 | |
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Finland |
| Dates | 15 July – 2 August 1952 |
| Teams | 25 (from 5 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 6 (in 5 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Hungary (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Yugoslavia |
| Third place |  Sweden |
| Fourth place |  West Germany |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 26 |
| Goals scored | 135 (5.19 per match) |
← 1948 1956 → | |
The Football tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics was won by Hungary.[1]
The games signalled the arrival (to Western Europeans at least) of the Hungarian national football team – the "Magical Magyars". Ferenc Puskás later said of the 1952 competition: "It was during the Olympics that our football first started to flow with real power."[2] It was during the Games that Stanley Rous of English Football Association invited the Hungarians to play a friendly at Wembley the following year.
- ^ "Football at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ "Puskas on life and football". The Guardian. 19 November 2006. Retrieved 31 January 2013.