Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Group 1

Group 1 of the 1960 Summer Olympics football tournament took place from 26 August to 1 September 1960. ^{[1] [2]} The group consisted of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, United Arab Republic and Turkey. The top team, Yugoslavia, advanced to the semi-finals.

Teams

Team	Region	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	Finals appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
							Turkey	Europe	Middle East winners	24 November 1959	7th	1956	Quarter-finals (1948, 1948)
United Arab Republic	Africa	Africa second round winners	3 April 1960	7th	1956	Fourth place (1928)
Yugoslavia	Europe	Europe Group 4 winners	24 April 1960	6th	1956	Silver medal (1948, 1952, 1956)
Bulgaria	Europe	Europe Group 3 winners	1 May 1960	3rd	1956	Silver medal (1956)

Standings

Pos	Team	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

In the semi-finals, the winners of Group 1, Yugoslavia, advanced to play the winner of Group 2, Italy.

Matches

All times listed are local, CET (UTC+1).

Bulgaria vs Turkey

26 August 1960

21:00

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

Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini , Grosseto

Attendance: 3,760

Referee: Cesare Jonni (Italy)

1 Georgi Naidenov 2 Kiril Rakarov 3 Manol Manolov (c) 4 Stoyan Kitov 5 Dimitar Largov 6 Nikola Kovachev 7 Todor Diev 8 Stefan Abadzhiev 9 Nicolas Dimitrov 10 Hristo Iliev 11 Dimitar Yakimov Substitutions: Spiro Debarski Ivan Dimitrov Iliya Kirchev Ivan Kolev Georgi Naidenov Yordanov Dimitar Nikolov Nikola Parchanov Dimitar Penchev Manager: Stoyan Ormandzhiev

1 Cavid Gokalp 2 Aydoğan Çipiloğlu 3 Ergun Taner 4 Suat Ozyazici 5 Ahmet Tunakozan 6 Bilge Tarhan 7 Samin Uygun 10 Ugar Koken 12 İbrahim Yalçınkaya 14 Zeki Şensan 16 Selin Soydan Substitutions: Emrullah Küçükbay Asim Bayrak Mustafa Ertan Naim Ozaytac Yilmaz Tuncer Turhan Yıldız Manager: Şeref Görkey

Assistant referees: Giuseppe Adami (Italy) Piero Angelini (Italy)

Yugoslavia vs United Arab Republic

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)

1 Milutin Soskic 2 Vladimir Durković 3 Fahrudin Jusufi 4 Ante Žanetić 5 Novak Roganović 6 Željko Perušić 7 Andrija Anković 8 Dušan Maravić 9 Tomislav Knez 10 Milan Galić (c) 11 Bora Kostić Substitutions: Blagoje Vidinić Zvonko Bego Aleksandar Kozlina Željko Matuš Žarko Nikolić Velimir Sombolac Silvester Takač Manager: Selection Committee

1 Adel Hekal 2 El Sayed Rifat 3 Alaa El-Hamouly 4 Amin El-Esnawi 5 Rifaat El-Fanagily 6 Samir Qotb 7 Mohamed Morsi Hussein 8 Raafat Attia 9 Tariq Selim 10 Mahmoud El-Gohary 11 Abdelat Elsherbini Substitutions: Fetthi Korshed Ali Badawi Abdou Noshi Nabil Nosseir Selim Saleh Yakan Hussein Manager: Pál Titkos

Assistant referees: Raymond Morgan (Canada) Lucien Van Nuffel (Belgium)

Bulgaria vs United Arab Republic

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)

1 Georgi Naidenov 2 Kiril Rakarov 3 Ivan Dimitrov 4 Dimitar Largov 5 Manol Manolov (c) 6 Nikola Kovachev 7 Todor Diev 8 Stefan Abadzhiev 9 Georgi Naidenov Yordanov 10 Dimitar Yakimov 11 Ivan Kolev Substitutions: Hristo Iliev Spiro Debarski Nicolas Dimitrov Iliya Kirchev Dimitar Nikolov Nikola Parchanov Dimitar Penchev Stoyan Kitov Manager: Stoyan Ormandzhiev

1 Fetthi Korshed 2 Yakan Hussein 3 Ali Badawi 4 Alaa El-Hamouly 5 Rifaat El-Fanagily 6 Samir Qotb 7 Mohamed Morsi Hussein 8 Abdou Noshi 9 Selim Saleh 10 Mahmoud El-Gohary 11 Abdelat Elsherbini Substitutions: Raafat Attia Amin El-Esnawi Adel Hekal Nabil Nosseir El Sayed Rifat Tariq Selim Manager: Pál Titkos

Assistant referees: Gino Rigato (Italy) Josef Kandlbinder (West Germany)

Yugoslavia vs Turkey

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)

1 Milutin Soskic 2 Vladimir Durković 3 Fahrudin Jusufi 4 Ante Žanetić 6 Željko Perušić 9 Milan Galić (c) 10 Tomislav Knez 11 Bora Kostić 14 Novak Roganović 17 Silvester Takač 18 Dušan Maravić Substitutions: Blagoje Vidinić Andrija Anković Zvonko Bego Aleksandar Kozlina Željko Matuš Žarko Nikolić Velimir Sombolac Manager: Selection Committee

1 Cavid Gokalp 2 Aydoğan Çipiloğlu 3 Ergun Taner 4 Suat Ozyazici 5 Ahmet Tunakozan 6 Bilge Tarhan 7 Turhan Yıldız 8 Zeki Şensan 9 İbrahim Yalçınkaya 11 Selin Soydan 14 Mustafa Ertan Substitutions: Emrullah Küçükbay Asim Bayrak Ugar Koken Naim Ozaytac Yilmaz Tuncer Samin Uygun Manager: Şeref Görkey

Assistant referees: Francesco Liverani (Italy) Piero Angelini (Italy)

Yugoslavia vs Bulgaria

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 Milutin Soskic 2 Vladimir Durković 3 Fahrudin Jusufi 4 Ante Žanetić 6 Željko Perušić 9 Milan Galić (c) 10 Tomislav Knez 11 Bora Kostić 13 Velimir Sombolac 16 Aleksandar Kozlina 18 Dušan Maravić Substitutions: Blagoje Vidinić Andrija Anković Zvonko Bego Željko Matuš Žarko Nikolić Novak Roganović Silvester Takač Manager: Selection Committee

1 Georgi Naidenov 2 Kiril Rakarov 3 Manol Manolov (c) 4 Ivan Dimitrov 5 Dimitar Largov 6 Nikola Kovachev 7 Todor Diev 8 Stefan Abadzhiev 9 Hristo Iliev 10 Dimitar Yakimov 11 Spiro Debarski Substitutions: Nicolas Dimitrov Iliya Kirchev Ivan Kolev Georgi Naidenov Yordanov Dimitar Nikolov Nikola Parchanov Dimitar Penchev Stoyan Kitov Manager: Stoyan Ormandzhiev

Assistant referees: Piero Angelini (Italy) Bruno De Marchi (Italy)

United Arab Republic vs Turkey

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)

1 Fetthi Korshed 2 Yakan Hussein 3 Ali Badawi 4 Rifaat El-Fanagily 5 Alaa El-Hamouly 6 Samir Qotb 7 Mahmoud El-Gohary 8 Nabil Nosseir 9 Mohamed Morsi Hussein 10 Raafat Attia 11 Abdelat Elsherbini Substitutions: Amin El-Esnawi Adel Hekal Abdou Noshi El Sayed Rifat Selim Saleh Tariq Selim Manager: Pál Titkos

1 Emrullah Küçükbay 2 Aydoğan Çipiloğlu 3 Ergun Taner 4 Suat Ozyazici 5 Ahmet Tunakozan 6 Mustafa Ertan 7 Samin Uygun 8 Zeki Şensan 9 İbrahim Yalçınkaya 10 Bilge Tarhan 11 Ugar Koken Substitutions: Cavid Gokalp Asim Bayrak Naim Ozaytac Selin Soydan Yilmaz Tuncer Turhan Yıldız Manager: Şeref Görkey

Assistant referees: Piero Bonetto (Italy) Carlo Gambarotta (Italy)

See also

• Turkey at the Olympics
• Egypt at the Olympics
• Yugoslavia at the Olympics
• Bulgaria at the Olympics

References

1. "Olympic Games 1960 » Group 1". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
2. Reyes, Macario (20 June 2019). "XVII. Olympiad Rome 1960 Football Tournament". RSSSF .