Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.[1]

1980 Men's Olympic football tournament
Tournament details
Host countrySoviet Union
Dates20 July – 2 August
Teams16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)5 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Czechoslovakia (1st title)
Runners-up East Germany
Third place Soviet Union
Fourth place Yugoslavia
Tournament statistics
Matches played32
Goals scored82 (2.56 per match)
Top scorer(s) Sergey Andreyev (5 goals)

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]

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

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:
Cuba 1–0 Zambia
Roldán  58' Report
Kirov Stadium, Leningrad
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Marijan Raus
Soviet Union 4–0 Venezuela
Andreyev  3'
Cherenkov  25'
Gavrilov  34'
Hovhannisyan  51'		 Report
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Franz Woehrer
Cuba 2–1 Venezuela
Hernández  49'
Núñez  71'		 Report Zubizarreta  68'
Kirov Stadium, Leningrad
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Emilio Guruceta-Muro
Soviet Union 3–1 Zambia
Khidiyatullin  9'  51'
Cherenkov  87'		 Report Chitalu  13'
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Marwan Arafat
Soviet Union 8–0 Cuba
Andreyev  8'  27'  44'
Romantsev  20'
Shavlo  43'
Cherenkov  55'
Gavrilov  75'
Bessonov  77'		 Report
Attendance: 52,000
Referee: Bob Valentine
Venezuela 2–1 Zambia
Zubizarreta  86'
Elie  90' (p.k.)		 Report Chitalu  73'
Kirov Stadium, Leningrad
Attendance: 80,000

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:
Czechoslovakia 3–0 Colombia
Pokluda  14'
Berger  18'
Vízek  85'		 Report
Kirov Stadium, Leningrad
Referee: Belaid Lacarne
Kuwait 3–1 Nigeria
Al-Dakhil  16'  40'  85' (p.k.) Report Mubarak  25' (o.g.)
Referee: Klaus Scheurell
Colombia 1–1 Kuwait
Molinares  73' Report Yaqoub  64'
Referee: Anders Mattson
Czechoslovakia 1–1 Nigeria
Vízek  25' Report Nwosu  84'
Kirov Stadium, Leningrad
Colombia 1–0 Nigeria
Cardona  55' Report
Referee: Salim Naji Al-Hachami
Czechoslovakia 0–0 Kuwait
Report
Kirov Stadium, Leningrad
Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi

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 3 0 3 0 2 2 0 3
 Syria 3 0 1 2 0 8 −8 1
Source:
East Germany 1–1 Spain
Kühn  49' Report Marcos  50'
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson
Algeria 3–0 Syria
Belloumi  36'
Madjer  48'
Merzekane  73' (p.k.)		 Report
East Germany 1–0 Algeria
Terletzki  61' Report
Attendance: 70,000
Spain 0–0 Syria
Report
Referee: José Castro Lozada
Spain 1–1 Algeria
Rincón  38' Report Belloumi  63'
Referee: Eldar Azimzade
East Germany 5–0 Syria
Hause  6'
Netz  25'  45'
Peter  75'
Terletzki  82'		 Report
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson

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:
Yugoslavia 2–0 Finland
Šećerbegović  56'
Šestić  58'		 Report
Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez
Iraq 3–0 Costa Rica
Ahmed  45'
Saeed  49'
Hassan  75'		 Report
Referee: Nyirenda Chayu
Yugoslavia 3–2 Costa Rica
Zlatko Vujović  6'  54'
Primorac  24'		 Report White  35'
Arroyo  90'
Referee: Bassey Eyo-Honesty
Finland 0–0 Iraq
Report
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Ramón Calderón Castro
Finland 3–0 Costa Rica
Tissari  18'
Alila  58'
Soini  88'		 Report
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Ali Albannai Abdulwahab
Yugoslavia 1–1 Iraq
Zoran Vujović  63' Report Hassan  61'
Referee: André Daina

Bracket
 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
July 27 - Moscow
 
 
 Soviet Union2
 
July 29 - Moscow
 
 Kuwait1
 
 East Germany1
 
July 27 - Kiev
 
 Soviet Union0
 
 East Germany4
 
August 2 - Moscow
 
 Iraq0
 
 Czechoslovakia1
 
July 27 - Leningrad
 
 East Germany0
 
 Czechoslovakia3
 
July 29 - Moscow
 
 Cuba0
 
 Czechoslovakia2
 
July 27 - Minsk
 
 Yugoslavia0 Bronze medal match
 
 Yugoslavia3
 
August 1 - Moscow
 
 Algeria0
 
 Soviet Union2
 
 
 Yugoslavia0
 

Quarter-finals
Yugoslavia 3–0 Algeria
Miročević  5'
Šestić  19'
Zoran Vujović  70'		 Report
Referee: Klaus Scheurell
Soviet Union 2–1 Kuwait
Cherenkov  30'
Gavrilov  51'		 Report Yaqoub  59'
Attendance: 48,000
Referee: Mario Rubio Vazquez
Czechoslovakia 3–0 Cuba
Vízek  29'  59'
Pokluda  90'		 Report
Kirov Stadium, Leningrad
East Germany 4–0 Iraq
Schnuphase  4' (p.k.)
Netz  11'
Steinbach  17'
Terletzki  22'		 Report
Attendance: 48,000

Semi-finals
Soviet Union 0–1 East Germany
Report Netz  16'
Attendance: 95,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson
Czechoslovakia 2–0 Yugoslavia
Lička  4'
Šreiner  18'		 Report
Attendance: 48,000
Referee: Franz Woehrer

Bronze Medal match
Soviet Union 2–0 Yugoslavia
Hovhannisyan  67'
Andreyev  82'		 Report
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Bob Valentine

Gold Medal match
Czechoslovakia 1–0 East Germany
Svoboda  77' Report
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)
View of stadium from the final
Olympic football Pins from 1980

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
Gold: Silver: Bronze:
 Czechoslovakia

Stanislav Seman
Luděk Macela
Josef Mazura
Libor Radimec
Zdeněk Rygel
Petr Němec
Ladislav Vízek
Jan Berger
Jindřich Svoboda
Lubomír Pokluda
Werner Lička
Rostislav Václavíček
Jaroslav Netolička
Oldřich Rott
Zdeněk Šreiner
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

Rinat Dasaev
Tengiz Sulakvelidze
Alexandre Chivadze
Vagiz Khidiyatullin
Oleg Romantsev
Sergey Shavlo
Sergey Andreev
Vladimir Bessonov
Yuri Gavrilov
Fyodor Cherenkov
Valeri Gazzaev
Vladimir Pilguj
Sergej Baltacha
Sergei Nikulin
Khoren Hovhannisyan
Alexandr Prokopenko
Revaz Chelebadze

Goalscorers

With five goals, Sergey Andreyev of Soviet Union is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 82 goals were scored by 52 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goals

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:

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. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  3. http://www.rsssf.com/tableso/ol1980f-det.html
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