Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Final results for the Football competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, and Sherbrooke. Groups A, C and D had only three teams instead of four, as Nigeria, Ghana and Zambia national teams adhered to African-led boycott of the Games against the participation of New Zealand because that country's rugby team toured apartheid South Africa (which was announced only a day before the opening ceremony).

Venues

• Olympic Stadium (Montreal)
• Varsity Stadium (Toronto)
• Lansdowne Park (Ottawa)
• Municipal Stadium (Sherbrooke)

Qualification

The following thirteen teams qualified for the 1976 Olympics football tournament:

Asia (AFC) Iran Israel North Korea North and Central America (CONCACAF) Cuba Guatemala Mexico South America (CONMEBOL) Brazil

Europe (UEFA) East Germany France Poland (automatically qualified as 1972 Olympic Champions) Spain Soviet Union Hosting nation Canada

Match Officials

Asia Abraham Klein Jafar Namdar North and Central America Werner Winsemann Marco Antonio Dorantes South America Angel Coerezza Arnaldo Cézar Coelho Guillermo Velasquez Ramon Barreto

Europe Paul Schiller Robert Helies Alberto Michelotti Adolf Prokop Károly Palotai Marian Kuston John Paterson Emilio Guruceta-Muro Vladimir Rudnev

Squads

• Main article: Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics - Men's team squads

Final tournament

First round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
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	0	0	0	0	0	0

• **Nigeria withdrew

July 18, 1976 12:00	Brazil	0 – 0	East Germany	Varsity Stadium, Toronto Attendance: 21.643 Referee: John Paterson
		Report

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July 20, 1976 12:00	Brazil	2 – 1	Spain	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 38.123 Referee: Paul Schiller
	Rosemiro  7' Chico Fraga  47' (p.k.)	Report	Idígoras  14'

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July 22, 1976 12:00	East Germany	1 – 0	Spain	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 36.198 Referee: Werner Winsemann
	Dörner  46'	Report

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
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

July 19, 1976 12:00	Israel	0 – 0	Guatemala	Varsity Stadium, Toronto Attendance: 9.500 Referee: Vladimir Rudnev
		Report

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July 19, 1976 12:00	France	4 – 1	Mexico	Lansdowne Park, Ottawa Attendance: 14.286 Referee: Angel Coerezza
	Schaer  14' Baronchelli  33' Rubio  78' Amisse  90'	Report	Sánchez  81'

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July 21, 1976 12:00	France	4 – 1	Guatemala	Municipal Stadium, Sherbrooke Attendance: 3.163 Referee: Jafar Namdar
	Platini  7'  86' Amisse  41' Schaer  82'	Report	Fion  58'

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July 21, 1976 12:00	Mexico	2 – 2	Israel	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 36.569 Referee: Alberto Michelotti
	Rangel  19'  44'	Report	Oz  51' Shum  55' (p.k.)

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July 23, 1976 12:00	Mexico	1 – 1	Guatemala	Municipal Stadium, Sherbrooke Attendance: 4.118 Referee: Marian Kuston
	Rangel  36'	Report	Rergis  18' (o.g.)

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July 23, 1976 12:00	France	1 – 1	Israel	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 33.639 Referee: Ramón Barreto
	Platini  80' (p.k.)	Report	Peretz  75'

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
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	0	0	0	0	0	0

• **Ghana withdrew

July 18, 1976 12:00	Poland	0 – 0	Cuba	Lansdowne Park, Ottawa Attendance: 29.417 Referee: Abraham Klein
		Report

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July 20, 1976 12:00	Iran	1 – 0	Cuba	Lansdowne Park, Ottawa Attendance: 11.324 Referee: Adolf Prokop
	Mazloumi  28'	Report

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July 22, 1976 12:00	Poland	3 – 2	Iran	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 32.309 Referee: Arnaldo Cézar Coelho
	Szarmach  48'  75' Deyna  51'	Report	Parvin  6' Rowshan  79'

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Soviet Union	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4	4
North Korea	2	1	0	1	3	4	−1	2
Canada	2	0	0	2	2	5	−3	0
Zambia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

• **Zambia withdrew

July 19, 1976 12:00	Canada	1 – 2	Soviet Union	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 34.320 Referee: Robert Helies
	Douglas  88'	Report	Onischenko  8'  11'

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July 21, 1976 12:00	North Korea	3 – 1	Canada	Varsity Stadium, Toronto Attendance: 12.638 Referee: Marco Antonio Dorantes
	An Se-Uk  18' Hong Song-Nam  66'  80'	Report	Douglas  51'

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July 23, 1976 12:00	Soviet Union	3 – 0	North Korea	Lansdowne Park, Ottawa Attendance: 15.233 Referee: Emilio Guruceta-Muro
	Kolotov  16' (p.k.) Veremeev  81' Blokhin  89'	Report

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	July 25 - Ottawa
	East Germany	4
					July 27 - Montreal
	France	0
					East Germany	2
	July 25 - Sherbrooke
					Soviet Union	1
	Soviet Union	2
									July 31 - Montreal
	Iran	1
									East Germany	3
	July 25 - Toronto
									Poland	1
	Brazil	4
					July 27 - Toronto
	Israel	1
					Poland	2			Third place
	July 25 - Montreal
					Brazil	0
	Poland	5							Soviet Union	2
	North Korea	0							Brazil	0
									July 29 - Montreal

Quarter finals

July 25, 1976 12:00	East Germany	4 – 0	France	Lansdowne Park, Ottawa Attendance: 20.083 Referee: Alberto Michelotti
	Löwe  27' Dörner  60' (p.k.)  68' (p.k.) Riediger  77'	Report

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July 25, 1976 12:00	Soviet Union	2 – 1	Iran	Municipal Stadium, Sherbrooke Attendance: 5.855 Referee: Guillermo Velasquez
	Minayev  40' Zvyagintsev  67'	Report	Ghelichkhani  82' (p.k.)

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July 25, 1976 12:00	Brazil	4 – 1	Israel	Varsity Stadium, Toronto Attendance: 18.601 Referee: Károly Palotai
	Jarbas  56'  74' Erivelto  72' Júnior  88'	Report	Peretz  80'

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July 25, 1976 12:00	Poland	5 – 0	North Korea	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 46.885 Referee: Paul Schiller
	Szarmach  13'  49' Lato  59'  79' Szymanowski  64'	Report

Semi finals

July 27, 1976 12:00	Soviet Union	1 – 2	East Germany	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 57.182 Referee: Marco Antonio Dorantes
	Kolotov  84' (p.k.)	Report	Dörner  59' (p.k.) Kurbjuweit  66'

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July 27, 1976 12:00	Poland	2 – 0	Brazil	Varsity Stadium, Toronto Attendance: 21.743 Referee: John Paterson
	Szarmach  51'  82'	Report

Bronze medal match

July 29, 1976	Soviet Union	2 – 0	Brazil	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Referee: Abraham Klein (ISR) Attendance: 55.647
	Onishcenko  5' Nazarenko  49'	Report

Final

July 31, 1976	East Germany	3 – 1	Poland	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Referee: Ramon Barreto (URU) Attendance: 71.617
	Schade  7' Hoffmann  14' Häfner  84'	Report	Lato  59'

Medal winners

East Germany – Gold Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin Wilfried Gröbner Jürgen Croy Gerd Weber Hans-Jürgen Dörner Konrad Weise Lothar Kurbjuweit Reinhard Lauck Gert Heidler Reinhard Häfner Hans-Jürgen Riediger Bernd Bransch Martin Hoffmann Gerd Kische Wolfram Löwe Hartmut Schade Dieter Riedel Coach: Georg Buschner

Poland – Silver Jan Tomaszewski Piotr Mowlik Antoni Szymanowski Jerzy Gorgoń Wojciech Rudy Władysław Żmuda Zygmunt Maszczyk Grzegorz Lato Henryk Wawrowski Henryk Kasperczak Roman Ogaza Kazimierz Kmiecik Kazimierz Deyna Andrzej Szarmach Henryk Wieczorek Leslaw Cmikiewicz Jan Benigier Coach: Kazimierz Górski

Soviet Union – Bronze Vladimir Astapovsky Anatoli Konkov Viktor Matvienko Mikhail Fomenko Stefan Reshko Vladimir Troshkin David Kipiani Vladimir Onishchenko Viktor Kolotov Vladimir Veremeev Oleg Blokhin Leonid Buryak Vladimir Fyodorov Aleksandr Minayev Viktor Zvyagintsev Leonid Nazarenko Aleksandr Prokhorov Coach:

References

• FIFA match reports