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Football at the 1900 Summer Olympics

At the 1900 Summer Olympics, a football tournament was contested for the first time. Only two demonstration matches were held between club sides, and no medals were awarded. Despite this, some medal tables credit Great Britain, France and Belgium with gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.

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Venue

  • Velodrome Municipal de Vincennes , Paris

Results

October 20
Club Francais Paris 0 - 4 Upton Park F.C. (att. 500)
J. Nicholas 2, Arthur Turner, J. Zealey
October 23
Club Francais Paris 6 - 2 Université de Bruxelles (att. 1500)
Gaston Peltier (other scorers unknown) W. Spanoghe, van Heuckelum

Squads

Upton Park F.C. (Great Britain)

  • J.H. Jones
  • Claude Buckenham
  • William Gosling
  • Alfred Chalk
  • J.E. Barridge
  • William Quash
  • Arthur Turner
  • F.G. Spackman
  • J. Nicholas
  • James Zealley
  • A. Haslam (capt.)

Club Française (France)

This team represented the USFSA (Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques), an early French sports union.

  • Lucien Huteau
  • Louis Bach
  • Pierre Allemane
  • Virgile Gaillard
  • Alfred Bloch
  • Maurice Macaine
  • Eugène Fraysse
  • Georges Garnier
  • Marcel Lambert
  • R. Grandjean
  • Fernand Canelle
  • Duparc
  • Gaston Peltier

Université de Bruxelles (Belgium)

  • Marcel Leboutte
  • Raul Kelecom
  • Ernest Moreau de Melen
  • Alphonse Renier
  • Georges Pelgrims
  • Eugène Neefs
  • Eric Thornton (English player)
  • Albert Delbecque
  • Emile Spannoghe
  • Henrik van Heuckelum
  • Lucien Londot

References

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