Football at the 1906 Intercalated Games
At the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens (often referred to as the "Intercalated Games"), an unofficial football event was held. Only four teams competed, three of them were clubs from Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Medal tables gave the gold to Denmark and the silver and bronze to Turkey. The Athens team withdrew from the final at half time, and were then invited to play off in a match to decide second place, but declined and were promptly ejected from the tournament. Smyrna and Thessaloniki, both then cities in the Ottoman Empire, played off  instead. The Thessaloniki team composition was Greek from the group of "Friends of the Arts" ("Omilos Philomuson", later Iraklis Thessaloniki F.C.). The Smyrna (former name of Turkish city İzmir), a team consisted of English, French and Armenian players, was also part of the competition. The Danish team was a selection of players from Copenhagen Football Association. All the matches were played at Podilatodromio, originally a velodrome. This competition was not an official Olympic football tournament so no national football teams participated. Venue. All the matches were hosted at "Neo Phaliron Velodrome" (or "Podilatodromio"), originally a velodrome and sports arena in  the Neo Faliro District of Piraeus. This venue had been used for the track cycling events at the Athens 1896 Olympics also held in Athens. This venue was then demolished to built the Karaiskakis Stadium, a football stadium with capacity for 32,000.