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Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics
FieldValue
tourney_name1980 Men's Olympic football tournament
countrySoviet Union
dates20 July – 2 August 1980
num_teams16
confederations5
venues5
cities4
champion_other
count1
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
matches32
goals82
attendance1821624
top_scorerURS Sergey Andreyev (5 goals)
prevseason1976
nextseason1984

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.

Sixteen teams were divided into four groups:

  • Group A (USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, Zambia)
  • Group B (Colombia, Kuwait, Nigeria, Czechoslovakia)
  • Group C (Algeria, Spain, GDR, Syria)
  • Group D (Costa Rica, Finland, Iraq, Yugoslavia)

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".

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

MoscowMinskLeningradKiev
Central Lenin StadiumDynamo Stadium
Capacity: 91,251Capacity: 50,475
[[File:RIAN archive 487039 Opening ceremony of the 1980 Olympic Games.jpg160px]][[File:Dynamo Stadium.jpg170px]]
Dinamo StadiumKirov StadiumRepublican Stadium
Capacity: 50,125Capacity: 74,000Capacity: 100,169
[[File:Dinamo Stadium Minsk.jpg140px]][[File:Kirov stadium.jpg140px]][[File:Kijów 1993 006.jpg85px]]

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:

Africa (CAF)

  • (replaces )
  • (replaces )
  • Asia (AFC)
    • (replaces )
    • (replaces )

    • North and Central America (CONCACAF)

    • (replaces )

    • South America (CONMEBOL)

    • (replaces )

    • Europe (UEFA)

    • (replaces )

    • Hosting nation

    Match officials

    ;Africa

    • ALG Belaïd Lacarne
    • NGA Bassey Eyo-Honesty
    • ZAM Nyrenda Chayu

    ;Asia

    • IRQ Salim Naji Al-Hachami
    • KUW Ali Abdulwahab Al Bannai
    • SYR Marwan Arafat

    ;North and Central America

    • CRC Luis Paulino Siles
    • CUB Ramón Calderón Castro
    • MEX Mario Rubio Vázquez

    ;South America

    • BRA Romualdo Arppi Filho
    • COL Guillermo Velásquez
    • PER Enrique Labo Revoredo
    • VEN José Castro Lozada

    ;Europe

    • AUT Franz Wöhrer
    • TCH Vojtěch Christov
    • FIN Anders Mattsson
    • ITA Riccardo Lattanzi
    • GDR Klaus Scheurell
    • GBR Bob Valentine
    • ESP Emilio Guruceta Muro
    • SWE Ulf Eriksson
    • SUI André Daina
    • YUG Marjan Raus
    • URS Eldar Azimzade

    Squads

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

    Final tournament

    First round

    Group A

    12:00

    12:00 Cherenkov
    Gavrilov
    Hovhannisyan

    12:00 Núñez

    12:00 Cherenkov

    12:00 Romantsev
    Shavlo
    Cherenkov
    Gavrilov
    Bessonov

    12:00 Elie

    Group B

    12:00 Berger
    Vízek

    12:00

    12:00

    12:00

    12:00

    12:00

    Group C

    12:00

    12:00 Madjer
    Merzekane

    12:00

    12:00

    12:00

    12:00 Netz
    Peter
    Terletzki

    Group D

    12:00 Šestić

    12:00 Saeed
    Hassan

    12:00 Primorac Arroyo

    12:00

    12:00 Alila
    Soini

    12:00

    Bracket

    |27 July – Moscow||2||1 |27 July – Kiev||4||0 |27 July – Leningrad||3||0 |27 July – Minsk||3||0 |29 July – Moscow||0||1 |29 July – Moscow||2||0 |2 August – Moscow||0||1 |1 August – Moscow||2||0

    Quarter-finals

    12:00 Šestić
    Zoran Vujović

    12:00 Gavrilov

    12:00 Pokluda

    12:00 Netz
    Steinbach
    Terletzki

    Semi-finals

    12:00

    13:00 Šreiner

    Bronze Medal match

    12:00 Andreyev

    Gold Medal match

    TCH František Havránek
    GDR Rudolf Krause

    |} 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:

    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

    • URS Sergey Andreyev

    ;4 goals

    • TCH Ladislav Vízek
    • GDR Wolf-Rüdiger Netz
    • URS Fyodor Cherenkov

    ;3 goals

    • GDR Frank Terletzki
    • KUW Faisal Al-Dakhil
    • URS Yuri Gavrilov

    ;2 goals

    • ALG Lakhdar Belloumi
    • TCH Lubomír Pokluda
    • IRQ Falah Hassan
    • KUW Jasem Yaqoub
    • URS Vagiz Khidiyatullin
    • URS Khoren Hovhannisyan
    • VEN Iker Zubizarreta
    • YUG Miloš Šestić
    • YUG Zlatko Vujović
    • YUG Zoran Vujović
    • ZAM Godfrey Chitalu

    ;1 goal

    • ALG Rabah Madjer
    • ALG Chaabane Merzekane
    • COL Benjamin Cardona
    • COL Carlos Molinares
    • CRC Omar Arroyo
    • CRC Jorge White
    • CUB Luis Hernández
    • CUB Ramón Núñez
    • CUB Andrés Roldán
    • TCH Jan Berger
    • TCH Werner Lička
    • TCH Zdeněk Šreiner
    • TCH Jindřich Svoboda
    • FIN Jouko Alila
    • FIN Jouko Soini
    • FIN Ari Tissari
    • GDR Lothar Hause
    • GDR Dieter Kühn
    • GDR Werner Peter
    • GDR Rüdiger Schnuphase
    • GDR Wolfgang Steinbach
    • IRQ Hadi Ahmed
    • IRQ Hussein Saeed
    • NGR Henry Nwosu
    • ESP Marcos Alonso Peña
    • ESP Hipólito Rincón
    • URS Oleg Romantsev
    • URS Sergey Shavlo
    • URS Volodymyr Bessonov
    • VEN Robert Elie
    • YUG Dževad Šećerbegović
    • YUG Boro Primorac
    • YUG Ante Miročević

    ;Own goals

    • KUW Mahboub Mubarak (playing against Nigeria)

    Final ranking

    Below the final ranking after the end of the tournament.

    References

    References

    1. "Football at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". Sports Reference.
    2. (1980). "FIFA Technical Report - 1980 Olympics Football Tournament". FIFA.
    3. "Football Tournament 1980 Olympiad".
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