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Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| tourney_name | 1976 Men's Olympic football tournament |
| country | Canada |
| dates | 18–31 July 1976 |
| num_teams | 13 |
| confederations | 4 |
| venues | 4 |
| cities | 4 |
| champion_other | |
| count | 1 |
| second_other | |
| third_other | |
| fourth_other | |
| matches | 23 |
| goals | 66 |
| attendance | 597574 |
| top_scorer | POL Andrzej Szarmach (6 goals) |
| prevseason | 1972 |
| nextseason | 1980 |
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
| Montreal | Ottawa | Sherbrooke | Toronto | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Stadium | Lansdowne Park | Sherbrooke Stadium | Varsity Stadium | |||
| Capacity: 72,406 | Capacity: 30,065 | Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 21,739 | |||
| [[File:Le Stade Olympique 3.jpg | 150px]] | [[File:Lansdowne Park 3.jpg | 150px]] | [[File:Old Varsity Stadium.jpg | 150px]] |
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)
- (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
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References
References
- "Football at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games". Sports Reference.
- (29 July 1976). "An Gil Wan notice". Cambridge Evening News.
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