Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics

A 16 teams football tournament was played as part of the 1988 Summer Olympics. The tournament featured men's national teams from six continental confederations. The 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four and each group played a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at the Seoul Olympic Stadium on 1 October 1988.[1]

Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Tournament details
Host countrySouth Korea
Dates17 September – 1 October
Teams16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)6 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Soviet Union
Runners-up Brazil
Third place West Germany
Fourth place Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played32
Goals scored95 (2.97 per match)
Top scorer(s) Romário (7 goals)

The USSR team purposefully did not use some strong players in the FIFA World Cup 1986 and UEFA Euro 1988, so that they would be able to participate in the Olympic tournament. During the Olympics, the Soviets primarily stayed on a yacht rather than in the Olympic Village. After winning the gold medal, each player from the Soviet team received 15 thousand dollars from the Soviet government.[2]

Venues
Seoul Busan
Olympic Stadium Dongdaemun Stadium Busan Stadium
Capacity: 69,950 Capacity: 26,383 Capacity: 30,000
Daegu Daejeon Gwangju
Daegu Stadium Daejeon Stadium Gwangju Stadium
Capacity: 23,278 Capacity: 30,000 Capacity: 30,000

Medal summary
Gold Silver Bronze
 Soviet Union (URS)
Aleksandr Borodyuk
Oleksiy Cherednyk
Igor Dobrovolski
Sergei Fokin
Sergei Gorlukovich
Arvydas Janonis
Gela Ketashvili
Dmitry Kharin
Yevgeni Kuznetsov
Viktor Losev
Volodymyr Lyuty
Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko
Arminas Narbekovas
Igor Ponomarev
Yury Savichev
Igor Sklyarov
Vladimir Tatarchuk
Yevgeny Yarovenko
Alexei Prudnikov
Vadym Tyshchenko		  Brazil (BRA)
Ademir
Aloísio
Andrade
Batista
Bebeto
Careca
André Cruz
Edmar
Geovani
João Paulo
Jorginho
Milton
Neto
Romário
Cláudio Taffarel
Luiz Carlos Winck
Ricardo Gomes
Mazinho
Valdo Filho
Zé Carlos		  West Germany (FRG)
Rudi Bommer
Holger Fach
Wolfgang Funkel
Armin Görtz
Roland Grahammer
Thomas Häßler
Thomas Hörster
Olaf Janßen
Uwe Kamps
Gerhard Kleppinger
Jürgen Klinsmann
Frank Mill
Karl-Heinz Riedle
Christian Schreier
Michael Schulz
Ralf Sievers
Fritz Walter
Wolfram Wuttke
Oliver Reck
Gunnar Sauer

Note: The players above the line played at least one game in this tournament, the players below the line were only squad members. Nevertheless, the International Olympic Committee medal database credits them all as medalists.

Qualification

The following 16 teams qualified for the 1988 Olympics football tournament:

Means of qualificationBerthsQualified
Host nation1 South Korea
AFC Preliminary Competition2 China PR
 Iraq
CAF Preliminary Competition3 Nigeria
 Tunisia
 Zambia
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition2 Guatemala
 United States
1987 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament2 Brazil (winner)
 Argentina (runner-up)
OFC Preliminary Competition1 Australia
UEFA Preliminary Competition5 Italy
 Sweden
 Soviet Union
 West Germany
 Yugoslavia
Total16

Participating nations
Main article: Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

Each country was allowed to enter a team of 20 players and they all were eligible for participation. A total number of 314 footballers were entered.

A total of 268(*) footballers from 16 nations competed at the Seoul Games:

(*) NOTE: Players who participated in at least one match.

Final tournament

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Sweden 3 2 1 0 6 3 +3 5
2  West Germany 3 2 0 1 8 3 +5 4
3  Tunisia 3 0 2 1 3 6 −3 2
4  China PR 3 0 1 2 0 5 −5 1
Source:
China PR 0–3 West Germany
Wuttke  31'
Mill  60', 89'
Attendance: 24,000
Referee: Juan Daniel Cardellino (URU)
Sweden 2–2 Tunisia
Thern  44'
Hellström  45'		 Dhiab  16'
Maaloul  43' (pen.)
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Edgardo Codesal (MEX)
Tunisia 1–4 West Germany
Maaloul  26' (pen.) Grahammer  4'
Fach  50'
Mill  55'
Wuttke  75' (pen.)
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Keith Hackett (ENG)
China PR 0–2 Sweden
Lönn  19'
Hellström  42'
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Badara Séne (SEN)
China PR 0–0 Tunisia
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Lennox Sirjuesingh (TRI)
Sweden 2–1 West Germany
Engqvist  64'
Lönn  85'		 Walter  60'
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Kurt Röthlisberger (SUI)

Group B
Main article: Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Zambia 3 2 1 0 10 2 +8 5
2  Italy 3 2 0 1 7 6 +1 4
3  Iraq 3 1 1 1 5 4 +1 3
4  Guatemala 3 0 0 3 2 12 −10 0
Source:
Italy 5–2 Guatemala
Carnevale  3'
Evani  11'
Virdis  34'
Ferrara  38'
Desideri  75'		 Castañeda  7'
Paniagua  79'
Zambia 2–2 Iraq
Nyirenda  44'
K.Bwalya  66'		 Radhi  36' (pen.)
Allawi  71'
Zambia 4–0 Italy
K.Bwalya  40', 55', 90'
J.Bwalya  63'
Iraq 3–0 Guatemala
Radhi  57'
Jabbar  67'
Mazariegos  77' (o.g.)
Zambia 4–0 Guatemala
Makinka  53', 85'
Bwalya  79', 82'
Iraq 0–2 Italy
Rizzitelli  59'
Mauro  63'

Group C
Main article: Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Group C
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Soviet Union 3 2 1 0 6 3 +3 5
2  Argentina 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 3
3  South Korea 3 0 2 1 1 2 −1 2
4  United States 3 0 2 1 3 5 −2 2
Source:
South Korea 0–0 Soviet Union
United States 1–1 Argentina
South Korea 0–0 United States
Argentina 1–2 Soviet Union
South Korea 1–2 Argentina
United States 2–4 Soviet Union

Group D
Main article: Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Group D
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Brazil 3 3 0 0 9 1 +8 6
2  Australia 3 2 0 1 2 3 −1 4
3  Yugoslavia 3 1 0 2 4 4 0 2
4  Nigeria 3 0 0 3 1 8 −7 0
Source:
Australia 1–0 Yugoslavia
Brazil 4–0 Nigeria
Nigeria 1–3 Yugoslavia
Australia 0–3 Brazil
Brazil 2–1 Yugoslavia
Australia 1–0 Nigeria

Knockout stage
Main article: Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Knockout stage
 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsGold medal match
 
          
 
25 September – Daegu
 
 
 Sweden1
 
27 September – Busan
 
 Italy (aet)2
 
 Italy2
 
25 September – Busan
 
 Soviet Union (aet)3
 
 Soviet Union3
 
1 October – Seoul
 
 Australia0
 
 Soviet Union (aet)2
 
25 September – Gwangju
 
 Brazil1
 
 Zambia0
 
27 September – Seoul
 
 West Germany4
 
 West Germany1 (2)
 
25 September – Seoul
 
 Brazil (aet)1 (3) Bronze medal match
 
 Brazil1
 
30 September – Seoul
 
 Argentina0
 
 Italy0
 
 
 West Germany3
 

Quarter-finals
Sweden 1–2 (a.e.t.) Italy
Attendance: 11,000
Soviet Union 3–0 Australia
Attendance: 7,000
West Germany 4–0 Zambia
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Jesús Díaz
Brazil 1–0 Argentina
Attendance: 21,800

Semi-finals
Soviet Union 3–2 (a.e.t.) Italy
Attendance: 10,000
Brazil 1–1 (a.e.t.) West Germany
Penalties
3–2
Attendance: 65,000
Referee: Keith Hackett

Bronze medal match
Italy 0–3 West Germany
Attendance: 61,000

Gold medal match
Soviet Union 2–1 (a.e.t.) Brazil
Dobrovolski  61' (pen.)
Savichev  103'		 Report Romário  30'
Attendance: 74,000
Referee: Gérard Biguet (FRA)

Final ranking
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Soviet Union (URS) 6 5 1 0 14 6 +8 11
2  Brazil (BRA) 6 4 1 1 12 4 +8 9
3  West Germany (FRG) 6 4 1 1 16 4 +12 9
4  Italy (ITA) 6 3 0 3 11 13 −2 6
5  Zambia (ZAM) 4 2 1 1 10 6 +4 5
6  Sweden (SWE) 4 2 1 1 7 5 +2 5
7  Australia (AUS) 4 2 0 2 2 6 −4 4
8  Argentina (ARG) 4 1 1 2 4 5 −1 3
9  Iraq (IRQ) 3 1 1 1 5 4 +1 3
10  Yugoslavia (YUG) 3 1 0 2 4 4 0 2
11  South Korea (KOR) 3 0 2 1 1 2 −1 2
12  United States (USA) 3 0 2 1 3 5 −2 2
13  Tunisia (TUN) 3 0 2 1 3 6 −3 2
14  China (CHN) 3 0 1 2 0 5 −5 1
15  Nigeria (NGR) 3 0 0 3 1 8 −7 0
16  Guatemala (GUA) 3 0 0 3 2 12 −10 0
Source: [3]

Venues

Match officials

Goalscorers

With seven goals, Romário of Brazil was the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 95 goals were scored by 53 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

7 goals
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goal

References
  1. "Football at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  2. https://www.sport-express.ru/football/reviews/pobeda-na-olimpiade-1988-vospominaniya-uchastnikov-anatoliy-byshovec-sbornaya-sssr-po-futbolu-1462437/
  3. "Football Tournament 1988 Olympiad". www.rsssf.com.
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