Football at the International Workers' Olympiads
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Association football was included in every three editions of International Workers' Summer Olympiads in 1925, 1931 and 1937 as a men's competition sport. Tournaments were played as a single-elimination tournament. Countries were represented by selected teams of their workers' sports associations and the players were mostly amateurs. Exception was the Soviet team in 1937 as it was based mostly on the team of masters of Spartak sports society out of Moscow and participating in the recently established in the Soviet Union competitions of football teams of sports societies, Class A, a predecessor of the Soviet Top League.
Group stage
1925 Workers' Summer Olympiad was held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Participating teams in the football tournament were Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany and Switzerland.[1]
Switzerland  | beat |  France |
|---|---|---|
Belgium  | beat | Switzerland |
|---|---|---|
Germany  | 6–0 | Switzerland |
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Finland  | 4–2 [2] | Belgium |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 3–1 | Belgium |
|---|---|---|
Semifinals
| Germany | 6–1 |  Czechoslovakia |
|---|---|---|
Final
Vienna 1931
1931 Workers' Summer Olympiad was held in Vienna, Austria and 16 teams took part at the football tournament.[4] Leading scorer was Erwin Seeler, the father of famous German striker Uwe Seeler. He scored seven goals on a quarterfinal match against Hungary as the German team beat the Hungarians 9–0.[5]
First round
| Czechoslovakia | 4–4 (Czechoslovakia qualified after drawing lots) |  Norway |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 3–0 |  Latvia |
|---|---|---|
Quarterfinals
Austria  | 8–1 | Switzerland |
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