Football at the 1962 Asian Games
# Football at the 1962 Asian Games

Football at the 1962 Asian Games was held at the Tebet football pitch, Ikada Stadium, and Senayan Main Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia from 25 August to 4 September 1962.

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Men details | India D. M. K. Afzal Tulsidas Balaram Pradip Kumar Banerjee Pradyut Barman O. Chandrasekhar Menon Ram Bahadur Chhetri D. Ethiraj Fortunato Franco Arun Ghosh Chuni Goswami Yousuf Khan Arumai Nayagam Jarnail Singh Tarlok Singh Prasanta Sinha Peter Thangaraj | South Korea Cha Tae-sung Cha Yong-man Cho Nam-soo Cho Yoon-ok Chung Soon-chun Chung Yeong-hwan Ham Heung-chul Jang Ji-eon Jang Suk-woo Kim Chan-ki Kim Doo-sun Kim Duk-joong Kim Hong-bok Lee Hyun Moon Jung-sik Park Kyung-hwa Park Seung-ok Son Kyung-ho | Malaya Kamaruddin Ahmad Mahat Ambu Boey Chong Liam Roslan Buang Richard Choe Robert Choe Edwin Dutton Foo Fook Choon Stanley Gabrielle M. Govindarajoo Tunku Ismail Arthur Koh Sexton Lourdes Abdul Ghani Minhat Ibrahim Mydin Ahmad Nazari Abdullah Yeop Noordin I. J. Singh Yee Seng Choy |

## Draw

The original draw for football competition was held on 14 August 1962.

Burma withdrew after the draw, while Israel and Taiwan withdrew after Indonesian immigration officials refused to issue visas for their delegations. The revised draw took place on 24 August 1962.

## Results

### Preliminary round

**Group A**

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| South Vietnam | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 9.000 | 4 |
| Malaya | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 3.000 | 4 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 3.000 | 4 |
| Philippines | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 27 | 0.037 | 0 |

* Malaya won a draw for second place against Indonesia on 30 August 1962, necessary as they were both equal on points and goal average.

**Group B**

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| South Korea | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3.000 | 6 |
| India | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2.000 | 4 |
| Japan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0.750 | 2 |
| Thailand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 0.400 | 0 |

### Knockout round

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 September 1962 | 1 September 1962 |
| South Vietnam | 2 |
| South Vietnam | 2 | 4 September 1962 | 4 September 1962 |
| India | 3 | 4 September 1962 | 4 September 1962 |
| India | 3 | India | 2 |
| 1 September 1962 | 1 September 1962 | | India | 2 |
| 1 September 1962 | 1 September 1962 | South Korea | 1 |
| South Korea (a.e.t.) | 2 | South Korea | 1 |
| Malaya | 1 | | |
| Malaya | 1 | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| | | 3 September 1962 | 3 September 1962 |
| | | South Vietnam | 1 |
| | | Malaya | 4 |

## Final standing

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | India | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 8 |
| | South Korea | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 8 |
| | Malaya | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 9 | +14 | 6 |
| 4 | South Vietnam | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 8 | +4 | 4 |
| 5 | Indonesia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 4 |
| 6 | Japan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 2 |
| 7 | Thailand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 0 |
| 8 | Philippines | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 27 | −26 | 0 |
