Japan won all its other matches with other teams in the group except with South Korea which ended with a draw. The Philippines failed to win any matches in the whole duration of the qualifying tournament. The Philippines also conceded two other defeats with the opposing sides scoring two-digit goal difference. The matches were against South Vietnam; 10–0, and Lebanon; 11–1. South Vietnam's match with the Philippines was its largest victory in an international football match. Lebanon's result was also its largest victory in an international football match. Japan managed to qualify for the Football event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.[2]
^Romualdez, Johnny (17 January 2003). "13-1 football loss: Can it happen again?". Manila Standard. Retrieved 17 July 2014. The writer was a member of two national teams that loss the biggest margins in international football in the 60s– a 15–1 loss to Malaya in the 1962 Asian Games which record was broken by a 15–0 loss to Japan in the Olympic Eliminations in Japan in 1967.
^Yoon, Hyung-Jin. "1967". RSSSF. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
^Dee, Ignacio (2016). "A National Football League: A Cure-All? (chapter authors)". Philippine Football: Its Past, Its Future. By Villegas, Bernardo. University of Asia and the Pacific. pp. 160–161. ISBN978-621-8002-29-6.