Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's European Qualifiers – Group 5

The 1960 Summer Olympics football qualification – Europe Group 5 was one of the seven European groups in the Summer Olympics football qualification tournament to decide which teams would qualify for the Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics finals tournament in Italy. Group 5 consisted of three teams: Great Britain, Republic of Ireland and Netherlands. The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners, Great Britain, qualified directly for the Summer Olympics football finals.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Great Britain	4	3	1	0	13	6	+7	7	Qualification for 1960 Summer Olympics		—	3–2	2–2
2	Republic of Ireland	4	1	1	2	9	9	0	3			1–3	—	6–3
3	Netherlands	4	0	2	2	6	13	−7	2			1–5	0–0	—

Source: RSSSF

Matches

14 October 1959

Netherlands	0–0	Republic of Ireland
	Report

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21 November 1959

Great Britain	3–2	Republic of Ireland
Hasty 1', 35', 82'	Report	Aherne 60' Rice 80'

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13 March 1960

Republic of Ireland	1–3	Great Britain
McGrath 58'	Report	Coates 47' Brown 75' Harding 80'

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2 April 1960

Netherlands	1–5	Great Britain
Hainje 75'	Report	Lewis 21', 83', 85' Lindsay 47' Brown 80'

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13 April 1960

Great Britain	2–2	Netherlands
Brown 5' Lewis 60'	Report	de Kleermaeker 70' Bouwman 75'

White Hart Lane, London

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20 April 1960

Republic of Ireland	6–3	Netherlands
McCarthy 5' McGrath 14', 45' Hale 20', 81' van Ierland 56' (o.g.)	Report	Hainje 21' Bouwman 58' Slijkhuis 70'

Goalscorers

There were 28 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 4.67 goals per match.

4 goals

• Jim Lewis

3 goals

• Bobby Brown
• Paddy Hasty
• Mick McGrath

2 goals

• Alfie Hale
• Paul Bouwman
• Bart Hainje

1 goal

• Arnold Coates
• Tony Harding
• Hugh Lindsay
• Mick Aherne
• Frank McCarthy
• Sonny Rice
• Leo de Kleermaeker
• Theo Slijkhuis

1 own goal

• Frits van Ierland (against Republic of Ireland)