Tourney Name: | Summer Olympics – Men's Football Qualifiers |
Dates: | 26 June 1959 – 18 May 1960 |
Num Teams: | 44 |
Prevseason: | 1956 |
Nextseason: | 1964 |
This is the overview of the qualification for the football tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Team | data-sort-type="text" | Method of qualification | data-sort-type="date" | Date of qualification | Total times qualified | Current consecutive appearances | data-sort-type="number" | Previous best performance |
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data-sort-value="a" | Hosts | 15 June 1955 | 1 | 1 | data-sort-value="8" | Gold medal (1936) | ||
data-sort-value="b" | Europe Group 1 winners | 21 August 1959 | 1 | 1 | data-sort-value="7" | Silver medal (1908, 1912) | ||
data-sort-value="b" | Europe Group 2 winners | 24 November 1959 | 2 | 1 | data-sort-value="5" | Fourth place (1936) | ||
data-sort-value="b" | Middle East winners | 24 November 1959 | 2 | 1 | data-sort-value="4" | Quarter-finals (1948, 1948) | ||
data-sort-value="b" | Europe Group 5 winners | 2 April 1960 | 2 | 4 | data-sort-value="8" | Gold medal (1900, 1908, 1912) | ||
data-sort-value="b" | Africa second round winners | 3 April 1960 | 2 | 1 | data-sort-value="5" | Fourth place (1928) | ||
data-sort-value="b" | Europe Group 7 winners | 6 April 1960 | 2 | 1 | data-sort-value="8" | Gold medal (1952) | ||
data-sort-value="b" | Africa second round runners-up | 17 April 1960 | 1 | 1 | data-sort-value="1" | – | ||
data-sort-value="b" | Europe Group 4 winners | 24 April 1960 | 2 | 3 | data-sort-value="7" | Silver medal (1948, 1952, 1956) | ||
data-sort-value="b" | Americas second round winners | 24 April 1960 | 1 | 1 | data-sort-value="6" | Silver medal (1928) | ||
data-sort-value="b" | Americas second round runners-up | 24 April 1960 | 1 | 1 | data-sort-value="4" | Quarter-finals (1936) | ||
data-sort-value="b" | Americas second round third place | 27 April 1960 | 1 | 1 | data-sort-value="1" | – | ||
data-sort-value="b" | Asia second round winner | 30 April 1960 | 1 | 1 | data-sort-value="1" | – | ||
data-sort-value="b" | Asia second round winner | 30 April 1960 | 2 | 3 | data-sort-value="5" | Fourth place (1956) | ||
data-sort-value="b" | Europe Group 3 winners | 1 May 1960 | 2 | 1 | data-sort-value="6" | Bronze medal (1956) | ||
data-sort-value="b" | Europe Group 6 winners | 1 May 1960 | 1 | 1 | data-sort-value="7" | Silver medal (1900) |
width=100 | Region | width=80 | Available slots | width=80 | Teams started | width=80 | Teams eliminated | width=80 | Teams qualified | width=130 | Qualifying start date | width=130 | Qualifying end date |
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2 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 November 1959 | 22 April 1960 | ||||||||
3 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 8 October 1959 | 30 April 1960 | ||||||||
2 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 27 August 1959 | 30 April 1960 | ||||||||
7 | 22 | 15 | 7 | 26 June 1959 | 1 May 1960 | ||||||||
1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 November 1959 | 15 December 1959 | ||||||||
Total | 15 | 52 | 37 | 15 | 26 June 1959 | 1 May 1960 |
The formats of the qualifying competitions depended on each region (see below). Each round was played in either of the following formats:
See main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's European Qualifiers.
See main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Americas Qualifiers.
See main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Americas Qualifiers – Second round.
See main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's African Qualifiers.
See main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's African Qualifiers – Second round.
See main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Asian Qualifiers.
See main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Asian Qualifiers – Second round.
See main article: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Middle East Qualifiers.
The three teams played a home-and-away round-robin tournament.