Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Great Britain |
Dates | 26 July – 13 August |
Teams | 18 (from 5 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 13 (in 3 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions |
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Runners-up |
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Third place |
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Fourth place |
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Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 18 |
Goals scored | 102 (5.67 per match) |
Top scorer(s) |
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Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics tournament, won by Sweden, managed by Englishman George Raynor.[1]
Venues
Squads
Final tournament
The tournament began on 26 July 1948 with a preliminary round of two matches: Luxembourg defeating Afghanistan 6–0 and the Netherlands beating Ireland 3–1, with Faas Wilkes scoring two goals for the Dutch. In the first round, which began five days later, the Netherlands played Great Britain at Highbury, Britain prevailing 4–3 after extra time. In goal for Britain was Ronnie Simpson, who would go on to become the oldest Scottish international debutant in history and one of the Lisbon Lions. Yugoslavia (victors over Luxembourg) and Sweden (3–0 winners against Austria) also went through. France eliminated India.
Sweden's play at White Hart Lane attracted much attention even then. Their forward line contained three exceptional players; one of them Gunnar Gren scored a brace in an easy win. There were two goals, as well, for future FIFA World Cup star Zeljko Cajkovski in Yugoslavia's 6–1 rout of Luxembourg, although they were behind at half-time. There were future World Cup stars also on parade in South Korea's 5–3 defeat of Mexico and the United States's 9–0 defeat at the hands of Italy. Walter Bahr, Ed Souza, Charlie Colombo and John Souza would later be members of the American team that beat England at the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
In the quarter-finals, Sweden defeated both the South Koreans and the Danes in the semi-final. In the second semi-final, Great Britain played Yugoslavia at Wembley Stadium, going out by three goals to one. 3–1 was also the score in the final in favour of Sweden over Yugoslavia.
Preliminary round
Netherlands | 3–1 | |
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Wilkes Roosenburg |
Report | O'Kelly |
First round
Yugoslavia | 6–1 | |
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Stanković Mihajlović Željko Čajkovski Mitić Bobek |
Report | Schammel |
Great Britain | 4–3 (aet) | |
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McBain Hardisty Kelleher McIlvenny |
Report | Appel Wilkes |
Sweden | 3–0 | |
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G. Nordahl Rosen |
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South Korea | 5–3 | |
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Choi Song-Gon Bai Chon-Go Chung Kook-Chin Chung Nam-Sik |
Report | Cárdenas Figueroa Ruiz |
Quarter-finals
Yugoslavia | 3–1 | |
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Željko Čajkovski Bobek Wölfl |
Report | Gulesin |
Sweden | 12–0 | |
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Liedholm G. Nordahl Gren Carlsson Rosén |
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Great Britain | 1–0 | |
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Hardisty |
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Semi-finals
Great Britain | 1–3 | |
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Donovan |
Report | Bobek Wölfl Mitić |
Bronze medal match
Great Britain | 3–5 | |
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Aitken Hardisty Amor |
Report | Præst John Hansen J. Sørensen |
Gold medal match
Sweden | 3–1 | |
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Gren G. Nordahl |
Report | Bobek |
Bracket
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Medalists
Statistics
Goalscorers
- 7 goals
John Hansen (Denmark) Gunnar Nordahl (Sweden)
- 5 goals
Francesco Pernigo (Italy) Henry Carlsson (Sweden) Kjell Rosén (Sweden)
- 4 goals
Stjepan Bobek (Yugoslavia)
- 3 goals
Bob Hardisty (Great Britain) Emidio Cavigioli (Italy) Servaas Wilkes (Netherlands) Gunnar Gren (Sweden) Željko Čajkovski (Yugoslavia)
- 2 goals
Karl Aage Hansen (Denmark) Johannes Pløger (Denmark) Emilio Caprile (Italy) Julien Gales (Luxembourg) Marcel Paulus (Luxembourg) Fernand Schammel (Luxembourg) Bram Appel (Netherlands) Chung Kook-chin (South Korea) Nils Liedholm (Sweden) Gündüz Kılıç (Turkey) Rajko Mitić (Yugoslavia) Franjo Wölfl (Yugoslavia)
- 1 goal
Karl Aage Præst (Denmark) Holger Seebach (Denmark) Jørgen Leschly Sørensen (Denmark) El Din El Guindy (Egypt) René Courbin (France) René Persillon (France) Andy Aitken (Great Britain) Bill Amor (Great Britain) Frank Donovan (Great Britain) Dennis Kelleher (Great Britain) Douglas McBain (Great Britain) Harry McIlvenny (Great Britain) Sarangapani Raman (India) Brendan O'Kelly (Ireland) Adone Stellin (Italy) Angelo Turconi (Italy) Nicolas Kettel (Luxembourg) Raúl Cárdenas (Mexico) Antonio Figueroa (Mexico) José Ruiz (Mexico) Andre Roosenburg (Netherlands) Bai Chon-Go (South Korea) Chung Nam-sik (South Korea) Choi Song-Gon (South Korea) Şükrü Gülesin (Turkey) Lefter Küçükandonyadis (Turkey) Huseyin Saygun (Turkey) Prvoslav Mihajlović (Yugoslavia) Branko Stanković (Yugoslavia)
References
- ↑ "Football at the 1948 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
Sources
- 1948 Olympic Organising Committee (1951). Official Report (PDF). London. pp. 14, 18, 39, 45–46, 54, 57, 62, 64, 65, 78, 85, 109, 116, 121, 129, 131, 184, 187, 382–388, 534, 541, 544–6.
- "Games of the XIV. Olympiad; Football Tournament". RSSSF.
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