Football at the 1908 Summer Olympics
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Bohemia were forced to withdraw before the tournament started after losing their FIFA
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 membership.

Semi-finals

Bronze medal match

The French were so shocked by their humiliating 17-1 defeat against Denmark that they declined to play for the bronze medal; therefore, the Netherlands played Sweden for third place.

Gold medal match

Scoring

15 footballers scored over the course of the tournament. Nielsen, with 10 goals in one game and 11 over the full event, set a pair of daunting records.
Place Name Nation Goals
1 Sophus Nielsen
Sophus Nielsen
Sophus Erhard "Krølben" Nielsen was a Danish amateur football player and manager, and the first player in history to score ten goals in a full national team match. Nielsen scored a total 16 goals in 20 games for the Denmark national football team, and won silver medals at the 1908 and 1912...

 
11
2 Vilhelm Wolffhagen  8
3 Harold Stapley
Harold Stapley
Harold "Harry" S. Stapley was an English football player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, where he scored 6 goals....

 
6
4 Clyde Purnell
Clyde Purnell
Clyde Honeysett Purnell was an English amateur football player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the English team, which won the gold medal in the Olympic football tournament in 1908....

 
4
5 Nils Middelboe
Nils Middelboe
Nils Middelboe was a Danish athlete and football player as well as a football referee, who most prominently represented the Denmark national football team at the 1908, 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics, winning silver medals in 1908 and 1912...

 
3
Vivian Woodward
Vivian Woodward
Vivian John Woodward was an English amateur football player who enjoyed the peak of his career in the late 1900s and early 1910s.-Club career:...

 
3
7 Harald Bohr
Harald Bohr
Harald August Bohr was a Danish mathematician and football player. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr...

 
2
Frederick Chapman
Frederick Chapman (footballer)
Frederick William Chapman was an English amateur footballer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.-Club career:Chapman played for Notts Magdala, Nottingham Forest and South Nottingham...

 
2
Robert Hawkes
Robert Hawkes
Robert Murray "Bob" Hawkes was an English footballer who played for Luton Town, became their first international player, and competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.-Playing career:...

 
2
August Lindgren
August Lindgren
August Ludvig Lindgren was a Danish amateur football player in the midfielder position, who won a silver medal with the Danish national team in the 1908 Summer Olympics football tournament. He scored two goals in three games at the tournament. In all, Lindgren played four games and scored three...

 
2
11 Gustaf Bergström  1
Arthur Berry
Arthur Berry (footballer)
Arthur Berry was an English amateur football player who competed in the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics.Berry studied at Denstone College, Wadham College, and Oxford University...

 
1
Jops Reeman
Jops Reeman
Gerard Simon "Jops" Reeman was a Dutch football player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the Dutch team, which won the bronze medal in the football tournament....

 
1
Émile Sartorius  1
Edu Snethlage
Edu Snethlage
Everhardus "Edu" Snethlage was a Dutch football player. He was a member of the Dutch team that won the bronze medal in the football tournament of the 1908 Summer Olympics.Snethlage became the all time top scorer for the Dutch national team on 1909-03-21...

 
1

Goalkeeping

Place Name Nation Goals allowed Games GAA
1 Horace Bailey
Horace Bailey
Horace Peter Bailey was an English amateur football player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics....

 
1 3 0.33
2 Ludvig Drescher
Ludvig Drescher
Ludvig Drescher was a Danish amateur football player in the goalkeeper position. He played four games for the Denmark national football team, and won a silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics...

 
3 3 1.00
3 Reinier Beeuwkes
Reinier Beeuwkes
Reinier Bertus Beeuwkes was a Dutch footballer.Beeuwkes was born in The Hague. At the beginning of the 20th century he played as goalkeeper for the team DFC, and on 30 April 1905 played for the Netherlands in its first international game, when it won 4:1 against Belgium in an away game at...

 
4 2 2.00
4 Oskar Bengtsson  14 2 7.00
5 Fernand Desrousseaux  9 1 9.00
6 Maurice Tillette 17 1 17.00

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