1948 Summer Olympics / Football - Semifinals

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Games of the semifinals of the 1948 Olympic football tournament .
The winners qualified for the final , the losers played for the bronze medal .

Denmark - Sweden 2: 4 (1: 4)

Denmark

Sweden

10 August 1948 at 6:30 p.m. in London ( Wembley Stadium )

Result: 2: 4 (1: 4)

Spectators: 20,000

Referee: Stanley Boardman ( Great Britain )

Eigil Nielsen - Hans Viggo Jensen , Knud Børge Overgaard - Axel Pilmark , Dion Ørnvold , Days Ivan Jensen - Johannes Plöger , Karl Aage Hansen , Holger Seebach , John Hansen , Karl Aage Præst
Trainer: Robert Mountford ( Great Britain )

Torsten Lindberg - Börje Leander , Erik Nilsson - Birger Rosengren , Bertil Nordahl , Sune Andersson - Kjell Rosén , Gunnar Gren , Gunnar Nordahl , Henry Carlsson , Nils Liedholm
Trainer: Rudolf Kock

1: 0 Seebach (3rd)

2: 4 J. Hansen (77th)

1: 1 Carlsson (18th)

1: 2 Rosén (31st)

1: 3 Rosén (37th)

1: 4 Carlsson (42nd)

Great Britain - Yugoslavia 1: 3 (1: 2)

Great Britain

Yugoslavia

11 August 1948 at 6:30 p.m. in London ( Wembley Stadium )

Result: 1: 3 (1: 2)

Spectators: 40,000

Referee: Karel van der Meer ( Netherlands )

Kevin McAlinden - Charles Neale , James McColl - Douglas McBain , Eric Lee , Eric Fright - Frank Donovan , John Hardisty , Harry McIlvenny , Denis Kelleher , Peter Kippax
Trainers: Matt Busby

Franjo Šoštarić - Miroslav Brozović , Branko Stanković - Zlatko Čajkovski , Miodrag Jovanović , Aleksandar Atanacković - Prvoslav Mihajlović , Rajko Mitić , Franjo Wölfl , Stjepan Bobek , Željko Čajkovski
Trainer: Milorad Arsenijević

1: 1 Donovan (20th)

0: 1 Bobek (19th)

1: 2 Wölfl (24th)

1: 3 Mitić (48th)

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