Host country Italy Venue(s) 7 (in 7 host cities) Runners-up Denmark | Dates August 26-September 10 Champions Yugoslavia | |
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Teams 16 (from 4 confederations) | ||
The football tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics was held from 26 August to 10 September in 1960 throughout Italy. The tournament features 16 men's national teams from four continental confederations. The 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four and each group plays 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 September 10, 1960.
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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.
References
Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA