Football at the 1906 Intercalated Games

At the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens (often referred to as the "Intercalated Games"), an unofficial football event was held. Only four teams competed, three of them were clubs from Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Medal tables gave the gold to Denmark and the silver and bronze to Turkey.[1]

Football at the 1906 Intercalated Games
Tournament details
Host countryGreece
CityAthens
Dates23–25 April
Teams4
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Denmark (1st title)
Runners-up Smyrna
Third place Thessaloniki
Tournament statistics
Matches played4
Goals scored23 (5.75 per match)

The Athens team withdrew from the final at half time, and were then invited to play off in a match to decide second place, but declined and were promptly ejected from the tournament.[2]

Smyrna and Thessaloniki, both then cities in the Ottoman Empire, played off instead. The Thessaloniki team composition was Greek from the group of "Friends of the Arts" (Omilos Philomuson, later Iraklis Thessaloniki F.C.).[2] The Smyrna (former name of Turkish city İzmir), a team consisted of English, French and Armenian players, was also part of the competition. The Danish team was a selection of players from Copenhagen Football Association.[2][3]

All the matches were played at Podilatodromio, originally a velodrome. This competition was not an official Olympic football tournament so no national football teams participated.[3]

Venue
The 'Podilatodromio' in Athens, venue for the tournament, as seen in 1896

All the matches were hosted at "Neo Phaliron Velodrome" (or "Podilatodromio"), originally a velodrome and sports arena in the Neo Faliro District of Piraeus. This venue had been used for the track cycling events at the Athens 1896 Olympics also held in Athens.[4]

This venue was then demolished to built the Karaiskakis Stadium, a football stadium with capacity for 32,000.[5][6]

Squads
Main article: Football at the 1906 Intercalated Games – Men's team squads
  •  Denmark: Viggo Andersen, Peder Pedersen, Charles von Buchwald, Parmo Ferslev, Stefan Rasmussen, Aage Andersen, Oscar Nielsen, Carl Pedersen, Holger Frederiksen, August Lindgren, Henry Rambusch, Hjalmar Herup
  • Smyrna (Ottoman Empire): Edwin Charnaud, Zareh Kouyoumdjian, Edouard Giraud, Jacques Giraud, Henri Joly, Percy de la Fontaine, Donald Whittal, Albert Whittal, Godfrey Whittal, Harold Whittal, Edward Whittal.
  • Thessaloniki (Formed by Greek players):[2] Georgios Vaporis, Nikolaos Pindos, Antonios Tegos, Nikolaos Pentzikis, Ioannis Kyrou, Georgios Sotiriadis, Vasilios Zarkadis, Dimitrios Mikhitsopoulos, Antonios Karagionidis, Ioannis Abbot, Ioannis Saridakis.
  • Athens (Greece): Panagiotis Vrionis, Nikolaos Dekavalas, Georgios Merkouris, Konstantinos Botasis, Grigorios Vrionis, Panagiotis Botasis, Georgios Gerontakis, Giorgos Kalafatis, Theodoros Nikolaidis, Konstantinos Siriotis, A. Georgiadis.
Medallists
Denmark
Smyrna
Thessaloniki

Results
Denmark 5–1 Smyrna
Report
Referee: Goster Drake (Sweden)
Athens 5–0 Thessaloniki
Report
Referee: Carl Anderson (Denmark)

Final
Denmark 9–0 Athens
Report
Referee: Goster Drake (Sweden)

Second place match

As Athens was disqualified after their players refused to play the second half of the first match

Smyrna 12–0 Thessaloniki
Report
Referee: Carl Anderson (Denmark)

Tournament ranking
Pos. Team Pld W D L Gf Ga Gd Pts
1 Denmark (DEN)2200141+134
2 Smyrna2111135+82
3 Thessaloniki2002017-170

References
  1. "Football: 1906 Intercalated Games Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  2. Intermediate Games of the IV. Olympiad - Football Tournament by Søren Elbech and Karel Stokkermans at the RSSSF
  3. 1906 - Athens at the IFFHS (archived)
  4. 1896 Summer Olympics official report
  5. Επίσημα στοιχεία ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΚΟΣ Σ.Φ.Π. 2018-19 (in Greek). superleaguegreece.net. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  6. "Seating Plan" (in Greek). olympiacos.org. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
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