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
Main article: 1960 AFC Asian Cup

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+9)

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 South Korea 330091+86
 Israel 320164+24
 Republic of China 31022202
 South Vietnam 3003212−100
Republic of China 2 – 0[1] South Vietnam
Report
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
Main article: 1968 AFC Asian Cup
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Iran 4400112+98
 Burma 421154+15
 Israel 4202115+64
 Republic of China 4022310−72
 Hong Kong 4013211−91
Republic of China 1–1 Burma
Lim Lu-shoor 63' Maung Hla Htay 13'
Iran 4–0 Republic of China
Behzadi 31'
Kalani 34'
Eftekhari 51'
Farzami 56'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Alex Joseph Vaz (India)
Hong Kong 1–1 Republic of China
Li Kwok Keung Lo Kwok Tai
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
AFC Asian Cup record
Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA
Hong Kong 1956 Did not qualify
South Korea 1960 Third place3rd310222
Israel 1964 Did not qualify
Iran 1968 Fourth place4th4022310
Thailand 1972 to Qatar 2023 Did not qualify
Total Third place 2/18 7 1 2 4 5 12

References
  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.
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