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)
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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]

Legend

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
G			G			G				½	½			B	F

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

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

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

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Pos	Team	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

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Pos	Team	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

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Pos	Team	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

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	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

Yugoslavia declared winners by lot.

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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

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goals

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

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

• 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)