1963–64 in Israeli football

Football in Israel

Season

1963–64

Men's football

Liga Leumit

Hapoel Ramat Gan

Liga Alef

Maccabi Netanya
Beitar Tel Aviv

State Cup

Maccabi Tel Aviv

← 1962–63

1964–65 →

The 1963–64 season was the 16th season of competitive football in Israel and the 38th season under the Israeli Football Association, established in 1928, during the British Mandate.

Review and Events

Israel hosted its first international tournament, the 1964 AFC Asian Cup. The national team won the tournament, its first major trophy.
The U-19 national team participated for the first time in the AFC U-19 Championship, sharing the cup with Burma after 0–0 in the final.
Prior to the U-19 national team's departure to the AFC Youth Championship, several players were questioned by the Military Police on suspicions of falsifying their I.D. cards, in an attempt of making three of the team's squad, Ze'ev Seltzer, Moshe Leon and Danny Borsok, eligible for the competition, as the three were born before the cut-off date of 1 April 1944.^[1] The three were released and departed with the team to Saigon, where they were declared ineligible to the competition and didn't take part in it,^[2] while the investigation was handed over the civil police. Upon the team's return from the championship, the three were arrested by the police, along with Shmuel Ben-Dror, head of the Israeli delegation to the championship.^[3] In July 1964, Seltzer, Borsok and Ben-Dror, along with another IFA executive, Uri Vilenski, were charged with document falsification and knowingly transferring falsified documents.^[4] The trial was concluded in February 1965, and Seltzer, Borsok and Vilenski were found guilty, while Ben-Dror was cleared of all charges.^[5]
At the end of the season, the IFA decided to set the number of team in each division to 16 (except for Liga Gimel, in which the number of club in each division was set by the number of clubs registering for the season). This meant that Liga Leumit was expanded from 15 clubs to 16 and both Liga Alef division were expanded from 14 clubs to 16 clubs.

Domestic leagues

Promotion and relegation

The following promotions and relegations took place at the end of the season:

Promoted to Liga Leumit

Relegated from Liga Leumit

Hapoel Lod

Promoted to Liga Alef

Relegated from Liga Alef

Promoted to Liga Bet

Hapoel Hulata
Hapoel Beit Eliezer
Beitar Beit Lid
Hapoel Shefayim
Beitar Petah Tikva
Beitar Ramat Gan
Beitar Rehovot
ASA Jerusalem
Hapoel Kiryat Malakhi
Hapoel Be'eri
Hapoel Yagur
Beitar Kiryat Tiv'on
Hapoel Ashdod

Relegated from Liga Bet

Beitar Acre
Beitar Safed
Beitar Binyamina
Beitar Mahane Yehuda
Beitar Holon
Hapoel HaTzafon Jerusalem
Maccabi Ashkelon
Maccabi Ramla

Domestic cups

Israel State Cup

The 1963–64 Israel State Cup, which stated on 21 September 1963, was delayed by a series of appeals on third round results which were settled only by June 1963, forcing the competition to be carried over to the next season.

National Teams

National team

1964 Summer Olympics qualification

The national team competed in the Asian zone of the 1964 Summer Olympics qualification and was drawn to play South Vietnam in the first round. After winning 1–0 in Saigon,^[6] Israel suffered a shock 0–2 defeat in Ramat Gan and was eliminated from qualification.^[7]

1964 AFC Asian Cup

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Israel	3	3	0	5	1	+4	6
India	3	2	1	5	3	+2	4
South Korea	3	1	2	2	4	−2	2
Hong Kong	3	0	3	1	5	−4	0

1963–64 matches

29 December 1963 Ol. Q.	South Vietnam	0–1	Israel	Saigon
			Young 20'	Stadium: Republic Stadium Attendance: 25,000 Referee: de Silva

17 March 1964 Ol. Q.	Israel	0–2	South Vietnam	Ramat Gan
			Nguyễn Văn Quang 27' Nguyễn Văn Ngôn 41'	Stadium: Ramat Gan Stadium Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Gürüz

17 May 1964 Unofficial	Israel	0–4	England U-23	Ramat Gan
		Report (in Hebrew)	Hinton 3', 46' Tambling 10' Hurst 12'	Stadium: Ramat Gan Stadium Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Monastiriotis

26 May 1964 Asian Cup	Israel	1–0	Hong Kong	Ramat Gan
	Spiegler Template:Goal76			Stadium: Ramat Gan Stadium Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Nice

29 May 1964 Asian Cup	Israel	2–0	India	Tel Aviv
	Spiegler 29' (pen.)Aharoni 76'			Stadium: Bloomfield Stadium Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Li Pak Tung

3 June 1964 Asian Cup	Israel	2–1	South Korea	Ramat Gan
	Leon 20'Tish 38'		Lee Soon-Myung 79'	Stadium: Ramat Gan Stadium Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Nassiri

National U-19 team

1964 AFC Youth Championship

First round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Israel	3	3	0	0	10	0	+10	6
South Korea	3	2	0	1	3	4	-1	4
Japan	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1
Thailand	3	0	1	2	1	7	−6	1

Final

28 April 1964 U19 Asian Cup	Israel	0–0	Burma	Saigon
				Stadium: Republic Stadium Attendance: 40,000
Note: Cup shared

References

↑ Leon, D. Borsok and Seltzer Were Arrested by the Military Police on Suspicions of I.D. Falsification Aharon Lahav, Davar, 13 April 1964, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
↑ The "Scandal Players" Were Not Allowed to Play in Saigon Dov Atzmon, Davar, 19 April 1964, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
↑ Member of the FA Youth Committee Was Arrested Regarding the Falsifications Herut, 6 May 1964, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
↑ An Indictment Was Filed in the Footballers' "Age Falsification" Affair Herut, 6 July 1964, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
↑ Ben-Dror Cleared in the "Football Trial"; Borsok, Seltzer and Vilenski Were Found Guilty Yigal Lev, Ma'ariv, 1 February 1965, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
↑ A Pale Match Gave an Unconvincing Victory of Vietnam Yehuda Gabai, Ma'ariv, 30 December 1963, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
↑ The Over Confidence Cost Dearly Yesha'ayahu Porat, Ma'ariv, 18 March 1964, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)

1963–64 in Israeli football
« 1962–63 1964–65 »
Domestic leagues	Liga Leumit Liga Alef Liga Bet Liga Gimel
Domestic cups	State Cup
Related to national team	Results 1964 AFC Asian Cup 1964 Olympics qualification 1964 AFC Youth Championship
Club seasons
Liga Leumit	Bnei Yehuda Hakoah Maccabi Ramat Gan Hapoel Haifa Hapoel Jerusalem Hapoel Lod Hapoel Petah Tikva Hapoel Ramat Gan Hapoel Tel Aviv Hapoel Tiberias Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Jaffa Maccabi Petah Tikva Maccabi Sha'arayim Maccabi Tel Aviv Shimshon Tel Aviv

Seasons in Israeli football

Mandatory Palestine

1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30
1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40
1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48

Israel

1948–49 1949–50
1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60
1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70
1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80
1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90
1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000
2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10
2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.