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.
Competition schedule
The match schedule of the tournament.
Venues
Medalists
Qualification
Squads
First round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Semi-finals
(Yugoslavia declared winners by lot)
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
Semi-final bracket
Goal scorers
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) Thomas Iwasaki (Peru) Ángel Uribe (Peru) Zygmunt Gadecki (Poland) Stanisław Hachorek (Poland) Mok Chun-wah (Republic of China) Mancef Cherif (Tunisia) Uğur Köken (Turkey) Bilge Tahran (Turkey) Ibrahim Yalcinkaya (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)