Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Mexico |
Dates | 13–26 October |
Teams | 16 (from 5 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 4 (in 4 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Hungary |
Runners-up | Bulgaria |
Third place | Japan |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 116 (3.63 per match) |
The 1968 Olympic football tournament was played as part of the 1968 Summer Olympics. The tournament features 16 men's national teams from five continental confederations. The 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four and each group plays a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at the Azteca Stadium on 26 October 1968. This was the first time an Asian team won a medal, Japan claiming bronze.[1]
Qualification
Venues
Mexico City | Puebla | Guadalajara | León | |
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Estadio Azteca | Estadio Cuauhtémoc | Estadio Jalisco | Estadio León | |
Capacity: 104,000[2] | Capacity: 35,563[3] | Capacity: 31,891[4] | Capacity: 23,609[4] | |
Medalists
Squads
Group stage
Group A
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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France | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 4 |
Mexico | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 |
Colombia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 2 |
Guinea | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 2 |
France | 3–1 | Guinea |
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Hallet 61' Horlaville 64' Perrigaud 70' |
Report | Maxim 79' |
Guinea | 3–2 | Colombia |
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Ndongo 26' Bouya 58' 84' |
Report | Santa 49' Mosquera 66' |
Mexico | 4–0 | Guinea |
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Pereda 70' 85' Pulido Rodríguez 86' 88' |
Report |
Colombia | 2–1 | France |
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Tamayo Hoyos 14' Jaramillo 35' |
Report | Tamboueon 59' |
Group B
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Spain | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 5 |
Japan | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 |
Brazil | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 2 |
Nigeria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 1 |
Brazil | 3–3 | Nigeria |
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Ferretti 50' Olumodeji 59' (o.g.) Tião 65' |
Report | Olayombo 10' 41' Anieke 19' |
Group C
Ghana replaced Morocco, who refused to play Israel.
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Hungary | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 5 |
Israel | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 4 |
Ghana | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 2 |
El Salvador | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 1 |
Israel | 5–3 | Ghana |
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Spiegel 11' 75' Feigenbaum 16' 30' 70' |
Report | Jabir 18' 79' Amosa 35' |
Hungary | 4–0 | El Salvador |
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Menczel 19' A. Dunai 47' Fazekas 51' Sárközi 68' |
Report |
Hungary | 2–2 | Ghana |
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A. Dunai 15' Menczel 17' |
Report | Sunday 12' Sampene 33' |
El Salvador | 1–1 | Ghana |
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Rodríguez 42' | Report | Kofi 55' |
Hungary | 2–0 | Israel |
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A. Dunai 40' 75' | Report |
Group D
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Bulgaria | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 5 |
Guatemala | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 4 |
Czechoslovakia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 3 |
Thailand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 19 | −18 | 0 |
Guatemala | 1–0 | Czechoslovakia |
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Stokes 28' | Report |
Bulgaria | 7–0 | Thailand |
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Gyonin 25' Zhekov 55' Mihaylov 56' 61' Zafirov 73' Nikodimov 85' Ivkov 88' |
Report |
Bulgaria | 2–2 | Czechoslovakia |
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Georgiev 44' Zhekov 77' |
Report | Jarabinský 25' Petráš 42' |
Guatemala | 4–1 | Thailand |
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N. Melgar 23' 85' Roldán 55' López Oliva 67' |
Report | Udomsilp Sornbutnark 44' |
Bulgaria | 2–1 | Guatemala |
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Nikodimov 50' Zhekov 84' |
Report | López Oliva 88' |
Czechoslovakia | 8–0 | Thailand |
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Herbst 12' Petráš 17' 18' 67' Stratil 28' 34' Večerek 38' Krnáč 83' |
Report |
Bracket
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
20 October – Guadalajara | ||||||||||
Hungary | 1 | |||||||||
22 October – Mexico City | ||||||||||
Guatemala | 0 | |||||||||
Hungary | 5 | |||||||||
20 October – Mexico City | ||||||||||
Japan | 0 | |||||||||
Japan | 3 | |||||||||
26 October – Mexico City | ||||||||||
France | 1 | |||||||||
Hungary | 4 | |||||||||
20 October – Leon | ||||||||||
Bulgaria | 1 | |||||||||
Bulgaria | 1 | |||||||||
22 October – Guadalajara | ||||||||||
Israel | 1 | |||||||||
Bulgaria | 3 | |||||||||
20 October – Puebla | ||||||||||
Mexico | 2 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
Mexico | 2 | |||||||||
24 October – Mexico City | ||||||||||
Spain | 0 | |||||||||
Japan | 2 | |||||||||
Mexico | 0 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
Hungary | 1–0 | Guatemala |
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Szűcs 69' | Report |
Bulgaria | 1–1 | Israel |
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Hristakiev 5' | Report | Feigenbaum 89' |
Bulgaria progressed after a drawing of lots.
Semi-finals
Mexico | 2–3 | Bulgaria |
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Morales 39' Pulido Rodríguez 48' |
Report | Zhekov 8' Mihaylov 9' Veselinov 58' |
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
Bulgaria finished the match with only eight players after having three players sent off.[6]
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Goalscorers
With seven goals, Kunishige Kamamoto of Japan is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 116 goals were scored by 68 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.
- 7 goals
- 6 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
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- 1 goal
- Own goals
- Humberto Medina (playing against France)
- Segun Olumodeji (playing against Brazil)
Final Ranking
Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | Hungary (HUN) | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 3 | +15 | 11 |
2 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 10 | +6 | 8 |
3 | Japan (JPN) | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 8 |
4 | Mexico (MEX) | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 6 |
5 | Israel (ISR) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 5 |
6 | Spain (ESP) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 5 |
7 | France (FRA) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 4 |
8 | Guatemala (GUA) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 |
9 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 3 |
10 | Colombia (COL) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 2 |
11 | Guinea (GUI) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 2 |
12 | Ghana (GHA) | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 2 |
13 | Brazil (BRA) | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 2 |
14 | Nigeria (NGR) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 1 |
15 | El Salvador (ESA) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 1 |
16 | Thailand (THA) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 19 | −18 | 0 |
References
- ^ "Football at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
- ^ 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 78. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
- ^ 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 75. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
- ^ a b 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 79. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
- ^ "WorldReferee.com - referee - Augusto Robles Morán - bio". worldreferee.com.
- ^ Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 288. ISBN 0140066322.