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 | Yugoslavia |
Runners-up | Denmark |
Third place | Hungary |
Fourth place | Italy |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 28 |
Goals scored | 120 (4.29 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Milan Galić (7 goals) |
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]
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 |
Rome | 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 |
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 |
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' |
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 |
United Arab Republic | 3–3 | Turkey |
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Attia 10' Qotb 58', 65' |
Report | Tahran 15' Koken 30' Yalcinkaya 69' |
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 |
Brazil | 4–3 | Great Britain |
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Gérson 2' China 61', 72' Wanderley 64' |
Report | Brown 32', 87' Lewis 47' |
Italy | 4–1 | Formosa |
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Rivera 10', 33' Fanello 49' Tomeazzi 67' |
Report | Mok Chun Wah 29' |
Brazil | 5–0 | Formosa |
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Gérson 13', 16', 47' Roberto Dias 73', 87' |
Report |
Italy | 2–2 | Great Britain |
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Rossano 11', 55' | Report | Brown 23' Hasty 75' |
Great Britain | 3–2 | Formosa |
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Lewis 35' Brown 58' Hasty 85' |
Report | Yiu Cheuk Yin 70', 88' |
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 |
Denmark | 3–1 | Tunisia |
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F. Nielsen 24' H. Nielsen 27', 88' |
Report | Cherif 48' |
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 |
Hungary | 6–2 | Peru |
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Albert 17', 87' Rákosi 27' Göröcs 33' Dunai 46', 63' |
Report | Ramirez 25', 79' |
(Yugoslavia declared winners by lot)
Yugoslavia | 3–1 | Denmark |
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Galić 1' Matuš 11' Kostić 69' |
Report 1 Report 2 |
F. Nielsen 90' |
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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 |
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.
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 |
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