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The Asian first round of 1960 Summer Olympics football qualification was played from 27 August to 20 December 1959.

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Australia	w/o	Indonesia	—	—
Afghanistan	w/o	India	2–5	—
Thailand	2–6	Taiwan	1–3	1–3
Japan	1–2	South Korea	0–2	1–0

Matches

Australia	w/o	Indonesia
	Report

Indonesia	w/o	Australia
	Report

Indonesia won on walkover and advanced to the second round.

Afghanistan	2–5	India
Ayubi ?' Mosa ?'	Report	Banerjee ?' Goswami ?' Kempaiah ?' Rehmatullah ?' Lahiri ?'

India	w/o	Afghanistan
	Report

India won on walkover and advanced to the second round.

Thailand	1–3	Taiwan
	Report

Taiwan	3–1	Thailand
	Report

Taiwan won 6–2 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Japan	0–2	South Korea
	Report	Chung-min 51' Jung-sik 65'

South Korea	0–1	Japan
	Report	Ninomiya 70'

South Korea won 2–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Goalscorers

There were 18 goals scored in 5 matches, for an average of 3.6 goals per match.

1 goal

• Ayubi
• Mosa
• P. K. Banerjee
• Chuni Goswami
• Mariappa Kempaiah
• Mohammed Rahmatullah
• Moloy Lahiri
• Hiroshi Ninomiya
• Choi Chung-min
• Moon Jung-sik

Notes

1. ^ The tie was awarded to Indonesia, as Australia withdrew due to expensive travels.
2. ^ The tie was awarded to India, as Afghanistan withdrew prior to the second leg.

References

1. "Games of the XVII. Olympiad – Football Qualifying Tournament – (Roma, Italy, 1960): ASIA". RSSSF. 12 May 2021.
2. Barr, Alex (14 September 1959). "Australia Out of Olympic Soccer". The Age. p. 11.

• Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Asian Qualifiers