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1960 Merdeka Tournament

The 1960 Merdeka Tournament was the fourth edition of the annual football tournament hosted by Malaya. It took place from August 5 to August 14 with nine participating nations. Malaya and South Korea shared the trophy after finishing the final match by 0–0.

Column 1
Malaya vs Pakistan on 12 August 1960
Federation of Malaya
5 August – 14 August
9
1 (in 1 host city)
Malaya South Korea
Indonesia
Pakistan
18
80 (4.44 per match)
← 1959 1961 →

The 1960 Merdeka Tournament was the fourth edition of the annual football tournament hosted by Malaya. It took place from August 5 to August 14 with nine participating nations. Malaya and South Korea shared the trophy after finishing the final match by 0–0.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
South Korea	4	2	2	0	8	4	+2	6
Indonesia	4	3	0	1	16	9	+7	6
Hong Kong	4	2	0	2	8	9	−1	4
South Vietnam	4	1	1	2	6	9	−3	3
Singapore	4	0	1	3	9	16	−7	1

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Malaya	3	3	0	12	2	+10	6
Pakistan	3	2	1	10	2	+8	4
Japan B	3	1	2	4	7	−3	2
Thailand	3	0	3	3	18	−15	0

Players sorted by jersey numbers.

Head coach:

No.	Player	Caps
1	1931 (aged 29)	Selangor FA
2		Selangor FA
3		Selangor FA
4		Negeri Sembilan FA
5		Penang FA
6	(1928-03-30)30 March 1928 (aged 32)	Selangor FA
7		Selangor FA
8	1936 (aged 24)	Selangor FA
9	(1940-01-13)13 January 1940 (aged 20)	Malacca FA
10	(1935-11-23)23 November 1935 (aged 24)	Selangor FA
11		Selangor FA
12	(1941-03-07)7 March 1941 (aged 19)	Selangor FA
13		Perak FA
14		Armed Forces FA
15	1934 (age 26)	Negeri Sembilan FA
16	(1937-12-17)17 December 1937 (aged 22)	Perak FA
17		Perak FA
18		Selangor FA

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1		(1937-03-03)3 March 1937 (aged 23)
2
3		(1937-12-16)16 December 1937 (aged 22)
4		(1938-11-06)6 November 1938 (aged 21)
5
6
7
8		(1936-08-08)8 August 1936 (aged 23)
9
10		(1936-05-26)26 May 1936 (aged 24)
11
12
13
14		(1940-12-26)26 December 1940 (aged 19)
15
16		(1941-07-04)4 July 1941 (aged 19)

Head coach: Sheikh Shaheb Ali

No.	Pos.	Caps
1	1GK	Balochistan
12	1GK	Karachi
2	2DF	Pakistan Army
3	2DF	Balochistan
13	2DF	Punjab
4	3MF	Karachi
5	3MF	Punjab
6	3MF	Karachi
14	3MF	Karachi
15	3MF	Pakistan Railways
7	4FW	East Pakistan
8	4FW	East Pakistan
9	4FW	Karachi
10	4FW	East Pakistan
11	4FW	Karachi
16	4FW	Punjab
17	4FW	Karachi

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10		1933 (aged 27)
11
12
13
14
15
16
17

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
18

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1		(1930-11-17)17 November 1930 (aged 29)
2
3
4		(1935-03-04)4 March 1935 (aged 25)
5
6
7
8		(1931-12-30)30 December 1931 (aged 28)
9
10
11		(1930-06-23)23 June 1930 (aged 30)
12		(1934-10-08)8 October 1934 (aged 25)
13		(1926-02-02)2 February 1926 (aged 34)
14		(1930-08-30)30 August 1930 (aged 29)
15
16
17

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1
4		(1931-01-26)26 January 1931 (aged 29)
5
6
7
8
9
10
12		(1931-02-11)11 February 1931 (aged 29)
13
14
15
16		(1937-11-22)22 November 1937 (aged 22)
17
18
19
20
21

Head coach:

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1		(1934-05-31)31 May 1934 (aged 26)
2
3
4
5
6
7
8		1934 (aged 26)
9
10
11
12
13		(1937-06-02)2 June 1937 (aged 23)
14
15
16
17
18

After the conclusion of the tournament. The AFC conducted a trial match to form a proposed Asian All-Stars XI which was to tour Europe, which ultimately never materialised.

Central Zone:

Duc (South Vietnam) and Sexton Lourdes (Malaya), Yee Seng Choy (Malaya), Cut (South Vietnam), Ti (South Vietnam), Bon (South Vietnam), Lee Kok Seng (Singapore), Fattah Hidajat (Singapore), Edwin C. Dutton (Malaya), Vichit Yam-Boonruang (Thailand), Stanley Gabrielle (Malaya), Abdul Ghani Minhat (Malaya), Vinh (South Vietnam), Ron (South Vietnam), Quah Kim Swee (Singapore), Phwa Sian Liong (Indonesia), Omo Suratmo (Indonesia), Suchat (Thailand)

Eastern/Western Zone:

Pak Sang Hoon (South Korea), Tsukasa Hosaka (Japan), Sim Keun Taik (South Korea), Qayyum Changezi (Pakistan), Lee Kwoh Wah (Hong Kong), Oum Kyun Jin (South Korea), Kung Wah Kit (Hong Kong), Abid Hussain Ghazi (Pakistan), Hussain Killer (Pakistan), Hiroshi Saeki (Japan), Ghulam Rabbani (Pakistan, Lau Chi Lam (Hong Kong) Pak Kyung Hwa (South Korea), Chung Soon Chun (South Korea), Leung Wai Hung (Hong Kong), Ho Cheng Yau (Hong Kong), Ryūichi Sugiyama (Japan), Moosa Ghazi (Pakistan)

Morrison, Neil. "Merdeka Tournament 1960 (Malaya)". RSSSF.
http://wildstat.com/p/128/ch/ASI_MT_1960/stg/all/tour/all

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