Soccer on Olympic Games

Year	Host	Winner	Score	2nd place	3rdplace	Score	4th place
1900	Paris	Upton Park		USFSA XI	Universite de Br uxelles		only three clubs entered
1904	St Louis	Galt		Christian Brothers College	St. Rose Parish		only three clubs entered
1908	London	Great Britain	2-0	Denmark	Nether lands	2-0	Sweden
1912	Stockholm	Great Britain	4-2	Denmark	Nether lands	9-0	Finland
1920	Antwerp	Belgium		Spain	Nether lands		France
1924	Paris	Uruguay	3-0	Switzer land	Sweden	1-1 aet 3-1 rem.	Nether lands
1928	Amsterdam	Uruguay	1-1 aet 2-1 rem.	Argentina	Italy	11-3	Egypt
1932	Los Angeles	No soccer tournament
1936	Berlin	Italy	2-1 aet	Austria	Norway	3-2	Poland
1948	London	Sweden	3-1	Yugo slavia	Den mark	5-3	Great Britain
1952	Helsinki	Hungary	2-0	Yugo slavia	Sweden	2-0	West Germany
1956	Melbourne	Soviet Union	1-0	Yugo slavia	Bulgaria	3-0	India
1960	Rome	Yugo slavia	3-1	Denmark	Hungary	2-1	Italy
1964	Tokyo	Hungary	2-1	Czecho slovakia	East Ger many	3-1	United Arab Republic
1968	Mexico City	Hungary	4-1	Bulgaria	Japan	2-0	Mexico
1972	Munich	Poland	2-1	Hungary	Soviet Union	2-2 aet	East Germany
1976	Montreal	East Germany	3-1	Poland	Soviet Union	2-0	Brazil
1980	Moscow	Czechoslo vakia	1-0	East Germany	Soviet Union	2-0	Yugo slavia
1984	Los Angeles	France	2-0	Brazil	Yugo slavia	2-1	Italy
1988	Seoul	Soviet Union	2-1 aet	Brazil	West Ge rmany	3-0	Italy
1992	Barcelona	Spain	3-2	Poland	Ghana	1-0	Australia
1996	Atlanta	Nigeria	3-2	Argentina	Brazil	5-0	Portugal
2000	Sydney	Cameroon	2-2 asdt ps 5-3	Spain	Chile	2-0	United States
2004	Athens	Argentina	1-0	Paraguay	Italy	1-0	Iraq
2008	Beijing	Argentina	1-0	Nigeria	Brazil	3-0	Belgium

aet – after extra time

asdt – after sudden death

rem - rematch

ps – penalty shootout

1. The East Germany team represented the United Team of Germany in 1964, winning the bronze medal.
2. The team represented the United Team of Germany in 1956, and the Federal Republic of Germany (i.e., West Germany) in 1972, 1984 and 1988, and winning the bronze medal in 1988.
3.   The United States had two of the three teams at the 1904 Games, taking the silver and bronze medals.
4. The 1900 tournament was originally a pair of demonstration matches between the three teams, but has subsequently been upgraded to official status by the IOC with medals attributed to the teams based upon the match results.
5. The 1904 tournament was originally a set of demonstration matches between the three teams (two from the United States), but has subsequently been upgraded to official status by the IOC with medals attributed to the teams based upon the round-robin results.
6. In 1920, Czechoslovakia abandoned the final match against Belgium after 40 minutes with the latter up 2–0. They were disqualified, and a mini-tournament to figure out the other medalists was held, with Spain beating the Netherlands for second place 3–1.
7. In 1972, the third place match between the Soviet Union and East Germany was a 2–2 tie after extra time had expired. Both teams were awarded bronze medals.


“Soccer - history, methodics, tactics”, Veljko Aleksic&Aleksandar Jankovic