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Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Football at the Olympics
Football at the Olympics
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| image | Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics.JPG |
| size | 250px |
| caption | Illustration from the Official Report |
| country | Sweden |
| dates | 29 June – 4 July 1912 |
| num_teams | 12 |
| venues | 3 |
| cities | 1 |
| champion_other | |
| count | 3 |
| second_other | |
| third_other | |
| fourth_other | FIN |
| matches | 17 |
| goals | 94 |
| top_scorer | German Empire Gottfried Fuchs (10 goals) |
| prevseason | 1908 |
| nextseason | 1920 |
Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics was one of the 102 events at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. It was the fourth time that football was on the Olympic schedule.
Great Britain"Britain's Olympic past". Barber, David; The Football Association, 3 March 2004. Retrieved on 24 November 2008. won the gold medals, representing the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (whom the IOC credits). Replicating the 1908 tournament, Denmark won silver medals and the Netherlands won bronze medals.
The Swedish Football Association ran the tournament, just as the English Football Association had organised the 1908 Olympic football competition in London, England. Three stadiums hosted the eleven matches of the main tournament from 29 June to 4 July 1912. Two were played at Tranebergs Idrottsplats in a suburb of Stockholm, five including the bronze medal match took place at Råsunda Idrottsplats, also outside Stockholm, and four including the final match were held at the Olympiastadion.
Seven teams were eliminated in two rounds ending with the quarterfinal matches, 30 June, and these teams played off in a consolation tournament from 1 July to 5 July, comprising six matches at the same three stadiums. Hungary won the consolation tournament.
Venues
| Stockholm | Stockholm Olympic Stadium | Råsunda IP | Tranebergs Idrottsplats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity: 33,000 | ||||
| [[File:Stockholms stadion 1919.jpg | 200px]] | |||
| Capacity: — | ||||
| [[File:Rasunda 1912.jpg | 200px]] | |||
| Capacity: — | ||||
| [[File:Traneberg 1912.jpg | 200px]] |
Participants
Main article: Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads
The tournament saw a record 14 teams enter, all of them from Europe: however, the entry of Bohemia was rejected as their association had been voted out of FIFA in 1908, while Belgium withdrew two weeks before the draw due to a lack of players being available to travel. Subsequently, France withdrew three days after the draw: their opponents, Norway, were awarded a 2–0 victory.
The Football Association entered a British team; all of the players were English and the team is named in many reports as 'England'.
A total of 135+28 footballers from 11 nations competed at the Stockholm Games:
- AUT
- DEN
- FIN (13)
- GER
- GBR
- HUN
- ITA
- NED
- NOR
- RU1
- SWE
Course of the tournament
In the first round of the tournament, the hosts from Sweden went out in the opening match against the Netherlands. Fighting back from a 1–3 deficit with half an hour to go, Sweden only lost 4–3 on a goal scored by Dutch player Jan Vos in extra time. At Tranebergs Idrottsplats, Austrian football pioneer Hugo Meisl was the referee as Finland beat Italy, also in extra time.
In the second round, Finland won again, this time beating Russia, who had received a bye in the first round. By this stage, Great Britain team entered the contest, drawn to play against Hungary at Olympiastadion. Great Britain was captained by Vivian Woodward, a record-scoring centre-forward from Chelsea, who had formed part of Great Britain's gold medal winning side of the 1908 Summer Olympics. Led by forward Harold Walden, who scored six goals, Great Britain defeated Hungary by 7–0.
In the semi-final round, Walden scored all four goals as Great Britain defeated Finland 4–0. In the other semi-final Denmark beat the Netherlands 4–1; the Dutch consolation goal put behind goalkeeper Sophus Hansen by Danish defender Harald Hansen. For the second successive time, the final would pair Great Britain with Denmark, and like in 1908, the team representing Great Britain would win gold medals, although this game would be closer than the 4–2 score-line suggested. With no rule allowing substitutions, Denmark played with ten men after the 30th minute when Charles Buchwald was injured and had to be taken from the pitch on a stretcher.
A consolation tournament ran conjunctively with the tournament proper paired the losers of the first and second rounds, and was eventually won by Hungary, although no medals were awarded for the top three finishers in that tournament.
German player Gottfried Fuchs equalled the record for most goals in an international (set by Dane Sophus Nielsen in the 1908 Olympics) with 10 goals for Germany against Russia; this record stood until 2001.
Bracket
|| **** || bye | || **** || bye | |29 June – Stockholm| |2| FIN |3 || **** || bye | || **** || bye | |29 June| (w/o) |2| |0 |29 June – Stockholm| |3| |4 |29 June – Stockholm| |5| |1 |30 June – Stockholm| |7| |0 |30 June – Stockholm| FIN |2| |1 |30 June – Stockholm| |7| |0 |30 June – Stockholm| |3| |1 |2 July – Stockholm| |4| FIN |0 |2 July – Stockholm| |4| |1 |4 July – Stockholm| |4| |2 |4 July – Stockholm| |9| FIN |0|
Match details
Main article: Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Matches
First round
E. Soinio Wiberg Sardi
Studnicka Neubauer Cimera
E. Börjesson Vos
Quarter-finals
Öhman
Woodward
S. Nielsen Wolfhagen Middelboe
ten Cate Vos
Semi-finals
Walden
Woodward
Jørgensen
P. Nielsen
Bronze medal match
van der Sluis
de Groot
Final
Walden Berry
| Adrian Birch |
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| Charlie Williams |
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Final summary
Medallists
The database of the International Olympic Committee lists only the eleven players as medalists for each nation, who played in the first match for their nation. The following list contains these eleven players, as well as all other players who made at least one appearance for their team during the tournament.
| GBR | |
|---|---|
| Arthur Berry | |
| Ronald Brebner | |
| Thomas Burn | |
| Joseph Dines | |
| Edward Hanney | |
| Gordon Hoare | |
| Arthur Knight | |
| Henry Littlewort | |
| Douglas McWhirter | |
| Ivan Sharpe | |
| Harold Stamper | |
| Harold Walden | |
| Vivian Woodward | |
| Gordon Wright | DEN |
| Paul Berth | |
| Charles Buchwald | |
| Hjalmar Christoffersen | |
| Harald Hansen | |
| Sophus Hansen | |
| Emil Jørgensen | |
| Ivar Lykke | |
| Nils Middelboe | |
| Oskar Nielsen | |
| Poul Nielsen | |
| Sophus Nielsen | |
| Anthon Olsen | |
| Axel Petersen | |
| Axel Thufason | |
| Vilhelm Wolfhagen | NED |
| Piet Bouman | |
| Joop Boutmy | |
| Nico Bouvy | |
| Huug de Groot | |
| Bok de Korver | |
| Nico de Wolf | |
| Constant Feith | |
| Ge Fortgens | |
| Just Göbel | |
| Dirk Lotsy | |
| Caesar ten Cate | |
| Jan van Breda Kolff | |
| Jan van der Sluis | |
| Jan Vos | |
| David Wijnveldt |
Consolation tournament
Main article: Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Consolation tournament
|||16||0 |||1||0 |||1||0 |||3||1 |||5||1 |||3||0
First round
Förderer
Burger
Oberle
Semi-finals
Grundwald Hussak Studnicka
Final
Pataki Bodnar
Statistics
Goalscorers
;10 goals
- German Empire Gottfried Fuchs (Germany)
;9 goals
- GBR Harold Walden (Great Britain)
;8 goals
- NED Jan Vos (Netherlands)
;7 goals
- DEN Anthon Olsen (Denmark)
;5 goals
- German Empire Fritz Förderer (Germany)
;4 goals
- HUN Imre Schlosser (Hungary)
;3 goals
- Austrian Empire Leopold Grundwald (Austria)
- NED Nico Bouvy (Netherlands)
;2 goals
- Austrian Empire Robert Merz (Austria)
- Austrian Empire Alois Müller (Austria)
- DEN Sophus Nielsen (Denmark)
- FIN Jarl Öhman (Finland)
- FIN} Bror Wiberg (Finland)
- GBR Gordon Hoare (Great Britain)
- GBR Vivian Woodward (Great Britain)
- ITA Franco Bontadini (Italy)
- NED Huug de Groot (Netherlands)
- NED Jan van der Sluis (Netherlands)
- SWE Iwar Swensson (Sweden)
;1 goal
- Austrian Empire Robert Cimera (Austria)
- Austrian Empire Ludwig Hussak (Austria)
- Austrian Empire Leopold Neubauer (Austria)
- Austrian Empire Jan Studnicka (Austria)
- Austrian Empire Leopold Studnicka (Austria)
- DEN Poul Nielsen (Denmark)
- DEN Emil Jørgensen (Denmark)
- DEN Nils Middelboe (Denmark)
- DEN Vilhelm Wolfhagen (Denmark)
- FIN Eino Soinio (Finland)
- German Empire Karl Burger (Germany)
- German Empire Adolf Jäger (Germany)
- German Empire Emil Oberle (Germany)
- GBR Arthur Berry (Great Britain)
- HUN Mihály Pataki (Hungary)
- HUN Sándor Bodnár (Hungary)
- ITA Felice Berardo (Italy)
- ITA Enrico Sardi (Italy)
- NED Caesar ten Cate (Netherlands)
- RUS Vasily Butusov (Russian Empire)
- SWE Erik Börjesson (Sweden)
;Own goals
- DEN Harald Hansen (Denmark; playing against Netherlands)
- FIN Jalmari Holopainen (Finland; playing against Great Britain)
Notes
References
References
- "Football at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games". Sports Reference.
- [https://www.rsssf.org/tableso/ol1912f.html Games of the V. Olympiad] at the [[RSSSF]]
- "The curious story of the Brits and Olympic football".
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110509012705/http://www.iffhs.de/?35bb6b28a76054a46817f7370eff3702bb0a08 1912 Stockholm] on the IFFHS (archived, 9 May 2011)
- [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/mensolympic/stockholm1912/match-center Stockholm, 1912] on FIFA.com
- [http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp International Olympic Committee medal database]
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