Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics

1980 Men's Olympic football tournament

Tournament details
Host country	USSR
Dates	20 July - 2 August
Teams	16 (from 6 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)
Attendance	1,821,624 (56,926 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sergey Andreyev (5 goals)

The football tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics started on July 20 and ended on August 2. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested.A few of the countries which qualified did not participate because of the boycotting such as Malaysia.

Sixteen teams were divided into four groups:

• Group A (Cuba, USSR, 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,".^[1]

Venues

Moscow	Moscow	Minsk	Leningrad	Kiev
Central Lenin Stadium	Dynamo Stadium	Dynama Stadium	Kirov Stadium	Republican Stadium
Capacity: 91,251	Capacity: 50,475	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 political boycott, some countries (in brackets) who qualified did not enter the Final Tournament. 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
	July 27 - Moscow
	Soviet Union	2
					July 29 - Moscow
	Kuwait	1
					East Germany	1
	July 27 - Kiev
					Soviet Union	0
	East Germany	4
									August 2 - Moscow
	Iraq	0
									Czechoslovakia	1
	July 27 - Leningrad
									East Germany	0
	Czechoslovakia	3
					July 29 - Moscow
	Cuba	0
					Czechoslovakia	2			Bronze medal match
	July 27 - Minsk
					Yugoslavia	0			August 1 - Moscow
	Yugoslavia	3
									Soviet Union	2
	Algeria	0
									Yugoslavia	0

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze Medal match

Gold Medal match

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 František Štambacher František Kunzo	East Germany Bodo Rudwaleit Arthur 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

Remark:country names are given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1980.

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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.^[2]

Rank	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	1
16	Costa Rica (CRC)	3	0	0	3	2	9	–7	0

References

1. ↑ "FIFA Technical Report - 1980 Olympics Football Tournament" (PDF). FIFA. 1980. Retrieved 26 February 2014. 
2. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tableso/ol1980f-det.html

External links

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