Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Italy |
Dates | 26 August – 10 September |
Teams | 16 (from 4 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 7 (in 7 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Yugoslavia |
Runners-up | Denmark |
Third place | Hungary |
Fourth place | Italy |
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 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 | Stadio Flaminio Stadio Ardenza Stadio Adriatico |
Florence |
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Stadio Flaminio | Stadio Comunale | |
Capacity: 32,000 | Capacity: 47,920 | |
Grosseto | Livorno | |
Stadio Olimpico Comunale | Stadio Ardenza | |
Capacity: 10,200 | Capacity: 19,238 | |
Pescara | Naples | L'Aquila |
Stadio Adriatico | Stadio Fuorigrotta | Stadio Comunale |
Capacity: 24,400 | Capacity: 60,240 | Capacity: 9,285 |
Medalists[]
Qualification[]
Squads[]
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 |
Source: FIFA
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' |
Pescara, Stadio Adriatico
Referee: Reginald Leafe (GBR)
Bulgaria | 2–0 | United Arab Republic |
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Naidenov Yordanov 42' Diev 88' |
Report |
Yugoslavia | 4–0 | Turkey |
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Kostić 10', 89' Galić 46' Tomislav Knez 61' |
Report |
Florence, Stadio Comunale
Referee: Vincenzo Orlandini (ITA)
United Arab Republic | 3–3 | Turkey |
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Attia 10' Qotb 58', 65' |
Report | Tahran 15' Koken 30' Yalcinkaya 69' |
Livorno, Stadio di Ardenza
Referee: (BEL)
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 |
Formosa | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 0 |
Source: FIFA
Brazil | 4–3 | Great Britain |
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Gérson 2' China 61', 72' Wanderley 64' |
Report | Brown 32', 87' Lewis 47' |
Livorno, Stadio di Ardenza
Referee: (FRG)
Italy | 4–1 | Formosa |
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Rivera 10', 33' Fanello 49' Tomeazzi 67' |
Report | Mok Chun Wah 29' |
Napoli, Stadio San Paolo
Referee: (DNK)
Brazil | 5–0 | Formosa |
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Gérson 13', 16', 47' Roberto Dias 73', 87' |
Report |
Rome, Stadio Flaminio
Referee: (YUG)
Italy | 2–2 | Great Britain |
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Rossano 11', 55' | Report | Brown 23' Hasty 75' |
Rome, Stadio Flaminio
Referee: (BEL)
Italy | 3–1 | Brazil |
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Rivera 69' Rossano 70', 86' |
Report | 4' |
Florence, Stadio Comunale
Referee: (FRA)
Great Britain | 3–2 | Formosa |
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Lewis 35' Brown 58' Hasty 85' |
Report | Yiu Cheuk Yin 70', 88' |
Grosseto, Stadio Olimpico Comunale
Referee: (FRG)
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 |
Source: FIFA
Denmark | 3–2 | Argentina |
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Sørensen 31' H. Nielsen 46', 85' |
Report | Oleniak 20' Bilardo 88' |
Rome
Attendance: 7,100
Referee: (ITA)
Denmark | 2–1 | Poland |
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H. Nielsen 15' Pedersen 86' |
Report | Gadecki 62' |
Denmark | 3–1 | Tunisia |
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F. Nielsen 24' H. Nielsen 27', 88' |
Report | Cherif 48' |
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 |
Source: FIFA
France | 1–1 | India |
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Coinçon 82' | Report | Banerjee 71' |
Grosseto, Stadio Olimpico Comunale
Referee: Morgan (CAN)
Hungary | 6–2 | Peru |
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Albert 17', 87' Rákosi 27' Göröcs 33' Dunai 46', 63' |
Report | Ramirez 25', 79' |
Napoli
Referee: (ITA)
Hungary | 7–0 | France |
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Albert 12', 85' Göröcs 34', 59', 77' Dunai 41', 79' |
Report |
Rome
Referee: Orlandini (ITA)
Semi-finals[]
(Yugoslavia declared winners by lot)
Denmark | 2–0 | Hungary |
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H. Nielsen 19' Enoksen 81' |
Report |
Rome
Attendance: 10.000
Referee: Leafe (GBR)
Bronze Medal match[]
Gold Medal match[]
1960 Summer Olympics Football Final
Yugoslavia | 3–1 | Denmark |
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Galić 1' Matuš 11' Kostić 69' |
Report 1 Report 2 |
F. Nielsen 90' |
Team details
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Semi-final bracket[]
Semi-finals | Gold Medal match | ||||||
Italy | 1 | ||||||
Yugoslavia (a.e.t.) | 1 | ||||||
Yugoslavia | 3 | ||||||
Denmark | 1 | ||||||
Denmark | 2 | ||||||
Hungary | 0 | Bronze Medal match | |||||
Italy | 1 | ||||||
Hungary | 2 |
Goal scorers[]
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
- 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
- Carlos Bilardo (Argentina)
- Raúl Adolfo Pérez (Argentina)
- (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)
- 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) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 6 | +11 | 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 | United Arab Republic (UAR) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 1 |
13 | India (IND) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 1 |
14 | Turkey (TUR) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 1 |
15 | Tunisia (TUN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | −8 | 0 |
16 | Formosa (ROC) | 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.
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