position=bottom	Hong Kong
Government Stadium
Capacity: 28,000
[[File:Hong Kong Stadium.JPG	200px]]

Qualification

Main article: 1956 AFC Asian Cup qualification

Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearance
		0 (debut)
[Central Zone](1956-afc-asian-cup-qualification-central-zone) winners	24 May 1956	0 (debut)
[Eastern Zone](1956-afc-asian-cup-qualification-eastern-zone) winners	2 September 1956	0 (debut)
[Western Zone](1956-afc-asian-cup-qualification-western-zone) winners (Automatically qualified since other nations withdrew)	1956	0 (debut)

Squads

Main article: 1956 AFC Asian Cup squads

Results

All times are Hong Kong Time (UTC+8)

Stelmach

Sung Nak-woon

Lê Hữu Đức

Woo Sang-kwon Choi Chung-min Lê Hữu Đức

Winners

Goalscorers

With four goals, Nahum Stelmach is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 27 goals were scored by 15 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

4 goals

ISR Nahum Stelmach 3 goals
KOR Sung Nak-woon
KOR Woo Sang-kwon
VSO Lê Hữu Đức 2 goals
HKG
ISR Yehoshua Glazer
KOR Choi Chung-min
VSO Trần Văn Tổng 1 goal
HKG
HKG
HKG
HKG
KOR Kim Ji-sung
VSO Trải Văn Đào

References

Jovanovic, Bojan; Panahi, Majeed; Veroeveren, Pieter. "Asian Nations Cup 1956". RSSSF.

References

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