Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Soviet Union |
Dates | 20 July – 2 August 1980 |
Teams | 16 (from 5 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 5 (in 4 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Third place | ![]() |
Fourth place | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 82 (2.56 per match) |
Attendance | 1,821,624 (56,926 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() |
The football tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics started on 20 July and ended on 2 August. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. Seven qualified countries did not participate, joining the American-led boycott in protest of the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.[1]
Sixteen teams were divided into four groups:
- Group A (USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, Zambia)
- Group B (Colombia, Kuwait, Nigeria, Czechoslovakia)
- Group C (Algeria, Spain, GDR, Syria)
- Group D (Costa Rica, Finland, Iraq, Yugoslavia)
In the technical report following the competition, FIFA reported that: "Compared with the 1979 World Youth Tournament in Japan and the 1978 World Cup finals in Argentina, the standard of football at the Olympic Football Tournament was generally of an inferior quality".[2]
The tournament was primarily hosted by Moscow and Leningrad in the Russian SFSR, with some group stage games in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR and Minsk, Byelorussian SSR.
Venues
[edit]Moscow | |||||
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Central Lenin Stadium | Dynamo Stadium | ||||
Capacity: 91,251 | Capacity: 50,475 | ||||
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Minsk | Leningrad | Kiev | |||
Dinamo Stadium | Kirov Stadium | Republican Stadium | |||
Capacity: 50,125 | Capacity: 74,000 | Capacity: 100,169 | |||
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The football tournament was the most attended event on these Olympics: 1,821,624 spectators watched 32 matches of it at the stadiums.
Qualification
[edit]Due to the American-led boycott, countries (in brackets) who qualified did not enter the final tournament. Spain sent a team under the IOC flag. The following 16 teams qualified for the 1980 Olympics football tournament:
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Match officials
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Squads
[edit]Final tournament
[edit]First round
[edit]Group A
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | +14 | 6 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 4 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 |
Soviet Union ![]() | 4–0 | ![]() |
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Andreyev ![]() Cherenkov ![]() Gavrilov ![]() Hovhannisyan ![]() |
Report |
Soviet Union ![]() | 3–1 | ![]() |
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Khidiyatullin ![]() Cherenkov ![]() |
Report | Chitalu ![]() |
Soviet Union ![]() | 8–0 | ![]() |
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Andreyev ![]() Romantsev ![]() Shavlo ![]() Cherenkov ![]() Gavrilov ![]() Bessonov ![]() |
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Group B
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 4 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 |
Czechoslovakia ![]() | 3–0 | ![]() |
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Pokluda ![]() Berger ![]() Vízek ![]() |
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Kuwait ![]() | 3–1 | ![]() |
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Al-Dakhil ![]() |
Report | Mubarak ![]() |
Czechoslovakia ![]() | 1–1 | ![]() |
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Vízek ![]() |
Report | Nwosu ![]() |
Colombia ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
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Cardona ![]() |
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Czechoslovakia ![]() | 0–0 | ![]() |
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Group C
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 5 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 1 |
East Germany ![]() | 1–1 | ![]() |
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Kühn ![]() |
Report | Marcos ![]() |
Algeria ![]() | 3–0 | ![]() |
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Belloumi ![]() Madjer ![]() Merzekane ![]() |
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East Germany ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
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Terletzki ![]() |
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Spain ![]() | 0–0 | ![]() |
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Group D
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 5 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 4 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 0 |
Yugoslavia ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
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Šećerbegović ![]() Šestić ![]() |
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Iraq ![]() | 3–0 | ![]() |
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Ahmed ![]() Saeed ![]() Hassan ![]() |
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Yugoslavia ![]() | 3–2 | ![]() |
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Zlatko Vujović ![]() Primorac ![]() |
Report | White ![]() Arroyo ![]() |
Yugoslavia ![]() | 1–1 | ![]() |
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Zoran Vujović ![]() |
Report | Hassan ![]() |
Bracket
[edit]Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
27 July – Moscow | ||||||||||
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29 July – Moscow | ||||||||||
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27 July – Kiev | ||||||||||
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2 August – Moscow | ||||||||||
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27 July – Leningrad | ||||||||||
![]() | 1 | |||||||||
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29 July – Moscow | ||||||||||
![]() | 0 | |||||||||
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27 July – Minsk | ||||||||||
![]() | 0 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
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1 August – Moscow | ||||||||||
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Quarter-finals
[edit]Yugoslavia ![]() | 3–0 | ![]() |
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Miročević ![]() Šestić ![]() Zoran Vujović ![]() |
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Czechoslovakia ![]() | 3–0 | ![]() |
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Vízek ![]() Pokluda ![]() |
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East Germany ![]() | 4–0 | ![]() |
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Schnuphase ![]() Netz ![]() Steinbach ![]() Terletzki ![]() |
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Semi-finals
[edit]Soviet Union ![]() | 0–1 | ![]() |
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Report | Netz ![]() |
Czechoslovakia ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
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Lička ![]() Šreiner ![]() |
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Bronze Medal match
[edit]Soviet Union ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
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Hovhannisyan ![]() Andreyev ![]() |
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Gold Medal match
[edit]Czechoslovakia ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
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Svoboda ![]() |
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The final was played in a hard rain for the third straight Olympics. Both teams played with ten players after the 58th minute after one player from each team was red-carded.
Medalists
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Goalscorers
[edit]With five goals, Sergey Andreyev of Soviet Union was the top scorer of the tournament. In total, 82 goals were scored by 52 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Rabah Madjer
Chaabane Merzekane
Benjamin Cardona
Carlos Molinares
Omar Arroyo
Jorge White
Luis Hernández
Ramón Núñez
Andrés Roldán
Jan Berger
Werner Lička
Zdeněk Šreiner
Jindřich Svoboda
Jouko Alila
Jouko Soini
Ari Tissari
Lothar Hause
Dieter Kühn
Werner Peter
Rüdiger Schnuphase
Wolfgang Steinbach
Hadi Ahmed
Hussein Saeed
Henry Nwosu
Marcos Alonso Peña
Hipólito Rincón
Oleg Romantsev
Sergey Shavlo
Volodymyr Bessonov
Robert Elie
Dževad Šećerbegović
Boro Primorac
Ante Miročević
- Own goals
Mahboub Mubarak (playing against Nigeria)
Final ranking
[edit]Below the final ranking after the end of the tournament.[3]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | ![]() |
6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | 10 |
2 | ![]() |
6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 9 |
3 | ![]() |
6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 3 | +16 | 10 |
4 | ![]() |
6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 7 |
5 | ![]() |
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 |
6 | ![]() |
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 4 |
7 | ![]() |
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 4 |
8 | ![]() |
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 |
9 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
10 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
11 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 3 |
12 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 |
13 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 |
14 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 1 |
15 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 |
16 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 0 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Football at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ "FIFA Technical Report - 1980 Olympics Football Tournament" (PDF). FIFA. 1980. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ^ "Football Tournament 1980 Olympiad".
External links
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