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Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics
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Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics was one of the 102 events at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. It was the fourth time football (soccer) was on the Olympic schedule. The tournament was contested between 11 nations, all of them from Europe, with the defending 1908 Olympic football champions from Great Britain and Ireland retaining the gold medals. Replicating the 1908 tournament, Denmark won silver medals and the Netherlands won bronze medals.
Just as the Football Association had organised the 1908 Olympic football competition in London, the Swedish Football Association would run the 1912 event.
The games took place in three different stadiums from June 29 to July 5, 1912. From the eleven games of the main tournament, two were played at Idrottsplats Traneberg in a suburb of Stockholm, five games including the bronze medal match took placed at Idrottsplats Råsunda also outside Stockholm, while four games including the final were held at the Olympiastadion.
Medal summary
The database of the International Olympic Committee lists only the eleven players as medalists for each nation, who played in the first match for their nation.[1] The following list contains these eleven players, as well as all other players who made at least one appearance for their team during the tournament.
The Final: Denmark's captain Nils Middelboe (dark jersey) against two opponents
Participants
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The tournament attracted a record 11 entries, all of them from Europe. France and Belgium withdrew from the event shortly before the draw. The entry of Bohemia was not accepted, because only nations and associations affiliated to the FIFA were allowed to enter teams. As in 1908, the Football Association entered an England national amateur team to represent Great Britain and Ireland.
A total of 135+28[2] footballers from 11 nations competed at the Stockholm Games:
Amateur definitions
The definition for the football competition was:citation needed
An amateur is one:
- who has never competed for money prize, or received any remuneration or Consideration of any sort above his necessary hotel and travelling expenses, paid in actual connection with football matches;
- who has never engaged, assisted, or taught, in any branch of sport as a means of pecuniary gain;
- who has never been registered as a professional;
- who has never sold, pawned, hired out, or exhibited for payment, any prize won in a competition.
Course of the tournament
In the first round of the tournament, the hosts from Sweden went out in the opening match against the Netherlands. Fighting back from a 1-3 deficit with half an hour to go, Sweden only lost 4-3 on a goal scored by Dutch player Jan Vos in the extra time of the English referee. At Idrottsplats Traneberg, Austrian football pioneer Hugo Meisl was the referee as Finland beat Italy also in extra time.
In the second round, Finland won again, this time beating Russia, who had received a bye in the first round. By this stage, the Great Britain and Ireland team entered the contest, drawn to play against Hungary at Idrottsplats Råsunda. Great Britain and Ireland was captained by Vivian Woodward, a record-scoring centre-forward from Chelsea, who had formed part of Great Britain's gold medal winning side of the 1908 Summer Olympics. Lead by forward Harold Walden, who scored six goals, Great Britain and Ireland convincingly defeated Hungary with 7-0.
In the semi-final round, Walden scored all four goals, as Great Britain and Ireland defeated Finland 4-0. In the other semi-final Denmark beat the Netherlands 4-1; the Dutch consolation goal put behind goalkeeper Sophus Hansen by Danish defender Harald Hansen. For the second successive time, the final would pair Great Britain and Ireland with Denmark, and like in 1908, the team representing Great Britain and Ireland would win gold medals, although this game would be closer than the 4-2 score-line suggested. With no rule allowing substitutions, Denmark played with one player less from the 30th minute of the game, when Charles Buchwald was injured.
A consolation tournament run, conjunctively, with the tournament proper paired the losers of the preliminary games and the first round, and was eventually won by Hungary. German player Gottfried Fuchs equalled the record for most goals in an international (set by Dane Sophus Nielsen in the 1908 Olympics) with 10 goals for Germany against Russia, a record that stood until 2001.
Bracket
Results
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| First Round |
| June 29 |
Idrottsplats Traneberg |
 Italy (ITA) |
2 |
- |
3 |
 Finland (FIN) |
after extra time |
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(att. 600) |
Bontadini (10'), Sardi (25') |
(2 |
- |
2) |
Öhman (2'), E. Soinio (40'), Wiberg (105') |
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| June 29 |
Idrottsplats Råsunda |
 Austria (AUT) |
5 |
- |
1 |
 Germany (GER) |
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(att. 2,000) |
Merz (75', 81'), Studnicka (58'),
Neubauer (62'), Cimera (89') |
(0 |
- |
1) |
Jäger (35') |
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| June 29 |
Olympiastadion |
 Netherlands (NED) |
4 |
- |
3 |
 Sweden (SWE) |
after extra time |
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(att. 14,000) |
Bouvy (28', 52'), Vos (43', 91') |
(2 |
- |
1) |
Swensson (3', 80'), E. Börjesson (62' pen) |
| Second Round |
| June 30 |
Idrottsplats Traneberg |
Finland (FIN) |
2 |
- |
1 |
Russia (RUS) |
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(att. 300) |
Wiberg (30'), Öhman (80') |
(1 |
- |
0) |
Butusov (72') |
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| June 30 |
Olympiastadion |
 Great Britain and Ireland (GBR) |
7 |
- |
0 |
 Hungary (HUN) |
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(att. 8,000) |
Walden (21', 23', 49', 53', 55', 85'),
Woodward (45') |
(3 |
- |
0) |
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| June 30 |
Idrottsplats Råsunda |
 Denmark (DEN) |
7 |
- |
0 |
 Norway (NOR) |
|
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(att. 700) |
Olsen (4', 70', 88'),
S. Nielsen (60', 85'),
Wolfhagen (25'), Middelboe (37') |
(3 |
- |
0) |
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| June 30 |
Idrottsplats Råsunda |
Netherlands (NED) |
3 |
- |
1 |
Austria (AUT) |
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(att. 7,000) |
Bouvy (8'), ten Cate (12'), Vos (30') |
(3 |
- |
1) |
Müller (41') |
| Semi-finals |
| July 2 |
Olympiastadion |
Great Britain and Ireland (GBR) |
4 |
- |
0 |
Finland (FIN) |
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(att. 4,000) |
Walden (7', 77'), Holopainen (2' og),
Woodward (82') |
(2 |
- |
0) |
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| July 2 |
Olympiastadion |
Denmark (DEN) |
4 |
- |
1 |
Netherlands (NED) |
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(att. 6,000) |
Olsen (14', 87'), Jørgensen (7'),
P. Nielsen (37') |
(3 |
- |
0) |
H. Hansen (85' og) |
| Bronze Medal Match |
| July 4 |
Idrottsplats Råsunda |
Netherlands (NED) |
9 |
- |
0 |
Finland (FIN) |
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(att. 1,000) |
Vos (29', 43', 46', 74', 78'),
van der Sluis (24', 57'),
de Groot (28', 86') |
(4 |
- |
0) |
| Final |
| July 4 |
Olympiastadion |
Great Britain and Ireland (GBR) |
4 |
- |
2 |
Denmark (DEN) |
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(att. 25,000) |
Hoare (22', 41'),
Walden (10'), Berry (43') |
(4 |
- |
1) |
Olsen (27', 81') |
Consolation tournament
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|
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| First Round |
| July 1 |
Idrottsplats Traneberg |
Austria (AUT) |
1 |
- |
0 |
Norway (NOR) |
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(att. 200) |
Grundwald (2') |
(1 |
- |
0) |
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| July 1 |
Idrottsplats Råsunda |
Germany (GER) |
16 |
- |
0 |
Russia (RUS) |
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(att. 2,000) |
Fuchs (2', 9', 21', 28', 34',
46', 51', 55', 65', 69'),
Förderer (6', 27', 53', 66'),
Burger (30'), Oberle (58') |
(8 |
- |
0) |
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| July 1 |
Idrottsplats Råsunda |
Italy (ITA) |
1 |
- |
0 |
Sweden (SWE) |
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(att. 2,500) |
Bontadini (15') |
(1 |
- |
0) |
| Semi-finals |
| July 3 |
Idrottsplats Råsunda |
Hungary (HUN) |
3 |
- |
1 |
Germany (GER) |
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(att. 2,000) |
Schlosser (3', 39', 82') |
(2 |
- |
0) |
Förderer (56') |
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| July 3 |
Olympiastadion |
Austria (AUT) |
5 |
- |
1 |
Italy (ITA) |
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(att. 3,500) |
Müller (30'), Grundwald (40', 89'),
Hussak (49'), Studnicka (65') |
(2 |
- |
0) |
Berardo (81') |
| Final |
| July 5 |
Idrottsplats Råsunda |
Hungary (HUN) |
3 |
- |
0 |
Austria (AUT) |
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(att. 5,000) |
Schlosser (32'), Pataki (60'),
Bodnár (76') |
(1 |
- |
0) |
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