Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Italy |
Dates | 26 August – 10 September 1960 |
Teams | 16 (from 4 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 7 (in 7 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Third place | ![]() |
Fourth place | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 28 |
Goals scored | 120 (4.29 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() |
← 1956 1964 → |
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 | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | 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 Comunale ![]() Stadio Olimpico Comunale ![]() Stadio Ardenza ![]() Stadio Adriatico ![]() Stadio Comunale ![]() Stadio Fuorigrotta | 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
Qualification
Squads
First round
Group A
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 5 |
![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 5 |
![]() | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 1 |
![]() | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 1 |
Yugoslavia ![]() | 6–1 | ![]() |
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Rifai ![]() Galić ![]() Kostić ![]() Knez ![]() | Report | Attia ![]() |
Bulgaria ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
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Naidenov Yordanov ![]() Diev ![]() | Report |
Yugoslavia ![]() | 4–0 | ![]() |
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Kostić ![]() Galić ![]() Tomislav Knez ![]() | Report |
United Arab Republic ![]() | 3–3 | ![]() |
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Attia ![]() Qotb ![]() | Report | Tahran ![]() Koken ![]() Yalcinkaya ![]() |
Yugoslavia ![]() | 3–3 | ![]() |
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Galić ![]() | Report | Kovachev ![]() Debarski ![]() |
Group B
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 5 |
![]() | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 4 |
![]() | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
![]() | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 0 |
Brazil ![]() | 4–3 | ![]() |
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Gérson ![]() China ![]() Wanderley ![]() | Report | Brown ![]() Lewis ![]() |
Italy ![]() | 4–1 | ![]() |
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Rivera ![]() Fanello ![]() Tomeazzi ![]() | Report | Mok Chun Wah ![]() |
Brazil ![]() | 5–0 | ![]() |
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Gérson ![]() Roberto Dias ![]() | Report |
Italy ![]() | 2–2 | ![]() |
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Rossano ![]() | Report | Brown ![]() Hasty ![]() |
Great Britain ![]() | 3–2 | ![]() |
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Lewis ![]() Brown ![]() Hasty ![]() | Report | Yiu Cheuk Yin ![]() |
Group C
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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![]() | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6 |
![]() | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 |
![]() | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 2 |
![]() | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | −8 | 0 |
Denmark ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
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H. Nielsen ![]() Pedersen ![]() | Report | Gadecki ![]() |
Denmark ![]() | 3–1 | ![]() |
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F. Nielsen ![]() H. Nielsen ![]() | Report | Cherif ![]() |
Group D
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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![]() | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | +12 | 6 |
![]() | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 3 |
![]() | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 2 |
![]() | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 1 |
Hungary ![]() | 6–2 | ![]() |
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Albert ![]() Rákosi ![]() Göröcs ![]() Dunai ![]() | Report | Ramirez ![]() |
Semi-finals
Italy ![]() | 1–1 (a.e.t.) | ![]() |
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Tumburus ![]() | Report | Galić ![]() |
(Yugoslavia declared winners by lot)
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
Yugoslavia ![]() | 3–1 | ![]() |
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Galić ![]() Matuš ![]() Kostić ![]() | Report 1 Report 2 | F. Nielsen ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yugoslavia | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Denmark
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Semi-final bracket
Semi-finals | Gold Medal match | ||||||
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![]() | 3 | ||||||
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![]() | 2 | ||||||
![]() | 0 | Bronze Medal match | |||||
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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
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 | ![]() | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 6 | +11 | 8 |
2 | ![]() | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 8 |
3 | ![]() | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 6 | +11 | 8 |
4 | ![]() | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 6 |
5 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 5 |
6 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 4 |
7 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 |
8 | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
9 | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 3 |
10 | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 2 |
11 | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 2 |
12 | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 1 |
13 | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 1 |
14 | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 1 |
15 | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | −8 | 0 |
16 | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 0 |
References
External links
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- 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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