Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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1980 Men's Olympic football tournament
Tournament details
Host countrySoviet Union
Dates20 July – 2 August 1980
Teams16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)5 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions 
Sergey Andreyev (5 goals)
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The

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

Byelorussian SSR
.

Venues

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

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

Squads

Main article: Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's team 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
Source: FIFA
Cuba 1–0 Zambia
Roldán 58' Report
Leningrad
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Marijan Raus
(Yugoslavia)
Soviet Union 4–0 Venezuela
Hovhannisyan
51'		 Report
Franz Woehrer
(Austria)
Cuba 2–1 Venezuela
Hernández 49'
Núñez
71'		 Report Zubizarreta 68'
Leningrad
Attendance: 70,000
(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
Bessonov
77'		 Report
Dinamo Stadium, Moscow
Attendance: 52,000
Referee: Bob Valentine
(Scotland)
Venezuela 2–1 Zambia
Elie 90' (pen.
)		 Report Chitalu 73'
Leningrad
Attendance: 80,000
(Costa Rica)

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
Source: FIFA
Czechoslovakia 3–0 Colombia
Berger 18'
Vízek
85'		 Report
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
Vízek 25' Report Nwosu 84'
Colombia 1–0 Nigeria
Cardona
55'		 Report
Referee: Salim Naji Al-Hachami (Iraq)
Czechoslovakia 0–0 Kuwait
Report
Leningrad
(Italy)

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 Spain 3 0 3 0 2 2 0 3
 Syria 3 0 1 2 0 8 −8 1
Source: FIFA
East Germany 1–1Spain Spain
Kühn 49' Report
Marcos
50'
Republican Stadium, Kiev
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson
(Sweden)
Algeria 3–0 Syria
Merzekane 73' (pen.
)		 Report
Referee: Vojtech Christov (Czechoslovakia)
East Germany 1–0 Algeria
Terletzki 61' Report
Republican Stadium, Kiev
Attendance: 70,000
(Brazil)
Spain Spain0–0 Syria
Report
Referee: José Castro Lozada (Venezuela)
Spain Spain1–1 Algeria
Rincón 38' Report Belloumi 63'
Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)
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 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
Šećerbegović 56'
Šestić 58'		 Report
Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez (Mexico)
Iraq 3–0 Costa Rica
Ahmed 45'
Saeed 49'
Hassan 75'		 Report
Republican Stadium, Kiev
(Zambia)
Yugoslavia 3–2 Costa Rica
Zlatko Vujović 6', 54'
Primorac 24'		 Report White 35'
Arroyo 90'
Referee: Bassey Eyo-Honesty (Nigeria)
Finland 0–0 Iraq
Report
Republican Stadium, Kiev
Attendance: 40,000
(Cuba)
Finland 3–0 Costa Rica
Tissari 18'
Alila 58'
Soini 88'		 Report
Yugoslavia 1–1 Iraq
Zoran Vujović 63' Report Hassan 61'
Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)

Bracket

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
27 July – Moscow
 
 
 Soviet Union2
 
29 July – Moscow
 
 Kuwait1
 
 Soviet Union0
 
27 July – Kiev
 
 East Germany1
 
 East Germany4
 
2 August – Moscow
 
 Iraq0
 
 
Leningrad
 
 Czechoslovakia1
 
 Czechoslovakia3
 
29 July – Moscow
 
 Cuba0
 
 Czechoslovakia2
 
27 July – Minsk
 
 Yugoslavia0 Bronze medal match
 
 Yugoslavia3
 
1 August – Moscow
 
 Algeria0
 
 Soviet Union2
 
 
 Yugoslavia0
 

Quarter-finals

Yugoslavia 3–0 Algeria
Miročević 5'
Šestić 19'
Zoran Vujović 70'		 Report
Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)
Soviet Union 2–1 Kuwait
Cherenkov 30'
Gavrilov 51'		 Report Yaqoub 59'
Dinamo Stadium, Moscow
Attendance: 48,000
(Mexico)
Czechoslovakia 3–0 Cuba
Vízek 29', 59'
Pokluda 90'		 Report
East Germany 4–0 Iraq
Schnuphase 4' (pen.)
Netz 11'
Steinbach 17'
Terletzki 22'		 Report

Semi-finals

Soviet Union 0–1 East Germany
Report Netz 16'
Attendance: 95,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)
Czechoslovakia 2–0 Yugoslavia
Lička 4'
Šreiner
18'		 Report
Franz Woehrer
(Austria)

Bronze Medal match

Soviet Union 2–0 Yugoslavia
Andreyev
82'		 Report
Dinamo Stadium, Moscow
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Bob Valentine
(Scotland)

Gold Medal match

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

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

František Štambacher
František Kunzo

  East Germany

Bodo Rudwaleit
Artur 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

Alexandr Prokopenko
Revaz Chelebadze

Goalscorers

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
  • 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.[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

  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".

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