1960 Summer Olympics / Soccer - Group A.

Group A games of the 1960 Olympic Football Tournament .
The first in the group, highlighted in light green, qualifies for the semi-finals.

rank	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1	Yugoslavia	3	2	1	0	13: 4	+9	5-1
2	Bulgaria	3	2	1	0	8: 3	+5	5-1
3	VA Republic	3	0	1	2	4:11	−7	1-5
4th	Turkey	3	0	1	2	3:10	−7	1-5

Bulgaria - Turkey 3: 0 (1: 0)

Bulgaria		Turkey
	1st matchday August 26, 1960 at 9:00 p.m. in Grosseto ( Stadio Carlo Zecchini ) Spectators: 3,760 Referee: Cesare Jonni ( Italy )
	Georgi Naidenow - Kiril Rakarow , Stojan Kitow - Dimitar Largow , Manol Manolow , Nikola Kowatschew - Todor Diew , Stefan Abadschiew , Iwan Dimitrow , Dimitar Jakimow , Christo Iliew Trainer: Stojan Ormandijew	Cavit Gökalp - Aydoğan Çipiloğlu , Ergun Taner - Suat Özyazıcı , Ahmet Tuna Kozan , Bilge Tarhan - Samim Uygun , Zeki Şensan , İbrahim Yalçınkaya , Uğur Köken , Selim Soydan Trainer: Seref Gorkey
	1: 0 Diew (13th) 2: 0 Diew (58th) 3: 0 Iliew (67th)
	Warnings: Diew, Dimitrov	Warnings: Şensan, Tarhan

Yugoslavia - VAR 6: 1 (3: 0)

Yugoslavia		United Arab Republic
	1st matchday August 26, 1960 at 9:00 p.m. in Pescara ( Stadio Adriatico ) Spectators: 9,211 Referee: Reg Leafe ( United Kingdom )
	Milutin Šoškić - Vladimir Durković , Fahrudin Jusufi - Ante Žanetić , Novak Roganović , Željko Perušić - Andrija Anković , Dušan Maravić , Tomislav Knez , Milan Galić , Borivoje Kostić Coach: Ljubomir Lovrić	Adel Hekal - El-Sayed Rifai , Alaa El-Hamouly - Amin El-Esnawi , Rifaat El-Fanaguili , Samir Qotb - Mohamed Reda Hussein , Raafat Attia , Abdou Selim , Mahmud El-Gohary , Mohamed El-Sherbini Trainer: Pál Titkos
	1-0 Rifai (3rd) (own goal) 2-0 Galić (30th) (penalty) 3-0 Kostić (32nd) 4-0 Knez (49th) 5-0 Kostić (61st) 6-0 Kostić (63.)	6: 1 Attia (72nd)

Bulgaria - VAR 2: 0 (1: 0)

Bulgaria		United Arab Republic
	2nd matchday August 29, 1960 at 4:00 p.m. in L'Aquila ( Stadio Tommaso Fattori ) Spectators: 1,634 Referee: Leo Helge ( Denmark )
	Georgi Naidenow - Kiril Rakarow , Nikola Kowatschew - Iwan Dimitrow , Manol Manolow , Dimitar Largow - Todor Diew , Stefan Abadschiew , Georgi Jordanow Naidenow , Dimitar Jakimow , Christo Iliew Trainer: Stojan Ormandijew	Fathi Ali Khorshid - Yaken Zaki Hussain , Ali Badawi - Alaa El-Hamouly , Rifaat El-Fanaguili , Samir Qotb - Mohamed Reda Hussein , Mohammed Noshi , Saleh Selim , Mahmud El-Gohary , Mohamed El-Sherbini Trainer: Pál Titkos
	1: 0 Jordanow Naidenow (42.) 2: 0 Diew (88.)

Yugoslavia - Turkey 4: 0 (1: 0)

Yugoslavia		Turkey
	2nd matchday August 29, 1960 at 9:00 p.m. in Florence ( Stadio Artemio Franchi ) Spectators: 1,858 Referee: Vincenzo Orlandini ( Italy )
	Milutin Šoškić - Vladimir Durković , Fahrudin Jusufi - Ante Žanetić , Novak Roganović , Željko Perušić - Silvester Takač , Dušan Maravić , Tomislav Knez , Milan Galić , Borivoje Kostić Trainers: Ljubomir Lovrić	Cavit Gökalp - Aydoğan Çipiloğlu , Ergun Taner - Suat Özyazıcı , Ahmet Tuna Kozan , Bilge Tarhan - Turhan Yıldız , Zeki Şensan , İbrahim Yalçınkaya , Mustafa Ertan , Selim Soydan Trainer: Seref Gorkey
	1-0 Kostić (10th) 2-0 Galić (46th) 3-0 Knez (61st) 4-0 Kostić (89th)

Yugoslavia - Bulgaria 3: 3 (0: 0)

Yugoslavia		Bulgaria
	3rd matchday September 1st, 1960 at 9:00 p.m. in Rome ( Stadio Flaminio ) Spectators: 7,994 Referee: Cesare Jonni ( Italy )
	Milutin Šoškić - Vladimir Durković , Fahrudin Jusufi - Ante Žanetić , Velimir Sombolac , Željko Perušić - Aleksandar Kozlina , Dušan Maravić , Tomislav Knez , Milan Galić , Borivoje Kostić Coach: Ljubomir Lovrić	Georgi Naidenow - Kiril Rakarow , Manol Manolow - Iwan Dimitrov , Dimitar Largow , Nikola Kowatschew - Todor Diew , Stefan Abadschiew , Christo Iliew , Dimitar Jakimow , Spiro Debarski Trainer: Stojan Ormandijew
	1-0 Galić (50th) 2-0 Galić (57th) 3-1 Galić (69th)	2: 1 Kowachev (59th) 3: 2 Debarski (81st) 3: 3 Debarski (89th)
	Warnings: Kostić, Knez	Warnings: Sombolac, Kozlina, Abajiev, Jakimow

Turkey - VAR 3: 3 (2: 1)

Turkey		United Arab Republic
	3rd matchday September 1st, 1960 at 9:00 p.m. in Livorno ( Stadio Armando Picchi ) Spectators: 602 Referee: Lucien van Nuffel ( Belgium )
	Emrullah Küçükbay - Aydoğan Çipiloğlu , Ergun Taner - Suat Özyazıcı , Ahmet Tuna Kozan , Mustafa Ertan - Samim Uygun , Zeki Şensan , İbrahim Yalçınkaya , Bilge Tarhan , Uğur Kökeney Trainer: Seref Gorkey	Fathi Ali Khorshid - Yaken Zaki Hussain , Alaa El-Hamouly - Ali Badawi , Rifaat El-Fanaguili , Samir Qotb - Mahmud El-Gohary , Nabil Nosseir , Mohammed Noshi , Raafat Attia , Mohamed El-Sherbini Trainer: Pál Titkos
	1: 1 Tarhan (15th) 2: 1 Köken (30th) 3: 3 Yalçınkaya (69th)	0: 1 Attia (10th) 2: 2 Qotb (58th) 2: 3 Qotb (65th)

Web links

• SportsReference soccer preliminary round
• Official Report, pages 226-227
• FIFA Archives