Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics

The association football (soccer) tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics started on July 29 and ended on August 11.[1] It was the first Olympic soccer competition in which professionals were allowed. Until then, the amateur-only rule had heavily favored socialist countries from Eastern Europe whose players were professionals in all but name. However, as agreed with FIFA to preserve the primacy of the World Cup, the Olympic competition was restricted to players with no more than five "A" caps at tournament start, regardless of age.

1984 Olympic Football Tournament
Tournament details
Host countryUnited States
Dates (1984-07-29) (1984-08-11)29 July – 11 August 1984
(13 days)
Teams16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions France (1st title)
Runners-up Brazil
Third place Yugoslavia
Fourth place Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played32
Goals scored84 (2.63 per match)
Attendance1,425,181 (44,537 per match)
Top scorer(s) Borislav Cvetković
Stjepan Deverić
Daniel Xuereb
(5 goals each)

The soccer tournament was held in four venues:

The Gold Medal game between France and Brazil at the Rose Bowl attracted an Olympic Games soccer attendance record of 101,799. Until 2014 this remained the record attendance for a soccer game in the United States. This broke the previous Olympics record attendance of 100,000 set at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia for the game of the 1956 Olympic Games played between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. The Rose Bowl attendance would remain the Olympic record until 104,098 attended the game of the 2000 Summer Olympics between Cameroon and Spain at the Stadium Australia in Sydney.

The attendance also stood as the highest for a soccer game in the United States until 109,318 saw Manchester United defeat Real Madrid during the 2014 International Champions Cup at the Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.

Schedule
GGroup stage ¼Quarterfinals ½Semifinals B3rd place play-off FFinal
Event↓/Date →Sun 29Mon 30Tue 31Wed 1Thu 2Fri 3Sat 4Sun 5Mon 6Tue 7Wed 8Thu 9Fri 10Sat 11
Men's tournamentGGGGGG¼¼½BF

Qualifying
Main article: Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Sixteen teams qualified for the Olympic tournament after continental qualifying rounds. Three Warsaw Pact countries had qualified but withdrew as part of the Soviet-led boycott. They were replaced as follows:

Venues
Pasadena Boston Annapolis Stanford
Rose Bowl Harvard Stadium Navy–Marine Corps Stadium Stanford Stadium
Capacity: 103,300 Capacity: 30,323 Capacity: 34,000 Capacity: 84,500

Medalists

Match officials

Squads
Main article: Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

Final tournament

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  France 3 1 2 0 5 4 +1 4 Qualified for quarter-finals
2  Chile 3 1 2 0 2 1 +1 4
3  Norway 3 1 1 1 3 2 +1 3
4  Qatar 3 0 1 2 2 5 −3 1
Source:
Norway 0–0 Chile
Report
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Socha (USA)
France 2–2 Qatar
Garande  43'
Xuereb  61'		 Report Al-Muhannadi  55', 60'
Attendance: 29,240
Referee: Filho (BRA)
Norway 1–2 France
Ahlsen  33' Report Brisson  5', 56'
Attendance: 27,832
Referee: Roth (FRG)
Chile 1–0 Qatar
Baeza  52' Report
Attendance: 14,508
Referee: Siles (CRC)
Qatar 0–2 Norway
Report Vaadal  21', 52'
Attendance: 17,529
Referee: Kalombo (MWI)
Chile 1–1 France
Santis  9' Report Lemoult  50'
Attendance: 28,114
Referee: Keizer (NED)

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Yugoslavia 3 3 0 0 7 3 +4 6 Qualified for quarter-finals
2  Canada 3 1 1 1 4 3 +1 3
3  Cameroon 3 1 0 2 3 5 −2 2
4  Iraq 3 0 1 2 3 6 −3 1
Source:
Canada 1–1 Iraq
Gray  70' Report Saeed  83'
Attendance: 16,730
Referee: Díaz (COL)
Yugoslavia 2–1 Cameroon
Nikolić  39'
Cvetković  70'		 Report Milla  32'
Attendance: 15,010
Referee: Keizer (NED)
Cameroon 1–0 Iraq
Bahoken  7' Report
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Socha (USA)
Yugoslavia 1–0 Canada
Nikolić  76' Report
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Hossameldin (EGY)
Cameroon 1–3 Canada
Mfédé  76' Report Mitchell  43', 82'
Vrablic  72'
Attendance: 27,621
Referee: Barbaresco (ITA)
Iraq 2–4 Yugoslavia
Saeed  17'
Shihab  43'		 Report Deverić  55', 76', 87'
Nikolić  86'
Attendance: 24,430
Referee: Sano (JPN)

Group C
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Brazil 3 3 0 0 6 1 +5 6 Qualified for quarter-finals
2  West Germany 3 2 0 1 8 1 +7 4
3  Morocco 3 1 0 2 1 4 −3 2
4  Saudi Arabia 3 0 0 3 1 10 −9 0
Source:
West Germany 2–0 Morocco
Rahn  43'
Brehme  52'		 Report
Attendance: 23.228
Referee: Evangelista (CAN)
Brazil 3–1 Saudi Arabia
Gilmar Popoca  12'
Silvinho  50'
Dunga  59'		 Report Abdullah  69'
Attendance: 40,799
Referee: McGinlay (GBR)
Brazil 1–0 West Germany
Gilmar Popoca  86' Report
Attendance: 75,239
Referee: Cha (KOR)
Morocco 1–0 Saudi Arabia
Merry  72' Report
Attendance: 36,909
Referee: Šoštarič (YUG)
Saudi Arabia 0–6 West Germany
Report Schreier  8', 66'
Bommer  22', 72'
Rahn  24'
Mill  32'
Attendance: 26,242
Referee: Igna (ROU)
Morocco 0–2 Brazil
Report Dunga  64'
Kita  70'
Attendance: 49,355
Referee: Sánchez (ESP)

Group D
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Italy 3 2 0 1 2 1 +1 4 Qualified for quarter-finals
2  Egypt 3 1 1 1 5 3 +2 3
3  United States 3 1 1 1 4 2 +2 3
4  Costa Rica 3 1 0 2 2 7 −5 2
Source:
United States 3–0 Costa Rica
Davis  23', 86'
Willrich  35'		 Report
Attendance: 78,000
Referee: Quiniou (FRA)
Italy 1–0 Egypt
Serena  63' Report
Attendance: 37,430
Referee: Castro (CHI)
Egypt 4–1 Costa Rica
Khatib  32'
Abdelghani  35'
Soliman  62'
Gadallah  71'		 Report Coronado  87'
Attendance: 20,645
Referee: Ramírez (MEX)
Italy 1–0 United States
Fanna  58' Report
Attendance: 63.624
Referee: Al-Salmi (KUW)
Egypt 1–1 United States
Soliman  27' Report Thompson  8'
Attendance: 54,973
Referee: Romero (ARG)
Costa Rica 1–0 Italy
Rivers  33' Report
Attendance: 41,291
Referee: Tesfaye (ETH)

Knockout stage
 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
August 5 – Pasadena, CA
 
 
 France2
 
August 8 – Pasadena, CA
 
 Egypt0
 
 France (aet)4
 
August 6 – Pasadena, CA
 
 Yugoslavia2
 
 Yugoslavia5
 
August 11 – Pasadena, CA
 
 West Germany2
 
 France2
 
August 5 – Stanford, CA
 
 Brazil0
 
 Italy (aet)1
 
August 8 – Stanford, CA
 
 Chile0
 
 Italy1
 
August 6 – Stanford, CA
 
 Brazil (aet)2 Bronze medal match
 
 Brazil (pen)1 (4)
 
August 10 – Pasadena, CA
 
 Canada1 (2)
 
 Yugoslavia2
 
 
 Italy1
 

Quarter-finals
Italy 1–0 (a.e.t.) Chile
Vignola  95' Report
Attendance: 67,349
Referee: McGinlay (GBR)
France 2–0 Egypt
Xuereb  29', 52' Report
Attendance: 66,228
Referee: Cha (KOR)
Brazil 1–1 (a.e.t.) Canada
Gilmar Popoca  72' Report Mitchell  58'
Penalties
Gilmar
Kita
Ademir
André Luiz 		4–2 Wilson
Mitchell
Bridge
Gray
Attendance: 36,150
Referee: Siles (CRC)
Yugoslavia 5–2 West Germany
Cvetković  21', 58', 70'
Radanović  27'
Gračan  46' (pen.)		 Report Bommer  1'
Bockenfeld  28'
Attendance: 58,439
Referee: Romero (ARG)

Semi-finals
France 4–2 (a.e.t.) Yugoslavia
Bijotat  7'
Jeannol  15'
Lacombe  96'
Xuereb  119'		 Report Cvetković  63'
Deverić  74'
Attendance: 97,451
Referee: Ramírez (MEX)
Italy 1–2 (a.e.t.) Brazil
Fanna  62' Report Gilmar Popoca  53'
Ronaldo  95'
Attendance: 83,642
Referee: Socha (USA)

Bronze Medal match
Yugoslavia 2–1 Italy
Baljić  59'
Deverić  81'		 Report Vignola  27' (pen.)
Attendance: 100,374
Referee: McGinlay (GBR)

Gold Medal match
France 2–0 Brazil
Brisson  55'
Xuereb  60'		 Report
Attendance: 101,799
Referee: Keizer (Netherlands)

Match rules

Final team rankings

Note: As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Result
1  France (FRA) 6 4 2 0 13 6 +7 10
2  Brazil (BRA) 6 4 1 1 9 5 +4 9
3  Yugoslavia (YUG) 6 5 0 1 16 10 +6 10
4  Italy (ITA) 6 3 0 3 5 5 0 6
5  West Germany (FRG) 4 2 0 2 10 6 +4 4 Eliminated in the quarter-finals
6  Canada (CAN) 4 1 2 1 5 4 +1 4
7  Chile (CHI) 4 1 2 1 2 2 0 4
8  Egypt (EGY) 4 1 1 2 5 5 0 3
9  United States (USA) 3 1 1 1 4 2 +2 3 Eliminated in the group stage
10  Norway (NOR) 3 1 1 1 3 2 +1 3
11  Cameroon (CMR) 3 1 0 2 3 5 −2 2
12  Morocco (MAR) 3 1 0 2 1 4 −3 2
13  Costa Rica (CRC) 3 1 0 2 2 7 −5 2
14  Iraq (IRQ) 3 0 1 2 3 6 −3 1
15  Qatar (QAT) 3 0 1 2 2 5 −3 1
16  Saudi Arabia (KSA) 3 0 0 3 1 10 −9 0
Source:

Statistics

Goalscorers

With five goals, Daniel Xuereb of France, Borislav Cvetković and Stjepan Deverić of Yugoslavia are the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 84 goals were scored by 52 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal

Discipline

In the final tournament, a player was suspended for the subsequent match in the competition for getting a red card. The following twelve players were sent off and suspended during the final tournament:

Player Offences Date Suspensions
Sebastiano Nela in group D v Egypt 29 July Group D v United States
Mohamed Sedky   in group D v Italy 29 July Group D v Costa Rica
Morsy El Alaa   in group D v Italy 29 July Group D v Costa Rica
Moustafa Ahmed Ismail   in group D v Italy 29 July Group D v Costa Rica
Marko Elsner   in group B v Cameroon 30 July Group B v Canada
Mustapha El Biyaz   in group C v West Germany 30 July Group C v Saudi Arabia
Mubarak Al-Kaater   in group A v Norway 2 August None (Qatar eliminated)
Issa Al-Mohammadi in group A v Norway 2 August None (Qatar eliminated)
Théophile Abega   in group B v Canada 3 August None (Cameroon eliminated)
Sameer Abdulshaker   in group C v West Germany 3 August None (Saudi Arabia eliminated)
Jovica Nikolić in semi-final v France 8 August Bronze medal match v Italy
Borislav Cvetković in semi-final v France 8 August Bronze medal match v Italy

Trivia

The wave was first broadcast internationally during the 1984 Olympic football final, when it was done among the 100,000 in attendance at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena.[2]

References
  1. "Football at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  2. José Touré: "It was at the Olympic Games that I realised I was an athlete" FIFA.com. Retrieved 25 August 2011
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