Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics

1980 Men's Olympic football tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Soviet Union
Dates	20 July – 2 August
Teams	16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Czechoslovakia (1st title)
Runners-up	East Germany
Third place	Soviet Union
Fourth place	Yugoslavia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	82 (2.56 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sergey Andreyev (5 goals)
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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 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]

Venues[]

Moscow
Central Lenin Stadium			Dynamo Stadium
Capacity: 91,251			Capacity: 50,475
Minsk		Leningrad		Kyiv
Dinamo Stadium		Kirov Stadium		Republican Stadium
Capacity: 50,125		Capacity: 74,000		Capacity: 100,169

The football tournament was the most attended event on these Olympics: 1,821,624 spectators watched 32 matches of it at the stadiums.

Qualification[]

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:

Match officials[]

Squads[]

Final tournament[]

First round[]

Group A[]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Soviet Union	3	3	0	0	15	1	+14	6
Cuba	3	2	0	1	3	9	−6	4
Venezuela	3	1	0	2	3	7	−4	2
Zambia	3	0	0	3	2	6	−4	0

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Group B[]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Czechoslovakia	3	1	2	0	4	1	+3	4
Kuwait	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	4
Colombia	3	1	1	1	2	4	−2	3
Nigeria	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1

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Group C[]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
East Germany	3	2	1	0	7	1	+6	5
Algeria	3	1	1	1	4	2	+2	3
Spain	3	0	3	0	2	2	0	3
Syria	3	0	1	2	0	8	−8	1

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Group D[]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Yugoslavia	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	5
Iraq	3	1	2	0	4	1	+3	4
Finland	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	3
Costa Rica	3	0	0	3	2	9	−7	0

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Bracket[]

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	27 July - Moscow
	Soviet Union	2
					29 July - Moscow
	Kuwait	1
					Soviet Union	0
	27 July - Kyiv
					East Germany	1
	East Germany	4
									2 August - Moscow
	Iraq	0
									East Germany	0
	27 July - Leningrad
									Czechoslovakia	1
	Czechoslovakia	3
					29 July - Moscow
	Cuba	0
					Czechoslovakia	2
	27 July - Minsk
					Yugoslavia	0			Bronze medal match
	Yugoslavia	3
									1 August - Moscow
	Algeria	0
									Soviet Union	2
									Yugoslavia	0

Quarter-finals[]

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Semi-finals[]

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Bronze Medal match[]

Gold Medal match[]

showTeam details

Czechoslovakia East Germany GK 1 Stanislav Seman DF 3 Josef Mazura DF 2 Luděk Macela DF 4 Libor Radimec DF 5 Zdeněk Rygel MF 14 Oldřich Rott MF 8 Jan Berger MF 16 František Štambachr FW 7 Ladislav Vízek FW 11 Werner Lička FW 10 Lubomír Pokluda Substitutes: FW 9 Jindřich Svoboda MF 6 Petr Němec Manager: František Havránek GK 1 Bodo Rudwaleit DF 13 Matthias Müller DF 3 Lothar Hause DF 12 Norbert Trieloff DF 2 Artur Ullrich MF 6 Rüdiger Schnuphase MF 7 Frank Terletzki MF 8 Wolfgang Steinbach MF 5 Frank Baum FW 17 Wolf-Rüdiger Netz FW 11 Dieter Kühn Substitutes: MF 14 Matthias Liebers Manager: Rudolf Krause

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[]

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Czechoslovakia Stanislav Seman Luděk Macela Josef Mazura Libor Radimec Zdeněk Rygel Petr Němec Ladislav Vízek Jan Berger Jindřich Svoboda Lubomír Pokluda Werner Lička Rostislav Václavíček Jaroslav Netolička Oldřich Rott Zdeněk Šreiner František Štambacher František Kunzo	East Germany Bodo Rudwaleit Artur Ullrich Lothar Hause Frank Uhlig Frank Baum Rüdiger Schnuphase Frank Terletzki Wolfgang Steinbach Jürgen Bähringer Werner Peter Dieter Kühn Norbert Trieloff Matthias Müller Matthias Liebers Bernd Jakubowski Wolf-Rüdiger Netz	Soviet Union Rinat Dasaev Tengiz Sulakvelidze Alexandre Chivadze Vagiz Khidiyatullin Oleg Romantsev Sergey Shavlo Sergey Andreev Vladimir Bessonov Yuri Gavrilov Fyodor Cherenkov Valeri Gazzaev Vladimir Pilguj Sergej Baltacha Sergei Nikulin Khoren Hovhannisyan Alexandr Prokopenko Revaz Chelebadze

Goalscorers[]

With five goals, Sergey Andreyev of Soviet Union is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 82 goals were scored by 52 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

5 goals

• Sergey Andreyev

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goals

• Mahboub Mubarak (playing against Nigeria)

Final ranking[]

Below the final ranking after the end of the tournament.^[3]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	6	4	2	0	10	1	+9	10
2	East Germany (GDR)	6	4	1	1	12	2	+10	9
3	Soviet Union (URS)	6	5	0	1	19	3	+16	10
4	Yugoslavia (YUG)	6	3	1	2	9	7	+2	7
5	Kuwait (KUW)	4	1	2	1	5	4	+1	4
6	Iraq (IRQ)	4	1	2	1	4	5	−1	4
7	Cuba (CUB)	4	2	0	2	3	12	−9	4
8	Algeria (ALG)	4	1	1	2	4	5	−1	3
9	Finland (FIN)	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	3
10	Spain (ESP)	3	0	3	0	2	2	0	3
11	Colombia (COL)	3	1	1	1	2	4	−2	3
12	Venezuela (VEN)	3	1	0	2	3	7	−4	2
13	Nigeria (NGR)	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1
14	Syria (SYR)	3	0	1	2	0	8	−8	1
15	Zambia (ZAM)	3	0	0	3	2	6	−4	0
16	Costa Rica (CRC)	3	0	0	3	2	9	−7	0

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Association football at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

• Olympic Football Tournament Moscow 1980, FIFA.com
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• FIFA Technical Report