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.

Competition schedule

The match schedule of the tournament.

Venues

Medalists

Teams

Qualification

Africa (2) Asia (2) Americas (3) Europe (8) Middle East (1)

Squads

First round

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Goalscorers

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.

Final ranking