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)
Top scorer(s) Soviet Union 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.

Sixteen teams were divided into four groups:

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

The football tournament was held in five venues:

The final was held at the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium and the match for the 3rd place was held at the Grand Arena of the Dynamo Stadium. The football tournament was the most attended event on these Olympics: 1,821,624 spectators watched 32 matches of it at the stadiums.

Final:Czechoslovakia - GDR, Luzsnyiki Stadium

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

Africa
Asia

North and Central America
  • Costa Rica Luis Siles Calderón
  • Cuba Ramón Calderón Castro
  • Mexico Mario Rubio Vázquez
South America

Europe

Squads

Final tournament

First round

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Soviet Union 3300151+146
 Cuba 32013964
 Venezuela 31023742
 Zambia 30032640

July 20, 1980
12:00
Cuba  1 0  Zambia
Roldán  58' Report
Kirov Stadium, Leningrad
Attendance: 100.000
Referee: Marijan Raus Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

July 20, 1980
12:00
Soviet Union  4 0  Venezuela
Andreyev  3'
Cherenkov  25'
Gavrilov  34'
Hovhannisyan  51'
Report

July 22, 1980
12:00
Cuba  2 1  Venezuela
Hernández  49'
Núñez  71'
Report Zubizarreta  68'
Kirov Stadium, Leningrad
Attendance: 70.000
Referee: Emilio Guruceta-Muro Spain

July 22, 1980
12:00
Soviet Union  3 1  Zambia
Khidiyatullin  9'  51'
Cherenkov  87'
Report Chitalu  13'

July 24, 1980
12:00
Soviet Union  8 0  Cuba
Andreyev  8'  27'  44'
Romantsev  20'
Shavlo  43'
Cherenkov  55'
Gavrilov  75'
Bessonov  77'
Report

July 24, 1980
12:00
Venezuela  2 1  Zambia
Zubizarreta  86'
Elie  90' (p.k.)
Report Chitalu  73'
Kirov Stadium, Leningrad
Attendance: 80.000
Referee: Jesús Paulino Siles Costa Rica

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Czechoslovakia 312041+34
 Kuwait 312042+24
 Colombia 31112423
 Nigeria 30122531

July 21, 1980
12:00
Czechoslovakia  3 0  Colombia
Pokluda  14'
Berger  18'
Vízek  85'
Report

July 21, 1980
12:00
Kuwait  3 1  Nigeria
Al-Dakhil  16'  40'  85' (p.k.) Report Mubarak  25' (o.g.)
Dinamo Stadium, Moscow
Referee: Klaus Scheurell East Germany

July 23, 1980
12:00
Colombia  1 1  Kuwait
Molinares  73' Report Yaqoub  64'
Dinamo Stadium, Moscow
Referee: Anders Mattson Finland

July 23, 1980
12:00
Czechoslovakia  1 1  Nigeria
Vízek  25' Report Nwosu  84'

July 25, 1980
12:00
Colombia  1 0  Nigeria
Cardona  55' Report
Dinamo Stadium, Moscow
Referee: Salim Naji Al-Hachami Iraq

July 25, 1980
12:00
Czechoslovakia  0 0  Kuwait
Report
Kirov Stadium, Leningrad
Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi Italy

Group C

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 East Germany 321071+65
 Algeria 311142+23
 Spain 30302203
 Syria 30120881

July 20, 1980
12:00
East Germany  1 1  Spain
Kühn  49' Report Marcos  50'
Republican Stadium, Kiev
Attendance: 100.000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson Sweden

July 20, 1980
12:00
Algeria  3 0  Syria
Belloumi  36'
Madjer  48'
Merzekane  73' (p.k.)
Report

July 22, 1980
12:00
East Germany  1 0  Algeria
Terletzki  61' Report
Republican Stadium, Kiev
Attendance: 70.000
Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho Brazil

July 22, 1980
12:00
Spain  0 0  Syria
Report
Dinamo Stadium, Minsk
Referee: José Castro Lozada Venezuela

July 24, 1980
12:00
Spain  1 1  Algeria
Rincón  38' Report Belloumi  63'
Dinamo Stadium, Minsk
Referee: Eldar Azim Zade Soviet Union

July 24, 1980
12:00
East Germany  5 0  Syria
Hause  6'
Netz  25'  45'
Peter  75'
Terletzki  82'
Report
Republican Stadium, Kiev
Attendance: 80.000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson Sweden

Group D

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Yugoslavia 321063+35
 Iraq 312041+34
 Finland 311132+13
 Costa Rica 30032970

July 21, 1980
12:00
Yugoslavia  2 0  Finland
Šećerbegović  56'
Šestić  58'
Report
Dinamo Stadium, Minsk
Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez Mexico

July 21, 1980
12:00
Iraq  3 0  Costa Rica
Basheer  45'
Saeed  49'
Hassan  75'
Report
Republican Stadium, Kiev
Referee: Nyirenda Chayu Zambia

July 23, 1980
12:00
Yugoslavia  3 2  Costa Rica
Zlatko Vujović  6'  54'
Primorac  24'
Report White  35'
Arroyo  90'
Dinamo Stadium, Minsk
Referee: Bassey Eyo-Honesty Nigeria

July 23, 1980
12:00
Finland  0 0  Iraq
Report
Republican Stadium, Kiev
Attendance: 40.000
Referee: Ramón Calderón Castro Cuba

July 25, 1980
12:00
Finland  3 0  Costa Rica
Tissari  18'
Alila  58'
Soini  88'
Report
Republican Stadium, Kiev
Referee: Ali Albannai Abdulwahab Kuwait

July 25, 1980
12:00
Yugoslavia  1 1  Iraq
Zoran Vujović  63' Report Hassan  61'

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

July 27, 1980
12:00
Yugoslavia  3 0  Algeria
Miročević  5'
Šestić  19'
Zoran Vujović  70'
Report
Dinamo Stadium, Minsk
Referee: Klaus Scheurell East Germany

July 27, 1980
12:00
Soviet Union  2 1  Kuwait
Cherenkov  30'
Gavrilov  51'
Report Yaqoub  59'
Dinamo Stadium, Moscow
Attendance: 48.000
Referee: Mario Rubio Vazquez Mexico

July 27, 1980
12:00
Czechoslovakia  3 0  Cuba
Vízek  29'  59'
Pokluda  90'
Report

July 27, 1980
12:00
East Germany  4 0  Iraq
Schnuphase  4' (p.k.)
Netz  11'
Steinbach  17'
Terletzki  22'
Report
Republican Stadium, Kiev
Attendance: 48.000
Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho Brazil

Semi-finals

July 29, 1980
12:00
Soviet Union  0 1  East Germany
Report Netz  16'
Lenin Stadium, Moscow
Attendance: 95.000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson Sweden

July 29, 1980
13:00
Czechoslovakia  2 0  Yugoslavia
Lička  4'
Sreiner  18'
Report
Dinamo Stadium, Moscow
Attendance: 48.000
Referee: Franz Woehrer Austria

Bronze Medal match

August 1, 1980
12:00
Soviet Union  2 0  Yugoslavia
Hovhannisyan  67'
Andreyev  82'
Report
Dinamo Stadium, Moscow
Attendance: 45.000
Referee: Bob Valentine United Kingdom

Gold Medal match

August 2, 1980
12:00
Czechoslovakia  1 0  East Germany
Svoboda  77' Report
Lenin Stadium, Moscow
Attendance: 70.000
Referee: Eldar Azim Zade Soviet Union

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.

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
4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goals

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) 6420101+910
2  East Germany (GDR) 6411122+109
3  Soviet Union (URS) 6501193+1610
4  Yugoslavia (YUG) 631297+27
5  Kuwait (KUW) 412154+14
6  Iraq (IRQ) 412145-14
7  Cuba (CUB) 4202312-94
8  Algeria (ALG) 411245-13
9  Finland (FIN) 311132+13
10  Spain (ESP) 30302203
11  Colombia (COL) 311124-23
12  Venezuela (VEN) 310237-42
13  Nigeria (NGR) 301225-31
14  Syria (SYR) 301208–81
15  Zambia (ZAM) 300326–41
16  Costa Rica (CRC) 300329–70

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

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