Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Canada |
Dates | 18–31 July 1976 |
Teams | 13 (from 4 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 4 (in 4 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | East Germany (1st title) |
Runners-up | Poland |
Third place | Soviet Union |
Fourth place | Brazil |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 23 |
Goals scored | 66 (2.87 per match) |
Attendance | 597,574 (25,981 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Andrzej Szarmach (6 goals) |
The football tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics 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
Montreal | Ottawa | Sherbrooke | Toronto |
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Olympic Stadium | Lansdowne Park | Sherbrooke Stadium | Varsity Stadium |
Capacity: 72,406 | Capacity: 30,065 | Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 21,739 |
Qualification
The following 13 teams qualified for the 1976 Olympics football tournament:
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Match officials
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Squads
Final tournament
First round
Group A
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Brazil | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 3 |
East Germany | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 3 |
Spain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 0 |
Nigeria | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
Notes:
- ^ Withdrew
Brazil | 0–0 | East Germany |
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Report |
East Germany | 1–0 | Spain |
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Dörner 46' | Report |
Group B
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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France | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 5 |
Israel | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Mexico | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 2 |
Guatemala | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 2 |
Group C
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Poland | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
Iran | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
Cuba | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 |
Ghana | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
Notes:
- ^ Withdrew
Group D
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 4 |
North Korea | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 2 |
Canada (H) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 |
Zambia | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
- ^ Withdrew
Canada | 1–2 | Soviet Union |
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Douglas 88' | Report | Onyshchenko 8', 11' |
North Korea | 3–1 | Canada |
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An Se-uk 18' Hong Song-nam 66', 80' |
Report | Douglas 51' |
Soviet Union | 3–0 | North Korea |
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Kolotov 16' (pen.) Veremeyev 81' Blokhin 89' |
Report |
- ^ North Korean player An Gil-wan was suspended a year for attacking the referee three times during the game. The Olympic federation warned the entire North Korean team to its future conduct.
Bracket
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
25 July – Ottawa | ||||||||||
East Germany | 4 | |||||||||
27 July – Montreal | ||||||||||
France | 0 | |||||||||
East Germany | 2 | |||||||||
25 July – Sherbrooke | ||||||||||
Soviet Union | 1 | |||||||||
Soviet Union | 2 | |||||||||
31 July – Montreal | ||||||||||
Iran | 1 | |||||||||
East Germany | 3 | |||||||||
25 July – Toronto | ||||||||||
Poland | 1 | |||||||||
Brazil | 4 | |||||||||
27 July – Toronto | ||||||||||
Israel | 1 | |||||||||
Poland | 2 | |||||||||
25 July – Montreal | ||||||||||
Brazil | 0 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
Poland | 5 | |||||||||
29 July – Montreal | ||||||||||
North Korea | 0 | |||||||||
Soviet Union | 2 | |||||||||
Brazil | 0 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
Soviet Union | 2–1 | Iran |
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Minayev 40' Zvyahintsev 67' |
Report | Ghelichkhani 82' (pen.) |
Poland | 5–0 | North Korea |
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Szarmach 13', 49' Lato 59', 79' Szymanowski 64' |
Report |
Semi-finals
Soviet Union | 1–2 | East Germany |
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Kolotov 84' (pen.) | Report | Dörner 59' (pen.) Kurbjuweit 66' |
Bronze Medal match
Soviet Union | 2–0 | Brazil |
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Onyshchenko 5' Nazarenko 49' |
Report |
Gold Medal match
East Germany | 3–1 | Poland |
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Schade 7' Hoffmann 14' Häfner 84' |
Report | Lato 59' |
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Medal winners
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
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Chico Fraga
- Erivelto
- Júnior
- Rosemiro
- Hans-Jürgen Riediger
- Hartmut Schade
- Lothar Kurbjuweit
- Martin Hoffmann
- Reinhard Häfner
- Wolfram Löwe
- Bruno Baronchelli
- Francisco Rubio
- Marco Fion
- Ali Parvin
- Gholam Hossein Mazloumi
- Hassan Rowshan
- Parviz Ghelichkhani
- Itzhak Shum
- Yaron Oz
- Hugo Sánchez
- An Se-Uk
- Antoni Szymanowski
- Kazimierz Deyna
- Aleksandr Minayev
- Leonid Nazarenko
- Oleh Blokhin
- Viktor Zvyahintsev
- Volodymyr Veremeyev
- Santiago Idígoras
- Own goal
- Eduardo Rergis (playing against Guatemala)
Final ranking
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | East Germany (GDR) | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 9 |
2 | Poland (POL) | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 7 |
3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 8 |
4 | Brazil (BRA) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 |
5 | France (FRA) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 5 |
6 | Israel (ISR) | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 3 |
7 | Iran (IRI) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 2 |
8 | North Korea (PRK) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 2 |
9 | Mexico (MEX) | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 2 |
10 | Guatemala (GUA) | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 2 |
11 | Cuba (CUB) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 |
12 | Spain (ESP) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 0 |
13 | Canada (CAN) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 |
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