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Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics


FieldValue
tourney_name1976 Men's Olympic football tournament
countryCanada
dates18–31 July 1976
num_teams13
confederations4
venues4
cities4
champion_other
count1
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
matches23
goals66
attendance597574
top_scorerPOL Andrzej Szarmach (6 goals)
prevseason1972
nextseason1980

The football tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics started on 18 July and ended on 31 July. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. 13 teams participated in the tournament, while three African teams withdrew in support of the anti-racism boycott. East Germany won the gold, defeating Poland in the final, with the Soviet Union taking the bronze.

Venues

MontrealOttawaSherbrookeToronto
Olympic StadiumLansdowne ParkSherbrooke StadiumVarsity Stadium
Capacity: 72,406Capacity: 30,065Capacity: 10,000Capacity: 21,739
[[File:Le Stade Olympique 3.jpg150px]][[File:Lansdowne Park 3.jpg150px]][[File:Old Varsity Stadium.jpg150px]]

Qualification

Main article: Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

The following 13 teams qualified for the 1976 Olympics football tournament:

  • Africa (CAF)
    • (withdrew)
    • (withdrew)
    • (withdrew)

Asia (AFC)

  • North and Central America (CONCACAF)
    • (replaced )
  • South America (CONMEBOL)

    • (withdrew)
  • Europe (UEFA)

    • (automatically qualified as 1972 Olympic Champions)
  • Hosting nation

    Match officials

    ;Asia

    • ISR Abraham Klein
    • IRN Jafar Namdar ;North and Central America
    • CAN Peter Thomas Johnson
    • CAN Werner Winsemann
    • MEX Marco Antonio Dorantes ;South America
    • ARG Ángel Coerezza
    • BRA Arnaldo Cézar Coelho
    • COL Guillermo Velásquez
    • URU Ramón Barreto ;Europe
    • AUT Paul Schiller
    • FRA Robert Héliès
    • ITA Alberto Michelotti
    • GDR Adolf Prokop
    • HUN Károly Palotai
    • POL Marian Kuston
    • GBR John Paterson
    • ESP Emilio Guruceta Muro
    • URS Vladimir Rudnev

    Squads

    Main article: Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

    Final tournament

    First round

    Group A

    12:00

    12:00 Chico Fraga

    12:00

    Group B

    12:00

    12:00 Baronchelli
    Rubio
    Amisse

    12:00 Amisse
    Schaer

    12:00 Shum

    12:00

    12:00

    Group C

    12:00

    12:00

    12:00 Deyna Rowshan

    Group D

    12:00

    12:00 Hong Song-nam

    12:00 Veremeyev
    Blokhin

    Bracket

    |25 July – Ottawa||4||0 |25 July – Sherbrooke||2||1 |25 July – Toronto||4||1 |25 July – Montreal||5||0 |27 July – Montreal||2||1 |27 July – Toronto||0||2 |31 July – Montreal||3||1 |29 July – Montreal||2||0

    Quarter-finals

    12:00 Dörner
    Riediger

    12:00 Zvyahintsev

    12:00 Erivélto
    Léo Júnior

    12:00 Lato
    Szymanowski

    Semi-finals

    12:00 Kurbjuweit

    12:00

    Bronze Medal match

    21:00 Nazarenko

    Gold Medal match

    Hoffmann
    Häfner

    East Germany Georg Buschner
    POL Kazimierz Górski

    |}

    Medal winners

    ; – [[File:Med 1.png]] Gold

    Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin

    Wilfried Gröbner

    Jürgen Croy

    Gerd Weber

    Hans-Jürgen Dörner

    Konrad Weise

    Lothar Kurbjuweit

    Reinhard Lauck

    Gert Heidler

    Reinhard Häfner

    Hans-Jürgen Riediger

    Bernd Bransch

    Martin Hoffmann

    Gerd Kische

    Wolfram Löwe

    Hartmut Schade

    Dieter Riedel

    Coach: Georg Buschner ; – [[File:Med 2.png]] Silver

    Jan Tomaszewski

    Piotr Mowlik

    Antoni Szymanowski

    Jerzy Gorgoń

    Wojciech Rudy

    Władysław Żmuda

    Zygmunt Maszczyk

    Grzegorz Lato

    Henryk Wawrowski

    Henryk Kasperczak

    Roman Ogaza

    Kazimierz Kmiecik

    Kazimierz Deyna

    Andrzej Szarmach

    Henryk Wieczorek

    Lesław Ćmikiewicz

    Jan Benigier

    Coach: Kazimierz Górski

    ; – [[File:Med 3.png]] Bronze

    Vladimir Astapovsky

    Anatoliy Konkov

    Viktor Matviyenko

    Mykhaylo Fomenko

    Stefan Reshko

    Volodymyr Troshkin

    David Kipiani

    Volodymyr Onyshchenko

    Viktor Kolotov

    Volodymyr Veremeyev

    Oleh Blokhin

    Leonid Buryak

    Vladimir Fyodorov

    Aleksandr Minayev

    Viktor Zvyahintsev

    Leonid Nazarenko

    Aleksandr Prokhorov

    Coach: Valeriy Lobanovskyi

    Goalscorers

    With six goals, Andrzej Szarmach of Poland is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 66 goals were scored by 44 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

    ;6 goals

    • POL Andrzej Szarmach ;4 goals
    • GDR Hans-Jürgen Dörner ;3 goals
    • FRA Michel Platini
    • MEX Víctor Rangel
    • POL Grzegorz Lato
    • URS Volodymyr Onyshchenko ;2 goals
    • BRA Jarbas
    • CAN Jimmy Douglas
    • FRA Jean-Marc Schaer
    • FRA Loïc Amisse
    • ISR Vicky Peretz
    • PRK Hong Song-Nam
    • URS Viktor Kolotov ;1 goal
    • BRA Chico Fraga
    • BRA Erivélto
    • BRA Léo Júnior
    • BRA Rosemiro
    • GDR Hans-Jürgen Riediger
    • GDR Hartmut Schade
    • GDR Lothar Kurbjuweit
    • GDR Martin Hoffmann
    • GDR Reinhard Häfner
    • GDR Wolfram Löwe
    • FRA Bruno Baronchelli
    • FRA Francisco Rubio
    • GUA Marco Fion
    • IRN Ali Parvin
    • IRN Gholam Hossein Mazloumi
    • IRN Hassan Rowshan
    • IRN Parviz Ghelichkhani
    • ISR Itzhak Shum
    • ISR Yaron Oz
    • MEX Hugo Sánchez
    • PRK An Se-Uk
    • POL Antoni Szymanowski
    • POL Kazimierz Deyna
    • URS Aleksandr Minayev
    • URS Leonid Nazarenko
    • URS Oleh Blokhin
    • URS Viktor Zvyahintsev
    • URS Volodymyr Veremeyev
    • ESP Santiago Idígoras ;Own goal
    • MEX Eduardo Rergis (playing against Guatemala)

    Final ranking

    --

    References

    References

    1. "Football at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games". Sports Reference.
    2. (29 July 1976). "An Gil Wan notice". Cambridge Evening News.
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