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Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Field	Value
image	1964 Olympics football stamp of Japan.jpg
image_size	240px
caption	Football at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan
country	Japan
dates	11–23 October 1964
num_teams	14
confederations	5
venues	8
cities	4
champion_other	(2nd title)
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
matches	29
goals	123
top_scorer	HUN Ferenc Bene (12 goals)
prevseason	1960
nextseason	1968

The football competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics started on 11 October and ended on 23 October. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. The tournament features 14 men's national teams from six continental confederations. The 14 teams are drawn into two groups of four and two groups of three and each group plays 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 the Olympic Stadium on 23 October 1964. There was also three consolation matches played by losing quarter-finalists. The winner of these matches placed fifth in the tournament.

Qualification

Regional qualifying tournaments were held. During the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament among South American national teams, a riot in Lima during the decisive Peru–Argentina match, after Peru's equalizing goal in the last minutes was disallowed by the referee, resulted in 328 deaths, which was considered the worst football disaster in history. Due to the riot, further CONMEBOL matches were not played that year, except for a playoff between Brazil and Peru (won by Brazil), and Argentina qualified instead of Peru.

16 teams qualified, and were divided into four groups:

Group A (United Team of Germany (which was de facto East Germany), Romania, Mexico, Iran)
Group B (Hungary, Yugoslavia, Morocco, Korea D.P.R.)
Group C (Czechoslovakia, United Arab Republic (Egypt), Brazil, Korea Rep.)
Group D (Japan, Ghana, Argentina, Italy) The two best teams of each group competed in the quarter-finals.

Ultimately, the tournament was played two teams short:

Italy were disqualified as their team was not amateur; Poland, who Italy had beaten to qualify, declined to take Italy's place due to a lack of preparation time.
North Korea withdrew from the entire Games before the Opening Ceremony after Japanese immigration officials refused six of their athletes entry.

Africa (3)

Asia (4)

(hosts)

Europe (6)

(holders)

North America (1)

South America (2)

Venues

Tokyo	Saitama	Yokohama
Prince Chichibu Football Field (1)	National Olympic Stadium (2)	Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium (3)
Capacity: 17,569	Capacity: 71,556	Capacity: 20,780
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Ōmiya Football Field (4)
Capacity: 14,392
[[File:Ōmiya Park Soccer Stadium, R1068484.jpg	200px]]
Mitsuzawa Football Field (5)
Capacity: 10,102
[[File:Mitsuzawa1.jpg	200px]]

Medalists

Ferenc Bene
Tibor Csernai
János Farkas
József Gelei
Kálmán Ihász
Sándor Katona
Imre Komora
Ferenc Nógrádi
Dezső Novák
Árpád Orbán
Károly Palotai
Antal Szentmihályi
Gusztáv Szepesi
Zoltán Varga	Jan Brumovský
Ludovít Cvetler
Ján Geleta
František Knebort
Karel Knesl
Karel Lichtnégl
Vojtech Masný
Štefan Matlák
Ivan Mráz
Karel Nepomucký
Zdeněk Pičman
František Schmucker
Anton Švajlen
Anton Urban
František Valošek
Josef Vojta
Vladimír Weiss	Gerd Backhaus
Wolfgang Barthels
Bernd Bauchspieß
Gerhard Körner
Otto Fräßdorf
Henning Frenzel
Dieter Engelhardt
Herbert Pankau
Manfred Geisler
Jürgen Heinsch
Klaus Lisiewicz
Jürgen Nöldner
Peter Rock
Klaus-Dieter Seehaus
Hermann Stöcker
Werner Unger
Klaus Urbanczyk
Eberhard Vogel
Manfred Walter
Horst Weigang

Note: Only players from the East Germany represented the joint Olympic team of United Team of Germany.

Squads

Main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

First round

Group A

Main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Group A

Bauchspiess
Vogel
Frenzel
Creiniceanu
Pârcălab
Ionescu
Fragoso

Frenzel
Pavlovici
Nirlou
González

Barthels
Nöldner
Pavlovici

Group B

Main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Group B

Bene

Samardžić
Belin
Bouachra

Osim
Belin
Zambata
Csernai
Farkas
Bene

Group C

Main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Group C

Lichtnégl
Vojta
Mráz
Masný
Yi-woo
Roberto
Shanin

Vojta
Urban
Mráz
Cvetler
Riad
Zé Roberto
Elizeu
Roberto

Valošek
Riad
Mohamed
El-Fanagily
Etman
Hassan

Group D

Main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Group D

Bulla
Acquah

Sugiyama
Kawabuchi
Ogi
Domínguez

Agyemag-Gyau
Acquah
Aggrey-Fynn
Sugiyama
Yaegashi

Knockout stage

Main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

First consolation round

Fifth place play-off

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – final

Goalscorers

With 12 goals, Ferenc Bene of Hungary is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 123 goals were scored by 56 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

;12 goals

HUN Ferenc Bene ;8 goals
UAR Moustafa Reyadh ;6 goals
HUN Tibor Csernai
ROU Cornel Pavlovici ;5 goals
TCH Ivan Mráz
YUG Slaven Zambata ;4 goals
TCH Josef Vojta
GER Henning Frenzel
YUG Rudolf Belin
YUG Ivica Osim ;3 goals
TCH Jan Brumovský
GER Eberhard Vogel
GHA Hamoud Fulaiteh
UAR Rifaat El-Fanagily ;2 goals
ARG Juan Carlos Domínguez
BRA Elizeu
BRA Roberto Miranda
TCH Karel Lichtnégl
TCH Vojtech Masný
GER Jürgen Nöldner
HUN Imre Komora
JPN Ryūichi Sugiyama
ROU Carol Creiniceanu
ROU Ion Pârcălab
UAR Badawi Abdel Fattah ;1 goal
ARG Carlos Alberto Bulla
BRA Zé Roberto
TCH Anton Urban
TCH František Valošek
TCH Ľudovít Cvetler
GER Bernd Bauchspieß
GER Hermann Stöcker
GER Wolfgang Barthels
GHA Edward Acquah
GHA Gyau Agyemang
GHA Sam Acquah
GHA Wilberforce Mfum
HUN János Farkas
IRN Karam Ali Nirlou
JPN Aritatsu Ogi
JPN Kunishige Kamamoto
JPN Saburō Kawabuchi
JPN Shigeo Yaegashi
[[File:Flag of Mexico (1934-1968).svg|23px]] Javier Fragoso
[[File:Flag of Mexico (1934-1968).svg|23px]] José Luis González Dávila
MAR Ali Bouachra
ROU Ion Ionescu
ROU Gheorghe Constantin
KOR Lee Yi-Woo
UAR Aly Etman
UAR Kalil Shanin
UAR Mahmoud Hassan
UAR Raafat Attia
UAR Seddik Mohamed
YUG Spasoje Samardžić ;Own goal
TCH Vladimír Weiss (playing against Hungary)

Final ranking

References

"Football at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". Sports Reference.
Edwards, Piers. (23 May 2014). "Lima 1964: The world's worst stadium disaster". bbc.co.uk.

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