Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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.
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 the Russian SFSR, with some group stage games in the Ukrainian SSR and Byelorussian SSR.
Venues
The football tournament was the most attended event on these Olympics: 1,821,624 spectators watched 32 matches of it at the stadiums.
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)
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Asia (AFC)
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North and Central America (CONCACAF)
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South America (CONMEBOL)
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Europe (UEFA)
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Hosting nation
Match officials
Africa
Belaïd Lacarne
Bassey Eyo-Honesty
Nyrenda Chayu
Asia
Salim Naji Al-Hachami
Ali Abdulwahab Al Bannai
Marwan Arafat
North and Central America
Luis Paulino Siles
Ramón Calderón Castro
Mario Rubio Vázquez
South America
Romualdo Arppi Filho
Guillermo Velásquez
Enrique Labo Revoredo
José Castro Lozada
Europe
Franz Wöhrer
Vojtěch Christov
Anders Mattsson
Riccardo Lattanzi
Klaus Scheurell
Bob Valentine
Emilio Guruceta-Muro
Ulf Eriksson
André Daina
Marjan Raus
Eldar Azimzade
Squads
Final tournament
First round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
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
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
Sergey Andreyev
4 goals
Ladislav Vízek
Wolf-Rüdiger Netz
Fyodor Cherenkov
3 goals
Frank Terletzki
Faisal Al-Dakhil
Yuri Gavrilov
2 goals
Lakhdar Belloumi
Lubomír Pokluda
Falah Hassan
Jasem Yaqoub
Vagiz Khidiyatullin
Khoren Hovhannisyan
Iker Zubizarreta
Miloš Šestić
Zlatko Vujović
Zoran Vujović
Godfrey Chitalu
1 goal
Rabah Madjer
Chaabane Merzekane
Benjamin Cardona
Carlos Molinares
Omar Arroyo
Jorge White
Luis Hernández
Ramón Núñez
Andrés Roldán
Jan Berger
Werner Lička
Zdeněk Šreiner
Jindřich Svoboda
Jouko Alila
Jouko Soini
Ari Tissari
Lothar Hause
Dieter Kühn
Werner Peter
Rüdiger Schnuphase
Wolfgang Steinbach
Hadi Ahmed
Hussein Saeed
Henry Nwosu
Marcos Alonso Peña
Hipólito Rincón
Oleg Romantsev
Sergey Shavlo
Volodymyr Bessonov
Robert Elie
Dževad Šećerbegović
Boro Primorac
Ante Miročević
Own goals
Mahboub Mubarak (playing against Nigeria)
Final ranking
Below the final ranking after the end of the tournament.
References
External links
Olympic Football Tournament Moscow 1980, FIFA.com
RSSSF Summary
FIFA Technical Report
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