# Football at the 1992 Summer Olympics

The 1992 Summer Olympics Football Tournament competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics featured 16 national sides from the six continental confederations. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four and each group played 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 Camp Nou on 8 August 1992.
For the first time, an age limit has been set for participants under the age of 23 (Under-23), which has been used ever since.
Spain became the first host country to win the gold medal in an Olympic football tournament since Belgium in 1920, an achievement which would not be repeated until Brazil won it in 2016.
Notably, these were the first matches played with football's new back-pass rule and was the last Olympic football competition which was open to men only before the introduction of a women's tournament four years later.

## Competition schedule

| 24 Fri | 25 Sat | 26 Sun | 27 Mon | 28 Tue | 29 Wed | 30 Thu | 31 Fri | 1 Sat | 2 Sun | 3 Mon | 4 Tue | 5 Wed | 6 Thu | 7 Fri | 8 Sat |
| G | | G | G | G | G | G | | ¼ | ¼ | | | ½ | | B | F |
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## Qualification

The following 16 teams qualified for the 1992 Olympic men's football tournament:
| Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified |
| Host nation | 1 | Spain |
| 1992 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship | 4 | Italy Sweden Denmark Poland |
| AFC Preliminary Competition | 3 | Qatar South Korea Kuwait |
| CAF Preliminary Competition | 3 | Egypt Ghana Morocco |
| 1992 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 | Mexico United States |
| 1992 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 | Colombia Paraguay |
| OFC–UEFA play-off | 1 | Australia |
| Total | 16 | |

## Venues

| Barcelona | Barcelona | Valencia |
| Camp Nou | Estadi de Sarrià | Estadio Luis Casanova |
| Capacity: 100,000 | Capacity: 42,000 | Capacity: 50,000 |
| Sabadell | Camp NouEstadi de SarriàEstadi de la Nova Creu AltaEstadio Luis CasanovaEstadio La Romareda | Camp NouEstadi de SarriàEstadi de la Nova Creu AltaEstadio Luis CasanovaEstadio La Romareda |
| Estadi de la Nova Creu Alta | Camp NouEstadi de SarriàEstadi de la Nova Creu AltaEstadio Luis CasanovaEstadio La Romareda | Camp NouEstadi de SarriàEstadi de la Nova Creu AltaEstadio Luis CasanovaEstadio La Romareda |
| Capacity: 16,000 | Camp NouEstadi de SarriàEstadi de la Nova Creu AltaEstadio Luis CasanovaEstadio La Romareda | Camp NouEstadi de SarriàEstadi de la Nova Creu AltaEstadio Luis CasanovaEstadio La Romareda |
| Zaragoza | Camp NouEstadi de SarriàEstadi de la Nova Creu AltaEstadio Luis CasanovaEstadio La Romareda | Camp NouEstadi de SarriàEstadi de la Nova Creu AltaEstadio Luis CasanovaEstadio La Romareda |
| Estadio La Romareda | Camp NouEstadi de SarriàEstadi de la Nova Creu AltaEstadio Luis CasanovaEstadio La Romareda | Camp NouEstadi de SarriàEstadi de la Nova Creu AltaEstadio Luis CasanovaEstadio La Romareda |
| Capacity: 43,001 | Camp NouEstadi de SarriàEstadi de la Nova Creu AltaEstadio Luis CasanovaEstadio La Romareda | Camp NouEstadi de SarriàEstadi de la Nova Creu AltaEstadio Luis CasanovaEstadio La Romareda |

## Group stage
### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Poland | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 5 |
| Italy | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 |
| United States | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 3 |
| Kuwait | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 |

### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Spain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | +8 | 6 |
| Qatar | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 |
| Egypt | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 2 |
| Colombia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 1 |

### Group C

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Sweden | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 4 |
| Paraguay | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 4 |
| South Korea | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Morocco | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 1 |

### Group D

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Ghana | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 |
| Australia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 3 |
| Mexico | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Denmark | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 2 |

## Knockout stage

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| 1 August – Valencia | 1 August – Valencia | | | |
| Spain | 1 | | | |
| Spain | 1 | 5 August – Valencia | 5 August – Valencia | | |
| Italy | 0 | 5 August – Valencia | 5 August – Valencia | |
| Italy | 0 | Spain | 2 | |
| 2 August – Zaragoza | 2 August – Zaragoza | | Spain | 2 | |
| 2 August – Zaragoza | 2 August – Zaragoza | Ghana | 0 | |
| Paraguay | 2 | Ghana | 0 | |
| Paraguay | 2 | | | | 8 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | 8 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) |
| Ghana (a.e.t.) | 4 | | | | 8 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | 8 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) |
| Ghana (a.e.t.) | 4 | | | | Spain | 3 |
| 1 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | 1 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | | | | | Spain | 3 |
| 1 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | 1 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | | | | Poland | 2 |
| Poland | 2 | | | | Poland | 2 |
| Poland | 2 | 5 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | 5 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | | | |
| Qatar | 0 | 5 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | 5 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | | | |
| Qatar | 0 | Poland | 6 | | | |
| 2 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | 2 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | | Poland | 6 | | | |
| 2 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | 2 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | Australia | 1 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Sweden | 1 | Australia | 1 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Sweden | 1 | | | | 7 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | 7 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) |
| Australia | 2 | | | | 7 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | 7 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) |
| Australia | 2 | | | | Ghana | 1 |
| | | | | | Australia | 0 |

### Gold medal match

Team details :
Poland
Spain
GK1Aleksander Kłak
CB2Marcin Jałocha 55'
CB5Tomasz Wałdoch 31'
CB3Tomasz Łapiński
RWB6Dariusz Gęsior
LWB4Marek Koźmiński
CM13Ryszard Staniek
CM10Jerzy Brzęczek (c)
CM15Andrzej Kobylański
CF20Wojciech Kowalczyk 74'
CF11Andrzej Juskowiak
Substitutes:
MF7Piotr Świerczewski 55'
Manager:
Janusz Wójcik
GK13Toni Jiménez
CB10Abelardo
CB5Juanma López
CB4Roberto Solozábal (c)
RWB2Albert Ferrer
LWB17Rafael Berges
CM8Luis Enrique
CM9Pep Guardiola
CM3Mikel Lasa 51'
CF20Alfonso
CF19Kiko
Substitutes:
FW7José Amavisca 51'
Manager:
Vicente Miera :

## Goalscorers

With seven goals, Poland's Andrzej Juskowiak was the top scorer of the tournament. In total, 87 goals were scored by 57 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.

### 7 goals

* Andrzej Juskowiak

### 6 goals

* Kwame Ayew

### 5 goals

* Kiko

### 4 goals

* Wojciech Kowalczyk

### 2 goals

* John Markovski
* Tony Vidmar
* Hernán Gaviria
* Hady Khashaba
* Alessandro Melli
* Francisco Rotllán
* Ryszard Staniek
* Abelardo
* Rafael Berges
* Tomas Brolin
* Jonny Rödlund
* Steve Snow

### 1 goal

* Zlatko Arambašić
* Damian Mori
* Shaun Murphy
* Carl Veart
* Víctor Aristizábal
* Víctor Pacheco
* Claus Thomsen
* Ibrahim El-Masry
* Mohamed Youssef
* Isaac Asare
* Mohammed Gargo
* Oli Rahman
* Demetrio Albertini
* Jung Jae-kwon
* Seo Jung-won
* Ali Marwi
* Jorge Castañeda
* Ahmed Bahja
* Noureddine Naybet
* Francisco Arce
* Mauro Caballero
* Jorge Campos
* Carlos Gamarra
* Marcin Jałocha
* Marek Koźmiński
* Grzegorz Mielcarski
* Mahmoud Soufi
* Mubarak Mustafa
* Alfonso
* Pep Guardiola
* Luis Enrique
* Paco Soler
* Roberto Solozábal
* Patrik Andersson
* Håkan Mild
* Dario Brose
* Erik Imler
* Manuel Lagos
* Joe-Max Moore

### Own goals

* Shaun Murphy (playing against Poland)
* Joachim Yaw Acheampong (playing against Paraguay)

## Final ranking

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Spain (ESP) | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | +12 | 12 |
| 2 | Poland (POL) | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | +11 | 9 |
| 3 | Ghana (GHA) | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 8 |
| 4 | Australia (AUS) | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | −4 | 5 |
| 5 | Sweden (SWE) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 4 |
| 6 | Paraguay (PAR) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | Italy (ITA) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 4 |
| 8 | Qatar (QAT) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 3 |
| 9 | United States (USA) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 3 |
| 10 | Mexico (MEX) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Egypt (EGY) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 2 |
| 13 | Denmark (DEN) | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 2 |
| 14 | Colombia (COL) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 1 |
| 15 | Morocco (MAR) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 1 |
| 16 | Kuwait (KUW) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 |