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Football at the 1936 Summer Olympics was won by Italy. This was the first Olympic football tournament after its prestige had been lessened by the 1930 introduction of the World Cup and its absence from the 1932 Olympics.
Seventeen players went to the Olympics. The formal application originally included five other players who did not travel to Berlin: Sverre Kvammen (Viking FK), Rolf Johannessen (Fredrikstad FK), Kjeld Kjos (SFK Brann), Birger Pedersen (SK Hardy), and Petter Svennungsen (Odd Grenland).
Football at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Dates. 3 – 15 August 1936. Medal Events. 1. Football was on the Olympic Program at every Olympics from 1900-28, but it was not be on the Olympic Program at the 1932 Olympics.
In the summer of 1936, nine working class young men from the University of Washington took the rowing world and the nation by a storm when they captured the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Berlin.
When FIFA allowed professional players to compete at the inaugural World Cup in 1930, football was scratched as an Olympic sport by the IOC Executive committee. It was reinstated for 1936, but amateur rules were enforced.
The following squads were named for the 1936 Summer Olympics tournament.
Find out who took home gold, silver and bronze in 1936. Official results of the football football men event at the Berlin Summer Olympics.
