Olympic football
Football at the Summer Olympics, referred to as the Olympic Football Tournament, has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition sport, except 1896 (the inaugural Games) and 1932 (in an attempt to promote the new FIFA Wo ...
tournament, held in
Munich
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,
Augsburg
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Ingolstadt
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,
Nürnberg
Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ci ...
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Passau
Passau (; bar, label=Central Bavarian, Båssa) is a city in Lower Bavaria, Germany, also known as the Dreiflüssestadt ("City of Three Rivers") as the river Danube is joined by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north.
Passau's popu ...
, and
Regensburg
Regensburg or is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers. It is capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the state in the south of Germany. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Regensburg is the f ...
, was played as part of the
1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...
. The tournament features 16 men's national teams from five continental confederations. The 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four and each group plays a
round-robin tournament
A round-robin tournament (or all-go-away-tournament) is a competition
Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero ...
. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the second group stage, where the second-placed teams in each group advanced to the bronze medal match while the first-placed teams advanced to the gold medal match held at
Olympic Stadium
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on 10 September 1972.
In 2017, the physician of the Soviet team revealed that the match for the bronze medal between the Soviet Union and East Germany was fixed.
Qualifications
Squads
Venues
First round
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Second round
Group 1
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Group 2
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Knockout stage
Bronze Medal match
Bronze medals shared.
Gold Medal match
Goalscorers
With nine goals, Kazimierz Deyna of Poland is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 135 goals were scored by 66 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
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Kazimierz Deyna
Kazimierz Deyna (; 23 October 1947 – 1 September 1989) was a Polish professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder in the playmaker role and was one of the most highly regarded players of his generation, due to his excellent vis ...
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Antal Dunai
Antal Dunai, also known as Dunai II (né ''Dujmov'', 21 March 1943) is a Hungarian former footballer with Yugoslav origins. He became a first division player at Pécsi Dózsa, but he spent the majority of his career at Újpesti Dózsa from ...
;6 goals
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Joachim Streich
Joachim Streich (13 April 1951 – 16 April 2022) was a German footballer who won the bronze medal with East Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Playing career
Born in Wismar, Streich played as a striker for Aufbau Wismar from 1957 t ...
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Robert Gadocha
Robert Gadocha (born 10 January 1946 in Kraków) is a retired Polish soccer player, most notable for playing for Legia Warsaw.
Gadocha, who started his career in Garbarnia Kraków. later also played for FC Nantes, and briefly in the United S ...
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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 ...
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Bernd Nickel
Bernd Nickel (15 March 1949 – 27 October 2021) was a German professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or striker. Due to his straight shots his nickname was ''"Doktor Hammer"''.
Nickel began his career in 1957 at SV Eisem ...
;5 goals
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Hans-Jürgen Kreische
Hans-Jürgen "Hansi" Kreische (born 19 July 1947) is a former East German footballer.
Career Club career
Kreische spent his entire career with his hometown club, Dynamo Dresden, scoring 127 goals in 234 DDR-Oberliga games between 1964 and 19 ...
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Jürgen Sparwasser
Jürgen Sparwasser (born 4 June 1948 in Halberstadt) is a retired German football player and later briefly a football manager.
Sparwasser started his playing career in the youth department of his hometown club BSG Lokomotive Halberstadt in 19 ...
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Ottmar Hitzfeld
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;3 goals
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Allan Simonsen
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Ede Dunai
Ede Dunai, also known as Dunai III (born 14 July 1949) was a Hungarian football player who played for Újpesti Dózsa. Dunai III is most famous for his participation in the silver medal-winning Hungarian team on the 1972 Summer Olympics ...
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Ahmed Faras
Ahmed Faras ( ar, أحمد فرس; born 7 December 1946) is a Moroccan former footballer who played as a striker for Chabab Mohammédia at club level and Morocco internationally.
Faras was named African Footballer of the Year in 1975. In 200 ...
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Viktor Kolotov
Viktor Mikhailovich Kolotov (russian: Виктор Михайлович Колотов; ua, Віктор Михайлович Колотов; 3 July 1949 – 3 January 2000) was a Soviet and Ukrainian footballer.
He was born in the settlement ...
Dirceu
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Lajos Kű
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Leonardo Cuéllar
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Jerzy Gorgoń
Jerzy Paweł Gorgoń (born 18 July 1949 in Zabrze) is a Polish former football player who is remembered for his participation in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was a 6'4" tall central defender, who became well known in 1967 while playing for Górn ...
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Włodzimierz Lubański
Włodzimierz 'Włodek' Leonard Lubański (Polish pronunciation: ; born 28 February 1947 in Gliwice-Sośnica) is a former Polish football striker, the second all-time highest goal scorer for the Polish national team. For his national team, ...
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Rudolf Seliger
Rudolf "Rudi" Seliger (born 20 September 1951) is a former football striker.
References
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Living people
1951 births
Sportspeople from Mülheim
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Germany international footballers
Germany B internat ...
Zé Carlos
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Kristen Nygaard
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Per Røntved
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Jürgen Pommerenke
Jürgen Pommerenke (born 22 January 1953 in Wegeleben) is a former German football midfielder and manager.
Pommerenke played his entire professional career for 1. FC Magdeburg, though he began his career as an youngster with BSG Traktor Wege ...
Reinhard Häfner
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Häfner played children's and youth football for his hometown club BSG Motor Sonneberg. As a junior player he was assigned to FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt before jo ...
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Ibrahim Sunday
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Lajos Kocsis
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Club career
Kocsis started his career in his native town of Szeged, ...
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Mihály Kozma
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He won a silver medal in football at the 1972 Summer Olympics, and also participated in UEFA Euro ...
Shaharuddin Abdullah
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Daniel Razo
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Kazimierz Kmiecik
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Zygfryd Szołtysik
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Gennady Yevriuzhikin
Gennady Yegorovich Yevryuzhikhin (russian: Геннадий Егорович Еврюжихин; born 4 February 1944 in Kazan; died 15 March 1998 in Moscow) was a Russian footballer.
Honours
* Soviet Top League winner: 1976 (spring).
* Sovie ...
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Murtaz Khurtsilava
Murtaz Kalistratovich Khurtsilava ( ka, მურთაზ ხურცილავა, russian: Муртаз Калистратович Хурцилава, born 5 January 1943) is a former Georgia (country), Georgian association football defende ...
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Oganes Zanazanyan
Hovhannes Arutyunovich Zanazanyan ( hy, Հովհանես Զանազանյան, russian: Оганес Арутюнович Заназанян; 10 December 1946 – 4 October 2015) was a Soviet football player and an Armenian coach.
Honours
* Sov ...
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Yozhef Sabo
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Jürgen Kalb
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The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (g ...
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Ronald Worm
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Club career
Worm began his career at his hometown club MSV Duisburg, for which he made 231 appearances in the Bundesliga between 1971 and ...
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Uli Hoeneß
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1972
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1972
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Oly
Oly may refer to:
* Oly, informal name for Olympia, Washington, United States
* OLY (: ), postnominals granted to participants in the Olympics
People with the name
* Oly (born 1992), American singer-songwriter and musician
* Oly Hicks (born 1968 ...