| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | Italy |
| Dates | 26 August – 10 September |
| Teams | 16 |
| Venue | 7 (in 7 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Yugoslavia (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Denmark |
| Third place |  Hungary |
| Fourth place |  Italy |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 28 |
| Goals scored | 120 (4.29 per match) |
| Top scorer | Milan Galić(7 goals) |
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Thefootball tournament at the1960 Summer Olympics was held from 26 August to 10 September in 1960 throughoutItaly. The tournament featured 16 men's national teams from four continental confederations. Starting with this edition, the competition's format was changed: rather than a knockout tournament like in the previous Olympic Games, the 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four and each group played around-robin tournament, in a similar format to that instituted in the1958 FIFA World Cup, which persists to the present day. 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 inRome on 10 September 1960.[1]
The match schedule of the tournament.[2]
| G | Group stage | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| 26 Fri | 27 Sat | 28 Sun | 29 Mon | 30 Tue | 31 Wed | 1 Thu | 2 Fri | 3 Sat | 4 Sun | 5 Mon | 6 Tue | 7 Wed | 8 Thu | 9 Fri | 10 Sat |
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| G | G | G | ½ | ½ | B | F |
| Rome | Florence | |
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| Stadio Flaminio | Stadio Comunale | |
| Capacity:32,000 | Capacity:47,920 | |
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| Grosseto | Livorno | |
| Stadio Olimpico Comunale | Stadio Ardenza | |
| Capacity:10,200 | Capacity:19,238 | |
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| Pescara | Naples | L'Aquila |
| Stadio Adriatico | Stadio Fuorigrotta | Stadio Comunale |
| Capacity:24,400 | Capacity:60,240 | Capacity:9,285 |
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Africa (2) Asia (2) Americas (3) | Europe (8) Middle East (1)
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Yugoslavia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 5 | Advanced toknockout stage |
| 2 |  Bulgaria | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 5 | |
| 3 |  United Arab Republic | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 1 | |
| 4 |  Turkey | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 1 |
| Yugoslavia | 3–3 | Bulgaria |
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| United Arab Republic | 3–3 | Turkey |
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Italy(H) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 5 | Advanced toknockout stage |
| 2 |  Brazil | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 4 | |
| 3 |  Great Britain | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 | |
| 4 |  Taiwan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 0 |
| Italy | 4–1 | Taiwan |
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| Brazil | 5–0 | Taiwan |
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| Italy | 2–2 | Great Britain |
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| Great Britain | 3–2 | Taiwan |
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Denmark | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6 | Advanced toknockout stage |
| 2 |  Argentina | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 | |
| 3 |  Poland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 2 | |
| 4 |  Tunisia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | −8 | 0 |
| Denmark | 3–2 | Argentina |
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| Denmark | 3–1 | Tunisia |
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| Argentina | 2–0 | Poland |
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Hungary | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | +12 | 6 | Advanced toknockout stage |
| 2 |  France | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 3 | |
| 3 |  Peru | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 2 | |
| 4 |  India | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 1 |
| Hungary | 7–0 | France |
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| Semi-finals | Gold medal match | |||||
| 5 September –Naples | ||||||
| Italy | 1 | |||||
| 10 September –Rome | ||||||
| Yugoslavia | 1 | |||||
| Yugoslavia | 3 | |||||
| 5 September –Rome | ||||||
| Denmark | 1 | |||||
| Denmark | 2 | |||||
| Hungary | 0 | |||||
| Bronze medal match | ||||||
| 9 September –Rome | ||||||
| Hungary | 2 | |||||
| Italy | 1 | |||||
Yugoslavia declared winners by lot.
| Hungary | 2–1 | Italy |
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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.
Milan Galić (Yugoslavia)Bora Kostić (Yugoslavia)Harald Nielsen (Denmark)Flórián Albert (Hungary)János Dunai (Hungary)János Göröcs (Hungary)Ernest Pohl (Poland)Juan Carlos Oleniak (Argentina)Gérson (Brazil)Bobby Brown (Great Britain)Giorgio Rossano (Italy)Todor Diev (Bulgaria)Gianni Rivera (Italy)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)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)Tomás Iwasaki (Peru)Ángel Uribe (Peru)Zygmunt Gadecki (Poland)Stanisław Hachorek (Poland)Mok Chun-wah (Republic of China)Moncef Chérif (Tunisia)Uğur Köken (Turkey)Bilge Tahran (Turkey)İbrahim Yalçınkaya (Turkey)Željko Matuš (Yugoslavia)El Sayed Rifai (United Arab Republic; playing against Yugoslavia)| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 6 | +11 | 8 |
| 2 |  Denmark (DEN) | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 8 |
| 3 | Hungary (HUN) | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 6 | +11 | 8 |
| 4 | Italy (ITA) | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 6 |
| 5 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 5 |
| 6 | Brazil (BRA) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 4 |
| 7 |  Argentina (ARG) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 |
| 8 |  Great Britain (GBR) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 |  France (FRA) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 3 |
| 10 | Poland (POL) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 2 |
| 11 | Peru (PER) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 2 |
| 12 | United Arab Republic (UAR) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 1 |
| 13 | India (IND) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 1 |
| 14 | Turkey (TUR) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 1 |
| 15 | Tunisia (TUN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | −8 | 0 |
| 16 | Formosa (ROC) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 0 |
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