Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Italy |
| Dates | 26 August – 10 September |
| Teams | 16 |
| Venue(s) | 7 (in 7 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Yugoslavia (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Denmark |
| Third place |  Hungary |
| Fourth place |  Italy |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 28 |
| Goals scored | 120 (4.29 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Milan Galić (7 goals) |
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The football tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics was held from 26 August to 10 September in 1960 throughout Italy. The tournament featured 16 men's national teams from four continental confederations. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four and each group played a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the first-ranked teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals, and culminating with the gold medal match in Rome on 10 September 1960.[1]
Competition schedule
The match schedule of the tournament.[2]
| G | Group stage | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| 26 Fri | 27 Sat | 28 Sun | 29 Mon | 30 Tue | 31 Wed | 1 Thu | 2 Fri | 3 Sat | 4 Sun | 5 Mon | 6 Tue | 7 Wed | 8 Thu | 9 Fri | 10 Sat |
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| G | G | G | ½ | ½ | B | F |
Venues
| Rome | Florence | |
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| Stadio Flaminio | Stadio Comunale | |
| Capacity: 32,000 | Capacity: 47,920 | |
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| Grosseto | Livorno | |
| Stadio Olimpico Comunale | Stadio Ardenza | |
| Capacity: 10,200 | Capacity: 19,238 | |
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| Pescara | Naples | L'Aquila |
| Stadio Adriatico | Stadio Fuorigrotta | Stadio Comunale |
| Capacity: 24,400 | Capacity: 60,240 | Capacity: 9,285 |
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Medalists
Teams
Qualification
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Africa (2) Asia (2) Americas (3) |
Middle East (1) Europe (8)
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Squads
First round
Group 1
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yugoslavia
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 5 | Advanced to knockout stage |
| 2 |  Bulgaria
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 5 | |
| 3 |  United Arab Republic
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 1 | |
| 4 |  Turkey
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 1 |
Source: RSSSF
| Yugoslavia | 6–1 | United Arab Republic |
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| Bulgaria | 2–0 | United Arab Republic |
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| Yugoslavia | 4–0 | Turkey |
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| Yugoslavia | 3–3 | Bulgaria |
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| United Arab Republic | 3–3 | Turkey |
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Referee: Lucien van Nuffel (Belgium)
Group 2
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy (H)
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 5 | Advanced to knockout stage |
| 2 |  Brazil
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 4 | |
| 3 |  Great Britain
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 | |
| 4 |  Taiwan
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 0 |
Brazil  | 4–3 | Great Britain |
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| Report |
Referee: Josef Kandlbinder (West Germany)
| Brazil | 5–0 | Taiwan |
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Referee: Emil Erlich (Yugoslavia)
| Italy | 2–2 | Great Britain |
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Referee: Lucien van Nuffel (Belgium)
| Great Britain | 3–2 | Taiwan |
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Group 3
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denmark
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6 | Advanced to knockout stage |
| 2 |  Argentina
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 | |
| 3 |  Poland
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 2 | |
| 4 |  Tunisia
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | −8 | 0 |
Source: RSSSF
| Denmark | 3–2 | Argentina |
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| Denmark | 3–1 | Tunisia |
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| Argentina | 2–0 | Poland |
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Referee: Sulhi Garan (Turkey)
Group 4
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungary
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | +12 | 6 | Advanced to knockout stage |
| 2 |  France
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 3 | |
| 3 |  Peru
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 2 | |
| 4 |  India
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 1 |
Source: RSSSF
| Hungary | 7–0 | France |
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| Report |
Referee: Vincenzo Orlandini (Italy)
Knockout stage
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Gold medal match | |||||
| 5 September – Naples | ||||||
| Italy | 1 | |||||
| 10 September – Rome | ||||||
| Yugoslavia | 1 | |||||
| Yugoslavia | 3 | |||||
| 5 September – Rome | ||||||
| Denmark | 1 | |||||
| Denmark | 2 | |||||
| Hungary | 0 | |||||
| Bronze medal match | ||||||
| 9 September – Rome | ||||||
| Hungary | 2 | |||||
| Italy | 1 | |||||
Semi-finals
Yugoslavia declared winners by lot.
| Denmark | 2–0 | Hungary |
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Bronze medal match
| Hungary | 2–1 | Italy |
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| Report |
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Referee: Reginald Leafe (Great Britain)
Gold medal match
1960 Summer Olympics Football Final
| Yugoslavia | 3–1 | Denmark |
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Team details
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Denmark
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Goalscorers
With seven goals, Milan Galić of Yugoslavia is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 120 goals were scored by 56 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
- 7 goals
Milan Galić (Yugoslavia)
- 6 goals
- Bora Kostić (Yugoslavia)
- 5 goals
Harald Nielsen (Denmark)
Flórián Albert (Hungary)- János Dunai (Hungary)
- János Göröcs (Hungary)
Ernest Pohl (Poland)
- 4 goals
Juan Carlos Oleniak (Argentina)
Gérson (Brazil)
Bobby Brown (Great Britain)
Giorgio Rossano (Italy)
- 3 goals
Todor Diev (Bulgaria)- Gianni Rivera (Italy)
- 2 goals
- China (Brazil)
- Roberto Dias (Brazil)
- Spiro Debarski (Bulgaria)
- Flemming Nielsen (Denmark)
- Paddy Hasty (Great Britain)
- Jim Lewis (Great Britain)
Tulsidas Balaram (India)- Ugo Tomeazzi (Italy)
Nicolas Nieri (Peru)- Alberto Ramírez (Peru)
Chuk Yin Yiu (Republic of China)
Brahim Kerrit (Tunisia)
Raafat Attia (United Arab Republic)- Samir Qotb (United Arab Republic)
- Tomislav Knez (Yugoslavia)
- 1 goal
- Carlos Bilardo (Argentina)
- Raúl Adolfo Pérez (Argentina)
- Waldir (Brazil)
- Wanderley (Brazil)
- Hristo Hristov (Bulgaria)
- Georgi Naidenov Yordanov (Bulgaria)
- Henning Enoksen (Denmark)
- Poul Pedersen (Denmark)
- Jørn Sørensen (Denmark)
Gérard Coinçon (France)- André Giamarchi (France)
- Yvon Quédec (France)
- Pál Orosz (Hungary)
- Gyula Rákosi (Hungary)
- Pradip Kumar Banerjee (India)
- Giovanni Fanello (Italy)
- Paride Tumburus (Italy)
- Thomas Iwasaki (Peru)
- Ángel Uribe (Peru)
- Zygmunt Gadecki (Poland)
- Stanisław Hachorek (Poland)
- Mok Chun-wah (Republic of China)
- Mancef Cherif (Tunisia)
Uğur Köken (Turkey)- Bilge Tahran (Turkey)
- Ibrahim Yalcinkaya (Turkey)
- Željko Matuš (Yugoslavia)
- Own goals
- El Sayed Rifai (United Arab Republic; playing against Yugoslavia)
Final ranking
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 |  Yugoslavia (YUG)
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5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 6 | +11 | 8 |
| 2 |  Denmark (DEN)
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5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 8 |
| 3 |  Hungary (HUN)
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5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 6 | +11 | 8 |
| 4 |  Italy (ITA)
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5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 6 |
| 5 |  Bulgaria (BUL)
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 5 |
| 6 | Brazil (BRA)
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 4 |
| 7 |  Argentina (ARG)
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 |
| 8 |  Great Britain (GBR)
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 |  France (FRA)
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 3 |
| 10 |  Poland (POL)
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 2 |
| 11 |  Peru (PER)
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 2 |
| 12 |  United Arab Republic (UAR)
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 1 |
| 13 |  India (IND)
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 1 |
| 14 |  Turkey (TUR)
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 1 |
| 15 |  Tunisia (TUN)
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | −8 | 0 |
| 16 |  Formosa (ROC)
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 0 |
Source: FIFA
References
- ^ "Football at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ "Match Schedule for Olympic Football Tournament Rome 1960". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Association football at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
- Olympic Football Tournament Rome 1960 at FIFA.com
- Summary at RSSSF
- Danish tournament squads Archived 26 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine (in Danish)
- Hungarian medalists – Rome 1960 (archived)
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