| Tourney Name: | AFC Asian Cup |
| Year: | 1956 |
| Other Titles: | Asian Cup Hong Kong 1956 1956年亞洲盃足球賽 |
| 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: | 136000 |
| Top Scorer: |  Nahum Stelmach(4 goals) |
| Nextseason: | 1960 |
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.[1] [2]
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).[3]
| Hong Kong | |
|---|---|
| Government Stadium | |
| Capacity: 28,000 | |
See main article: 1956 AFC Asian Cup qualification.
| Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 (debut) | ||||
| Central Zone winners | 24 May 1956 | 0 (debut) | ||
| Eastern Zone winners | 2 September 1956 | 0 (debut) | ||
| Western Zone winners (Automatically qualified since other nations withdrew) | 1956 | 0 (debut) |
See main article: 1956 AFC Asian Cup squads.
All times are Hong Kong Time (UTC+8)
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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
3 goals
Sung Nak-woon Woo Sang-kwon2 goals
Yehoshua Glazer Choi Chung-min1 goal
Kim Ji-sung