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.[1]
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| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | Soviet Union |
| Dates | 20 July – 2 August |
| 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 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Yugoslavia |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 32 |
| Goals scored | 82 (2.56 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Sergey Andreyev (5 goals) |
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]
Venues
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| Central Lenin Stadium | Dynamo Stadium | ||||
| Capacity: 91,251 | Capacity: 50,475 | ||||
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| Minsk | Leningrad | Kiev | |||
| Dinamo Stadium | Kirov Stadium | Republican Stadium | |||
| Capacity: 50,125 | Capacity: 74,000 | Capacity: 100,169 | |||
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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:
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Match officials
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Squads
Final tournament
Group A
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Soviet Union |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | +14 | 6 |
 Cuba |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 4 |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Venezuela |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Zambia |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 |
Source:
| Soviet Union | 4–0 | Venezuela |
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Andreyev  3' Cherenkov 25' Gavrilov 34' Hovhannisyan 51' |
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| Soviet Union | 3–1 | Zambia |
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| Khidiyatullin 9' 51' Cherenkov 87' |
Report | Chitalu 13' |
| Soviet Union | 8–0 | Cuba |
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| Andreyev 8' 27' 44' Romantsev 20' Shavlo 43' Cherenkov 55' Gavrilov 75' Bessonov 77' |
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Group B
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 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:
| Czechoslovakia | 3–0 | Colombia |
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| Pokluda 14' Berger 18' Vízek 85' |
Report |
Kirov Stadium, Leningrad
Referee: Belaid Lacarne 
| Czechoslovakia | 1–1 | Nigeria |
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| Vízek 25' |
Report | Nwosu 84' |
Kirov Stadium, Leningrad
Referee: Enrique Labo Revoredo 
| Czechoslovakia | 0–0 | Kuwait |
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| Report |
Kirov Stadium, Leningrad
Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi 
Group C
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 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:
| East Germany | 1–1 | Spain |
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| Kühn 49' |
Report | Marcos 50' |
| East Germany | 1–0 | Algeria |
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| Terletzki 61' |
Report |
Group D
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Yugoslavia |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 5 |
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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:
| Yugoslavia | 2–0 | Finland |
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| Šećerbegović 56' Šestić 58' |
Report |
Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez 
| Iraq | 3–0 | Costa Rica |
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| Ahmed 45' Saeed 49' Hassan 75' |
Report |
Republican Stadium, Kiev
Referee: Nyirenda Chayu
| Yugoslavia | 3–2 | Costa Rica |
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| Zlatko Vujović 6' 54' Primorac 24' |
Report | White 35' Arroyo 90' |
Referee: Bassey Eyo-Honesty
| Yugoslavia | 1–1 | Iraq |
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| Zoran Vujović 63' |
Report | Hassan 61' |
Referee: André Daina 
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| July 27 - Moscow | ||||||||||
| Soviet Union | 2 | |||||||||
| July 29 - Moscow | ||||||||||
| Kuwait | 1 | |||||||||
| East Germany | 1 | |||||||||
| July 27 - Kiev | ||||||||||
| Soviet Union | 0 | |||||||||
| East Germany | 4 | |||||||||
| August 2 - Moscow | ||||||||||
| Iraq | 0 | |||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 1 | |||||||||
| July 27 - Leningrad | ||||||||||
| East Germany | 0 | |||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 3 | |||||||||
| July 29 - Moscow | ||||||||||
| Cuba | 0 | |||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 2 | |||||||||
| July 27 - Minsk | ||||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 0 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 3 | |||||||||
| August 1 - Moscow | ||||||||||
| Algeria | 0 | |||||||||
| Soviet Union | 2 | |||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 0 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
| Yugoslavia | 3–0 | Algeria |
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| Miročević 5' Šestić 19' Zoran Vujović 70' |
Report |
Referee: Klaus Scheurell
| Czechoslovakia | 3–0 | Cuba |
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| Vízek 29' 59' Pokluda 90' |
Report |
Kirov Stadium, Leningrad
Referee: Enrique Labo Revoredo
| East Germany | 4–0 | Iraq |
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| Schnuphase 4' (p.k.) Netz 11' Steinbach 17' Terletzki 22' |
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Semi-finals
| Soviet Union | 0–1 | East Germany |
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| Report | Netz 16' |
| Czechoslovakia | 2–0 | Yugoslavia |
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| Lička 4' Šreiner 18' |
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Bronze Medal match
| Soviet Union | 2–0 | Yugoslavia |
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| Hovhannisyan 67' Andreyev 82' |
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Gold Medal match
| Czechoslovakia | 1–0 | East Germany |
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| Svoboda 77' |
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View of stadium from the final
Olympic football Pins from 1980
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 is the top scorer in 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
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- 1 goal
- 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 |
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| 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 | .png.webp){kind=small} Venezuela (VEN) |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 |
| 13 | Nigeria (NGR) |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 |
| 14 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} 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 |
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References
- "Football at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- "FIFA Technical Report - 1980 Olympics Football Tournament" (PDF). FIFA. 1980. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- http://www.rsssf.com/tableso/ol1980f-det.html
External links
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