1956 Summer Olympics / Football

Football at the 1956 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Melbourne
Competition venue	Olympia Park Stadium , Melbourne Cricket Ground
Teams	11
Nations	11
Athletes	143 (143 )
date	November 24th - December 8th, 1956
decisions	1
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At the XVI. Olympic Games 1956 in Melbourne was a competition in football played.

Due to numerous reports, a qualifying round was held for the first time in the history of the Olympic football tournament. Yugoslavia reached the final for the third time in a row, which no team had previously managed, but could only win the silver medal again. The German amateur national team lost in qualifying against the eventual Olympic champion, the Soviet Union. With India, an Asian team reached the semifinals of an Olympic football tournament for the first time. The tournament was affected by cancellations, so that the round of 16 took place with only three games.

The venues were the Olympia Park Stadium and the Melbourne Cricket Ground , where the final took place in front of 102,000 spectators, which until then was the record setting for Olympic football tournaments and was only surpassed in 1968 in Mexico City with 105,000 spectators in the bronze medal between Japan and Mexico. While FIFA no longer counts these matches as A internationals, B. the USSF these games in the statistics of their senior national team.

qualification

→ Main article : Qualification for the 1956 Olympic football tournament

All German contingent

Trainer: Sepp Herberger

player	birthday	Age	society
Albert Brülls	March 26, 1937	19th	Borussia Monchengladbach
Manfred Eglin	October 10, 1935	21st	Karlsruhe FV
Rolf Geiger	October 16, 1934	22nd	Stuttgart Kickers
Willi Gerdau	February 12, 1929	27	Heider SV
Albert Goertz	November 18, 1933	23	Düsseldorf SC 99
Ernst-Günter Habig	September 14, 1935	21st	SC Rapid Cologne
Hermann Höfer	July 19, 1934	22nd	Eintracht Frankfurt
Karl Hoffmann	October 10, 1935	21st	Fortuna Dusseldorf
Rudolf Hoffmann	February 11, 1935	21st	Viktoria Aschaffenburg
Günter Jäger	December 21, 1935	20th	Fortuna Dusseldorf
Matthias Mauritz	November 13, 1924	32	Fortuna Dusseldorf
Herbert Schäfer	August 16, 1927	29	Sports fans victories
Max flood	September 2, 1932	24	FV Daxlanden
Fritz Semmelmann	July 24, 1928	28	SpVgg Bayreuth
Johann Zeitler	April 30, 1927	29	VfB Bayreuth

The tournament

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Olympic football tournament 1956
Number of nations	11  (from 28 applicants)
Olympic champion	Soviet Union (1st title)
venue	Melbourne
Opening game	November 24, 1956
Endgame	December 8, 1956
Games	12
Gates	53  (⌀: 4.42 per game)
spectator	254,269  (⌀: 21,189 per game)
Top scorer	Dimitar Milanow Neville D'Souza Todor Veselinović (4 goals each)
Warnings	3  (⌀: 0.25 per game)
References	0  (⌀: 0 per game)

Round of 16

After qualifying, eight games for the round of 16 were drawn on September 1, 1956 in Zurich . Five of the sixteen qualified teams canceled for various reasons: China because the Republic of China was also admitted to the Olympic Games, Egypt because of the Suez crisis , defending champion Hungary because of the invasion of the Soviet Union and the others for financial reasons. Therefore, the following five games did not take place (The teams that thus progressed without a game are in bold.):

United States	-	Yugoslavia
Bulgaria	-	Egypt
People's Republic of China	-	Turkey
South Vietnam	-	Indonesia
India	-	Hungary

The following three games were played:

November 24, 1956
Soviet Union	-	Germany	2: 1 (1: 0)
November 26, 1956
Great Britain	-	Thailand	9: 0 (4: 0)
November 27, 1956
Australia	-	Japan	2: 0 (1: 0)

Quarter finals

November 28, 1956
Yugoslavia	-	United States	9: 1 (5: 1)
November 29, 1956
Soviet Union	-	Indonesia	0: 0 a.d.
December 1, 1956 (replay)
Soviet Union	-	Indonesia	4: 0 (3: 0)
November 30, 1956
Bulgaria	-	Great Britain	6: 1 (3: 1)
1st December 1956
India	-	Australia	4: 2 (2: 2)

Semifinals

4th December 1956
Yugoslavia	-	India	4: 1 (0: 0)
4th December 1956
Soviet Union	-	Bulgaria	2: 1 a.d. (0: 0)

Bronze game

Bulgaria		India
	Game for the bronze medal December 7, 1956 in Melbourne ( Olympic Park Stadium ) Result: 3: 0 (2: 0) Spectators: 21,236 Referee: Nikolai Latyshev ( Soviet Union )
	Jordan Jossifow - Kiril Rakarow , Nikola Kowatschew - Stefan Bojkow , Manol Manoloff , Dimitar Milanow - Gawril Stojanow , Georgi Dimitrov , Panajot Panajotow , Iwan Kolew , Todor Dijew Trainer: Stojan Ormandijew	Subramaniam Narayan - Sheikh Abdul Latif , Sayed Aziz-ud-Din - Mariappa Kempaiah , Hussain Ahmed , Muhammad Noor - Muhammad Kannayan , Nikhil Nandy , Neville D'Souza , Krishna Pal , Krishna Kittu Trainer: Abdul Rahim Syed
	1-0 Dijew (37th) 2-0 Milanov (42nd) 3-0 Dijew (60th)

final

While the USSR competed with their national team, Yugoslavia provided a "C-Team".

USSR		Yugoslavia
	final December 8, 1956 at Melbourne Cricket Ground Result: 1: 0 (0: 0) Spectators: 86,716 spectators Referee: Ron Wright ( Australia )
	Lev Yashin - Boris Kuznetsov , Mikhail Ogonkow - Anatoly Masljonkin , Anatoli Bashashkin , Igor Netto - Boris Tatuschin , Anatoli Issajew , Nikita Simonjan , Sergei Salnikow , Anatoli Ilyin Trainer: Gavriil Katschalin	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
	1-0 Ilyin (48th)

Medal ranks

rank	Medalist
Gold USSR	Anatoli Baschaschkin , Joschef Beza , Anatoli Ilyin , Anatoli Isayev , Valentin Ivanov , Lev Yashin (TW), Boris Kuznetsov , Anatoly Masljonkin , Igor Netto , Mikhail Ogonkow , Alexei Paramonov , Boris Rasinski (TW), Vladimir Ryschkin , Sergei Salnikov , Nikita Simonyan , Eduard Strelzow , Boris Tatuschin , Nikolai Tishchenko Coach: Gavriil Katschalin
Silver Yugoslavia	Sava Antić , Ibrahim Biogradlić , Dobroslav Krstic , Mladen Koščak , Luka Liposinović , Muhamed Mujić , Zlatko Papec , Petar Radenkovic (TW), Nikola Radović , Ivan Santec , Dragoslav Šekularac , Ljubisa Spajić , Todor Veselinović , Blagoja Vidinic (TW) Coach: Milovan Ciric
Bronze Bulgaria	Stefan Bojków , Todor Dijew , Georgi Dimitrov , Miko Goranow , Krum Yanev , Jordan Jossifow (TW), Ivan Kolev , Nikola Kovachev , Manol Manoloff , Dimitar Milanow , Georgi Naidenow (TW), Panayot Panayotov , Kiril Rakarow , Gavril Stoyanov Coach: Stoyan Ormandjiev

Best goal scorers

rank	player	Gates
1	Dimitar Milanov	4th
	Neville D'Souza	4th
	Todor Veselinović	4th
4th	John Laybourne	3
	Ivan Kolew	3
	Muhamed Mujić	3
	Zlatko Papec	3
...
16	Ernst-Günter Habig	1
...

Web links

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• Official website of FIFA
• Detailed data on rsssf.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Official number of viewers [1] , in another source 120,000 viewers are mentioned [2]
2. ↑ olympic.org: Melbourne-Stockholm 1956
3. ↑ The Olympic Games are over; Subtitle: The most unpopular Olympic victory . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 11, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).