Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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.

Qualification
Africa (2)

Asia (2)

Americas (3)

Middle East (1)

Europe (8)
 * (hosts)
 * (hosts)
 * (hosts)
 * (hosts)
 * (hosts)
 * (hosts)

Semi-finals
(Yugoslavia declared winners by lot)

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)
 * 🇵🇪 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)