Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics
| Tournament details | |
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| 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) |
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:
- 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
The football tournament was held in five venues:
- The Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium (Moscow)
- The Grand Arena of the Dynamo Stadium (Moscow)
- Kirov Stadium (Leningrad)
- Republican Stadium (Kiev)
- Dynamo Stadium (Minsk)
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.
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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:
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Match Officials
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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 |
.svg.png){kind=small} Venezuela |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 |
 Zambia |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 |
July 20, 1980 12:00 |
| Soviet Union |
4 – 0 | Venezuela |
|---|---|---|
Andreyev  3' Cherenkov 25' Gavrilov 34' Hovhannisyan 51' |
Report |
July 24, 1980 12:00 |
| Soviet Union |
8 – 0 | Cuba |
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| Andreyev 8' 27' 44' Romantsev 20' Shavlo 43' Cherenkov 55' Gavrilov 75' Bessonov 77' |
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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 |
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 |
.svg.png){kind=small} Spain |
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
 Syria |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 1 |
Group D
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Yugoslavia |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 5 |
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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 |
July 23, 1980 12:00 |
| Yugoslavia |
3 – 2 | Costa Rica |
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| Zlatko Vujović 6' 54' Primorac 24' |
Report | White 35' Arroyo 90' |
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 |
| East Germany |
4 – 0 | Iraq |
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| Schnuphase 4' (p.k.) Netz 11' Steinbach 17' Terletzki 22' |
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Semi-finals
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
Medalists
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
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- 1 goal
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- 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 |
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| 1 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) |
6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | 10 |
| 2 | East Germany (GDR) |
6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 9 |
| 3 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 | .svg.png){kind=small} Zambia (ZAM) |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | –4 | 1 |
| 16 | .svg.png){kind=small} Costa Rica (CRC) |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | –7 | 0 |
References
- ↑ "FIFA Technical Report - 1980 Olympics Football Tournament" (PDF). FIFA. 1980. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tableso/ol1980f-det.html
External links
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