The 1956 AFC Asian Cup was the first

AFC Asian Cup The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), determining the continental champion of Asia. It is the second oldest cont ...

, held every four years and organised by the

Asian Football Confederation The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in some countries/territories in Asia and Oceania. It has 47 member countries most of which are located in Asia. Australia, formerly in ...

(AFC). The final tournament was held in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

from 1 September to 15 September 1956. It was won by

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

Venues

Qualification

Squads

Results

All times are

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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 *

Nahum Stelmach Nahum Stelmach ( he, נחום סטלמך; – ) was an Israeli footballer and manager. Biography Stelmach was born in Petah Tikva, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel), to a Jewish family. He was chosen third by '' Yediot Aharonots greatest ...

3 goals *

Woo Sang-kwon Woo Sang-kwon (Hangul: 우상권, Hanja: 禹相權; 2 February 1926 – 13 December 1975) was a South Korean football player and coach. He played for the South Korean national team in the 1954 FIFA World Cup and the 1964 Summer Olympics. Hono ...

* Lê Hữu Đức 2 goals * * Yehoshua Glazer *

Choi Chung-min Choi Chung-min (; 30 August 1930 – 8 August 1983) was a former South Korean football player and manager. Nicknamed the "Golden Legs", Choi was one of Asia's greatest strikers in the 1950s. Playing career Choi was born in Taedong and grew ...

Sung Nak-woon Sung Nak-Woon (Hangul: 성낙운, Hanja: 成樂雲, 2 February 1926 – 28 May 1997) was a South Korean association football, football Forward (association football), forward who played for the South Korea national football team, South Korea ...

* Trần Văn Tổng 1 goal * * * * * * Kim Ji-sung * Trải Văn Đào

References

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