Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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

## Venues

|Helsinki|rowspan=12 colspan=2||Kotka|
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|Olympic Stadium|Kotkan urheilukeskus|||
|Capacity: **70,470**|Capacity: **11,400**|||
|Töölön Pallokenttä|Lahden kisapuisto|||
|Capacity: **18,050**|Capacity: **8,067**|||
|Ratina Stadion|Kupittaan jalkapallostadion|||
|Capacity: **20,700**|Capacity: **14,224**|||

### Preliminary round results

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### First round results

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### Quarterfinals results

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### Semifinals results

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### Bronze Medal match result

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### Gold Medal match result

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## Medalists

|!align="center" bgcolor="gold"|**Gold:**|!align="center" bgcolor="silver"|**Silver:**|!align="center" bgcolor="#CC9966"|**Bronze:**|
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|<hr> 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|<hr> 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|<hr>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)

## Other websites

- Olympic Football Tournament Helsinki 1952 , FIFA.com
- RSSSF Archive

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **image**: Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics Finnish stamp.jpg
- **country**: Finland
- **dates**: July 15 – August 2
- **num teams**: 25
- **confederations**: 5 (plus Great Britain)
- **venues**: 6
- **cities**: 5
- **matches**: 26
- **goals**: 135
- **prevseason**: Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics, 1948
- **nextseason**: Association football at the 1956 Summer Olympics, 1956