Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics

Men's football at the Games of the V Olympiad
Venues	Stockholm Olympic Stadium Idrottsplats Traneberg Råsunda Stadium
Dates	June 29 (first round) June 30 (quarterfinals) July 2 (semifinals) July 4 (final, bronze match)
Competitors	135 from 11 nations
Medalists
England national amateur football team Great Britain   Denmark national football team Denmark   Netherlands national football team Netherlands
«1908	1920»

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 England^[1] winning the gold medals (the IOC accredits Great Britain and Ireland with the medal, however the team was explicitly an England team, wearing the English national strip). 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.

The venues

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.^[2] 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

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Great Britain Arthur Berry Ronald Brebner Thomas Burn Joseph Dines Edward Hanney Gordon Hoare Arthur Knight Henry Littlewort Douglas McWhirter Ivan Sharpe Harold Stamper Harold Walden Vivian Woodward Gordon Wright England squad	Denmark Paul Berth Charles Buchwald Hjalmar Christoffersen Harald Hansen Sophus Hansen Emil Jørgensen Ivar Lykke Nils Middelboe Oskar Nielsen Poul Nielsen Sophus Nielsen Anthon Olsen Axel Petersen Axel Thufason Vilhelm Wolfhagen Denmark squad	Netherlands Piet Bouman Joop Boutmy Nico Bouvy Huug de Groot Bok de Korver Nico de Wolf Constant Feith Ge Fortgens Just Göbel Dirk Lotsy Caesar ten Cate Jan van Breda Kolff Jan van der Sluis Jan Vos David Wijnveldt Netherlands squad

Participants

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. The Football Association entered an England national amateur team to represent England.

A total of 135+28^[3] footballers from 11 nations competed at the Stockholm Games:

• Austria (11+4)
• Denmark (15)
• Finland (13)
• Germany (11+11)
• Great Britain (14) (England)
• Hungary (11+3)
• Italy (12+2)
• Netherlands (15)
• Norway (11+1)
• Russia (11+4)
• Sweden (11+3)

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 England team entered the contest, drawn to play against Hungary at Idrottsplats Råsunda. England was captained by Vivian Woodward, a record-scoring centre-forward from Chelsea, who had formed part of England's gold medal winning side of the 1908 Summer Olympics. Lead by forward Harold Walden, who scored six goals, England convincingly defeated Hungary with 7-0.

In the semi-final round, Walden scored all four goals, as England 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 England with Denmark, and like in 1908, the team representing England 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

First round

Second round

Semi-finals

Final

Great Britain (GBR)

June 30 - Olympiastadion

bye

Great Britain (GBR)

7

Hungary (HUN)

0

Hungary (HUN)

July 2 - Olympiastadion

bye

Great Britain (GBR)

4

June 29 - Idrottsplats Traneberg

Finland (FIN)

0

Italy (ITA)

2

June 30 - Idrottsplats Traneberg

Finland (FIN) (a.e.t.)

3

Finland (FIN)

2

Russia (RUS)

1

Russia (RUS)

July 4 - Olympiastadion

bye

Great Britain (GBR)

4

Denmark (DEN)

2

Denmark (DEN)

June 30 - Idrottsplats Råsunda

bye

Denmark (DEN)

7

Norway (NOR)

0

Norway (NOR)

July 2 - Olympiastadion

bye

Denmark (DEN)

4

June 29 - Olympiastadion

Netherlands (NED)

1

Third place

Netherlands (NED) (a.e.t.)

4

June 30 - Idrottsplats Råsunda

July 4 - Idrottsplats Råsunda

Sweden (SWE)

3

Netherlands (NED)

3

Netherlands (NED)

9

June 29 - Idrottsplats Råsunda

Austria (AUT)

1

Finland (FIN)

0

Austria (AUT)

5

Germany (GER)

1

Results

First Round
June 29	Idrottsplats Traneberg	Italy (ITA)	2	-	3	Finland (FIN)	after extra time
	(att. 600)	Bontadini (10'), Sardi (25')	(2	-	2)	Öhman (2'), E. Soinio (40'), Wiberg (105')
June 29	Idrottsplats Råsunda	Austria (AUT)	5	-	1	Germany (GER)
	(att. 2,000)	Merz (75', 81'), Studnicka (58'), Neubauer (62'), Cimera (89')	(0	-	1)	Jäger (35')
June 29	Olympiastadion	Netherlands (NED)	4	-	3	Sweden (SWE)	after extra time
	(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)
	(att. 300)	Wiberg (30'), Öhman (80')	(1	-	0)	Butusov (72')
June 30	Olympiastadion	England (ENG)	7	-	0	Hungary (HUN)
	(att. 8,000)	Walden (21', 23', 49', 53', 55', 85'), Woodward (45')	(3	-	0)
June 30	Idrottsplats Råsunda	Denmark (DEN)	7	-	0	Norway (NOR)
	(att. 700)	Olsen (4', 70', 88'), S. Nielsen (60', 85'), Wolfhagen (25'), Middelboe (37')	(3	-	0)
June 30	Idrottsplats Råsunda	Netherlands (NED)	3	-	1	Austria (AUT)
	(att. 7,000)	Bouvy (8'), ten Cate (12'), Vos (30')	(3	-	1)	Müller (41')
Semi-finals
July 2	Olympiastadion	England (ENG)	4	-	0	Finland (FIN)
	(att. 4,000)	Walden (7', 77'), Holopainen (2' og), Woodward (82')	(2	-	0)
July 2	Olympiastadion	Denmark (DEN)	4	-	1	Netherlands (NED)
	(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)
	(att. 1,000)	Vos (29', 43', 46', 74', 78'), van der Sluis (24', 57'), de Groot (28', 86')	(4	-	0)
Final
July 4	Olympiastadion	England (ENG)	4	-	2	Denmark (DEN)
	(att. 25,000)	Hoare (22', 41'), Walden (10'), Berry (43')	(4	-	1)	Olsen (27', 81')
Consolation tournament Main article: Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics - Consolation tournament
First Round
July 1	Idrottsplats Traneberg	Austria (AUT)	1	-	0	Norway (NOR)
	(att. 200)	Grundwald (2')	(1	-	0)
July 1	Idrottsplats Råsunda	Germany (GER)	16	-	0	Russia (RUS)
	(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)
July 1	Idrottsplats Råsunda	Italy (ITA)	1	-	0	Sweden (SWE)
	(att. 2,500)	Bontadini (15')	(1	-	0)
Semi-finals
July 3	Idrottsplats Råsunda	Hungary (HUN)	3	-	1	Germany (GER)
	(att. 2,000)	Schlosser (3', 39', 82')	(2	-	0)	Förderer (56')
July 3	Olympiastadion	Austria (AUT)	5	-	1	Italy (ITA)
	(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)
	(att. 5,000)	Schlosser (32'), Pataki (60'), Bodnár (76')	(1	-	0)

References

External links

• Games of the V. Olympiad at the RSSSF

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