Chinese Taipei at the AFC Asian Cup

Chinese Taipei national football team or Taiwan has participated in two AFC Asian Cup since it was founded.

During their participation, the team was known as Republic of China due to that time, they were recognized as the only real China, since the People's Republic of China was not a member of FIFA or AFC until 1978. Being one of Asia's most powerful teams back to 1960s, they had won third place in 1960 edition, and it was their best performance in the history of their participancy. Since 1968, Chinese Taipei had not qualified to the AFC Asian Cup.

1960 Asian Cup

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All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+9)

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  South Korea 3 3 0 0 9 1 +8 6
  Israel 3 2 0 1 6 4 +2 4
  Republic of China 3 1 0 2 2 2 0 2
  South Vietnam 3 0 0 3 2 12 −10 0

South Korea  1 – 0[2]  Republic of China
Moon Jung-Sik   54' Report

Israel  1 – 0  Republic of China
S. Levi   72' Report
Attendance: 25,000[3]
Referee: Yozo Yokoyama (Japan)

1968 Asian Cup

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Iran 4 4 0 0 11 2 +9 8
  Burma 4 2 1 1 5 4 +1 5
  Israel 4 2 0 2 11 5 +6 4
  Republic of China 4 0 2 2 3 10 −7 2
  Hong Kong 4 0 1 3 2 11 −9 1

Iran  4–0  Republic of China
Behzadi   31'
Kalani   34'
Eftekhari   51'
Farzami   56'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Alex Joseph Vaz (India)


Israel  4–1  Republic of China
Romano   2', 60'
Rosenthal   70'
Spiegel   76'
Li Huan-wen   45+1'
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Narayan Ghosh (India)

Record

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AFC Asian Cup record
Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA
  1956 Did not qualify
  1960 Third place 3rd 3 1 0 2 2 2
  1964 Did not qualify
  1968 Fourth place 4th 4 0 2 2 3 10
  1972 to   2023 Did not qualify
Total Third place 2/18 7 1 2 4 5 12

References

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  1. ^ "Chinese Taipei vs South Vietnam 2 - 0 | AFC Asian Cup | 1960 Korea Republic | Final Round". World Football. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  2. ^ "South Korea - Chinese Taipei (Soccer, Asian Cup 1960)". sportstats.com. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  3. ^ "Israel - Chinese Taipei (Soccer, Asian Cup 1960)". sportstats.com. Retrieved 2018-06-11.