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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 December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.[1]

1980 Men's Olympic football tournament
Tournament details
Host countrySoviet Union
Dates20 July – 2 August 1980
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)
Attendance1,821,624 (56,926 per match)
Top scorer(s)Soviet Union Sergey Andreyev (5 goals)
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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]

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

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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

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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

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Squads

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

Final tournament

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First round

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Group A

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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: FIFA
Cuba  1–0  Zambia
Roldán   58' Report
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Marijan Raus (Yugoslavia)
Soviet Union  4–0  Venezuela
Andreyev   3'
Cherenkov   25'
Gavrilov   34'
Hovhannisyan   51'		 Report
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Franz Woehrer (Austria)
Cuba  2–1  Venezuela
Hernández   49'
Núñez   71'		 Report Zubizarreta   68'
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Emilio Guruceta Muro (Spain)
Soviet Union  3–1  Zambia
Khidiyatullin   9', 51'
Cherenkov   87'		 Report Chitalu   13'
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Marwan Arafat (Syria)
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 (Great Britain)
Venezuela  2–1  Zambia
Zubizarreta   86'
Elie   90' (pen.)		 Report Chitalu   73'
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Luis Paulino Siles (Costa Rica)

Group B

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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: FIFA
Czechoslovakia  3–0  Colombia
Pokluda   14'
Berger   18'
Vízek   85'		 Report
Referee: Belaid Lacarne (Argelia)
Kuwait  3–1  Nigeria
Al-Dakhil   16', 40', 85' (pen.) Report Mubarak   25' (o.g.)
Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)
Colombia  1–1  Kuwait
Molinares   73' Report Yaqoub   64'
Referee: Anders Mattson (Finland)
Czechoslovakia  1–1  Nigeria
Vízek   25' Report Nwosu   84'
Referee: Enrique Labo Revoredo (Peru)
Colombia  1–0  Nigeria
Cardona   55' Report
Referee: Salim Naji Al-Hachami (Iraq)
Czechoslovakia  0–0  Kuwait
Report
Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi (Italy)

Group C

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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: FIFA
East Germany  1–1  Spain
Kühn   49' Report Marcos   50'
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)
Algeria  3–0  Syria
Belloumi   36'
Madjer   48'
Merzekane   73' (pen.)		 Report
Referee: Vojtech Christov (Czechoslovakia)
East Germany  1–0  Algeria
Terletzki   61' Report
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil)
Spain  0–0  Syria
Report
Referee: José Castro Lozada (Venezuela)
Spain  1–1  Algeria
Rincón   38' Report Belloumi   63'
Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)
East Germany  5–0  Syria
Hause   6'
Netz   25', 45'
Peter   75'
Terletzki   82'		 Report
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)

Group D

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

Bracket

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

Quarter-finals

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Yugoslavia  3–0  Algeria
Miročević   5'
Šestić   19'
Zoran Vujović   70'		 Report
Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)
Soviet Union  2–1  Kuwait
Cherenkov   30'
Gavrilov   51'		 Report Yaqoub   59'
Attendance: 48,000
Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez (Mexico)
Czechoslovakia  3–0  Cuba
Vízek   29', 59'
Pokluda   90'		 Report
Referee: Enrique Labo Revoredo (Peru)
East Germany  4–0  Iraq
Schnuphase   4' (pen.)
Netz   11'
Steinbach   17'
Terletzki   22'		 Report
Attendance: 48,000
Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil)

Semi-finals

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

Bronze Medal match

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Soviet Union  2–0  Yugoslavia
Hovhannisyan   67'
Andreyev   82'		 Report
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Bob Valentine (Great Britain)

Gold Medal match

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1980 Summer Olympics Football Final
Czechoslovakia  1–0  East Germany
Svoboda   77' Report
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)

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

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View of the stadium from the final
 
Olympic football pins from 1980
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

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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
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goals

Final ranking

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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: [citation needed]

References

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  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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  3. ^ "Football Tournament 1980 Olympiad".
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