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The Middle East section of the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Football Qualifiers acted as qualifiers for the 1960 Summer Olympics football tournament, held in Italy, for national teams that are members of the Middle East.

Entrants

Three national teams entered qualification.

•  Iraq
•  Lebanon
•  Turkey

Format

The three teams played a home-and-away round-robin tournament.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Turkey	4	4	0	0	10	3	+7	8	Qualification for 1960 Summer Olympics		—	7–1	–
2	Iraq	4	2	0	2	14	10	+4	4			2–3	—	8–0
3	Lebanon	4	0	0	4	0	11	−11	0	Withdrew		–	0–3	—

Matches

Lebanon	0–3	Iraq
		Baba 2', 70' Abdullah 85'

Iraq	8–0	Lebanon
Baba 5', 27' Abdullah 17', 40', 50', 85' Salih 58', 88'

Turkey	7–1	Iraq
Yalçınkaya 14', 72' Şensan 37', 61', 87' Güneş 54' Köken 74'		Baba 12'

Iraq	2–3	Turkey
Baba 35', 52'		Güneş 20' Atakan 60' Yalçınkaya 65'

Turkey	w/o	Lebanon

Lebanon	w/o	Turkey

Qualified team

The following team from the Middle East qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in the Summer Olympics
Turkey	Winners	30 April 1960	5 (1924, 1928, 1936, 1948, 1952)

Notes

1. ^ Lebanon withdrew after two matches, as the remaining two matches were awarded to their opponent Turkey.

References

1. "Games of the XVII. Olympiad - Football Qualifying Tournament – Near East". RSSSF. 12 May 2021.
2. "Men Football XVII Olympic Games Roma, Italy 1960 Qualifications – Middle East". todor66.com. Retrieved 21 July 2024.

• Football qualification for the 1960 Summer Olympics