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 American-led boycott in protest of the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Sixteen teams were divided into four groups: Group A (USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, Zambia) Group B (Colombia, Kuwait, Nigeria, Czechoslovakia) Group C (Algeria, Spain, GDR, Syria) Group D (Costa Rica, Finland, Iraq, Yugoslavia)
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".
The tournament was primarily hosted by Moscow and Leningrad in the Russian SFSR, with some group stage games in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR and Minsk, Byelorussian SSR.
Venues Moscow Central Lenin Stadium Dynamo Stadium Capacity: 91,251 Capacity: 50,475 Minsk Leningrad Kiev Dinamo Stadium Kirov Stadium Republican Stadium Capacity: 50,125 Capacity: 74,000 Capacity: 100,169
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 (AFC) (replaces )
(replaces ) North and Central America (CONCACAF)
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South America (CONMEBOL)
(replaces ) Europe (UEFA)
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Hosting nation
Match officials
Africa Belaïd Lacarne Bassey Eyo-Honesty Nyrenda Chayu
Asia Salim Naji Al-Hachami Ali Abdulwahab Al Bannai Marwan Arafat
North and Central America Luis Paulino Siles Ramón Calderón Castro Mario Rubio Vázquez
South America Romualdo Arppi Filho Guillermo Velásquez Enrique Labo Revoredo José Castro Lozada
Europe Franz Wöhrer Vojtěch Christov Anders Mattsson Riccardo Lattanzi Klaus Scheurell Bob Valentine Emilio Guruceta Muro Ulf Eriksson André Daina Marjan Raus Eldar Azimzade
Squads
Final tournament First round Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
GK 1 Stanislav Seman DF 3 Josef Mazura DF 2 Luděk Macela DF 4 Libor Radimec DF 5 Zdeněk Rygel MF 14 Oldřich Rott MF 8 Jan Berger (Sent - Off)MF 16 František Štambachr FW 7 Ladislav Vízek FW 11 Werner Lička FW 10 Lubomír Pokluda Substitutes: FW 9 Jindřich Svoboda MF 6 Petr Němec Manager: František Havránek
GK 1 Bodo Rudwaleit DF 13 Matthias Müller DF 3 Lothar Hause DF 12 Norbert Trieloff DF 2 Artur Ullrich MF 6 Rüdiger Schnuphase MF 7 Frank Terletzki MF 8 Wolfgang Steinbach (Sent - Off)MF 5 Frank Baum FW 17 Wolf-Rüdiger Netz FW 11 Dieter Kühn Substitutes:MF 14 Matthias Liebers Manager: Rudolf Krause 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
Gold:Silver:Bronze:Stanislav Seman Luděk Macela Josef Mazura Libor Radimec Zdeněk Rygel Petr Němec Ladislav Vízek Jan Berger Jindřich Svoboda Lubomír Pokluda Werner Lička Rostislav Václavíček Jaroslav Netolička Oldřich Rott Zdeněk Šreiner František Štambacher František Kunzo Bodo Rudwaleit Artur Ullrich Lothar Hause Frank Uhlig Frank Baum Rüdiger Schnuphase Frank Terletzki Wolfgang Steinbach Jürgen Bähringer Werner Peter Dieter Kühn Norbert Trieloff Matthias Müller Matthias Liebers Bernd Jakubowski Wolf-Rüdiger NetzRinat Dasaev Tengiz Sulakvelidze Alexandre Chivadze Vagiz Khidiyatullin Oleg Romantsev Sergey Shavlo Sergey Andreev Vladimir Bessonov Yuri Gavrilov Fyodor Cherenkov Valeri Gazzaev Vladimir Pilguj Sergej Baltacha Sergei Nikulin Khoren Hovhannisyan Alexandr Prokopenko Revaz Chelebadze
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 Wolf-Rüdiger Netz Fyodor Cherenkov
3 goals
Frank Terletzki Faisal Al-Dakhil Yuri Gavrilov
2 goals
Lakhdar Belloumi Lubomír Pokluda Falah Hassan Jasem Yaqoub Vagiz Khidiyatullin Khoren Hovhannisyan Iker Zubizarreta Miloš Šestić Zlatko Vujović Zoran Vujović Godfrey Chitalu
1 goal
Rabah Madjer Chaabane Merzekane Benjamin Cardona Carlos Molinares Omar Arroyo Jorge White Luis Hernández Ramón Núñez Andrés Roldán Jan Berger Werner Lička Zdeněk Šreiner Jindřich Svoboda Jouko Alila Jouko Soini Ari Tissari Lothar Hause Dieter Kühn Werner Peter Rüdiger Schnuphase Wolfgang Steinbach Hadi Ahmed Hussein Saeed Henry Nwosu Marcos Alonso Peña Hipólito Rincón Oleg Romantsev Sergey Shavlo Volodymyr Bessonov Robert Elie Dževad Šećerbegović Boro Primorac Ante Miročević
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 RSSSF Summary FIFA Technical Report