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Football, Men

Date29 June – 5 July 1912
StatusOlympic
LocationStockholms Olympiastadion, Stockholm / Råsunda Idrottsplats, Solna / Tranebergs Idrottsplats, Stockholm
Participants163 from 11 countries
FormatSingle-elimination tournament.

The Swedish Olympic Football Committee made the plans for the 1912 Olympic football (soccer) tournament. The original plans allowed each nation to enter as many as four teams, but at the annual meeting of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) in 1911, the following ruling was made, “Although the rules for the Football Competitions at the Olympic Games of Stockholm in 1912 permit every nation affiliated to Fédération Internationale de Football Association to send four teams to the competition, the Fédération considers it most suitable that each nation should send only one.” The original ruling was made to allow Great Britain to enter four teams - one each for England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. However, The Scottish Football Association (founded in 1873), The Football Association of Wales (founded in 1876), and the Irish Football Association (founded in 1880), all decided not to enter. It was left to The Football Association, founded in 1863, and governing football in England, to enter a team.

The entries closed on 29 May and 13 teams were entered. France and Belgium originally entered but withdrew, leaving 11 teams to compete for the championship. Bohemia also tried to enter a team but its entry was refused as it was no longer a member of FIFA.

The event was planned as a single-elimination competition and the draw was held on 18 June 1912 at the office of (Svenska Gymnastik - och Idrottsföreningarnas Riksförbund (the National Football of Swedish Gymnastics and Sports Club). The two losing semi-finalists competed for the bronze medals. A consolation tournament was also conducted with all losing teams from the first two rounds allowed to compete. First prize in the consolation tournament was silver medals from the Svenska Fotbollförbundet (Swedish Football Association), while second prize was bronze medals from the same organization.

The games were at three arenas in or near Stockholm: The Olympic Stadium, Råsunda Idrottsplats, and Tranebergs Idrottsplats. Råsunda Idrottsplats was inaugurated in 1910 and was jointly owned by Svenska Fotbollförbundet and some football clubs in Stockholm. It had a stand for 2,000 spectators and a total capacity of around 12,000. In 1937 it was rebuilt with concrete stands for 40,000 spectators, becoming the national arena for Swedish football (the Wembley of Sweden), and renamed Fotbollstadion. It was further enlarged to 50,000 seats for the 1958 World Cup finals when it was the main stadium. Tranebergs Idrottsplats was the home ground of Djurgårdens IF, one of the leading football clubs in Stockholm. It was inaugurated in 1911, with a stand for 2,000 spectators and a total capacity of around 10,000.

The weather during the 1912 Olympic football tournament was exceptionally warm for Sweden, so much so that buckets of water were placed besides the touch-lines so players could refresh themselves during play.

England won the gold medal fairly easily, winning their first two matches by 7-0 against Hungary and 4-0 against Finland. In the semi-final match against Finland, Harold Walden scored two goals for England, and in the first round against Hungary, he had scored six of Britain seven goals. In addition to the medals awarded to the British players, Great Britain earned possession of the Challenge Trophy for football, which had been donatde in 1908 by The Football Association of Great Britain.

In the final, Denmark was hampered by the loss of Poul )Tist) Nielsen, who had sprained his knee against The Netherlands in the semi-finals. The first goal of the final was scored by England’s Walden at 10 minutes. At 22 minutes, Gordon Hoare made the score England 2, Denmark 0. Shortly thereafter, Denmark’s Anton Olsen scored from 25 metres out to tighten up the match. Unfortunately, shortly before the interval Charles Buchwald of Denmark, after a heading duel with Vivian Woodward, dislocated his shoulder and was unable to continue. England took advantage of this by scoring two goals within three minutes to lead 4-1 at the half. Although playing a man down in the second half, Denmark managed to reduce the lead to 4-2, which was the final score.

In the first round of the consolation series, Germany defeated Russia 16-0, led by Gottfried Fuchs, who scored 10 goals, equalling the Olympic record which had been set by Denmark’s Sofus Nielsen in 1908. Harold Walden’s 11 goals still made him the highest overall goal scorer for the Olympic tournament.

PosNumberTeamNOC
1Great BritainGBRGold
Ronald Brebner
Tommy Burn
Arthur Knight
Douglas McWhirter
Harry Littlewort
Joe Dines
Arthur Berry
Vivian Woodward
Harold Walden
Gordon Hoare
Ivor Sharpe
Ted Hanney
Edward Wright
Harry Stamper
Horace Bailey DNS
Frederick Chapman DNS
Leonard Dawe DNS
William Martin DNS
Sidney Sanders DNS
Arthur Brown DNS
George Bancroft DNS
Charles Bradley DNS
John Elvey DNS
William Chapman DNS
Joseph Flavell DNS
Frederick Atkins DNS
Alec Barclay DNS
George How DNS
Frank Monk DNS
William Callaghan DNS
Arthur Smith DNS
Harry Raymond DNS
John Grant DNS
Joe Bailey DNS
CoachAdrian Birch
2DenmarkDENSilver
Sophus Hansen
Nils Middelboe
Harald Hansen
Charles Buchwald
Emil Jørgensen
Paul Berth
Oscar Nielsen
Axel Tufvesson
Anton Olsen
Sophus Nielsen
Vilhelm Wolfhagen
Hjalmar Christoffersen
Axel Petersen
Ivar Lykke
Poul Nielsen
Ludwig Drescher DNS
Svend Aage Castella DNS
Jens Dyrberg DNS
Viggo Malmqvist DNS
Christian Morville DNS
CoachLouis Østrup
3NetherlandsNEDBronze
Just Göbel
David Wijnveldt
Piet Bouman
Gé Fortgens
Constant, Jonkheer Feith
Nico de Wolf
Dirk Lotsij
Joop Boutmy
Jan van Breda Kolff
Huug de Groot
Cees ten Cate
Jan van der Sluis
Jan Vos
Nico Bouvy
Bok de Korver
Martin Houtkooper DNS
Dolf van der Nagel DNS
Felix, Jonkheer von Heijden DNS
Wim van Eek DNS
CoachEdgar Chadwick
4FinlandFIN
August Syrjäläinen
Jalmari Holopainen
Gösta Löfgren
Knut Lund
Eino Soinio
Viljo Lietola
Lauri Tanner
Bror Wiberg
Jarl Öhman
Artturi Nyyssönen
Algoth Niska
Ragnar Wickström
Kaarlo Soinio
Gustaf Holmström DNS
Lasse Schybergson DNS
CoachCarolus Lindberg
=5HungaryHUN
Gáspár Borbás
Imre Schlosser
Mihály Pataki
Sándor Bodnár
Béla Sebestyén
Antal Vágó
Jenő Károly
Gyula Bíró
Imre Payer
Gyula Rumbold
László Domonkos
Kálmán Szury
Zoltán Blum
Miklós Fekete
Sándor Bródy DNS
György Hlavay DNS
Károly Kóródy DNS
Béla Révész DNS
István Tóth-Potya DNS
Vilmos Kertész DNS
Károly Zsák DNS
CoachEde Herczog
=5NorwayNOR1
Erling Maartmann
Rolf Maartmann
Hans Endrerud
Kristian Krefting
Henry Reinholt
Gunnar Andersen
Charles Herlofson
Harald Johansen
Einar Friis Baastad
Per Skou
Ingolf Pedersen
Sverre Jensen
Rolf Aas DNS
Sigurd Brekke DNS
Julius Clementz DNS
Paul Broch-Due DNS
Kaare Engebretsen DNS
Thoralf Grubbe DNS
Per Haraldsen DNS
Marius Lund DNS
Karl Pedersen DNS
Mathias Widerøe Aas DNS
CoachVince Hayes
=5AustriaAUT2
Alois Müller
Leopold Neubauer
Jan Studnicka
Robert Merz
Ludwig Hussak
Robert Cimera
Karl Braunsteiner
Seppl Brandstetter
Bernhard Graubart
Ladislaus Kurpiel
Otto Noll
Franz Weber
Josef Kaltenbrunner
Leopold Grundwald
Gustav Blaha
Hans Andres DNS
Adolf Fischera DNS
Richard Kohn DNS
Heinrich Retschury DNS
Jakob Swatosch DNS
Felix Tekusch DNS
Karl Tekusch DNS
CoachHugo Meisl
=5RussiaRUS
Sergey Filippov
Vasily Zhitarev
Vasily Butusov
Aleksandr Filippov
Mikhail Smirnov
Nikolay Kynin
Nikita Khromov
Andrey Akimov
Vladimir Markov
Pyotr Sokolov
Lev Favorsky
Fyodor Rimsha
Grigory Nikitin
Mikhail Yakovlev
Aleksey Uversky
Pyotr Boreysha DNS
Leonid Smirnov DNS
Khyalmar Teravayn DNS
Valdemar Vlasenko DNS
CoachRobert Fulda
=9GermanyGER
Julius Hirsch
Eugen Kipp
Willi Worpitzky
Adolf Jäger
Karl Wegele
Hermann Bosch
Max Breunig
Georg Krogmann
Ernst Hollstein
Helmuth Röpnack
Albert Weber
Adolf Werner
Gottfried Fuchs
Hans Reese
Walter Hempel
Karl Burger
Josef Glaser
Camillo Ugi
Karl Uhle
Fritz Förderer
Emil Oberle
Otto Thiel
Coach?
=9ItalyITA3
Dino Mariani
Enrico Sardi
Felice Berardo
Franco Bontadini
Enea Zuffi
Pietro Leone
Giuseppe Milano
Carlo Demarchi
Renzo Devecchi
Angelo Binaschi
Piero Campelli
Luigi Barbesino
Modesto Valle
Vittorio Morelli di Popolo
Giuseppe Caimi DNS
Felice Milano DNS
Carlo Rampini DNS
Attilio Trerè DNS
CoachVittorio Pozzo
=9SwedenSWE
Karl Ansén
Helge Ekroth
Erik Börjesson
Ivar Svensson
Herman Myhrberg
Karl Gustafsson
Gustaf Sandberg
Ragnar Wicksell
Jacob Levin
Erik Bergström
Josef Börjesson
Erik Dahlström
Götrik Frykman
Konrad Törnqvist
Teodor Malm DNS
Oscar Gustafsson DNS
Einar Johansson-Halling DNS
Knut Nilsson DNS
Henning Svensson DNS
Erik Bergqvist DNS
CoachCharlie Bunyan, Sr.
DNSFranceFRA
Gaston Barreau DNS
Maurice Bigué DNS
Georges Damois DNS
Jean Ducret DNS
Alfred Gindrat DNS
Eugène Maës DNS
Louis Mesnier DNS
Maurice Olivier DNS
Paul Romano DNS
Marcel Triboulet DNS
Henri Vialmonteil DNS
Maurice Thiéry DNS
Paul Fievet DNS
Émilien Devic DNS
Étienne Jourde DNS
Coach?

Round One

Date29 June 1912
FormatSingle-elimination
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #129 Jun 11:00FinlandFIN3 – 2ItalyITAAET
Match #229 Jun 15:00AustriaAUT5 – 1GermanyGER
Match #329 Jun 19:00NetherlandsNED4 – 3SwedenSWEAET
Match #4DenmarkDENbye
Match #5RussiaRUSbye
Match #6HungaryHUNbye
Match #7Great BritainGBRbye
Match #8NorwayNORFranceFRAwalkover

Quarter-Finals

Date30 June 1912
FormatSingle-elimination.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #130 Jun 10:00FinlandFIN2 – 1RussiaRUS
Match #230 Jun 13:30Great BritainGBR7 – 0HungaryHUN
Match #330 Jun 16:30DenmarkDEN7 – 0NorwayNOR
Match #430 Jun 19:00NetherlandsNED3 – 1AustriaAUT

Semi-Finals

Date2 July 1912
FormatSingle-elimination.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #102 Jul 15:00Great BritainGBR4 – 0FinlandFIN
Match #202 Jul 19:00DenmarkDEN4 – 1NetherlandsNED

Final Round

Date4 July 1912
FormatMedal round.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match 1/204 Jul 19:00Great BritainGBR4 – 2DenmarkDEN
Match 3/404 Jul 15:00NetherlandsNED9 – 0FinlandFIN

Consolation Round - Round One

Date1 July 1912
FormatSingle-elimination
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #101 Jul 11:00AustriaAUT1 – 0NorwayNOR
Match #201 Jul 17:00GermanyGER16 – 0RussiaRUS
Match #301 Jul 19:00ItalyITA1 – 0SwedenSWE
Match #4HungaryHUNbye

Consolation Round - Semi-Finals

Date3 July 1912
FormatSingle-elimination
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #103 Jul 15:00HungaryHUN3 – 1GermanyGER
Match #203 Jul 19:00AustriaAUT5 – 1ItalyITA

Consolation Round - Final

Date5 July 1912
FormatSingle-elimination
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #105 Jul 19:00HungaryHUN3 – 0AustriaAUT