Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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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. 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.

Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Tournament details
Host countryItaly
Dates26 August – 10 September
Teams16
Venue7 (in 7 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Yugoslavia (1st title)
Runners-up Denmark
Third place Hungary
Fourth place Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played28
Goals scored120 (4.29 per match)
Top scorer Milan Galić (7 goals)
← 1956
1964 →

Competition schedule

The match schedule of the tournament.

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

Squads

First round

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
Bulgaria 3–0 Turkey
  • Diev 13', 58'
  • Hristov 67'
 Report
Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini, Grosseto
Attendance: 3,760
Referee: Cesare Jonni (Italy)
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)
Bulgaria 2–0 United Arab Republic
  • Naidenov Yordanov 42'
  • Diev 88'
 Report
Stadio Tommaso Fattori, L'Aquila
Attendance: 1,634
Referee: Leo Helge (Denmark)
Yugoslavia 4–0 Turkey
  • Kostić 10', 89'
  • Galić 46'
  • Knez 61'
 Report
Stadio Comunale, Florence
Attendance: 1,858
Referee: Vincenzo Orlandini (Italy)
Yugoslavia 3–3 Bulgaria
  • Galić 50', 57', 69'
 Report
  • Kovachev 59'
  • Debarski 81', 89'
Stadio Flaminio, Rome
Attendance: 7,994
Referee: Cesare Jonni (Italy)
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

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
Italy 4–1 Taiwan
  • Rivera 10', 33'
  • Fanello 49'
  • Tomeazzi 67'
 Report
  • Mok Chun Wah 29'
Stadio San Paolo, Naples
Referee: Leo Helge (Denmark)
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)
Brazil 5–0 Taiwan
  • Gérson 13', 16', 47'
  • Roberto Dias 73', 87'
 Report
Stadio Flaminio, Rome
Referee: Emil Erlich (Yugoslavia)
Italy 2–2 Great Britain
  • Rossano 11', 55'
 Report
  • Brown 23'
  • Hasty 75'
Stadio Flaminio, Rome
Referee: Lucien van Nuffel (Belgium)
Italy 3–1 Brazil
  • Rivera 69'
  • Rossano 70', 86'
 Report
  • Waldir 4'
Stadio Comunale, Florence
Referee: Pierre Schwinte (France)
Great Britain 3–2 Taiwan
  • Lewis 35'
  • Brown 58'
  • Hasty 85'
 Report
  • Yiu Cheuk Yin 70', 88'
Stadio Olimpico Comunale, Grosseto
Referee: Josef Kandlbinder (West Germany)

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
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)
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)
Tunisia 1–2 Argentina
  • Kerrit 25'
 Report
  • Oleniak 15', 82'
Stadio Adriatico, Pescara
Referee: István Zsolt (Hungary)
Denmark 2–1 Poland
  • H. Nielsen 15'
  • Pedersen 86'
 Report
  • Gadecki 62'
Stadio di Ardenza, Livorno
Attendance: 5,574
Referee: Concetto Lo Bello (Italy)
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)
Argentina 2–0 Poland
  • Oleniak 38'
  • Pérez 55'
 Report
Stadio San Paolo, Naples
Referee: Sulhi Garan (Turkey)

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
Hungary 2–1 India
  • Göröcs 23'
  • Albert 56'
 Report Balaram 79'
Stadio Tommaso Fattori, L'Aquila
Referee: Bahri Ben Said (Tunisia)
France 2–1 Peru
  • Giamarchi 67'
  • Quédec 90'
 Report
  • Uribe 1'
Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino, Florence
Referee: Emil Erlich (Yugoslavia)
France 1–1 India
  • Coinçon 82'
 Report
  • Banerjee 71'
Stadio Olimpico Comunale, Grosseto
Referee: Raymond Morgan (Canada)
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)
Hungary 7–0 France
  • Albert 12', 85'
  • Göröcs 34', 59', 77'
  • Dunai 41', 79'
 Report
Stadio Flaminio, Rome
Referee: Vincenzo Orlandini (Italy)
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

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsGold medal match
 
      
 
5 September – Naples
 
 
 Italy1
 
10 September – Rome
 
 Yugoslavia1
 
 Yugoslavia3
 
5 September – Rome
 
 Denmark1
 
 Denmark2
 
 
 Hungary0
 
Bronze medal match
 
 
9 September – Rome
 
 
 Hungary2
 
 
 Italy1

Semi-finals

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.

Denmark 2–0 Hungary
  • H. Nielsen 19'
  • Enoksen 81'
 Report
Stadio Flaminio, Rome
Attendance: 14,237
Referee: Reginald Leafe (Great Britain)

Bronze medal match

Hungary 2–1 Italy
  • Orosz 32'
  • Dunai 69'
 Report
  • Tomeazzi 84'
Stadio Flaminio, Rome
Referee: Reginald Leafe (Great Britain)

Gold medal match

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 5 3 2 0 17 6 +11 8
2  Denmark 5 4 0 1 11 7 +4 8
3  Hungary 5 4 0 1 17 6 +11 8
4  Italy 5 2 2 1 11 7 +4 6
5  Bulgaria 3 2 1 0 8 3 +5 5
6  Brazil 3 2 0 1 10 6 +4 4
7  Argentina 3 2 0 1 6 4 +2 4
8  Great Britain 3 1 1 1 8 8 0 3
9  France 3 1 1 1 3 9 −6 3
10  Poland 3 1 0 2 7 5 +2 2
11  Peru 3 1 0 2 6 9 −3 2
12  United Arab Republic 3 0 1 2 4 11 −7 1
13  India 3 0 1 2 3 6 −3 1
14  Turkey 3 0 1 2 3 10 −7 1
15  Tunisia 3 0 0 3 3 11 −8 0
16  Formosa 3 0 0 3 3 12 −9 0
Source: FIFA

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