 Sweden, gold medal winners | |
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country |  Great Britain |
| Dates | 26 July – 13 August 1948 |
| Teams | 18 (from 5 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 13 (in 3 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Sweden (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Yugoslavia |
| Third place |  Denmark |
| Fourth place | Great Britain |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 18 |
| Goals scored | 102 (5.67 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Gunnar Nordahl John Hansen (7 goals) |
← 1936 1952 → | |
The football tournament of the 1948 Summer Olympics was won by Sweden.[1] This remains Sweden's only international title at a senior male football level and was the first international appearance of the trio that would later be known as Gre-No-Li dominating the Italian league at A.C. Milan in the 1950s.
It was the first international football tournament ever to be broadcast on television, with the semi-finals, final and bronze medal play-off all being broadcast live in full on the BBC Television Service.[2]
- ^ "Football at the 1948 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ Hayes, Paul (8 June 2021). "International Football at the 1948 Olympics". BBC Genome Project. BBC Online. Retrieved 14 June 2021.