International football competition
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]
Competition schedule
The match schedule of the tournament.[2]
Venues
Medalists
Teams
Qualification
Squads
First round
Group 1
Source: RSSSF
Group 2
Source: RSSSF
(H) Hosts
Group 3
Source: RSSSF
Group 4
Source: RSSSF
Knockout stage
Bracket
Semi-finals
Yugoslavia declared winners by lot.
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
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
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Own goals
Final ranking
Source: FIFA
References
- ^ "Football at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ "Match Schedule for Olympic Football Tournament Rome 1960". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Association football at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
- 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)