Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Appearance
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 | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Third place | ![]() |
Fourth place | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 23 |
Goals scored | 66 (2.87 per match) |
Attendance | 597,574 (25,981 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() |
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 |
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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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2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 3 |
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2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 3 |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 0 |
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0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
Source: FIFA
Notes:
Notes:
- ^ Withdrew
Brazil ![]() | 0–0 | ![]() |
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East Germany ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
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Dörner ![]() |
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Group B
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 5 |
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 2 |
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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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2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
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2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 |
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0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
Source: FIFA
Notes:
Notes:
- ^ Withdrew
Group D
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 4 |
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 2 |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 |
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0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
- ^ Withdrew
- **Zambia withdrew
Canada ![]() | 1–2 | ![]() |
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Douglas ![]() |
Report | Onyshchenko ![]() |
North Korea ![]() | 3–1 | ![]() |
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An Se-uk ![]() Hong Song-nam ![]() |
Report | Douglas ![]() |
Soviet Union ![]() | 3–0[a] | ![]() |
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Kolotov ![]() Veremeyev ![]() Blokhin ![]() |
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Bracket
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
25 July – Ottawa | ||||||||||
![]() | 4 | |||||||||
27 July – Montreal | ||||||||||
![]() | 0 | |||||||||
![]() | 2 | |||||||||
25 July – Sherbrooke | ||||||||||
![]() | 1 | |||||||||
![]() | 2 | |||||||||
31 July – Montreal | ||||||||||
![]() | 1 | |||||||||
![]() | 3 | |||||||||
25 July – Toronto | ||||||||||
![]() | 1 | |||||||||
![]() | 4 | |||||||||
27 July – Toronto | ||||||||||
![]() | 1 | |||||||||
![]() | 2 | |||||||||
25 July – Montreal | ||||||||||
![]() | 0 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
![]() | 5 | |||||||||
29 July – Montreal | ||||||||||
![]() | 0 | |||||||||
![]() | 2 | |||||||||
![]() | 0 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
Soviet Union ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
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Minayev ![]() Zvyahintsev ![]() |
Report | Ghelichkhani ![]() |
Poland ![]() | 5–0 | ![]() |
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Szarmach ![]() Lato ![]() Szymanowski ![]() |
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Semi-finals
Soviet Union ![]() | 1–2 | ![]() |
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Kolotov ![]() |
Report | Dörner ![]() Kurbjuweit ![]() |
Bronze Medal match
Soviet Union ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
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Onyshchenko ![]() Nazarenko ![]() |
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Gold Medal match
1976 Summer Olympics Football Final
East Germany ![]() | 3–1 | ![]() |
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Schade ![]() Hoffmann ![]() Häfner ![]() |
Report | Lato ![]() |
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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 | ![]() |
5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 9 |
2 | ![]() |
5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 7 |
3 | ![]() |
5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 8 |
4 | ![]() |
5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 |
5 | ![]() |
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 5 |
6 | ![]() |
4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 3 |
7 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 2 |
8 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 2 |
9 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 2 |
10 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 2 |
11 | ![]() |
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 |
12 | ![]() |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 0 |
13 | ![]() |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 |
Source: rsssf.com
References
- ^ "Football at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ "An Gil Wan notice". Cambridge Evening News. 29 July 1976. Retrieved 25 June 2023 – via newspaper.com.
External links
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