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.[1]
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Soviet Union |
| Dates | 20 July – 2 August 1980 |
| Teams | 16 (from 5 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 5 (in 4 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Czechoslovakia (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  East Germany |
| Third place |  Soviet Union |
| Fourth place |  Yugoslavia |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 32 |
| Goals scored | 82 (2.56 per match) |
| Attendance | 1,821,624 (56,926 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Sergey Andreyev (5 goals) |
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,".[2]
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 | ||||
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| Minsk | Leningrad | Kiev | |||
| Dinamo Stadium | Kirov Stadium | Republican Stadium | |||
| Capacity: 50,125 | Capacity: 74,000 | Capacity: 100,169 | |||
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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 finaltournament. Spain sent a team under the IOC flag. The following 16 teams qualified for the 1980 Olympics football tournament:
Match officials
Squads
Final tournament
First round
Group A
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soviet Union | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | +14 | 6 |
 Cuba | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 4 |
 Venezuela | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 |
 Zambia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 |
| Soviet Union | 4–0 | Venezuela |
|---|---|---|
Andreyev  3' Cherenkov 25' Gavrilov 34' Hovhannisyan 51' | Report |
| Soviet Union | 3–1 | Zambia |
|---|---|---|
| Khidiyatullin 9', 51' Cherenkov 87' | Report | Chitalu 13' |
| Soviet Union | 8–0 | Cuba |
|---|---|---|
| Andreyev 8', 27', 44' Romantsev 20' Shavlo 43' Cherenkov 55' Gavrilov 75' Bessonov 77' | Report |
Group B
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Czechoslovakia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 4 |
 Kuwait | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 |
 Colombia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 3 |
 Nigeria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 |
| Czechoslovakia | 3–0 | Colombia |
|---|---|---|
| Pokluda 14' Berger 18' Vízek 85' | Report |
| Kuwait | 3–1 | Nigeria |
|---|---|---|
| Al-Dakhil 16', 40', 85' (pen.) | Report | Mubarak 25' (o.g.) |
| Czechoslovakia | 1–1 | Nigeria |
|---|---|---|
| Vízek 25' | Report | Nwosu 84' |
| Czechoslovakia | 0–0 | Kuwait |
|---|---|---|
| Report |
Group C
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 5 |
 Algeria | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 3 |
 Spain | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
 Syria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 1 |
| East Germany | 1–1 | Spain |
|---|---|---|
| Kühn 49' | Report | Marcos 50' |
| Algeria | 3–0 | Syria |
|---|---|---|
| Belloumi 36' Madjer 48' Merzekane 73' (pen.) | Report |
| East Germany | 1–0 | Algeria |
|---|---|---|
| Terletzki 61' | Report |
Group D
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yugoslavia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 5 |
 Iraq | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 4 |
 Finland | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
 Costa Rica | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 0 |
| Yugoslavia | 2–0 | Finland |
|---|---|---|
| Šećerbegović 56' Šestić 58' | Report |
| Yugoslavia | 3–2 | Costa Rica |
|---|---|---|
| Zlatko Vujović 6', 54' Primorac 24' | Report | White 35' Arroyo 90' |
| Yugoslavia | 1–1 | Iraq |
|---|---|---|
| Zoran Vujović 63' | Report | Hassan 61' |
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 27 July – Moscow | ||||||||||
| Soviet Union | 2 | |||||||||
| 29 July – Moscow | ||||||||||
| Kuwait | 1 | |||||||||
| Soviet Union | 0 | |||||||||
| 27 July – Kiev | ||||||||||
| East Germany | 1 | |||||||||
| East Germany | 4 | |||||||||
| 2 August – Moscow | ||||||||||
| Iraq | 0 | |||||||||
| East Germany | 0 | |||||||||
| 27 July – Leningrad | ||||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 1 | |||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 3 | |||||||||
| 29 July – Moscow | ||||||||||
| Cuba | 0 | |||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 2 | |||||||||
| 27 July – Minsk | ||||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 0 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 3 | |||||||||
| 1 August – Moscow | ||||||||||
| Algeria | 0 | |||||||||
| Soviet Union | 2 | |||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 0 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
| Yugoslavia | 3–0 | Algeria |
|---|---|---|
| Miročević 5' Šestić 19' Zoran Vujović 70' | Report |
| Czechoslovakia | 3–0 | Cuba |
|---|---|---|
| Vízek 29', 59' Pokluda 90' | Report |
| East Germany | 4–0 | Iraq |
|---|---|---|
| Schnuphase 4' (pen.) Netz 11' Steinbach 17' Terletzki 22' | Report |
Semi-finals
| Soviet Union | 0–1 | East Germany |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Netz 16' |
| Czechoslovakia | 2–0 | Yugoslavia |
|---|---|---|
| Lička 4' Šreiner 18' | Report |
Bronze Medal match
| Soviet Union | 2–0 | Yugoslavia |
|---|---|---|
| Hovhannisyan 67' Andreyev 82' | Report |
Gold Medal match
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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
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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
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 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.[3]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | 10 |
| 2 |  East Germany (GDR) | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 9 |
| 3 |  Soviet Union (URS) | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 3 | +16 | 10 |
| 4 |  Yugoslavia (YUG) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 7 |
| 5 |  Kuwait (KUW) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 |
| 6 |  Iraq (IRQ) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 4 |
| 7 |  Cuba (CUB) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 4 |
| 8 |  Algeria (ALG) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 |
| 9 |  Finland (FIN) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
| 10 |  Spain (ESP) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 |  Colombia (COL) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 3 |
| 12 |  Venezuela (VEN) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 |
| 13 |  Nigeria (NGR) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 |
| 14 |  Syria (SYR) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 1 |
| 15 |  Zambia (ZAM) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 |
| 16 |  Costa Rica (CRC) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 0 |
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