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The 1960 Summer Olympics football qualification – Africa Group 1 was one of the three African 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 1 consisted of three teams: Malta, Morocco and Tunisia. The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners, Tunisia, qualified for the second round.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tunisia	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2	5	Advance to second round		—	2–0	2–0
2	Morocco	4	2	1	1	7	6	+1	5			3–1	—	2–1
3	Malta	4	0	2	2	3	6	−3	2			0–0	2–2	—

Matches

Malta	0–0	Tunisia
	Report

Malta	2–2	Morocco
Dalli ?' Mackay ?'	Report	Benchekroun 57' Ben Abadenahan 73'

Tunisia	2–0	Morocco
Henia 20', 32'	Report

Tunisia	2–0	Malta
Henia 51' Braiek 88'	Report

Morocco	2–1	Malta
Machiche 13' Mourchid 42'	Report	Dalli ?'

Morocco	3–1	Tunisia
Benchekroun 4', 73' Mokhlatif 48'	Report	Neji 48'

Goalscorers

There were 15 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 2.5 goals per match.

3 goals

• M. Ben Abadenahan
• Méjri Henia

2 goals

• Billy Dalli

1 goal

• Charles Mackay
• A. Benchekroun
• M. Machiche
• A. Mokhlatif
• A. Mourchid
• Hédi Braiek
• A. Neji

References

1. "Games of the XVII. Olympiad – Football Qualifying Tournament – (Roma, Italy, 1960): AFRICA". RSSSF. 12 May 2021.
2. "Weekend sports summary". The Bulletin (Bend). 28 December 1959. p. 3.

• Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's African Qualifiers