1956 Summer Olympics / Football - Quarter Finals

Games of the quarter-finals of the 1956 Olympic football tournament .
The winners qualified for the semi-finals.
In the event of a tie after extra time, a replay was played.

Yugoslavia - USA 9: 1 (5: 1)

Yugoslavia

United States

November 28, 1956 at 4:30 p.m. in Melbourne ( Olympic Park Stadium )

Spectators: 5,292

Referee: Maurice Swain ( New Zealand )

Petar Radenković - Mladen Koščak , Nikola Radović - Ivan Šantek , Ljubiša Spajić , Dobroslav Krstić - Dragoslav Šekularac , Zlatko Papec , Sava Antić , Todor Veselinović , Muhamed Mujić
Coach: Milovan Ćirić

Svend Engedal - Herman Wecke , William Conterio - Zenon Snylyk , Harry Keogh , James Dorrian - Edward Murphy , Ruben Michael Mendoza , Albert Zerhusen , Lloyd Monsen , Bill Looby
Trainer: James Mills

1: 0 Veselinović (10th)

2: 0 Antić (12th)

3: 0 Mujić (16th)

4: 0 Papec (20th)

5: 0 Mujić (35th)

6: 1 Mujić (56th)

7: 1 Antić (73.)

8: 1 Veselinović (84.)

9: 1 Veselinović (90.)

5: 1 Zerhusen (42nd)

Soviet Union - Indonesia 0: 0 aet (0: 0/0: 0)

Soviet Union

Indonesia

November 29, 1956 at 4:30 p.m. in Melbourne ( Olympic Park Stadium )

Spectators: 3,228

Referee: Takenokoshi Shigemaru ( Japan )

Lev Yashin - Nikolai Tishchenko , Boris Kuznetsov - Josip Betsa , Anatoli Baschaschkin , Igor Netto - Boris Tatuschin , Anatoli Isayev , Eduard Streltsov , Sergei Salnikov , Vladimir Ryschkin
Coach: Gavriil Katschalin

Maulwi Saelan - Mohamed Rashjid , Chairuddin Siregar - Ramlan Yatin , Kwee Kiat Sek , Tan Ling Houw - Oros Witarsa , Phwa Sian Liong , Ashari Danoe , Thio Him Tjiang , Rusli Ramang
Trainer: Toni Pogačnik ( Yugoslavia )

Warning: Strelzow

Bulgaria - United Kingdom 6: 1 (3: 1)

Bulgaria

United Kingdom

November 30, 1956 at 4:30 p.m. in Melbourne ( Olympic Park Stadium )

Spectators: 6,748

Referee: Ronald Wright ( Australia )

Georgi Naidenow - Kiril Rakarow , Miko Goranow - Stefan Bojkow , Manol Manoloff , Nikola Kowatschew - Gawril Stojanow , Georgi Dimitrov , Panajot Panajotow , Iwan Kolew , Krum Janew
Trainer: Stojan Ormandijew

Harold Sharratt - Donald Stoker , Leslie Farrer - Lawrence Topp , Stanley Prince , Henry Dodkins - Jim Lewis , Derek Lewin , Jack Laybourne , George Bromilow , Charles Twissell

1: 0 Nikolow (6th)

2: 1 Kolew (40th) Penalty

3: 1 Stojanow (45th)

4: 1 Stojanow (75th)

5: 1 Stojanow (80th)

6: 1 Kolew (85th)

1: 1 Lewis (30.)

Replay Soviet Union - Indonesia 4-0 (3-0)

Soviet Union

Indonesia

December 1, 1956 at 10:30 a.m. in Melbourne ( Olympic Park Stadium )

Spectators: 6,735

Referee: Reginald Lund ( New Zealand )

Boris Rasinski - Nikolai Tishchenko , Boris Kuznetsov - Anatoli Masljonkin , Anatoli Baschaschkin , Igor Netto - Boris Tatuschin , Valentin Ivanov , Eduard Streltsov , Sergei Salnikov , Anatoli Ilyin
Coach: Gavriil Katschalin

Maulwi Saelan - Mohamed Rashjid , Chairuddin Siregar - Ramlan Yatin , Kwee Kiat Sek , Tan Ling Houw - Oros Witarsa , Rusli Ramang , Achad Arifin , Thio Him Tjiang , Jasrin Jusron
Trainer: Toni Pogačnik ( Yugoslavia )

1: 0 Salnikov (17th)

2: 0 Ivanov (19th)

3: 0 net (43rd)

4: 0 Salnikov (59th)

Warning: Strelzow

Australia - India 2: 4 (2: 2)

Australia

India

December 1, 1956 at 2:30 p.m. in Melbourne ( Olympic Park Stadium )

Spectators: 7,413

Referee: CH Wensveen ( Indonesia )

Ronald Lord - Bob Bignall , John Pettigrew - George Arthur , Cliff Sander , Bruce Morrow - Frank Loughran , Jack Lennard , Graham McMillan , Edward Arthur Smith , Alwyn Warren
Trainers: Richard Telfer

Peter Thangaraj - Sayed Aziz-ud-Din , Abdul Rehman - Mariappa Kempaiah , Muhammad Salaam , Muhammad Noor - Pradip Kumar Banerjee , Samar Banerjee , Neville D'Souza , Krishna Kittu , Muhammad Kannayan
Trainer: Abdul Rahim Syed

1: 1 Morrow (17th)

2: 2 Morrow (41.)

0: 1 D'Souza (9th)

1: 2 D'Souza (33.)

2: 3 D'Souza (50.)

2: 4 Kittu (80.)