Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics

1980 Men's Olympic football tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Soviet Union
Dates	20 July – 2 August 1980
Teams	16 (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 played	32
Goals scored	82 (2.56 per match)
Attendance	1,821,624 (56,926 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sergey Andreyev (5 goals)
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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]

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". ^[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

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:

Africa (CAF)   Algeria   Nigeria (replaces   Ghana )   Zambia (replaces   Egypt ) Asia (AFC)   Iraq (replaces   Malaysia )   Kuwait   Syria (replaces   Iran ) North and Central America (CONCACAF)   Costa Rica   Cuba (replaces   United States )

South America (CONMEBOL)   Colombia   Venezuela (replaces   Argentina ) Europe (UEFA)   Czechoslovakia   Finland (replaces   Norway )   East Germany   Spain   Yugoslavia Hosting nation   Soviet Union

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

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

Final tournament

First round

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: FIFA

20 July 1980
12:00

Cuba	1–0	Zambia
Roldán 58'	Report

Kirov Stadium, Leningrad

Attendance: 100,000

Referee: Marijan Raus (Yugoslavia)

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20 July 1980
12:00

Soviet Union	4–0	Venezuela
Andreyev 3' Cherenkov 25' Gavrilov 34' Hovhannisyan 51'	Report

Lenin Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Franz Woehrer (Austria)

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22 July 1980
12:00

Cuba	2–1	Venezuela
Hernández 49' Núñez 71'	Report	Zubizarreta 68'

Kirov Stadium, Leningrad

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Emilio Guruceta Muro (Spain)

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22 July 1980
12:00

Soviet Union	3–1	Zambia
Khidiyatullin 9', 51' Cherenkov 87'	Report	Chitalu 13'

Lenin Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Marwan Arafat (Syria)

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24 July 1980
12:00

Soviet Union	8–0	Cuba
Andreyev 8', 27', 44' Romantsev 20' Shavlo 43' Cherenkov 55' Gavrilov 75' Bessonov 77'	Report

Dinamo Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 52,000

Referee: Bob Valentine (Great Britain)

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24 July 1980
12:00

Venezuela	2–1	Zambia
Zubizarreta 86' Elie 90' (pen.)	Report	Chitalu 73'

Kirov Stadium, Leningrad

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Luis Paulino Siles (Costa Rica)

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: FIFA

21 July 1980
12:00

Czechoslovakia	3–0	Colombia
Pokluda 14' Berger 18' Vízek 85'	Report

Kirov Stadium, Leningrad

Referee: Belaid Lacarne (Argelia)

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21 July 1980
12:00

Kuwait	3–1	Nigeria
Al-Dakhil 16', 40', 85' (pen.)	Report	Mubarak 25' (o.g.)

Dinamo Stadium, Moscow

Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)

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23 July 1980
12:00

Colombia	1–1	Kuwait
Molinares 73'	Report	Yaqoub 64'

Dinamo Stadium, Moscow

Referee: Anders Mattson (Finland)

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23 July 1980
12:00

Czechoslovakia	1–1	Nigeria
Vízek 25'	Report	Nwosu 84'

Kirov Stadium, Leningrad

Referee: Enrique Labo Revoredo (Peru)

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25 July 1980
12:00

Colombia	1–0	Nigeria
Cardona 55'	Report

Dinamo Stadium, Moscow

Referee: Salim Naji Al-Hachami (Iraq)

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25 July 1980
12:00

Czechoslovakia	0–0	Kuwait
	Report

Kirov Stadium, Leningrad

Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi (Italy)

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: FIFA

20 July 1980
12:00

East Germany	1–1	Spain
Kühn 49'	Report	Marcos 50'

Republican Stadium, Kiev

Attendance: 100,000

Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)

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20 July 1980
12:00

Algeria	3–0	Syria
Belloumi 36' Madjer 48' Merzekane 73' (pen.)	Report

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Referee: Vojtech Christov (Czechoslovakia)

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22 July 1980
12:00

East Germany	1–0	Algeria
Terletzki 61'	Report

Republican Stadium, Kiev

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil)

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22 July 1980
12:00

Spain	0–0	Syria
	Report

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Referee: José Castro Lozada (Venezuela)

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24 July 1980
12:00

Spain	1–1	Algeria
Rincón 38'	Report	Belloumi 63'

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)

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24 July 1980
12:00

East Germany	5–0	Syria
Hause 6' Netz 25', 45' Peter 75' Terletzki 82'	Report

Republican Stadium, Kiev

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)

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: FIFA

21 July 1980
12:00

Yugoslavia	2–0	Finland
Šećerbegović 56' Šestić 58'	Report

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez (Mexico)

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21 July 1980
12:00

Iraq	3–0	Costa Rica
Ahmed 45' Saeed 49' Hassan 75'	Report

Republican Stadium, Kiev

Referee: Nyirenda Chayu (Zambia)

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23 July 1980
12:00

Yugoslavia	3–2	Costa Rica
Zlatko Vujović 6', 54' Primorac 24'	Report	White 35' Arroyo 90'

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Referee: Bassey Eyo-Honesty (Nigeria)

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23 July 1980
12:00

Finland	0–0	Iraq
	Report

Republican Stadium, Kiev

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Ramón Calderón Castro (Cuba)

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25 July 1980
12:00

Finland	3–0	Costa Rica
Tissari 18' Alila 58' Soini 88'	Report

Republican Stadium, Kiev

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Ali Albannai Abdulwahab (Kuwait)

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25 July 1980
12:00

Yugoslavia	1–1	Iraq
Zoran Vujović 63'	Report	Hassan 61'

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	27 July – Moscow
	Soviet Union	2
					29 July – Moscow
	Kuwait	1
					Soviet Union	0
	27 July – Kiev
					East Germany	1
	East Germany	4
									2 August – Moscow
	Iraq	0
									East Germany	0
	27 July – Leningrad
									Czechoslovakia	1
	Czechoslovakia	3
					29 July – Moscow
	Cuba	0
					Czechoslovakia	2
	27 July – Minsk
					Yugoslavia	0			Bronze medal match
	Yugoslavia	3
									1 August – Moscow
	Algeria	0
									Soviet Union	2
									Yugoslavia	0

Quarter-finals

27 July 1980
12:00

Yugoslavia	3–0	Algeria
Miročević 5' Šestić 19' Zoran Vujović 70'	Report

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)

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27 July 1980
12:00

Soviet Union	2–1	Kuwait
Cherenkov 30' Gavrilov 51'	Report	Yaqoub 59'

Dinamo Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 48,000

Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez (Mexico)

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27 July 1980
12:00

Czechoslovakia	3–0	Cuba
Vízek 29', 59' Pokluda 90'	Report

Kirov Stadium, Leningrad

Referee: Enrique Labo Revoredo (Peru)

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27 July 1980
12:00

East Germany	4–0	Iraq
Schnuphase 4' (pen.) Netz 11' Steinbach 17' Terletzki 22'	Report

Republican Stadium, Kiev

Attendance: 48,000

Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil)

Semi-finals

29 July 1980
12:00

Soviet Union	0–1	East Germany
	Report	Netz 16'

Lenin Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 95,000

Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)

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29 July 1980
13:00

Czechoslovakia	2–0	Yugoslavia
Lička 4' Šreiner 18'	Report

Dinamo Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 48,000

Referee: Franz Woehrer (Austria)

Bronze Medal match

1 August 1980
12:00

Soviet Union	2–0	Yugoslavia
Hovhannisyan 67' Andreyev 82'	Report

Dinamo Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Bob Valentine (Great Britain)

Gold Medal match

1980 Summer Olympics Football Final

2 August 1980

12:00

Czechoslovakia	1–0	East Germany
Svoboda 77'	Report

Lenin Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)

Team details

Czechoslovakia East Germany GK 1 Stanislav Seman DF 3 Josef Mazura DF 2 Luděk Macela DF 4 Libor Radimec DF 5 Zdeněk Rygel MF 14 Oldřich Rott MF 8 Jan Berger (Sent - Off) MF 16 František Štambachr FW 7 Ladislav Vízek FW 11 Werner Lička FW 10 Lubomír Pokluda Substitutes: FW 9 Jindřich Svoboda MF 6 Petr Němec Manager: František Havránek GK 1 Bodo Rudwaleit DF 13 Matthias Müller DF 3 Lothar Hause DF 12 Norbert Trieloff DF 2 Artur Ullrich MF 6 Rüdiger Schnuphase MF 7 Frank Terletzki MF 8 Wolfgang Steinbach (Sent - Off) MF 5 Frank Baum FW 17 Wolf-Rüdiger Netz FW 11 Dieter Kühn Substitutes: MF 14 Matthias Liebers Manager: Rudolf Krause

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

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

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. ^[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

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".

External links

• Olympic Football Tournament Moscow 1980, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Summary
• FIFA Technical Report