Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics

The tournament attracted a record 13 entries that were accepted, all of them from Europe. A fourteenth entry of Bohemia was rejected, as only nations or associations affiliated with FIFA were admitted. France and Belgium withdrew shortly before the draw, or assignment of places in the main tournament, leaving a record 11 contestants.

The Football Association entered a Great Britain national amateur team to represent the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Ireland).

A total of 135+28 footballers from 11 nations competed at the Stockholm Games:[note 1]

•  Austria (11+4)
•  Denmark (15)
•  Finland (13) Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
•  Germany (11+11)
•  Great Britain (14) UK of Great Britain and Ireland
•  Hungary (11+3)
•  Italy (12+2)
•  Netherlands (15)
•  Norway (11+1)
•  Russian Empire (11+4)
•  Sweden (11+3)

In the first round of the tournament, the hosts from Sweden went out in the opening match against the Netherlands. Fighting back from a 1–3 deficit with half an hour to go, Sweden only lost 4–3 on a goal scored by Dutch player Jan Vos in extra time. At Tranebergs Idrottsplats, Austrian football pioneer Hugo Meisl was the referee as Finland beat Italy, also in extra time.

In the second round, Finland won again, this time beating Russia, who had received a bye in the first round. By this stage, Great Britain team entered the contest, drawn to play against Hungary at Olympiastadion. Great Britain was captained by Vivian Woodward, a record-scoring centre-forward from Chelsea, who had formed part of Great Britain's gold medal winning side of the 1908 Summer Olympics. Led by forward Harold Walden, who scored six goals, Great Britain defeated Hungary by 7–0.

In the semi-final round, Walden scored all four goals as Great Britain defeated Finland 4–0. In the other semi-final Denmark beat the Netherlands 4–1; the Dutch consolation goal put behind goalkeeper Sophus Hansen by Danish defender Harald Hansen. For the second successive time, the final would pair Great Britain with Denmark, and like in 1908, the team representing Great Britain would win gold medals, although this game would be closer than the 4–2 score-line suggested. With no rule allowing substitutions, Denmark played with ten men after the 30th minute when Charles Buchwald was injured and had to be taken from the pitch on a stretcher.

A consolation tournament ran conjunctively with the tournament proper paired the losers of the first and second rounds, and was eventually won by Hungary,[5] although no medals were awarded for the top three finishers in that tournament.[3]

German player Gottfried Fuchs equalled the record for most goals in an international (set by Dane Sophus Nielsen in the 1908 Olympics) with 10 goals for Germany against Russia; this record stood until 2001.

The database of the International Olympic Committee lists only the eleven players as medalists for each nation, who played in the first match for their nation.[6] The following list contains these eleven players, as well as all other players who made at least one appearance for their team during the tournament.

(Left): Great Britain, Gold Medal; (right): Denmark team, Silver Medal winner

The Netherlands team, Bronze Medal

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Great Britain Arthur Berry Ronald Brebner Thomas Burn Joseph Dines Edward Hanney Gordon Hoare Arthur Knight Henry Littlewort Douglas McWhirter Ivan Sharpe Harold Stamper Harold Walden Vivian Woodward Gordon Wright	Denmark Paul Berth Charles Buchwald Hjalmar Christoffersen Harald Hansen Sophus Hansen Emil Jørgensen Ivar Lykke Nils Middelboe Oskar Nielsen Poul Nielsen Sophus Nielsen Anthon Olsen Axel Petersen Axel Thufason Vilhelm Wolfhagen	Netherlands Piet Bouman Joop Boutmy Nico Bouvy Huug de Groot Bok de Korver Nico de Wolf Constant Feith Ge Fortgens Just Göbel Dirk Lotsy Caesar ten Cate Jan van Breda Kolff Jan van der Sluis Jan Vos David Wijnveldt