Olympic football winners , check out which countries won the most?

 

Football has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men’s competition sport except in 1932 to promote the new FIFA World Cup and we are discussing the Olympic football winners since 1932.

In order to avoid competition with the World Cup, FIFA has restricted the participation of elite players in the men’s tournament in various ways: Currently, squads for the men’s tournament are required to be composed of players under 23 years of age, with three permitted exceptions.

Hungary and Great Britain have the most Olympic gold medals in men’s football, with three each. Hungary won gold medal in 1952, 1964, and 1968 and silver medal in 1972.

On the other hand Great Britain, which does not always participate in the Olympic football event, won a gold medal in the first three events in 1900, 1908, and 1912.

Following with two gold medals each are Argentina, the Soviet Union, Brazil, and Uruguay. The Argentines also win two silver medals, while the Soviets win three bronze medals.

With three silver, two bronze, and two gold medals altogether, Brazil has won the most Olympic medals.

Fourteen teams have won gold once in 28 Olympic tournaments, which include two African teams, Nigeria and Cameroon. No Asian team ever gets a chance to win the gold medal.

let’s check out the Olympic football winners till this date …

OLYMPICS FOOTBALL WINNERS

 

Year	Hosts	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1900	Paris	Great Britain	France	Mixed Team
1904	St.Louis	Canada	USA	USA
1908	London	Great Britain	Denmark	Netherlands
1912	Stockholm	Great Britain	Denmark	Netherlands
1920	Antwerp	Belgium	Spain	Netherlands
1924	Paris	Uruguay	Switzerland	Sweden
1928	Amsterdam	Uruguay	Argentina	Italy
1936	Berlin	Italy	Austria	Norway
1948	London	Sweden	Yugoslavia	Denmark
1952	Helsinki	Hungary	Yugoslavia	Sweden
1956	Melbourne	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	Bulgaria
1960	Rome	Yugoslavia	Denmark	Hungary
1964	Tokyo	Hungary	Czechoslovakia	United Team of Geramany
1968	Mexico City	Hungary	Bulgaria	Japan
1972	Munich	Poland	Hungary	Soviet Union,East Germany
1976	Montreal	East Germany	Poland	Soviet Union
1980	Moscow	Czechoslovakia	East Germany	Soviet Union
1984	Los Angeles	France	Brazil	Yugoslavia
1988	Seoul	Soviet Union	Brazil	Germany
1992	Barcelona	Spain	Poland	Ghana
1996	Atlanta	Nigeria	Argentina	Brazil
2000	Sydney	Cameroon	Spain	Chile
2004	Athens	Argentina	Paraguay	Italy
2008	Beijing	Argentina	Nigeria	Brazil
2012	London	Mexico	Brazil	South Korea
2016	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Germany	Nigeria
2020	Tokyo	Brazil	Spain	Mexico

table collected from wikipedia