Olympic Football Tournament Melbourne 1956
First round
Soviet Union - Germany FR
2:1 (1:0)
Match | Date | Venue / Stadium | Time | Attendance |
| 24 November 1956 | Melbourne / MELBOURNE | 12:00 | 20000 |
- Anatoli ISSAEV (URS) 23',
- Eduard STRELTSOV (URS) 86',
- Ernst HABIG (FRG) 89'
Goals scored
Soviet Union
- Lev YASHIN (GK)
- Nikolai TISHENKO
- Mikhail OGOGNIKOV
- Alexej PARAMONOV
- Anatoli BASHASKHIN
- Igor NETTO
- Boris TATUSHIN
- Anatoli ISSAEV
- Eduard STRELTSOV
- Valentin IVANOV
- Vladimir RYSCHKIN
Line-up
- Boris RASINSKI (GK)
- Nikita SIMONIAN
- Sergei SALNIKOV
- Boris KUZNETSOV
- Anatoli MASLYONKIN
- Anatoli ILYIN
- Iosif BETSA
Substitute(s)
Germany FR
- Albert GOERTZ (GK)
- Willi GERDAU
- Hermann HOFER
- Karl HOFFMANN
- Rudi HOFFMANN
- Fritz SEMMELMANN
- Matthias MAURITZ
- Rolf GEIGER
- Herbert SCHAEFER
- Johann ZEITLER
- Ernst HABIG
Line-up
- Albert BRUELLS
- Manfred EGLIN
- Max SCHWALL
- Gunter JAEGER
Substitute(s)
- Valentin IVANOV (URS) 0'
Cautions
Sent off
Match Officials
Referee Robert MANN (ENG) | Assistant Referee 1 Emil HECHT (AUS) |
Assistant Referee 2 Shigemaru TAKENOKOSHI (JPN) | |
| a.e.t.: | After extra time | (C): | Captain | PSO: | Penalty Shoot-out |
| GK: | Goalkeeper | N: | Not eligible to play | I: | Injured |
| Y: | Misses next match if booked | Pos: | Positions | A: | Absent |
| DF: | Defender | MF: | Midfielder | MinP: | Minutes played |
| GF: | Goals for | GA: | Goals against | PK (PG/PS): | Penalty Kicks (Goals/Shots) |
| FC: | Fouls Committed | FS: | Fouls Suffered | R: | Red Cards |
| FW: | Forward | SOG/S: | Shots on Target | Y: 2YC: | Yellow cards Second yellow card and red card |