| Country: | Italy |
| Dates: | 26 August – 10 September |
| Num Teams: | 16 |
| Venues: | 7 |
| Cities: | 7 |
| Champion: | YUG |
| Count: | 1 |
| Second: | DEN |
| Third: | HUN |
| Fourth: | ITA |
| Matches: | 28 |
| Goals: | 120 |
| Top Scorer: | Milan Galić (7 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 1956 |
| Nextseason: | 1964 |
The football tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics was held from 26 August to 10 September in 1960 throughout Italy. The tournament featured 16 men's national teams from four continental confederations. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four and each group played a round-robin tournament. 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 in Rome on 10 September 1960.[1]
The match schedule of the tournament.[2]
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | G | G | ½ | ½ | B | F |
| Rome | Florence | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Stadio Flaminio | Stadio Comunale | ||
| Capacity: 32,000 | Capacity: 47,920 | ||
| Grosseto | Livorno | ||
| Stadio Olimpico Comunale | Stadio Ardenza | ||
| Capacity: 10,200 | Capacity: 19,238 | ||
| Pescara | Naples | L'Aquila | |
| Stadio Adriatico | Stadio Fuorigrotta | Stadio Comunale | |
| Capacity: 24,400 | Capacity: 60,240 | Capacity: 9,285 | |
See also: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification.
Africa (2)
Asia (2)
Americas (3)
Middle East (1)
Europe (8)
See main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads.
See main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Group 1.
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See main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Group 2.
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See main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Group 3.
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See main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Group 4.
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See main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Knockout stage.
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See main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – final.
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.
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) Gianni Rivera (Italy) China (Brazil) Roberto Dias (Brazil) Paddy Hasty (Great Britain) Jim Lewis (Great Britain)
Tulsidas Balaram (India) Ugo Tomeazzi (Italy)
Nicolas Nieri (Peru) Alberto Ramírez (Peru)
Brahim Kerrit (Tunisia) Carlos Bilardo (Argentina) Raúl Adolfo Pérez (Argentina) Waldir (Brazil) Wanderley (Brazil)
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) Moncef Chérif (Tunisia)
Uğur Köken (Turkey) Bilge Tahran (Turkey) İbrahim Yalçınkaya (Turkey)