Football at the 1936 Summer Olympics

1936 Men's Olympic Football Tournament
Tournament details
Host country Germany
Dates3–15 August 1936
Teams16 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)4 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Italy (1st title)
Runners-up Austria
Third place Norway
Fourth place Poland
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored78 (4.88 per match)
Attendance507,469 (31,717 per match)
Top scorer(s) Annibale Frossi (7 goals)
1928
1948

Football at the 1936 Summer Olympics was won by Italy. After the introduction of the first FIFA World Cup in 1930 (which had, in itself led to the absence of a football tournament from the 1932 Games programme), competing nations would from now on only be permitted to play their best players if those players were amateur or (where national associations were assisted by interested states to traverse such a rule) where professional players were state-sponsored.[1][2] However, since amateur players were counted as senior squad players, their results would be still counted as senior side's results until 1992.

  1. ^ Politika, October 18, 1935, p. 11 Archived 13 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in Serbian)
  2. ^ "Football at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2018.

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