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) |
← 1972 1980 → |
International football competition
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.[1]
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[a] | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
Source: FIFA
Notes:
Notes:
- ^ Withdrew
Brazil | 0–0 | East Germany |
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Report |
Brazil | 2–1 | Spain |
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Rosemiro 7' Chico Fraga 47' (pen.) | Report | Idígoras 14' |
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 |
Source: FIFA
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[a] | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
Source: FIFA
Notes:
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[a] | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
Source: FIFA
(H) Hosts
Notes:
(H) Hosts
Notes:
- ^ 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[a] | North Korea |
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Kolotov 16' (pen.) Veremeyev 81' Blokhin 89' | Report |
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 | |||||||||
Brazil | 0 | |||||||||
25 July – Montreal | ||||||||||
Poland | 2 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
Poland | 5 | |||||||||
29 July – Montreal | ||||||||||
North Korea | 0 | |||||||||
Soviet Union | 2 | |||||||||
Brazil | 0 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
East Germany | 4–0 | France |
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Löwe 27' Dörner 60' (pen.), 68' (pen.) Riediger 77' | Report |
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
1976 Summer Olympics Football Final
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
- Michel Platini
- Víctor Rangel
- Grzegorz Lato
- Volodymyr Onyshchenko
- 2 goals
- Jarbas
- Jimmy Douglas
- Jean-Marc Schaer
- Loïc Amisse
- Vicky Peretz
- Hong Song-Nam
- Viktor Kolotov
- 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 |
Source: rsssf.com
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Association football at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
- Olympic Football Tournament Montreal 1976, FIFA.com
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