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| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | France |
| Dates | 25 May – 9 June 1924 |
| Teams | 22 (from 4 confederations) |
| Venue | 4 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Uruguay (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Switzerland |
| Third place |  Sweden |
| Fourth place |  Netherlands |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 24 |
| Goals scored | 96 (4 per match) |
| Attendance | 210,424 (8,768 per match) |
| Top scorer | Pedro Petrone (6 goals) |
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| Football at the1924 Summer Olympics |
Football at the 1924 Summer Olympics was the sixth edition of thefootball tournament at theSummer Olympic Games held inParis. This was the first official openFIFA World Championship in history, allowing professional player participation for the first time.[1]
The tournament expanded to 22 countries from four confederations for the first time, with African side Egypt (as was the case in theprevious edition),Turkey which is partly in Asia,Uruguay representingSouth America and theUnited States representing North America.
Uruguay made a memorable debut, going undefeated and winning the gold medal. This earned them the first of thefour stars above their crest.[2][3][4]
| Colombes |
| Paris | |
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| Olympic Stadium | Bergeyre Stadium | ||
| Capacity:60,000 | Capacity:10,455 | ||
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| Paris | Seine-Saint-Denis | ||
| Pershing Stadium | Paris Stadium | ||
| Capacity:8,110 | Capacity:5,145 | ||
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In 1921, the Belgium Football Association first allowed for payments to players for time lost from work; in the months that followed four other Associations (Switzerland andItaly amongst them) permitted similar subsidies.The Football Association, perhaps with foresight, considered their statement of 1884 to be one whichFIFA should hereafter follow. They had stated: "Any player registered with this Association ... receiving remuneration ... of any sort above ... necessary expenses actually paid, shall be considered to be a professional."[5]
In 1923 the four British Associations sought an assurance that FIFA accept this definition; the four FIFA representatives on theInternational Football Association Board refused and, consequently, both theUnited Kingdom andDenmark withdrew their footballers from representing their nations at the 1924 Olympic Games.[6]
InAssociation Football (1960),Bernard Joy wrote about the 1912 Games that the authorities inSweden"had debated for a long time whether to include football ... because its popularity was not yet world wide". Twelve years later, in Paris, football had become so important to the Games that a 1/3 of the income generated came from football. In terms of international development these Games signalled the first participation in a major Championship of a team from South America, a continent which would provide the main competition to Europe from that moment on.
In Paris, Uruguay, who had paid their third class passage to Paris and gone on a successful tour of Spain beforehand,[7] would join as many as 18 European teams; the United States, Turkey and Egypt.
The Uruguayans had won the1923Sudamericano by maximum points in the December of the previous year to qualify for the tournament as their continent's sole participants; defeating rivalsArgentina 2–0 in the final game in whichPedro Petrone scored halfway through the first half. Joy wrote:"A doctor and a physical expert were as important elements of the staff as the coach himself. They saw to it that their charges reached perfect physical condition. They were kept that way by staying away from the attractions of Paris at a villa in the quiet village ofArgenteuil". In ParisJose Leandro Andrade would be dubbedLa Merveille Noire.[7] Despite this little was known about them; they had never played outside South America and their international experience had mainly been spent travelling across the harbour fromBuenos Aires toMontevideo.[8]
Italy, having remained unbeaten since 1922, found themselves beaten 4–0 by an early incantation ofHugo Meisl'sWunderteam (who would absent themselves from the Games).[9]With just six weeks to go before the Games Italy had been walloped 7–1 byHungary.[10] Other than droppingGiampiero Combi,Vittorio Pozzo would not make major changes; Italy would not prevail.[10] The same policy was adopted byKingdom of SCS. Rather than considering dropping players, they had sacked their managerVeljko Ugrinić instead (following a 4–1 defeat by those Austrians inZagreb) but would find his replacementTodor Sekulić just as hapless.[11]
The Hungarians had just come off a good run of results in the previous year, but had been beaten by the Swiss in the days leading up to the Games;Max Abegglen, who had only been playing international football for two years, scoring his 7th international goal that day for the Swiss.[12] The Swiss had been on the verge of withdrawing from the Games due to their continued success. The team's train ticket was valid for only 10 days and their money had run out. An appeal by a newspaper,Sport, brought in the needed funds.[13]
Entering for the second timeEgypt caused a surprise defeat in their opening game.[14] Both finalists from the previous Games were present;Belgium being afforded a bye into the first round; the Czechs drawn againstTurkey in the preliminary round.
The Games competition was assisted by a Preliminary Round which featured the silver-medallists from the 1920 Games,Spain in a game withItaly. Since that time Spain had only lost once and that by a single goal away toBelgium and had drawn 0–0 with the Italians in March 1924.[15] There was hardly anything between themselves and Italy when they met, this time, at theColombes Stadium;Pedro Vallana's own goal handing victory to Italy.
Hungary put five past Poland, the Swiss sent Lithuania on their way, 9–0. The Uruguayansplayed first-rate football, combining speed, skill and perfect ball-control. By marrying short passing to intelligent positional play, they made the ball do all the work, and so kept their opponents on the run wrote Joy. The Uruguayans sailed past Kingdom of SCS by seven clear goals, then overcame the United States by three goals to nil.
In the first roundCzechoslovakia (following their decision to walk off the field in 1920) faced Switzerland and the game went into extra-time. One Czech was sent off, and the Norwegian referee had to call for order during a break. For the replay, Abegllen took the captain's duties and all was different; Switzerland winning by the single goal. Otherwise there were two surprises, the first wentEgypt's way; 3–0 to the good againstHungary. The second sawSweden defeat the reigning gold-medallists, Belgium 8–1.Oscar Verbeeck's own goal set the Swedes on their way;Sven Rydell's hat-trick the feature of the match. The Swedish outside-leftRudolf Kock (who would become chairman of the selectors in 1948 working alongsideGeorge Raynor), would have another fine game against Egypt where Sweden won 5–0. France and Holland had been similarly dominant in the first round, but Uruguay beat France 5–1 to claim a semi-final place.
In another quarter-finalItaly went out toSwitzerland disputing a winner byMax Abegglen, who converted a break-away goal. The Italians protested that he had been off-side. The refereeJohannes Mutters, refused to alter the decision of his linesman; a jury upheld the judgement. There was further dispute in the semi-final where Holland (coached by the former Blackburn Rovers' playerWilliam Townley) took a first half lead againstUruguay throughFeyenoord'sKees Pijl. With twenty minutes to goPedro Cea scored an equaliser and with less than tenGeorges Vallat, the French referee, awarded Uruguay a penalty. FIFA reported that"the Netherlands protested the ruling of a penalty kick that turned out to be the winning goal but then Uruguay protested against the Olympic Committee's selection of a Dutch referee for the final. To appease the South Americans, the committee pulled the name of a final referee out of a hat and picked out a Frenchman,Marcel Slawick".[16] In the other semi-final betweenSwitzerland andSweden the Swiss prevailed.
In the final the Swiss were defeated by the Uruguayans whose two goals in the second half put paid to their opponent's ambitions, Uruguay eventually prevailing 3–0. Interest in the final had been considerable, such was the draw of the Uruguayan side; 60,000 watched and 10,000 were locked out.[17]
| First round | Second round | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||||
| 26 May –Colombes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Uruguay | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| 29 May –Paris | ||||||||||||||||||
 Yugoslavia | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Uruguay | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 25 May –Vincennes | ||||||||||||||||||
 United States | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| United States | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 June –Colombes | ||||||||||||||||||
 Estonia | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Uruguay | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
 France | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 27 May –Saint-Ouen | ||||||||||||||||||
| France | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
 Latvia | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 June –Colombes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Uruguay | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 27 May –Colombes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
 Romania | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 June –Saint-Ouen | ||||||||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
 Irish Free State | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 28 May –Colombes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Irish Free State | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
 Bulgaria | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 June –Colombes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Uruguay | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 25 May –Vincennes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Switzerland | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Switzerland | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| 28 and 30 May –Paris | ||||||||||||||||||
 Lithuania | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Switzerland (replay) | 1 (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| 25 May –Paris | ||||||||||||||||||
 Czechoslovakia | 1 (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 June –Paris | ||||||||||||||||||
 Turkey | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Switzerland | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 25 May –Colombes | ||||||||||||||||||
 Italy | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Italy | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 29 May –Vincennes | ||||||||||||||||||
 Spain | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Italy | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
 Luxembourg | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 June –Colombes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Switzerland | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sweden | 1 | Third place | ||||||||||||||||
| 29 May –Colombes | 8 and 9 June –Colombes | |||||||||||||||||
| Sweden | 8 | Sweden (replay) | 1 (3) | |||||||||||||||
 Belgium | 1 | Netherlands | 1 (1) | |||||||||||||||
| 1 June –Vincennes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sweden | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
 Egypt | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 29 May –Saint-Ouen | ||||||||||||||||||
| Egypt | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 26 May –Paris | ||||||||||||||||||
 Hungary | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Hungary | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
 Poland | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Switzerland | 9–0 |  Lithuania |
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Sturzenegger 2',43',68',85'Dietrich 14'Abegglen 41',50',58'Ramseyer 63' (pen.) | Report |
| United States | 1–0 | Estonia |
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| Straden 15' (pen.) | Report |
| Switzerland | 1–1 (a.e.t.) | Czechoslovakia |
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| Dietrich 79' | Report | Sloup 21' (pen.) |
| Switzerland | 1–0 | Czechoslovakia |
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| Pache 87' | Report |
| Ireland (FAIFS) | 1–0 | Bulgaria |
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| Duncan 75' | Report |
| Italy | 2–0 | Luxembourg |
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| Baloncieri 20' Della Valle 38' | Report |
| Uruguay | 3–0 | United States |
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| Petrone 10',44' Scarone 15' | Report |
| Switzerland | 2–1 | Italy |
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| Sturzenegger 47' Abegglen 60' | Report | Della Valle 52' |
| Netherlands | 2–1 (a.e.t.) | Ireland (FAIFS) |
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| Formenoy 7',104' | Report | Ghent 33' |
| Switzerland | 2–1 | Sweden |
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| Abegglen 15',77' | Report | Kock 41' |
| Sweden | 1–1 | Netherlands |
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| Kaufeldt 44' | Report | le Fèvre 77' |
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As per statistical convention in football, matches decided inextra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided bypenalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Result |
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 | Uruguay | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 | +18 | 10 | |
 | Switzerland | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | +9 | 9 | |
 | Sweden | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 5 | +13 | 7 | |
| 4 | Netherlands | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 5 | |
| 5 | Italy | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 | Eliminated in quarter-final |
| 6 | France | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 2 | |
| 7 | Ireland | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 8 | Egypt | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 2 | |
| 9 | Czechoslovakia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 3 | Eliminated in second round |
| 10 | Hungary | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 2 | |
| 11 | United States | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 2 | |
| 12 | Bulgaria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 0 | |
| 13 | Luxembourg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 0 | |
| 14 | Romania | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 | |
| 15 | Latvia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | −7 | 0 | |
| 16 | Belgium | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | −7 | 0 | |
| 17 |  Spain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 0 | Eliminated in first round |
| 18 | Estonia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 0 | |
| 19 | Turkey | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 | |
| 20 |  Poland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 0 | |
| 21 | Kingdom of SCS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | −7 | 0 | |
| 22 | Lithuania | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | −9 | 0 |
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Uruguay José Leandro Andrade | Switzerland Max Abegglen | Sweden Axel Alfredsson |
Pedro Petrone (Uruguay)Max Abegglen (Switzerland)Kees Pijl (Netherlands)Sven Rydell (Sweden)Paul Sturzenegger (Switzerland)Héctor Scarone (Uruguay)Pedro Cea (Uruguay)Putte Kock (Sweden)Édouard Crut (France)Paul Nicolas (France)Ok Formenoy (Netherlands)Charles Brommesson (Sweden)Per Kaufeldt (Sweden)Ángel Romano (Uruguay)Josef Sedláček (Czechoslovakia)Rudolf Sloup (Czechoslovakia)Ibrahim Yakan (Egypt)Jean Boyer (France)Giuseppe Della Valle (Italy)Walter Dietrich (Switzerland)Bekir Refet (Turkey)Ferenc Hirzer (Hungary)Zoltán Opata (Hungary)Henri Larnoe (Belgium)Josef Čapek (Czechoslovakia)Jan Novák (Czechoslovakia)Hussein Hegazi (Egypt)József Eisenhoffer (Hungary)Paddy Duncan (Ireland)Frank Ghent (Ireland)Adolfo Baloncieri (Italy)André le Fèvre (Netherlands)Albert Hurgronje (Netherlands)Jan de Natris (Netherlands)Tore Keller (Sweden)Evert Lundqvist (Sweden)Robert Pache (Switzerland)Rudolf Ramseyer (Switzerland)Andy Straden (United States)José Vidal (Uruguay)Pedro Vallana (Spain; playing against Italy)
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