Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Tournament details
Host countryItaly
Dates26 August – 10 September 1960
Teams16 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)7 (in 7 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Yugoslavia
Runners-up Denmark
Third place Hungary
Fourth place Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played28
Goals scored120 (4.29 per match)
Top scorer(s)Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 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]

  1. ^ "Football at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2018.

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