Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Tournament details
Host country	Italy
Dates	26 August – 10 September
Teams	16
Venue(s)	7 (in 7 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Yugoslavia (1st title)
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)
← 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. 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. ^[1]

Competition schedule

The match schedule of the tournament. ^[2]

Legend

G

Group stage

¼

Quarter-finals

½

Semi-finals

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
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
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

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yugoslavia	Denmark	Hungary
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 Žanetić	Poul 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 Troelsen	Flórián 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

See also: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Africa (2)   Tunisia   United Arab Republic Asia (2)   India   Taiwan Americas (3)   Argentina   Brazil   Peru

Europe (8)   Bulgaria   Denmark   France   Great Britain   Hungary   Italy (hosts)   Poland   Yugoslavia Middle East (1)   Turkey

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

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Yugoslavia	3	2	1	0	13	4	+9	5	Advanced to knockout stage
2	Bulgaria	3	2	1	0	8	3	+5	5
3	United Arab Republic	3	0	1	2	4	11	−7	1
4	Turkey	3	0	1	2	3	10	−7	1

Source: RSSSF

26 August 1960

21:00

Bulgaria	3–0	Turkey
Diev 13', 58' Hristov 67'	Report

Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini , Grosseto

Attendance: 3,760

Referee: Cesare Jonni (Italy)

26 August 1960

21:00

Yugoslavia	6–1	United Arab Republic
Rifai 3' (o.g.) Galić 30' (pen.) Kostić 32', 61', 63' Knez 49'	Report	Attia 72'

Stadio Adriatico , Pescara

Attendance: 9,211

Referee: Reg Leafe (Great Britain)

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29 August 1960

21:00

Bulgaria	2–0	United Arab Republic
Naidenov Yordanov 42' Diev 88'	Report

Stadio Tommaso Fattori , L'Aquila

Attendance: 1,634

Referee: Leo Helge (Denmark)

29 August 1960

21:00

Yugoslavia	4–0	Turkey
Kostić 10', 89' Galić 46' Knez 61'	Report

Stadio Comunale , Florence

Attendance: 1,858

Referee: Vincenzo Orlandini (Italy)

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1 September 1960

21:00

Yugoslavia	3–3	Bulgaria
Galić 50', 57', 69'	Report	Kovachev 59' Debarski 81', 89'

Stadio Flaminio , Rome

Attendance: 7,994

Referee: Cesare Jonni (Italy)

1 September 1960

21:00

United Arab Republic	3–3	Turkey
Attia 10' Qotb 58', 65'	Report	Tahran 15' Koken 30' Yalçınkaya 69'

Stadio di Ardenza , Livorno

Referee: Lucien van Nuffel (Belgium)

Group 2

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

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy (H)	3	2	1	0	9	4	+5	5	Advanced to knockout stage
2	Brazil	3	2	0	1	10	6	+4	4
3	Great Britain	3	1	1	1	8	8	0	3
4	Taiwan	3	0	0	3	3	12	−9	0

Source: RSSSF
(H) Hosts

26 August 1960

21:00

Italy	4–1	Taiwan
Rivera 10', 33' Fanello 49' Tomeazzi 67'	Report	Mok 29'

Stadio San Paolo , Naples

Referee: Leo Helge (Denmark)

26 August 1960

21:00

Brazil	4–3	Great Britain
Gérson 2' China 61', 72' Wanderley 64'	Report	Brown 32', 87' Lewis 47'

Stadio di Ardenza , Livorno

Referee: Josef Kandlbinder (West Germany)

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29 August 1960

16:00

Brazil	5–0	Taiwan
Gérson 13', 16', 47' Roberto Dias 73', 87'	Report

Stadio Flaminio , Rome

Referee: Emil Erlich (Yugoslavia)

29 August 1960

21:00

Italy	2–2	Great Britain
Rossano 11', 55'	Report	Brown 23' Hasty 75'

Stadio Flaminio , Rome

Referee: Lucien van Nuffel (Belgium)

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1 September 1960

21:00

Italy	3–1	Brazil
Rivera 69' Rossano 70', 86'	Report	Waldir 4'

Stadio Comunale , Florence

Referee: Pierre Schwinte (France)

1 September 1960

21:00

Great Britain	3–2	Taiwan
Lewis 35' Brown 58' Hasty 85'	Report	Yiu 70', 88'

Stadio Olimpico Comunale , Grosseto

Referee: Josef Kandlbinder (West Germany)

Group 3

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

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	3	3	0	0	8	4	+4	6	Advanced to knockout stage
2	Argentina	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	4
3	Poland	3	1	0	2	7	5	+2	2
4	Tunisia	3	0	0	3	3	11	−8	0

Source: RSSSF

26 August 1960

16:00

Poland	6–1	Tunisia
Pohl 7', 40', 42', 84', 89' Hachorek 67'	Report	Kerrit 3'

Stadio Flaminio , Rome

Attendance: 5,873

Referee: Concetto Lo Bello (Italy)

26 August 1960

21:00

Denmark	3–2	Argentina
Sørensen 31' H. Nielsen 46', 85'	Report	Oleniak 20' Bilardo 88'

Stadio Flaminio , Rome

Attendance: 7,154

Referee: Francesco Liverani (Italy)

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29 August 1960

21:00

Tunisia	1–2	Argentina
Kerrit 25'	Report	Oleniak 15', 82'

Stadio Adriatico , Pescara

Referee: István Zsolt (Hungary)

29 August 1960

21:00

Denmark	2–1	Poland
H. Nielsen 15' Pedersen 86'	Report	Gadecki 62'

Stadio di Ardenza , Livorno

Attendance: 5,574

Referee: Concetto Lo Bello (Italy)

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1 September 1960

21:00

Denmark	3–1	Tunisia
F. Nielsen 24' H. Nielsen 27', 88'	Report	Cherif 48'

Stadio Tommaso Fattori , L'Aquila

Attendance: 1,204

Referee: Giulio Campanati (Italy)

1 September 1960

21:00

Argentina	2–0	Poland
Oleniak 38' Pérez 55'	Report

Stadio San Paolo , Naples

Referee: Sulhi Garan (Turkey)

Group 4

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

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	3	3	0	0	15	3	+12	6	Advanced to knockout stage
2	France	3	1	1	1	3	9	−6	3
3	Peru	3	1	0	2	6	9	−3	2
4	India	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1

Source: RSSSF

26 August 1960

16:00

Hungary	2–1	India
Göröcs 23' Albert 56'	Report	Balaram 79'

Stadio Tommaso Fattori , L'Aquila

Referee: Bahri Ben Said (Tunisia)

26 August 1960

21:00

France	2–1	Peru
Giamarchi 67' Quédec 90'	Report	Uribe 1'

Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino , Florence

Referee: Emil Erlich (Yugoslavia)

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29 August 1960

21:00

France	1–1	India
Coinçon 82'	Report	Banerjee 71'

Stadio Olimpico Comunale , Grosseto

Referee: Raymond Morgan (Canada)

29 August 1960

21:00

Hungary	6–2	Peru
Albert 17', 87' Rákosi 27' Göröcs 33' Dunai 46', 63'	Report	Ramírez 25', 79'

Stadio San Paolo , Naples

Referee: Piero Bonetto (Italy)

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1 September 1960

16:00

Hungary	7–0	France
Albert 12', 85' Göröcs 34', 59', 77' Dunai 41', 79'	Report

Stadio Flaminio , Rome

Referee: Vincenzo Orlandini (Italy)

1 September 1960

21:00

Peru	3–1	India
Nieri 27', 53' Iwasaki 85'	Report	Balaram 88'

Stadio Adriatico – Giovanni Cornacchia , Pescara

Referee: Hussein Imam (United Arab Republic)

Knockout stage

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

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	5 September – Naples
	Italy	1
					10 September – Rome
	Yugoslavia	1
					Yugoslavia	3
	5 September – Rome
					Denmark	1
	Denmark	2
	Hungary	0
					Bronze medal match
					9 September – Rome
					Hungary	2
					Italy	1

Semi-finals

5 September 1960 (1960-09-05)

18:00

Italy	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Yugoslavia
Tumburus 109'	Report	Galić 107'

Stadio San Paolo , Naples

Attendance: 16,568

Referee: Josef Kandlbinder (West Germany)

Yugoslavia declared winners by lot.

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6 September 1960 (1960-09-06)

21:00

Denmark	2–0	Hungary
H. Nielsen 19' Enoksen 81'	Report

Stadio Flaminio , Rome

Attendance: 14,237

Referee: Reginald Leafe (Great Britain)

Bronze medal match

9 September 1960 (1960-09-09)

21:00

Hungary	2–1	Italy
Orosz 32' Dunai 69'	Report	Tomeazzi 84'

Stadio Flaminio , Rome

Referee: Reginald Leafe (Great Britain)

Gold medal match

Main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – final

10 September 1960 (1960-09-10)

21:00

Yugoslavia	3–1	Denmark
Galić 1' Matuš 11' Kostić 69'	Report	F. Nielsen 90'

Stadio Flaminio , Rome

Attendance: 23,042

Referee: Concetto Lo Bello (Italy)

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

• 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)
• Tomás Iwasaki (Peru)
• Ángel Uribe (Peru)
• Zygmunt Gadecki (Poland)
• Stanisław Hachorek (Poland)
• Mok Chun-wah (Republic of China)
• Moncef Chérif (Tunisia)
• Uğur Köken (Turkey)
• Bilge Tahran (Turkey)
• İbrahim Yalçınkaya (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
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

Source: FIFA

References

1. "Football at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
2. "Match Schedule for Olympic Football Tournament Rome 1960". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 12 July 2021.

External links

• 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)