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

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-led

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in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Sixteen teams were divided into four groups: *''Group A'' (

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) *''Group B'' (

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Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to Iraq–Ku ...

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) *''Group C'' (

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, GDR,

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) *''Group D'' (

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) 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,".

Venues

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: *Africa ( CAF) ** ** (replaces ) ** (replaces ) *Asia (

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) ** (replaces ) ** ** (replaces ) *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 ( ; types ...

) ** ** (replaces ) *South America ( CONMEBOL) ** ** (replaces ) *Europe (

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) ** ** (replaces ) ** ** ** *Hosting nation **

Match officials

;Africa *

Belaïd Lacarne Belaïd Lacarne ( ar, بلعيد لاكارن, born 26 October 1940 in Sidi Bel Abbès) is a retired Algerian football referee. Lacarne refereed one match in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain between Argentina and Hungary. He was also a Linesman ...

* Bassey Eyo-Honesty * Nyrenda Chayu ;Asia * Salim Naji Al-Hachami * Ali Abdulwahab Al Bannai * Marwan Arafat ;North and Central America *

Luis Paulino Siles Luis Paulino Siles Calderón (born December 13, 1941 in San José) is a Costa Rican lawyer, civil engineer and former association football referee. He is known for officiating two matches ( Brazil vs Scotland and Poland vs Belgium) in the 1982 ...

* Ramón Calderón Castro *

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;South America * Romualdo Arppi Filho * Guillermo Velásquez * Enrique Labo Revoredo * José Castro Lozada ;Europe *

Franz Wöhrer Franz Wöhrer (born 5 June 1939) is a former football referee from Austria. He is best known for supervising one match in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain, between Cameroon and Peru. On 22 April 1981 he supervised a UEFA Cup Wnners' Cup semifina ...

* Vojtěch Christov * Anders Mattsson *

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* Klaus Scheurell * Bob Valentine * Emilio Guruceta-Muro * Ulf Eriksson * André Daina * Marjan Raus * Eldar Azimzade

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

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Bracket

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze Medal match

Gold Medal match

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 was the top scorer of the tournament. In total, 82 goals were scored by 52 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal. ;5 goals * Sergey Andreyev ;4 goals *

Ladislav Vízek Ladislav Vízek (born 22 January 1955 in Chlumec nad Cidlinou) is a Czech football player. He played 55 matches for Czechoslovakia and scored 13 goals. He played in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, and was sent off in Czechoslovakia's final game, ...

Wolf-Rüdiger Netz Wolf-Rüdiger Netz (born 15 December 1950 in Schwerin) is a former football player from East Germany. Netz began playing football at SG Dynamo Schwerin when he was eight years old and made his professional debut with SG Dynamo Schwerin in the ...

* Fyodor Cherenkov ;3 goals *

Frank Terletzki Frank Terletzki (born 5 August 1950) is a German football coach and former player of BFC Dynamo. Early life Frank Terletzki grew up in East Berlin. He came to football relatively lately, after his father Karlheinz had brough him to local side ...

Faisal Al-Dakhil Faisal Ali Al-Dakhil (), also spelled Al-Dakheel ( ar, فيصل الدخيل) (born 13 August 1957) is a Kuwaiti footballer. Al-Dakhil was among the Kuwaiti players who won the 1980 Asian Cup. He played four matches for Kuwait at the 1980 Summe ...

Yuri Gavrilov Yuri Vasilyevich Gavrilov (russian: Юрий Васильевич Гаврилов; born May 3, 1953 in Setun, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast) is a Russian football manager and a former midfielder who played for Dynamo Moscow and ...

;2 goals * Lakhdar Belloumi * Lubomír Pokluda * Falah Hassan * Jasem Yaqoub *

Vagiz Khidiyatullin Vagiz Nazirovich Khidiyatullin (russian: Вагиз Назирович Хидиятуллин; tt-Cyrl, Вагыйзь Назир улы Һидиятуллин, translit=Wağiz Nazir uğlı Hidiätullin) (born 3 March 1959 in Gubakha, Pe ...

* Khoren Hovhannisyan *

Iker Zubizarreta Iker Zubizarreta (born 18 May 1962) is a Venezuelan footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He is the grandson of Félix Zubizarreta, a footballer who played for Athletic Bilbao in Spain prior to emigrating ...

Miloš Šestić Miloš Šestić (; born 8 August 1956) is a former Yugoslav and Serbian professional footballer who played as a forward. Early life Born in Milosavci, a village near Laktaši (in present-day Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovin ...

Zlatko Vujović Zlatko Vujović (; born 26 August 1958) is a Croatian retired footballer who played as a striker. His twin brother, Zoran, was also a professional footballer. They were both Yugoslav internationals, and both spent a large part of their profe ...

Zoran Vujović Zoran Vujović (; born 26 August 1958) is a Croatian retired footballer who played as a defender. His twin brother, Zlatko, is also a former professional footballer. They were both Yugoslav internationals, and both spent a large part of the ...

* Godfrey Chitalu ;1 goal * Rabah Madjer * Chaabane Merzekane * Benjamin Cardona * Carlos Molinares * Omar Arroyo * Jorge White * Luis Hernández * Ramón Núñez *

Andrés Roldán Andrés Faustino Roldán Cordero (born 28 February 1950) is a Cuban former footballer who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. Club career Born in Cienfuegos Province, he played for Azucareros and Cienfuegos, ...

* Jan Berger *

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* Zdeněk Šreiner * Jindřich Svoboda * Jouko Alila * Jouko Soini * Ari Tissari * Lothar Hause * Dieter Kühn *

Werner Peter Werner Peter (born 25 May 1950 in Sandersdorf) is a former football player from East Germany, who won the silver medal with the East Germany national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. He played 255 Oberliga match ...

* Rüdiger Schnuphase *

Wolfgang Steinbach Wolfgang "Maxe" Steinbach (born 21 September 1954) is a German former football player and manager who spent most of his career playing for 1. FC Magdeburg in the DDR-Oberliga. At international level, he made 28 appearances for the East German ...

* Hadi Ahmed * Hussein Saeed *

Henry Nwosu Henry Onyemanze Nwosu (born 14 June 1963) is a former Nigerian footballer turned manager. Career Nwosu spent his career at home with New Nigeria Bank (NNB) of Benin City and African Continental Bank (ACB) of Lagos. He also played for ASEC Mim ...

Marcos Alonso Peña Marcos Alonso Peña (born 1 October 1959) is a Spanish retired football player and manager. Known simply as Marcos in his playing days, he played mainly as a right winger but appeared also as a forward. He amassed La Liga totals of 302 games ...

* Hipólito Rincón *

Oleg Romantsev Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev (russian: Олег Иванович Романцев; born 4 January 1954) is a Soviet/Russian former international footballer and coach. Romantsev was acclaimed for his success with Spartak Moscow, whom he led to a rec ...

* Sergey Shavlo * Volodymyr Bessonov * Robert Elie * Dževad Šećerbegović *

Boro Primorac Boro Primorac (; born 5 December 1954) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who most recently managed Croatian First Football League club Hajduk Split. Playing career Club Primorac featured as a centre half with Yugoslavian ...

Ante Miročević Ante Miročević (born 6 August 1952) is a former Montenegrin footballer who played as a midfielder. He earned six caps for Yugoslavia. He was the first player playing in a club from Montenegro to earn a cap for the Yugoslavia national team. Clu ...

;Own goals * Mahboub Mubarak (playing against Nigeria)

Final ranking

Below the final ranking after the end of the tournament.

References

External links

Olympic Football Tournament Moscow 1980
FIFA.com
FIFA Technical Report
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