Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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1980 Men's Olympic football tournament
Tournament details
Host country Soviet Union
Dates 20 July ? 2 August 1980
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)
Attendance 1,821,624 (56,926 per match)
Top scorer(s) Soviet Union 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 December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan . [1]

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,". [2]

The tournament was primarily hosted by Moscow and Leningrad in the Russian SFSR , with some group stage games in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR and Minsk , Byelorussian SSR .

Venues [ edit ]

Moscow
Central Lenin Stadium Dynamo Stadium
Capacity: 91,251 Capacity: 50,475
Minsk Leningrad Kiev
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 [ edit ]

Main article: Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics ? Men's 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 [ edit ]

Squads [ edit ]

Main article: Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics ? Men's team squads

Final tournament [ edit ]

First round [ edit ]

Group A [ edit ]

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
Source: FIFA
Cuba   1?0   Zambia
Roldan 58' Report
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Marijan Raus (Yugoslavia)
Soviet Union   4?0   Venezuela
Andreyev 3'
Cherenkov 25'
Gavrilov 34'
Hovhannisyan 51' 		Report
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Franz Woehrer (Austria)
Cuba   2?1   Venezuela
Hernandez 49'
Nunez 71' 		Report Zubizarreta 68'
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Emilio Guruceta-Muro (Spain)
Soviet Union   3?1   Zambia
Khidiyatullin 9' , 51'
Cherenkov 87' 		Report Chitalu 13'
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Marwan Arafat (Syria)
Soviet Union   8?0   Cuba
Andreyev 8' , 27' , 44'
Romantsev 20'
Shavlo 43'
Cherenkov 55'
Gavrilov 75'
Bessonov 77' 		Report
Attendance: 52,000
Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)
Venezuela   2?1   Zambia
Zubizarreta 86'
Elie 90' ( pen. ) 		Report Chitalu 73'
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Luis Paulino Siles (Costa Rica)

Group B [ edit ]

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
Source: FIFA
Czechoslovakia   3?0   Colombia
Pokluda 14'
Berger 18'
Vizek 85' 		Report
Referee: Belaid Lacarne (Algelia)
Kuwait   3?1   Nigeria
Al-Dakhil 16' , 40' , 85' ( pen. ) Report Mubarak 25' ( o.g. )
Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)
Colombia   1?1   Kuwait
Molinares 73' Report Yaqoub 64'
Referee: Anders Mattson (Finland)
Czechoslovakia   1?1   Nigeria
Vizek 25' Report Nwosu 84'
Referee: Enrique Labo Revoredo (Peru)
Colombia   1?0   Nigeria
Cardona 55' Report
Referee: Salim Naji Al-Hachami (Iraq)
Czechoslovakia   0?0   Kuwait
Report
Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi (Italy)

Group C [ edit ]

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 Spain 3 0 3 0 2 2 0 3
  Syria 3 0 1 2 0 8 −8 1
Source: FIFA
East Germany   1?1 Spain Spain
Kuhn 49' Report Marcos 50'
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)
Algeria   3?0   Syria
Belloumi 36'
Madjer 48'
Merzekane 73' ( pen. ) 		Report
Referee: Vojtech Christov (Czechoslovakia)
East Germany   1?0   Algeria
Terletzki 61' Report
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil)
Spain Spain0?0   Syria
Report
Referee: Jose Castro Lozada (Venezuela)
Spain Spain1?1   Algeria
Rincon 38' Report Belloumi 63'
Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)
East Germany   5?0   Syria
Hause 6'
Netz 25' , 45'
Peter 75'
Terletzki 82' 		Report
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)

Group D [ edit ]

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
Source: FIFA
Yugoslavia   2?0   Finland
?e?erbegovi? 56'
?esti? 58' 		Report
Referee: Mario Rubio Vazquez (Mexico)
Iraq   3?0   Costa Rica
Ahmed 45'
Saeed 49'
Hassan 75' 		Report
Referee: Nyirenda Chayu (Zambia)
Yugoslavia   3?2   Costa Rica
Zlatko Vujovi? 6' , 54'
Primorac 24' 		Report White 35'
Arroyo 90'
Referee: Bassey Eyo-Honesty (Nigeria)
Finland   0?0   Iraq
Report
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Ramon Calderon Castro (Cuba)
Finland   3?0   Costa Rica
Tissari 18'
Alila 58'
Soini 88' 		Report
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Ali Albannai Abdulwahab (Kuwait)
Yugoslavia   1?1   Iraq
Zoran Vujovi? 63' Report Hassan 61'
Referee: Andre Daina (Switzerland)

Bracket [ edit ]

 
Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
 
                   
 
27 July ? Moscow
 
 
  Soviet Union 2
 
29 July ? Moscow
 
  Kuwait 1
 
  Soviet Union 0
 
27 July ? Kiev
 
  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 [ edit ]

Yugoslavia   3?0   Algeria
Miro?evi? 5'
?esti? 19'
Zoran Vujovi? 70' 		Report
Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)
Soviet Union   2?1   Kuwait
Cherenkov 30'
Gavrilov 51' 		Report Yaqoub 59'
Attendance: 48,000
Referee: Mario Rubio Vazquez (Mexico)
Czechoslovakia   3?0   Cuba
Vizek 29' , 59'
Pokluda 90' 		Report
Referee: Enrique Labo Revoredo (Peru)
East Germany   4?0   Iraq
Schnuphase 4' ( pen. )
Netz 11'
Steinbach 17'
Terletzki 22' 		Report
Attendance: 48,000
Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil)

Semi-finals [ edit ]

Soviet Union   0?1   East Germany
Report Netz 16'
Attendance: 95,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)
Czechoslovakia   2?0   Yugoslavia
Li?ka 4'
?reiner 18' 		Report
Attendance: 48,000
Referee: Franz Woehrer (Austria)

Bronze Medal match [ edit ]

Soviet Union   2?0   Yugoslavia
Hovhannisyan 67'
Andreyev 82' 		Report
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)

Gold Medal match [ edit ]

1980 Summer Olympics Football Final
Czechoslovakia   1?0   East Germany
Svoboda 77' Report
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)

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 [ edit ]

View of the stadium from the final
Olympic football pins from 1980
Gold: Silver: Bronze:
  Czechoslovakia

Stanislav Seman
Lud?k Macela
Josef Mazura
Libor Radimec
Zden?k Rygel
Petr N?mec
Ladislav Vizek
Jan Berger
Jind?ich Svoboda
Lubomir Pokluda
Werner Li?ka
Rostislav Vaclavi?ek
Jaroslav Netoli?ka
Old?ich Rott
Zden?k ?reiner
Franti?ek ?tambacher
Franti?ek Kunzo

  East Germany

Bodo Rudwaleit
Artur Ullrich
Lothar Hause
Frank Uhlig
Frank Baum
Rudiger Schnuphase
Frank Terletzki
Wolfgang Steinbach
Jurgen Bahringer
Werner Peter
Dieter Kuhn
Norbert Trieloff
Matthias Muller
Matthias Liebers
Bernd Jakubowski
Wolf-Rudiger 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 [ edit ]

With five goals, Sergey Andreyev of Soviet Union was the top scorer of 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 [ edit ]

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
Source: [ citation needed ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "Football at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games" . Sports Reference . Archived from the original on 17 April 2020 . Retrieved 27 October 2018 .
  2. ^ "FIFA Technical Report - 1980 Olympics Football Tournament" (PDF) . FIFA. 1980. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2011 . Retrieved 26 February 2014 .
  3. ^ "Football Tournament 1980 Olympiad" .

External links [ edit ]

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