Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Americas Qualifiers

Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Americas Qualifiers

Tournament details
Dates	8 October 1959 – 30 April 1960
Teams	10
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Goals scored	84 (4.2 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mario Desiderio (5 goals)
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The Americas section of the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Football Qualifiers acted as qualifiers for the 1960 Summer Olympics football tournament, held in Italy, for national teams that are members of North America and South America.^[1]

Ten national teams entered qualification.

• First round: 10 teams played home-and-away over two legs. The five winners advanced to the second round.
• Second round: 5 teams which advanced from the first round play round-robin matches. The top three teams of the group qualified for the Summer Olympics.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mexico	3–1	United States	2–0	1–1
Netherlands Antilles	3–6	Suriname	2–2	1–4
Chile	1–11	Argentina	1–5	0–6
Peru	9–2	Uruguay	6–0	3–2
Colombia	3–7	Brazil	2–0	1–7

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina	4	4	0	0	14	5	+9	8	Qualification for 1960 Summer Olympics
2	Peru (H)	4	3	0	1	7	3	+4	6
3	Brazil	4	2	0	2	7	7	0	4
4	Mexico	4	1	0	3	6	6	0	2
5	Suriname	4	0	0	4	4	17	−13	0

The following three teams from the Americas qualified for the final tournament.^[2]

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in the Summer Olympics
Argentina	Second round winners	24 April 1960	1 (1928)
Peru	Second round runners-up	24 April 1960	1 (1936)
Brazil	Second round third place	27 April 1960	1 (1952)

There were 84 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 4.2 goals per match.

Two own goals were scored throughout the tournament.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal