Football at the 1966 Asian Games

Football at the 1966 Asian Games was held in Bangkok, Thailand from December 10 to December 20, 1966.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Burma Ba Pu Han Thein Hla Htay Hla Kyi Hla Pe Hla Shwe Kay Khin Maung Lay Kyaw Thaung Maung Maung Maung Maung Aye Maung Tin Han Ohn Pe Soe Myint Suk Bahadur Than Lwin Thein Aung Tin Aung Tin Aye Win Kyi	Iran Hamid Aminikhah Mostafa Arab Aziz Asli Homayoun Behzadi Akbar Eftekhari Fariborz Esmaeili Gholam Hossein Farzami Parviz Ghelichkhani Hassan Habibi Goudarz Habibi Ali Jabbari Hamid Jasemian Parviz Mirzahassan Mohammad Ranjbar Abdollah Saedi Mehrab Shahrokhi Hamid Shirzadegan Jalal Talebi Faramarz Zelli	Japan Masahiro Hamazaki Kazuo Imanishi Shio Kada Kunishige Kamamoto Hisao Kami Hiroshi Katayama Takeo Kimura Yasuyuki Kuwahara Ikuo Matsumoto Masakatsu Miyamoto Teruki Miyamoto Takaji Mori Aritatsu Ogi Ryuichi Sugiyama Ryozo Suzuki Masashi Watanabe Shigeo Yaegashi Yoshitada Yamaguchi Kenzo Yokoyama

Squads

Main article: Football at the 1966 Asian Games – Squads

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAV	Pts
Thailand	2	1	1	0	4	1	4.000	3
Burma	2	1	1	0	2	1	2.000	3
South Korea	2	0	0	2	0	4	0.000	0

10 December

Thailand	3–0	South Korea

Bangkok

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12 December

South Korea	0–1	Burma

Bangkok

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14 December

Burma	1–1	Thailand

Bangkok

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAV	Pts
Japan	3	3	0	0	6	2	3.000	6
Iran	3	2	0	1	7	4	1.750	4
India	3	1	0	2	4	7	0.571	2
Malaysia	3	0	0	3	1	5	0.200	0

10 December

Japan	2–1	India

Bangkok

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10 December

Iran	2–0	Malaysia

Bangkok

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11 December

Iran	1–3	Japan

Bangkok

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12 December

Malaysia	1–2	India

Bangkok

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13 December

India	1–4	Iran

Bangkok

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14 December

Malaysia	0–1	Japan

Bangkok

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAV	Pts
Indonesia	3	2	1	0	6	1	6.000	5
Singapore	3	1	1	1	8	6	1.333	3
South Vietnam	3	1	1	1	2	6	0.333	3
Republic of China	3	0	1	2	5	8	0.625	1

10 December

Indonesia	3–0	Singapore

Bangkok

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11 December

Indonesia	0–0	South Vietnam

Bangkok

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12 December

South Vietnam	2–1	Republic of China

Bangkok

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13 December

Singapore	3–3	Republic of China

Bangkok

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14 December

Republic of China	1–3	Indonesia

Bangkok

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14 December

Singapore	5–0	South Vietnam

Bangkok

Quarterfinals

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAV	Pts
Japan	2	2	0	0	10	2	5.000	4
Singapore	2	1	0	1	3	5	0.600	2
Thailand	2	0	0	2	1	7	0.143	0

15 December

Thailand	0–2	Singapore

Bangkok

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16 December

Japan	5–1	Singapore

Bangkok

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17 December

Thailand	1–5	Japan

Bangkok

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAV	Pts
Burma	2	1	1	0	3	2	1.500	3
Iran	2	1	0	1	1	1	1.000	2
Indonesia	2	0	1	1	2	3	0.667	1

15 December

Burma	2–2	Indonesia

Bangkok

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16 December

Iran	1–0	Indonesia

Bangkok

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17 December

Burma	1–0	Iran

Bangkok

Knockout round

	Semifinals				Gold medal match
	18 December
	Japan	0
					19 December
	Iran	1
					Iran	0
	18 December
					Burma	1
	Burma	2
	Singapore	0
					Bronze medal match
					20 December
					Japan	2
					Singapore	0

Semifinals

18 December

Japan	0–1	Iran

Bangkok

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18 December

Burma	2–0	Singapore

Bangkok

Bronze medal match

19 December

Japan	2–0	Singapore

Bangkok

Gold medal match

20 December

Iran	0–1	Burma

Bangkok

Final standing

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	Burma	6	4	2	0	8	3	+5	10
	Iran	7	4	0	3	9	6	+3	8
	Japan	7	6	0	1	18	5	+13	12
4	Singapore	7	2	1	4	11	15	−4	5
5	Indonesia	5	2	2	1	8	4	+4	6
6	Thailand	4	1	1	2	5	8	−3	3
7	South Vietnam	3	1	1	1	2	6	−4	3
8	India	3	1	0	2	4	7	−3	2
9	Republic of China	3	0	1	2	5	8	−3	1
10	Malaysia	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0
11	South Korea	2	0	0	2	0	4	−4	0

References

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