Football at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Competition schedule

The match schedule of the tournament.

Venue

Squads

Main article: Football at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

Bracket

|19 October 1908| |9||0 || (w/o) |2| |0 |20 October 1908| |12| |1 || (w/o) |2| |0 |22 October 1908| |17| |1 |22 October 1908| |4| |0 |24 October 1908| |0| |2 |23 October 1908| |2| |0|

Tournament

The matches:

With eight entries, the tournament draw had a full quarterfinal round of four matches.

However, after the draw and appointment of referees, HUN (on 12 October) and BOH (on 14 October) were both forced to withdraw due to financial reasons: their opponents, the Netherlands and France respectively, were awarded a 2–0 victory.

First round

Awarded

Wolfhagen Bohr S. Nielsen

Awarded

Woodward Berry Chapman Purnell Hawkes

Semi-finals

Lindgren Wolfhagen N. Middelboe

Bronze medal match

Originally, all six teams eliminated before the final were to participate in a consolation tournament for the bronze medal, with two first-round matches to be played on 21 October between the four quarter-final losers.

After Hungary and Bohemia both withdrew, the first round was scratched on 15 October, with France B and Sweden qualifying for the semi-finals of the consolation tournament.

France B, Sweden, and the two semi-final losers, France and the Netherlands, were scheduled to play the semi-finals on 23 October: the French teams were drawn against each other, and the Netherlands were drawn against Sweden, with the winners playing off in the bronze medal match prior to the gold medal match on 24 October.

However, both French teams had returned home immediately after their crushing defeats to Denmark on 19 October and 22 October: therefore, their semi-final and the 24 October bronze medal match were both scratched, with the Netherlands v Sweden semi-final becoming the bronze medal match.

Snethlage

Gold medal match

Woodward

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Medal summary

Medal table

Medalists

Complete list of medal winners:

Statistics

Goalscorers

;11 goals

• DEN Sophus Nielsen

;8 goals

• DEN Vilhelm Wolfhagen

;6 goals

• GBR Harold Stapley

;4 goals

• GBR Clyde Purnell

;3 goals

• DEN Nils Middelboe
• GBR Vivian Woodward

;2 goals

• DEN Harald Bohr
• DEN August Lindgren
• GBR Frederick Chapman
• GBR Robert Hawkes

;1 goal

• FRA Émile Sartorius
• GBR Arthur Berry
• NED Jops Reeman
• NED Edu Snethlage
• SWE Gustaf Bergström

Goalkeeping

Bibliography

References

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