Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics
The football competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics started on 11 October and ended on 23 October. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. The tournament features 14 men's national teams from six continental confederations. The 14 teams are drawn into two groups of four and two groups of three and each group plays 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 the Olympic Stadium on 23 October 1964. There was also three consolation matches played by losing quarter-finalists. The winner of these matches placed fifth in the tournament.
Qualification
Regional qualifying tournaments were held. During the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament among South American national teams, a riot in Lima during the decisive Peru–Argentina match, after Peru's equalizing goal in the last minutes was disallowed by the referee, resulted in 328 deaths, which was considered the worst football disaster in history. Due to the riot, further CONMEBOL matches were not played that year, except for a playoff between Brazil and Peru (won by Brazil), and Argentina qualified instead of Peru.
16 teams qualified, and were divided into four groups:
Group A (United Team of Germany (which was de facto East Germany), Romania, Mexico, Iran)
Group B (Hungary, Yugoslavia, Morocco, Korea D.P.R.)
Group C (Czechoslovakia, United Arab Republic (Egypt), Brazil, Korea Rep.)
Group D (Japan, Ghana, Argentina, Italy)
The two best teams of each group competed in the quarter-finals.
Ultimately, the tournament was played two teams short:
Italy were disqualified as their team was not amateur; Poland, who Italy had beaten to qualify, declined to take Italy's place due to a lack of preparation time.
North Korea withdrew from the entire Games before the Opening Ceremony after Japanese immigration officials refused six of their athletes entry.
Venues
Medalists
Note: Only players from the East Germany represented the joint Olympic team of United Team of Germany.
Squads
First round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
First consolation round
Played by losing quarter-finalists.
Consolation Final (5th place match)
Brackets
Goalscorers
With 12 goals, Ferenc Bene of Hungary is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 123 goals were scored by 56 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
12 goals
Ferenc Bene
8 goals
Ibrahim Riad
6 goals
Tibor Csernai
Cornel Pavlovici
5 goals
Ivan Mráz
Slaven Zambata
4 goals
Josef Vojta
Henning Frenzel
Rudolf Belin
Ivica Osim
3 goals
Jan Brumovský
Eberhard Vogel
Hamoud Fulaiteh
Rifaat El-Fanagily
2 goals
Juan Carlos Domínguez
Elizeu
Roberto Miranda
Karel Lichtnégl
Vojtech Masný
Jürgen Nöldner
Imre Komora
Ryuichi Sugiyama
Carol Creiniceanu
Ion Pârcălab
Badawi Abdel Fattah
1 goal
Carlos Alberto Bulla
Zé Roberto
Anton Urban
František Valošek
Ľudovít Cvetler
Bernd Bauchspieß
Hermann Stöcker
Wolfgang Barthels
Edward Acquah
Gyau Agyemang
Sam Acquah
Wilberforce Mfum
János Farkas
Karam Ali Nirlou
Aritatsu Ogi
Kunishige Kamamoto
Saburo Kawabuchi
Shigeo Yaegashi
Javier Fragoso
José Luis González Dávila
Ali Bouachra
Ion Ionescu
Gheorghe Constantin
Lee Yi-Woo
Aly Etman
Kalil Shanin
Mahmoud Hassan
Raafat Attia
Seddik Mohamed
Spasoje Samardžić
Own goal
Vladimír Weiss (playing against Hungary)
Final ranking
References
External links
Olympic Football Tournament Tokyo 1964, FIFA.com
RSSSF Summary
Hungarian medalists - Tokyo 1964
1964 Summer Olympics events
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