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.
Competition schedule The match schedule of the tournament.
26 Fri27 Sat28 Sun29 Mon30 Tue31 Wed1 Thu2 Fri3 Sat4 Sun5 Mon6 Tue7 Wed8 Thu9 Fri10 SatG G G ½ ½ B F
Venues Rome 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 Andrija AnkovićZvonko BegoVladimir DurkovićMilan GalićFahrudin JusufiTomislav KnezBorivoje KostićAleksandar KozlinaDušan MaravićŽeljko MatušŽarko NikolićŽeljko PerušićNovak RoganovićVelimir SombolacMilutin ŠoškićSilvester TakačBlagoje VidinićAnte Žanetić Poul AndersenJohn DanielsenHenning EnoksenHenry FromErik GaardhøjeBent HansenJørgen HansenHenning HellbrandtPoul JensenBent KrogErling Linde LarsenPoul MejerFlemming NielsenHans Chr. NielsenHarald NielsenPoul PedersenJørn SørensenFinn SteroboTommy Troelsen Flórián AlbertJenő DalnokiZoltán DudásJános DunaiLajos FaragóJános GöröcsFerenc KovácsDezső NovákPál OroszTibor PálGyula RákosiImre SátoriErnő SolymosiGábor TörökPál VárhidiOszkár Vilezsál
Teams
Qualification
Africa (2)
Asia (2)
Americas (3)
Europe (8)
(hosts)
Middle East (1)
Squads
First round
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Knockout stage
Bracket
Semi-finals
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
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
References
External links
Olympic Football Tournament Rome 1960 at FIFA.com Summary at RSSSF Danish tournament squads Hungarian medalists – Rome 1960 (archived)