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Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics


FieldValue
countryItaly
dates26 August – 10 September
num_teams16
venues7
cities7
championYUG
count1
secondDEN
third_other
fourth_other
matches28
goals120
top_scorerMilan Galić (7 goals)
prevseason1956
nextseason1964

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. Starting with this edition, the competition's format was changed: rather than a knockout tournament like in the previous Olympic Games, the 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four and each group played a round-robin tournament, in a similar format to that instituted in the 1958 FIFA World Cup, which persists to the present day. 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.

Competition schedule

The match schedule of the tournament.

26 Fri27 Sat28 Sun29 Mon30 Tue31 Wed1 Thu2 Fri3 Sat4 Sun5 Mon6 Tue7 Wed8 Thu9 Fri10 Sat
G

Venues

Rome{{location map+Italyfloat=nonewidth=360caption=places=FlorenceGrossetoLivornoPescaraNaplesL'Aquila
Stadio FlaminioStadio Comunale
Capacity: 32,000Capacity: 47,920
[[File:Stadio Flaminio a Roma.jpg170px]][[File:Stadio Comunale Giovanni Berta.jpg160px]]
Stadio Olimpico ComunaleStadio Ardenza
Capacity: 10,200Capacity: 19,238
[[File:20100410GrStadioVonCurvaNord.JPG170px]][[File:Stadio Armando Picchi 2.jpg160px]]
Stadio AdriaticoStadio FuorigrottaStadio Comunale
Capacity: 24,400Capacity: 60,240Capacity: 9,285
[[File:Pescara 2008 - Stadio Adriatico-Giovanni Cornacchia - by-RaBoe 001.jpg160px]][[File:San Paolo - Curva A.jpg180px]][[File:Stadio fattori.JPG160px]]

Medalists

GoldSilverBronze
Andrija Anković
Zvonko Bego
Vladimir Durković
Milan Galić
Fahrudin Jusufi
Tomislav Knez
Borivoje Kostić
Aleksandar Kozlina
Dušan Maravić
Željko Matuš
Žarko Nikolić
Željko Perušić
Novak Roganović
Velimir Sombolac
Milutin Šoškić
Silvester Takač
Blagoje Vidinić
Ante ŽanetićPoul Andersen
John Danielsen
Henning Enoksen
Henry From
Erik Gaardhøje
Bent Hansen
Jørgen Hansen
Henning Hellbrandt
Poul Jensen
Bent Krog
Erling Linde Larsen
Poul Mejer
Flemming Nielsen
Hans Chr. Nielsen
Harald Nielsen
Poul Pedersen
Jørn Sørensen
Finn Sterobo
Tommy TroelsenFlórián Albert
Jenő Dalnoki
Zoltán Dudás
János Dunai
Lajos Faragó
János Göröcs
Ferenc Kovács
Dezső Novák
Pál Orosz
Tibor Pál
Gyula Rákosi
Imre Sátori
Ernő Solymosi
Gábor Török
Pál Várhidi
Oszkár Vilezsál

Teams

Qualification

Africa (2)

Asia (2)

Americas (3)

Europe (8)

  • (hosts)

Middle East (1)

Squads

Main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

First round

Group 1

Main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Group 1

  • Diev
  • Hristov
  • Rifai
  • Galić
  • Kostić
  • Knez
  • Attia

  • Naidenov Yordanov
  • Diev
  • Kostić
  • Galić
  • Knez

  • Galić
  • Kovachev
  • Debarski
  • Attia
  • Qotb
  • Tahran
  • Koken
  • Yalçınkaya

Group 2

Main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Group 2

  • Rivera
  • Fanello
  • Tomeazzi
  • Mok Chun Wah
  • Gérson
  • China
  • Wanderley
  • Brown
  • Lewis

  • Gérson
  • Roberto Dias
  • Rossano
  • Brown
  • Hasty

  • Rivera
  • Rossano
  • Waldir
  • Lewis
  • Brown
  • Hasty
  • Yiu Cheuk Yin

Group 3

Main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Group 3

  • Pohl
  • Hachorek
  • Kerrit
  • Sørensen
  • H. Nielsen
  • Oleniak
  • Bilardo

  • Kerrit
  • Oleniak
  • H. Nielsen
  • Pedersen
  • Gadecki

  • F. Nielsen
  • H. Nielsen
  • Cherif
  • Oleniak
  • Pérez

Group 4

Main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Group 4

  • Göröcs
  • Albert
  • Giamarchi
  • Quédec
  • Uribe

  • Coinçon
  • Banerjee
  • Albert
  • Rákosi
  • Göröcs
  • Dunai
  • Ramírez

  • Albert
  • Göröcs
  • Dunai
  • Nieri
  • Iwasaki

Knockout stage

Main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals


Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – final

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

  • YUG Milan Galić (Yugoslavia)

;6 goals

  • YUG Bora Kostić (Yugoslavia)

;5 goals

  • DEN Harald Nielsen (Denmark)
  • HUN Flórián Albert (Hungary)
  • HUN János Dunai (Hungary)
  • HUN János Göröcs (Hungary)
  • POL Ernest Pohl (Poland)

;4 goals

  • ARG Juan Carlos Oleniak (Argentina)
  • BRA Gérson (Brazil)
  • GBR Bobby Brown (Great Britain)
  • ITA Giorgio Rossano (Italy)

;3 goals

  • BUL Todor Diev (Bulgaria)
  • ITA Gianni Rivera (Italy)

;2 goals

  • BRA China (Brazil)
  • BRA Roberto Dias (Brazil)
  • BUL Spiro Debarski (Bulgaria)
  • DEN Flemming Nielsen (Denmark)
  • GBR Paddy Hasty (Great Britain)
  • GBR Jim Lewis (Great Britain)
  • IND Tulsidas Balaram (India)
  • ITA Ugo Tomeazzi (Italy)
  • PER Nicolas Nieri (Peru)
  • PER Alberto Ramírez (Peru)
  • ROC Chuk Yin Yiu (Republic of China)
  • TUN Brahim Kerrit (Tunisia)
  • UAR Raafat Attia (United Arab Republic)
  • UAR Samir Qotb (United Arab Republic)
  • YUG Tomislav Knez (Yugoslavia)

;1 goal

  • ARG Carlos Bilardo (Argentina)
  • ARG Raúl Adolfo Pérez (Argentina)
  • BRA Waldir (Brazil)
  • BRA Wanderley (Brazil)
  • BUL Hristo Hristov (Bulgaria)
  • BUL Georgi Naidenov Yordanov (Bulgaria)
  • DEN Henning Enoksen (Denmark)
  • DEN Poul Pedersen (Denmark)
  • DEN Jørn Sørensen (Denmark)
  • FRA Gérard Coinçon (France)
  • FRA André Giamarchi (France)
  • FRA Yvon Quédec (France)
  • HUN Pál Orosz (Hungary)
  • HUN Gyula Rákosi (Hungary)
  • IND Pradip Kumar Banerjee (India)
  • ITA Giovanni Fanello (Italy)
  • ITA Paride Tumburus (Italy)
  • PER Tomás Iwasaki (Peru)
  • PER Ángel Uribe (Peru)
  • POL Zygmunt Gadecki (Poland)
  • POL Stanisław Hachorek (Poland)
  • ROC Mok Chun-wah (Republic of China)
  • TUN Moncef Chérif (Tunisia)
  • TUR Uğur Köken (Turkey)
  • TUR Bilge Tahran (Turkey)
  • TUR İbrahim Yalçınkaya (Turkey)
  • YUG Željko Matuš (Yugoslavia)

;Own goals

  • UAR El Sayed Rifai (United Arab Republic; playing against Yugoslavia)

Final ranking

References

References

  1. "Football at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference.
  2. "Match Schedule for Olympic Football Tournament Rome 1960". Fédération Internationale de Football Association.
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