List of Olympic Winners in football

Last Modified Jul 26, 2024 10:20 GMT

The men’s football category has been there since the inception of the Olympic games with the exception of the inaugural edition of the modern Summer Olympics in 1896 and the Los Angeles edition in 1932. Brazil won the last edition of the Olympics held in Tokyo in 2020.

The women’s football edition began in the 1996 Atlanta edition. Canada won the latest edition of the Olympics in Tokyo in 2020 in the women’s football category.

Several countries including big teams like Brazil, Argentina, Spain and France have won the men’s category while underdogs like Cameroon, Mexico and Canada have also won gold in the tournament.

Here’s a list of the winners in the men’s football category in the Olympics:

YearVenueGoldSilverBronze
1900ParisGreat BritainFranceBelgium
1904St LouisCanadaUSA (Christian Brothers College)USA (St Rose Paris)
1908LondonGreat BritainDenmarkNetherlands
1912StockholmGreat BritainDenmarkNetherlands
1920AntwerpBelgiumSpainNetherlands
1924ParisUruguaySwitzerlandSweden
1928AmsterdamUruguayArgentinaItaly
1936BerlinItalyAustriaNorway
1948LondonSwedenYugoslaviaDenmark
1952HelsinkiHungaryYugoslaviaSweden
1956MelbourneSoviet UnionYugoslaviaBulgaria
1960RomeYugoslaviaDenmarkHungary
1964TokyoHungaryCzechoslovakiaGermany
1968Mexico CityHungaryBulgariaJapan
1972MunichPolandHungarySoviet Union, West Germany
1976MontrealEast GermanyPolandSoviet Union
1980MoscowCzechoslovakiaEast GermanySoviet Union
1984Los AngelesFranceBrazilYugoslavia
1988SeoulSoviet UnionBrazilWest Germany
1992BarcelonaSpainPoland Ghana
1996AtlantaNigeriaArgentinaBrazil
2000SydneyCameronSpainChile
2004AthensArgentinaParaguayItaly
2008BeijingArgentinaNigeriaBrazil
2012LondonMexicoBrazilSouth Korea
2016RioBrazilGermanyNigeria
2020TokyoBrazilSpainMexico

List of Olympic Winners in Women’s Football

Here’s a list of teams who’ve won the women’s football category in the Olympic Games:

YearVenueGoldenSilverBronze
1996AtlantaUSAChinaNorway
2000SydneyNorwayUSAGermany
2004AthensUSABrazilGermany
2008BeijingUSABrazilGermany
2012LondonUSAJapanCanada
2016RioGermanySwedenCanada
2020TokyoCanadaSwedenUnited States

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