The
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
tournament at the
1976 Summer Olympics
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phi ...
started on 18 July and ended on 31 July. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. 13 teams participated in the tournament, while three African teams took part in the boycott.
Venues
Qualification
The following 13 teams qualified for the 1976 Olympics football tournament:
*Africa (
CAF)
** (withdrew)
** (withdrew)
** (withdrew)
*Asia (
AFC)
**
**
**
*North and Central America (
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football,, ; french: Confédération de football d'Amérique du Nord, d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes, . Dutch uses the English name. abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typese ...
)
** (replaced )
**
**
*South America (
CONMEBOL
The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL, , or CSF; es, Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol; pt, Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol) is the continental governing body of football in South America (apart from Guyana, Suri ...
)
**
** (withdrew)
*Europe (
UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...
)
**
**
** (automatically qualified as 1972 Olympic Champions)
**
**
*Hosting nation
**
Match officials
;Asia
*
Abraham Klein
*
Jafar Namdar
Jafar Namdar (2 July 1934 – 1 January 2014) was an Iranian football referee.
Refereeing career
Namdar officiated as a referee at the 1974 and 1978 FIFA World Cups.
When he refereed Australia vs Chile at the 1974 FIFA World Cup Namdar beca ...
;North and Central America
*
Peter Thomas Johnson
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** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a su ...
*
Werner Winsemann
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*
Marco Antonio Dorantes
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;South America
*
Ángel Coerezza
*
Arnaldo Cézar Coelho
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*
Guillermo Velásquez
*
Ramón Barreto
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;Europe
*
Paul Schiller
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International career
Paul Schiller played in the first official match of Romania's national team, a 2–1 victory against Yugoslavia at the 19 ...
*
Robert Helies
*
Alberto Michelotti
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Career
Michelotti began his career in football as a goalkeeper, before becoming a referee in Serie A in 1967. In 1973, Michelotti was appointed a ...
*
Adolf Prokop
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He is mostly known for supervising two matches in the FIFA World Cup, one in 1978 and one in 1982. He was also active at the 1976 Olympics, UEFA Euro 1984 and refer ...
*
Károly Palotai
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*
Marian Kuston
*
John Paterson
*
Emilio Guruceta-Muro
*
Vladimir Rudnev
Squads
Final tournament
First round
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
* **
Zambia
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withdrew
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Bracket
Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
Medal winners
; – Gold
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Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin
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Wilfried Gröbner
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Jürgen Croy
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Gerd Weber
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Hans-Jürgen Dörner
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Konrad Weise
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Lothar Kurbjuweit
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Kurbjuweit played for Stahl Riesa (1965–1970) and FC Carl Zeiss Jena (1970–1983).
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Reinhard Lauck
Gert Heidler
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The forward played for Dynamo Dresden from 1968 until 1982, making 281 appearances for the first team.
International career
He won the gol ...
Reinhard Häfner
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Hans-Jürgen Riediger
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Career
...
Bernd Bransch
Martin Hoffmann
Gerd Kische
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Wolfram Löwe
Hartmut Schade
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Dieter Riedel
Coach:
Georg Buschner
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; – Silver
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Jan Tomaszewski
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Piotr Mowlik
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Antoni Szymanowski
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Jerzy Gorgoń
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Wojciech Rudy
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Władysław Żmuda
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Zygmunt Maszczyk
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Grzegorz Lato
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Henryk Wawrowski
Henryk Kasperczak
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Kazimierz Deyna
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Andrzej Szarmach
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Henryk Wieczorek
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Leslaw Cmikiewicz
Jan Benigier
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He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He won 3 national titles (1974, 1975 and 1979) and 1 national cup The E ...
Coach:
Kazimierz Górski
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He was bor ...
; – Bronze
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Vladimir Astapovsky
Anatoliy Konkov
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Viktor Matviyenko
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Mykhaylo Fomenko
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Volodymyr Troshkin
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David Kipiani
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Volodymyr Onyshchenko
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Viktor Kolotov
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Volodymyr Veremeyev
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Oleh Blokhin
Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin, or Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin ( uk, Оле́г Володи́мирович Блохі́н, rus, Оле́г Влади́мирович Блохи́н; born 5 November 1952), is a former Ukrainian and Soviet footbal ...
Leonid Buryak
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Career
Burya ...
Vladimir Fyodorov
Aleksandr Minayev
Viktor Zvyahintsev
Leonid Nazarenko
Aleksandr Prokhorov
Coach:
Valeriy Lobanovskyi
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Goalscorers
With six goals, Andrzej Szarmach of Poland is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 66 goals were scored by 44 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
;6 goals
*
Andrzej Szarmach
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;4 goals
*
Hans-Jürgen Dörner
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;3 goals
*
Michel Platini
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*
Víctor Rangel
*
Grzegorz Lato
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*
Volodymyr Onyshchenko
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;2 goals
*
Jarbas
*
Jimmy Douglas
*
Jean-Marc Schaer
*
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Vicky Peretz
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*
Hong Song-Nam
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Viktor Kolotov
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;1 goal
*
Chico Fraga
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Erivelto
*
Júnior
*
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* January 3 – The Internat ...
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Hans-Jürgen Riediger
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...
*
Hartmut Schade
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He played for Dynamo Dresden
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*
Lothar Kurbjuweit
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Career
Kurbjuweit played for Stahl Riesa (1965–1970) and FC Carl Zeiss Jena (1970–1983).
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On the national level he p ...
*
Martin Hoffmann
*
Reinhard Häfner
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*
Wolfram Löwe
*
Bruno Baronchelli
*
Francisco Rubio
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Marco Fion
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Ali Parvin
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Gholam Hossein Mazloumi
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Parviz Ghelichkhani
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Itzhak Shum
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*
Yaron Oz
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Hugo Sánchez
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An Se-Uk
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Antoni Szymanowski
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Kazimierz Deyna
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*
Aleksandr Minayev
*
Leonid Nazarenko
*
Oleh Blokhin
Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin, or Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin ( uk, Оле́г Володи́мирович Блохі́н, rus, Оле́г Влади́мирович Блохи́н; born 5 November 1952), is a former Ukrainian and Soviet footbal ...
*
Viktor Zvyahintsev
*
Volodymyr Veremeyev
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Santiago Idígoras
;Own goal
*
Eduardo Rergis
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Career
Rergis played as a central defender for Club América, Atlante, Oaxtepec, Tampico Madero, Tigres UANL and Veracruz.
Rergis played for Mexico at t ...
(playing against Guatemala)
Final ranking
References
External links
Olympic Football Tournament Montreal 1976 FIFA.com
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1976 Summer Olympics events
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* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
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* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
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