Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics

The Football tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics was won by Hungary.

Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics

File:Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics Finnish stamp.jpg
Tournament details
Host country	Finland
Dates	July 15 – August 2
Teams	25 (from 5 (plus Great Britain) confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Hungary
Runner-up	Yugoslavia
Third place	Sweden
Fourth place	Germany
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	135 (5.19 per match)
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Venues

Helsinki	[[file:Template:Location map Finland|360px|Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics is located in Template:Location map Finland]]<div style="position: absolute; z-index: 2; top: %; left: %; height: 0; width: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><div style="position: relative; text-align: center; left: -px; top: -px; width: Template:Location map Finlandpx; font-size: Template:Location map Finlandpx; line-height: 0; z-index:100;" title="">[[File:Template:Location map Finland|Template:Location map FinlandxTemplate:Location map Finlandpx|Olympic Stadium|link=|alt=]] Olympic Stadium <div style="position: absolute; z-index: 2; top: %; left: %; height: 0; width: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><div style="position: relative; text-align: center; left: -px; top: -px; width: Template:Location map Finlandpx; font-size: Template:Location map Finlandpx; line-height: 0; z-index:100;" title="">[[File:Template:Location map Finland|Template:Location map FinlandxTemplate:Location map Finlandpx|Kotkan urheilukeskus|link=|alt=]] Kotkan urheilukeskus <div style="position: absolute; z-index: 2; top: %; left: %; height: 0; width: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><div style="position: relative; text-align: center; left: -px; top: -px; width: Template:Location map Finlandpx; font-size: Template:Location map Finlandpx; line-height: 0; z-index:100;" title="">[[File:Template:Location map Finland|Template:Location map FinlandxTemplate:Location map Finlandpx|Töölön Pallokenttä|link=|alt=]] Töölön Pallokenttä <div style="position: absolute; z-index: 2; top: %; left: %; height: 0; width: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><div style="position: relative; text-align: center; left: -px; top: -px; width: Template:Location map Finlandpx; font-size: Template:Location map Finlandpx; line-height: 0; z-index:100;" title="">[[File:Template:Location map Finland|Template:Location map FinlandxTemplate:Location map Finlandpx|Lahden kisapuisto|link=|alt=]] Lahden kisapuisto <div style="position: absolute; z-index: 2; top: %; left: %; height: 0; width: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><div style="position: relative; text-align: center; left: -px; top: -px; width: Template:Location map Finlandpx; font-size: Template:Location map Finlandpx; line-height: 0; z-index:100;" title="">[[File:Template:Location map Finland|Template:Location map FinlandxTemplate:Location map Finlandpx|Ratina Stadion|link=|alt=]] Ratina Stadion <div style="position: absolute; z-index: 2; top: %; left: %; height: 0; width: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><div style="position: relative; text-align: center; left: -px; top: -px; width: Template:Location map Finlandpx; font-size: Template:Location map Finlandpx; line-height: 0; z-index:100;" title="">[[File:Template:Location map Finland|Template:Location map FinlandxTemplate:Location map Finlandpx|Kupittaan jalkapallo-stadion|link=|alt=]] Kupittaan jalkapallo-stadion		Kotka
Olympic Stadium			Kotkan urheilukeskus
Capacity: 70,470			Capacity: 11,400
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Helsinki			Lahti
Töölön Pallokenttä			Lahden kisapuisto
Capacity: 18,050			Capacity: 8,067
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Tampere			Turku
Ratina Stadion			Kupittaan jalkapallostadion
Capacity: 20,700			Capacity: 14,224
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Squads

Main page: Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

Preliminary round results

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July 15, 1952 19:00	Poland	2–1	France	Lahden kisapuisto, Lahti Attendance: 3.752 Referee: Karel van der Meer (NED)
	Trampisz Goal 31' Krasówka Goal 49'	Report	Leblond Goal 30'

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July 15, 1952 19:00	Hungary	2–1	Romania	Kupittaa, Turku Attendance: 10.588 Referee: Nikolay Latyshev (URS)
	Czibor Goal 21' Kocsis Goal 73'	Report	Suru Goal 86'

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July 15, 1952 19:00	Yugoslavia	10–1	India	Töölön Pallokenttä, Helsinki Attendance: 10.000 Referee: John Best (USA)
	Vukas Goal 2', 62' Mitić Goal 14', 43' Zebec Goal 17', 23', 60', 87' Ognjanov Goal 52', 67'	Report	Ahmed Khan Goal 89'

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July 15, 1952 19:00	Denmark	2–1	Greece	Ratina Stadion, Tampere Attendance: 4.372 Referee: Waldemar Karni (FIN)
	P.E. Petersen Goal 36', 37'	Report	Emmanouilides Goal 85'

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July 15, 1952 19:00	USSR	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Bulgaria	Kotkan Urheilukeskus, Kotka Attendance: 10.637 Referee: Istvan Zsolt (HUN)
	Bobrov Goal 100' Trofimov Goal 104'	Report	Kolev Goal 95'

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July 16, 1952 19:00	Italy	8–0	United States	Ratina Stadion, Tampere Attendance: 15.342 Referee: Arthur Ellis (GBR)
	Gimona Goal 3', 51', 75' Pandolfini Goal 16', 62' Venturi Goal 27' Fontanesi Goal 52' Mariani Goal 87'	Report

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July 16, 1952 19:00	Brazil	5–1	Netherlands	Kupittaa, Turku Attendance: 9.685 Referee: Giorgio Bernardi (ITA)
	Humberto Goal 25' Larry Goal 33' (pen.), 36' Jansen Goal 81' Vavá Goal 86'	Report	Van Roessel Goal 15'

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July 16, 1952 12:00	Luxembourg	5–3 (a.e.t.)	Great Britain	Lahden kisapuisto, Lahti Attendance: 3.656 Referee: Vincenzo Orlandini (ITA)
	Roller Goal 60', 95', 97' Letsch Goal 91' Gales Goal 102'	Report	Robb Goal 12' Slater Goal 101' Lewis Goal 118'

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July 16, 1952 19:00	Egypt	5–4	Chile	Kotkan Urheilukeskus, Kotka Attendance: 5.354 Referee: John Nilsson (SWE)
	Elfar Goal 27' Mechaury Goal 43' Eldizwi Goal 66', 75', 80'	Report	Jara Goal 7', 78' Vial Goal 14', 88'

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First round results

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July 19, 1952 19:00	Finland	3–4	Austria	Olympic Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 33.053 Referee: William Ling (GBR)
	Stolpe Goal 11', 34' Rytkönen Goal 36'	Report	Gollnhuber Goal 8' (pen.), 30' Stumpf Goal 59' Grohs Goal 79'

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July 20, 1952 19:00	Brazil	2–1	Luxembourg	Kotkan Urheilukeskus, Kotka Attendance: 6.776 Referee: Marijan Matancic (YUG)
	Larry Goal 42' Humberto Goal 49'	Report	Gales Goal 86'

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July 20, 1952 19:00	Yugoslavia	5–5 (a.e.t.)	USSR	Ratina Stadion, Tampere Attendance: 17.000 Referee: Arthur Ellis (GBR)
	Mitić Goal 29' Ognjanov Goal 33' Zebec Goal 44', 59' Bobek Goal 46'	Report	Bobrov Goal 53', 77', 87' Trofimov Goal 75' Petrov Goal 89'

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July 22, 1952 19:00	Yugoslavia	3–1	USSR	Ratina Stadion, Tampere Attendance: 16.916 Referee: Arthur Ellis (GBR)
	Mitić Goal 19' Bobek Goal 29' (pen.) Čajkovski Goal 54'	Report	Bobrov Goal 6'

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July 20, 1952 12:00	Germany	3–1	Egypt	Kupittaa, Turku Attendance: 6.813 Referee: Giorgio Bernardi (ITA)
	Klug Goal 33' Schröder Goal 38', 61'	Report	El-Dizwi Goal 64'

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July 21, 1952 19:00	Denmark	2–0	Poland	Kupittaa, Turku Attendance: 6.024 Referee: Folke Bålstad (NOR)
	Seebach Goal 17' S. Nielsen Goal 69'	Report

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July 21, 1952 19:00	Sweden	4–1	Norway	Ratina Stadion, Tampere Attendance: 4.072 Referee: Johan Aksel Alho (FIN)
	Brodd Goal 23', 35' Rydell Goal 81' Bengtsson Goal 89'	Report	Sørensen Goal 83'

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July 21, 1952 19:00	Hungary	3–0	Italy	Töölön Pallokenttä, Helsinki Attendance: 13.870 Referee: Karel van der Meer (NED)
	Palotás Goal 11', 20' Kocsis Goal 83'	Report

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July 21, 1952 19:00	Turkey	2–1	File:Flag of the Netherlands Antilles (1959–1986).svg Netherlands Antilles	Lahden kisapuisto, Lahti Attendance: 3.696 Referee: Carl Jorgensen (DEN)
	Tokaç Goal 9' Bilge Goal 76' (pen.)	Report	Briezen Goal 79'

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Quarterfinals results

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July 23, 1952 19:00	Sweden	3–1	Austria	Töölön Pallokenttä, Helsinki Attendance: 12.564 Referee: Vincenzo Orlandini (ITA)
	Sandberg Goal 80' Brodd Goal 85' Rydell Goal 87'	Report	Grohs Goal 40'

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July 24, 1952 12:00	Germany	4–2 (a.e.t.)	Brazil	Töölön Pallokenttä, Helsinki Attendance: 11.451 Referee: Arthur Ellis (GBR)
	Schröder Goal 75', 96' Klug Goal 89' Zeitler Goal 120'	Report	Larry Goal 12' Zózimo Goal 74'

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July 24, 1952 19:00	Hungary	7–1	Turkey	Kotkan Urheilukeskus, Kotka Attendance: 4.743 Referee: Waldemar Karni (FIN)
	Palotás Goal 18' Kocsis Goal 32', 90' Lantos Goal 48' Puskás Goal 54', 72' Bozsik Goal 70'	Report	Guder Goal 57'

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July 25, 1952 19:00	Yugoslavia	5–3	Denmark	Töölön Pallokenttä, Helsinki Attendance: 11.456 Referee: Waldemar Karni (FIN)
	Čajkovski Goal 19' Ognjanov Goal 35' Vukas Goal 41' Bobek Goal 78' Zebec Goal 81'	Report	Lundberg Goal 63' Seebach Goal 85' Hansen Goal 87'

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Semifinals results

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July 28, 1952 19:00	Hungary	6–0	Sweden	Olympic Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 30.471 Referee: William Ling (GBR)
	Puskás Goal 1' Palotás Goal 16' Lindh Goal 36' (o.g.) Kocsis Goal 65', 69' Hidegkuti Goal 67'	Report

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July 29, 1952 19:00	Yugoslavia	3–1	Germany	Olympic Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 25.821 Referee: Wolf Waldemar Karni (FIN)
	Mitić Goal 3', 24' Čajkovski Goal 30'	Report	Stollenwerk Goal 12'

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Bronze Medal match result

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August 1, 1952 19:00	Sweden	2–0	Germany	Olympic Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 28.470 Referee: Vincenzo Orlandini (ITA)
	Rydell Goal 11' Löfgren Goal 86'	Report

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Gold Medal match result

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August 2, 1952 19:00	Hungary	2–0	Yugoslavia	Olympic Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 58.553 Referee: Arthur Ellis (GBR)
	Puskás Goal 70' Czibor Goal 88'	Report

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Bracket

	First Round					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
		Hungary	3
		Italy	0
							Hungary	7
							Turkey	1
		Turkey	2
		Netherlands Antilles	1
												Hungary	6
											Sweden	0
		Sweden	4
		Norway	1
							Sweden	3
							Austria	1
		Finland	3
		Austria	4
																	Hungary	2
																Yugoslavia	0
		Denmark	2
		Poland	0
							Denmark	3
							Yugoslavia	5
		Yugoslavia (p)	5 (3)
		USSR	5 (1)
												Yugoslavia	3
											Germany	1
		Luxembourg	1
		Brazil	2
							Brazil	2
							Germany (aet)	4
		Germany	3
		Egypt	1

Medalists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Hungary Gyula Grosics Jenő Dalnoki Imre Kovács László Budai Ferenc Puskás Zoltán Czibor Lajos Csordás Jenő Buzánszky Gyula Lóránt Mihály Lantos József Bozsik József Zakariás Nándor Hidegkuti Sándor Kocsis Péter Palotás	Yugoslavia Vladimir Beara Branko Stanković Tomislav Crnković Zlatko Čajkovski Ivan Horvat Vujadin Boškov Tihomir Ognjanov Rajko Mitić Bernard Vukas Stjepan Bobek Branko Zebec Dušan Cvetković Milorad Diskić Ratko Čolić Slavko Luštica Zdravko Rajkov Vladimir Čonč Vladimir Firm	Sweden Karl Svensson Lennart Samuelsson Erik Nilsson Holger Hansson Bengt Gustavsson Gösta Lindh Sylve Bengtsson Gösta Löfgren Ingvar Rydell Yngve Brodd Gösta Sandberg Olof Åhlund

Goalscorers

7 goals

• Branko Zebec (Yugoslavia)

6 goals

• Sándor Kocsis (Hungary)
• Rajko Mitić (Yugoslavia)

5 goals

• Vsevolod Bobrov (Soviet Union)

4 goals

• Larry (Brazil)
• El-Sayed El-Dhizui (Egypt)
• Willi Schröder (Germany)
• Péter Palotás (Hungary)
• Ferenc Puskás (Hungary)
• Tihomir Ognjanov (Yugoslavia)

3 goals

• Aredio Gimona (Italy)
• Joseph Roller (Luxembourg)
• Yngve Brodd (Sweden)
• Ingvar Rydell (Sweden)
• Stjepan Bobek (Yugoslavia)
• Zlatko Čajkovski (Yugoslavia)
• Bernard Vukas (Yugoslavia)

2 goals

• Otto Gollnhuber (Austria)
• Herbert Grohs (Austria)
• Humberto Tozzi (Brazil)
• Irenio Jara (Chile)
• Julio Vial (Chile)
• Poul Erik Petersen (Denmark)
• Holger Seebach (Denmark)
• Olof Stolpe (Finland)
• Karl Klug (Germany)
• Zoltán Czibor (Hungary)
• Egisto Pandolfini (Italy)
• Julien Gales (Luxembourg)
• Vasili Trofimov (Soviet Union)

1 goal

• Erich Stumpf (Austria)
• Jansen (Brazil)
• Vavá (Brazil)
• Zózimo (Brazil)
• Ivan Petkov Kolev (Bulgaria)
• Jens Peter Hansen (Denmark)
• Knud Lundberg (Denmark)
• Svend Nielsen (Denmark)
• Khamal Ahmed Elfar (Egypt)
• Mechaury (Egypt)
• Aulis Rytkönen (Finland)
• Michel Leblond (France)
• Georg Stollenwerk (Germany)
• Johann Zeitler (Germany)
• Jim Lewis (Great Britain)
• George Robb (Great Britain)
• Bill Slater (Great Britain)
• Paul Emmanouilides (Greece)
• József Bozsik (Hungary)
• Nándor Hidegkuti (Hungary)
• Mihály Lantos (Hungary)
• Ahmed Mohammed Khan (India)
• Alberto Fontanesi (Italy)
• Amos Mariani (Italy)
• Arcadio Venturi (Italy)
• Léon Letsch (Luxembourg)
• Joannes van Roesell (Netherlands)
• Jan Briezen (Netherlands Antilles)
• Odd Wang Sørensen (Norway)
• Jerzy Krasówka (Poland)
• Kazimierz Trampisz (Poland)
• Ion Suru (Romania)
• Aleksandr Petrov (Soviet Union)
• Sylve Bengtsson (Sweden)
• Gösta Löfgren (Sweden)
• Gösta Sandberg (Sweden)
• Tekin Bilge (Turkey)
• Ercument Guder (Turkey)
• Muzaffer Tokaç (Turkey)

Own goal

• Gösta Lindh (Sweden, against Hungary)

Football At The 1952 Summer Olympics Media

• Kuusela Hungary 1952.jpg

  1952 Miss Universe Armi Kuusela awarding the Hungarian team

Other websites

• Olympic Football Tournament Helsinki 1952 Archived 2020-04-04 at the Wayback Machine, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Archive