Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Tournament details
Host country	South Korea
Dates	September 17 – October 1
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Soviet Union
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	West Germany
Fourth place	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	95 (2.97 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Romário (7 goals)

A 16 team Football tournament was played as part of the 1988 Summer Olympics. The tournament featured men's national teams from six continental confederations. The 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four and each group played a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at Olympic Stadium on October 1, 1988.

Venues

Seoul	Olympic Stadium Busan Stadium Daegu Stadium Daejeon Stadium Dongdaemun Stadium Gwangju Stadium Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics (South Korea)					Busan
Olympic Stadium						Busan Stadium
Capacity: 69,950						Capacity: 30,000
Daegu						Daejeon
Daegu Stadium						Daejeon Stadium
Capacity: 23,278						Capacity: 30,000
Seoul						Gwangju
Dongdaemun Stadium						Gwangju Stadium
Capacity: 26,383						Capacity: 30,000

Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Borodyuk Oleksiy Cherednyk Igor Dobrovolski Sergei Fokin Sergei Gorlukovich Arvydas Janonis Gela Ketashvili Dmitry Kharin Yevgeni Kuznetsov Viktor Losev Volodymyr Lyuty Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko Arminas Narbekovas Igor Ponomarev Yury Savichev Igor Sklyarov Vladimir Tatarchuk Yevgeny Yarovenko Alexei Prudnikov Vadym Tyshchenko	Brazil (BRA) Ademir Aloísio Andrade Batista Bebeto Careca André Cruz Edmar Geovani João Paulo Jorginho Milton Neto Romário Cláudio Taffarel Luiz Carlos Winck Ricardo Gomes Mazinho Valdo Filho Zé Carlos	West Germany (FRG) Rudi Bommer Holger Fach Wolfgang Funkel Armin Görtz Roland Grahammer Thomas Häßler Thomas Hörster Olaf Janßen Uwe Kamps Gerhard Kleppinger Jürgen Klinsmann Frank Mill Karl-Heinz Riedle Christian Schreier Michael Schulz Ralf Sievers Fritz Walter Wolfram Wuttke Oliver Reck Gunnar Sauer

Note: The players above the line played at least one game in this tournament, the players below the line were only squad members. Nevertheless, the International Olympic Committee medal database credits them all as medalists.

Qualification

The following 16 teams qualified for the 1988 Olympics football tournament:

Participating nations

Each country was allowed to enter a team of 20 players and they all were eligible for participation. A total number of 314 footballers were entered.

A total of 268(*) footballers from 16 nations competed at the Seoul Games:

• Argentina (16 – from a squad of 19)
• Australia (16 – from a squad of 20)
• Brazil (16 – from a squad of 20)
• China (14 – from a squad of 18)
• Guatemala (17 – from a squad of 19)
• Iraq (16 – from a squad of 20)
• Italy (18 – from a squad of 20)
• South Korea (16 – from a squad of 20)
• Nigeria (17 – from a squad of 20)
• Sweden (17 – from a squad of 20)
• Tunisia (19 – from a squad of 20)
• United States (16 – from a squad of 20)
• Soviet Union (18 – from a squad of 20)
• West Germany (18 – from a squad of 20)
• Yugoslavia (16 – from a squad of 18)
• Zambia (18 – from a squad of 20)

(*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.

Final tournament

First round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	5
West Germany	3	2	0	1	8	3	+5	4
Tunisia	3	0	2	1	3	6	−3	2
China PR	3	0	1	2	0	5	−5	1

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Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Zambia	3	2	1	0	10	2	+8	5
Italy	3	2	0	1	7	6	+1	4
Iraq	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	3
Guatemala	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0

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Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Soviet Union	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	5
Argentina	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	3
South Korea	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	2
United States	3	0	2	1	3	5	−2	2

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Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	3	0	0	9	1	+8	6
Australia	3	2	0	1	2	3	−1	4
Yugoslavia	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	2
Nigeria	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0

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Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	September 25 – Daegu
	Sweden	1
					September 27 – Busan
	Italy (aet)	2
					Italy	2
	September 25 – Busan
					Soviet Union (aet)	3
	Soviet Union	3
									October 1 – Seoul
	Australia	0
									Soviet Union (aet)	2
	September 25 – Gwangju
									Brazil	1
	Zambia	0
					September 27 – Seoul
	West Germany	4
					West Germany	1 (2)			Bronze medal match
	September 25 – Seoul
					Brazil (aet)	1 (3)			September 30 – Seoul
	Brazil	1
									Italy	0
	Argentina	0
									West Germany	3

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Final ranking

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Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Soviet Union (URS)	6	5	1	0	14	6	+8	11
2	Brazil (BRA)	6	4	1	1	12	4	+8	9
3	West Germany (FRG)	6	4	1	1	16	4	+12	9
4	Italy (ITA)	6	3	0	3	11	13	–2	6
5	Zambia (ZAM)	4	2	1	1	10	6	+4	5
6	Sweden (SWE)	4	2	1	1	7	5	+2	5
7	Australia (AUS)	4	2	0	2	2	6	–4	4
8	Argentina (ARG)	4	1	1	2	4	5	–1	3
9	Iraq (IRQ)	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	3
10	Yugoslavia (YUG)	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	2
11	South Korea (KOR)	3	0	2	1	1	2	–1	2
12	United States (USA)	3	0	2	1	3	5	−2	2
13	Tunisia (TUN)	3	0	2	1	3	6	−3	2
14	China (CHN)	3	0	1	2	0	5	–5	1
15	Nigeria (NGR)	3	0	0	3	1	8	–7	0
16	Guatemala (GUA)	3	0	0	3	2	12	–10	0

Venues

• Olympic Stadium – Seoul
• Dongdaemun Stadium – Seoul
• Busan Gudeok Stadium – Busan
• Daegu Civic Stadium – Daegu
• Daejeon Hanbat Stadium – Daejeon
• Gwangju Mudeung Stadium – Gwangju

Match officials

Goalscorers

With seven goals, Romário of Brazil was the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 95 goals were scored by 53 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

7 goals

• Romário

6 goals

• Igor Dobrovolski
• Kalusha Bwalya

5 goals

• Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko

4 goals

• Jürgen Klinsmann

3 goals

• Carlos Alfaro
• Pietro Paolo Virdis
• Jan Hellström
• Frank Mill

2 goals

1 goal

Own goal

• Rocael Mazariegos (playing against Iraq)

References

1. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tableso/ol1988f-det.html

External links

• Olympic Football Tournament Seoul 1988, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Summary
• FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)