| Event: | Football |
| Games: | 1959 |
| Next: | 1961 |
thumb|right|The South Vietnam team winning gold at the 1959 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games
The football tournament at the 1959 SEAP Games was held from 13 December to 17 December 1959 in Bangkok, Thailand.
| width=175 | Team | width=20 | Pld | width=20 | W | width=20 | D | width=20 | L | width=20 | GF | width=20 | GA | width=20 | GD | width=20 | Pts |
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| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | –7 | 0 |
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| Men's football | valign=top | Pham Van Rang Tran Van Nhung Nguyen Van Cut Le Van Ho Lam Van Bon Do Thoi Vinh Tran Van Con Tran Van Duc Le Van Ti Nguyen Ngoc Thanh Pham Van Hieu Tran Ba Ty Nguyen Van Tu Ha Tam Do Quang Thach Ly Van Ron | valign=top | Anurat Nakorn Chalor Satayalaksana Kasem Narongdej Prathet Sutabutra Prem Srichakra Suchata Mutugun Suphot Phanich Vichit Yamboonruang Vichai Ratanakironavara Sunthan Suriyakham Anusit Suwananetr Samruay Chaiyonk Chockchai Suvaree Dhamanoon Nakvilai Bamphen Luttimont Prasan Suwanasith Sawang Changchin Sukit Chitranukroh Suraphol Chaichareon Wanchai Suvaree Visutr Neeladanuvongs | valign=top | Sexton Lourdes Ng Mun Keai Cheah Cheng Kok Tang Choong Hing R. Anthony M. Joseph Abdul Ghani Minhat P.A. Gunasegaram Ng Boon Bee Yusoff Bakar Ahmad Nazari Mok Wai Hoong Edwin Dutton Wong Kam Seng Arthur Koh Robert Choe S. Govindaraju Stanley Gabriel |