Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Italy |
Dates | August 26-September 10 |
Teams | 16 (from 4 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 7 (in 7 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Yugoslavia |
Runners-up | Denmark |
Third place | Hungary |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 28 |
Goals scored | 120 (4.29 per match) |
The football tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics was held from 26 August to 10 September in 1960 throughout Italy. The tournament features 16 men's national teams from four continental confederations. The 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four and each group plays 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 September 10, 1960.
Contents
Venues
City | Stadium |
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Rome | Stadio Flaminio |
Florence | Stadio Comunale |
Grosseto | Stadio Olimpico Comunale |
Livorno | Stadio Ardenza |
Pescara | Stadio Adriatico |
L'Aquila | Stadio Comunale |
Naples | Stadio Fuorigrotta |
Medalists
Qualification
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Squads
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First round
Group A
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Yugoslavia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 5 |
Bulgaria | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 5 |
United Arab Republic | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 1 |
Turkey | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 1 |
August 26, 1960
12:00 |
Yugoslavia | 6 – 1 | United Arab Republic |
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Rifai 3' (o.g.) Galić 30' (pen.) Kostić 32', 61', 63' Knez 49' |
Report | Attia 72' |
September 1, 1960
12:00 |
United Arab Republic | 3 – 3 | Turkey |
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Attia 10' Qotb 58', 65' |
Report | Tahran 15' Koken 30' Yalcinkaya 69' |
September 1, 1960
12:00 |
Yugoslavia | 3 – 3 | Bulgaria |
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Galić 50', 57', 69' | Report | Kovachev 59' Debarski 81', 89' |
Group B
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Italy | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 5 |
Brazil | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 4 |
Great Britain | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
Republic of China | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 0 |
August 26, 1960
12:00 |
Brazil | 4 – 3 | Great Britain |
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Gérson 2' China 61', 72' Wanderley 64' |
Report | Brown 32', 87' Lewis 47' |
August 26, 1960
12:00 |
Italy | 4 – 1 | Republic of China |
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Rivera 10', 33' Fanello 49' Tomeazzi 67' |
Report | Chun Wa Mok 29' |
August 29, 1960
12:00 |
Brazil | 5 – 0 | Republic of China |
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Gérson 13', 16', 47' Roberto Dias 73', 87' |
Report |
September 1, 1960
12:00 |
Great Britain | 3 – 2 | Republic of China |
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Lewis 35' Brown 58' Hasty 85' |
Report | Chuk Yin Yiu 70', 88' |
Group C
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Denmark | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6 |
Argentina | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 |
Poland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 2 |
Tunisia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | −8 | 0 |
August 26, 1960
12:00 |
Denmark | 3 – 2 | Argentina |
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Sørensen 31' H. Nielsen 46', 85' |
Report | Oleniak 20' Bilardo 88' |
August 26, 1960
13:00 |
Poland | 6 – 1 | Tunisia |
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Pohl 7', 40', 42', 84', 89' Hachorek 67' |
Report | Kerrit 3' |
Group D
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Hungary | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | +12 | 6 |
France | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 3 |
Peru | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 2 |
India | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 1 |
August 29, 1960
12:00 |
Hungary | 6 – 2 | Peru |
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Albert 17', 87' Rákosi 27' Göröcs 33' Dunai 46', 63' |
Report | Ramirez 25', 79' |
September 1, 1960
13:00 |
Hungary | 7 – 0 | France |
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Albert 12', 85' Göröcs 34', 59', 77' Dunai 41', 79' |
Report |
Semi-finals
(Yugoslavia declared winners by lot)
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
September 10, 1960
12:00 |
Yugoslavia | 3 – 1 | Denmark |
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Galić 1' Matuš 11' Kostić 69' |
Report | F. Nielsen 90' |
Semi-final bracket
Gold Medal match | ||||||||
Italy | 1 | |||||||
Yugoslavia | 1 | |||||||
Yugoslavia | 3 | |||||||
Denmark | 1 | |||||||
Denmark | 2 | |||||||
Hungary | 0 | Bronze Medal match | ||||||
Italy | 1 | |||||||
Hungary | 2 |
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
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- Milan Galić (Yugoslavia)
- 6 goals
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- Bora Kostić (Yugoslavia)
- 5 goals
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- Harald Nielsen (Denmark)
- Flórián Albert (Hungary)
- János Dunai (Hungary)
- János Göröcs (Hungary)
- Ernest Pohl (Poland)
- 4 goals
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- Juan Carlos Oleniak (Argentina)
- Gérson (Brazil)
- Bobby Brown (Great Britain)
- Giorgio Rossano (Italy)
- 3 goals
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- Todor Diev (Bulgaria)
- Gianni Rivera (Italy)
- 2 goals
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- José Ricardo da Silva (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
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- Carlos Bilardo (Argentina)
- Raúl Adolfo Pérez (Argentina)
- Didi (Brazil)
- Luiz Machado da Silva (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)
- Chun Wa Mok (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
Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 6 | +1 | 8 |
2 | Denmark (DEN) | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 8 |
3 | Hungary (HUN) | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 6 | +11 | 8 |
4 | Italy (ITA) | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 6 |
5 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 5 |
6 | Brazil (BRA) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 4 |
7 | Argentina (ARG) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 |
8 | Great Britain (GBR) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
9 | France (FRA) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | –6 | 3 |
10 | Poland (POL) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 2 |
11 | Peru (PER) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | –3 | 2 |
12 | Egypt Egypt (EGY) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | –7 | 1 |
13 | India (IND) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | –3 | 2 |
14 | Turkey (TUR) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | –7 | 2 |
15 | Tunisia Tunisia (TUN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | –8 | 1 |
16 | Republic of China (ROC) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | –9 | 1 |