OLYMPIC TOURNAMENT SEARCHABLE DATABASE
(1908-2024)

(Next update: 12-02-2024)

I'm presenting here a very powerful and complete searchable database containing all the 3,733 games played in the Olympic Football Tournament (also including Pre-Olympic qualifiers), from its inception in 1908 to Paris 2024 edition (in progress). You will be able to make queries about editions, years, cities, rounds, national squads, and scores, either specifically or by combining different fields.

National squads are listed with their international English name, together with their original local name (if necessary) in parentheses. But don't worry: as input for the search box you can also use plain text (with no accents or especial diacritics), truncated forms (first, middle, or last letters of the team's name), or localized spellings (the common name of the team in English or Spanish), and the database will generate the desired results. The use of this database is very easy and intuitive: simply specify or combine the desired data, and the program will generate the list of games that matches those criteria. Remember that you don't have to fill all the fields and also that your query should be logical.

EDITION
Only Final Stage
YEAR
From

 

To
GAME DETAILS
Venue

 

Round
MATCH
OPTION 1 (recommended): DATA INPUT
Free
text. Broad search (non-context sensitive).
vs.
Fixed order of games
OPTION 2: SELECT MENU
English names. Narrow search (context sensitive).

vs.

SCORE


INSTRUCTIONS AND TIPS

Following is a brief introduction and explanation of the different searchable fields:

1) EDITION. Select the desired Olympic Tournament edition. By default, the database will retrieve ALL the games played in the competition, from the continental pre-olympic qualifiers to the Final Stage. If you only want to retrieve the matches of this final round in the host country (Olympic Tournament proper), you should select YES in "Only Final Stage." It's also possible to use the option "Only Final Stage" as a filter combined with each of the fields VENUE and ROUND below.

2) YEAR. Select the first and the last year for the period containing your search. If you only select "year from" or "year to," the search will include, respectively, all the Olympic Tournament games beginning or ending in that year. You should also keep in mind that these natural years don't match the editions above, since normally the pre-olympic rounds are played 1-2 years before the Final Stage.

3) GAME DETAILS. You can further refine your search by selecting VENUE (the place where a game is played, written in its original spelling or a transcription into Latin alphabet) and ROUND (the different continental confederations of the pre-olympic qualifiers or the last rounds of the Final Stage). You will notice in the field ROUND an index of different phases, corresponding to the changes in the competition format of the Olympic Tournament, but all except the ones with the label "PRE-OLYMPIC" are Final Stage rounds. Regarding the pre-olympic qualifiers, please have in mind that the division of continental FIFA confederations has not always been clear in the history of the competition, and some countries are included in a confederation group different from their geographical location (especially the border countries between Europe-Asia, Europe-Africa, Africa-Asia, and Asia-Oceania). The names in this index only reflect the names of the rounds in the different editions of the pre-olympic tournaments. Please, note the following abbreviations attached to some of these preliminary rounds: N/C.America (North/Central America), S.America (South America). [NOTE: Due to database requirements, the apostrophe (') is missing in the following city names: L'Aquila.]

4) MATCH. There are two search options to retrieve games between national teams: a) Data input: The search box will accept almost any combination of plain text, truncated forms, or localized names (English, Spanish, and even the original spelling in the native language/-s and alphabet/-s, which in time can be truncated), as long as it uniquelly identifies a specific team; by default, the query under this option is reversible, so the match "Country A" vs. "Country B" will generate games "Country A-Country B" (Country A plays home in home-and-away preliminary rounds or comes first in the official competition calendar of the Final Stage) and "Country B-Country A" (Country A plays away). If you want to restrict the search to "home" or "away" games (only meaningful for pre-olympic rounds, as explained before), mark the checkbox "Fixed order of games." It should be obvious now that you should never mark this checkbox if you select a Final Stage edition or round, with single-game matches, since this won't retrieve all the games of a specific national squad. Another advantage of this search method is that it generates the full historical record of a national team, including name changes (like USSR > Russia). b) Select menu: The English name of the country can be selected in this drop down index; please, note that this option, although very quick and easy to use, can only generate the fixed order of games specified in the search criteria (that is, "Country A" vs. "Country B," but not the corresponding "Country B" vs. "Country A") and doesn't show the name changes of the selected teams. Because this option is context sensitive to the calendar order of games, in order to make sure you retrieve all the matches of a specific team you have to select it in both the first and second menus. [NOTE: In order to transcribe the local spelling of teams, in most cases I've used standard Unicode fonts to represent characters different from the Latin alphabet, so your Internet explorer should recognize and display them correctly. However, for some complex scripts, I'm using the following TTF fonts, which you might want to download and install in order to avoid visualizing "squares" and properly read these names: Khmer OS Metal Chieng (Khmer of Cambodia), GF Zemen Unicode (Tigrinya of Eritrea and Amharic of Ethiopia), Malithi Web (Sinhala of Sri Lanka), Mangal (Hindi of India and Nepali of Nepal), SutonnyBanglaOMJ (Bengali of Bangladesh), Saysettha OT (Lao of Laos), Myanmar2 (Burmese of Myanmar).]

5) SCORE. This field lists the basic scores in all the games of the Olympic Tournament. The retrieved games also show the score at halftime (in parentheses). Please, note the following abbreviations attached to some scores, containing additional information on the games: a.e.t. (after extra time), r. (replay), w.o. (walkover or forfeit), p.k. (penalty kicks), n.p. (not played).

By combining these basic fields, you can make countless queries according to your specific interest. After you complete your query, the resulting match list is displayed in the following ascendent order: 1) by edition; 2) by round (within the pre-olympic qualifiers, the order is continental group-stage-date, although it doesn't show); 3) by specific date (even within the same year there is a chronological order, although it doesn't show).

Finally, you will notice a link in every single score of the generated list of games. Only the Final Stage matches and all the pre-olympic round games of Spain contain full game statistics (line-ups, stadiums, dates, kick-off times, referees, goals, and relevant incidents). In the case of the countless preliminary round games, the link will simply take you to the edition file (although you might find it useful to check the specific game date and have an overall view of the qualifying groups, together with other explanations about the competition format).