Football at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox international football competition Template:Football and futsal at the Olympics At the 1900 Summer Olympics, an association football tournament was contested for the first time. Only two matches were held between the three club sides, and no medals were awarded.
France's representatives were determined by the USFSA, which elected the Parisian champion Club Français.<ref name=rsssf/> For Belgium, after Racing Club de Bruxelles declined to participate, a student selection with players from the Université libre de Bruxelles was sent by the Federation.<ref>Great Britain's first home Olympic football adventure by Jon Carter, ESPN, 26 June 2012</ref><ref name=brown>Before the World Cup: Who were football’s earliest world champions? by Paul Brown on Medium Sports, 6 June 2018</ref> The team was reinforced with a few non-students. On the other hand, English club Upton Park F.C. represented Great Britain.<ref name=rsssf/><ref name=brown/>
The International Olympic Committee credits Great Britain, France and a "Mixed Team" with gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively, as part of its attempt to reconcile early Olympic Games with the modern award scheme.<ref name="oly2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Belgian team included one British and one Dutch player.
The football matches were held at the Vélodrome de Vincennes in Paris.<ref name=rsssf>Games of the II. Olympiad - Football Tournament by Søren Elbech and Karel Stokkermans on the RSSSF</ref>
Competition scheduleEdit
Originally there were four matches scheduled for the 1900 Olympics, all including a French team. As Switzerland and Germany eventually did not send a team, the match involving France and England was moved forward to 20 September.<ref name="rsssf" />
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The match final schedule of the tournament.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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| Thu 20 | Fri 21 | Sat 22 | Sun 23 |
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VenueEdit
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SquadsEdit
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MatchesEdit
In the first game, the British squad had little difficulty defeating the Club Français (wearing the USFSA uniform). Upton Park led 2–0 after the first half, getting two more goals in the second to win 4–0. Gaston Peltier scored in the first minute to give the USFSA XI an early lead, but Université de Bruxelles scored twice to take a 2–1 first half lead. The French scored five goals in the second half, however, to take the match 6–2.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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Final rankingEdit
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Medal summaryEdit
Medal tableEdit
| Position | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Template:FlagIOCteam | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Template:FlagIOCteam | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Template:FlagIOCteam | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
MedalistsEdit
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| Template:FlagIOCteam (Upton Park FC)<ref name=rsssf/><ref name=brown/> James Jones Claude Buckenham William Gosling Alfred Chalk Tom Burridge William Quash Richard Turner Fred Spackman John Nicholas Jack Zealley Henry Haslam |
Template:FlagIOCteam (Club Français)<ref name=rsssf/> Pierre Allemane Louis Bach Alfred Bloch Fernand Canelle René Ressejac-Duparc Eugène Fraysse Virgile Gaillard Georges Garnier René Grandjean Lucien Huteau Marcel Lambert Maurice Macaine Gaston Peltier |
Template:FlagIOCteam (Université de Bruxelles)<ref name=brown/> Marius Delbecque Hendrik van Heuckelum (NED) Raul Kelecom Marcel Leboutte Lucien Londot Ernest Moreau de Melen Eugène Neefs Gustave Pelgrims Alphonse Renier Hilaire Spanoghe Eric Thornton (GBR) Coach:Frank König (SWI)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |
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See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
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