Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics
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| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | United States |
| Dates | 29 July – 11 August 1984 (13 days) |
| Teams | 16 (from 5 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 4 (in 4 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  France (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Brazil |
| Third place |  Yugoslavia |
| Fourth place |  Italy |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 32 |
| Goals scored | 84 (2.63 per match) |
| Attendance | 1,425,181 (44,537 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Daniel Xuereb Borislav Cvetković Stjepan Deverić (5 goals each) |
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The association football tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics started on July 29 and ended on August 11. It featured only a men's tournament, as women's football had yet to become an Olympic event. It was the first Olympic football competition in which professionals were allowed. Until then, the amateur-only rule had heavily favored socialist countries from Eastern Europe whose players were professionals in all but name. However, as agreed with FIFA to preserve the primacy of the World Cup, the Olympic competition was restricted to players with no more than five "A" caps at tournament start, regardless of age.
The football tournament was held in four venues:
- Harvard Stadium (Boston)
- Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (Annapolis, Maryland)
- Stanford Stadium (Stanford, California)
- Rose Bowl, (Pasadena, California)
The Gold Medal game between France and Brazil at the Rose Bowl attracted an Olympic Games football attendance record of 101,799. Until 2014 this remained the record attendance for a football game in the United States. This broke the previous Olympics record attendance of 100,000 set at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia for the corresponding game of the 1956 Olympic Games played between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. The Rose Bowl attendance would remain the Olympic record until 104,098 attended the Gold Medal game of the 2000 Summer Olympics between Cameroon and Spain at the Stadium Australia in Sydney.
The attendance also stood as the highest for a football game in the United States until 109,318 saw Manchester United defeat Real Madrid during the 2014 International Champions Cup at the Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.
Schedule
| G | Group stage | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | B | 3rd place play-off | F | Final |
| Event↓/Date → | Sun 29 | Mon 30 | Tue 31 | Wed 1 | Thu 2 | Fri 3 | Sat 4 | Sun 5 | Mon 6 | Tue 7 | Wed 8 | Thu 9 | Fri 10 | Sat 11 |
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| Men's tournament | G | G | G | G | G | G | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | B | F |
Qualifying
Sixteen teams qualified for the Olympic tournament after continental qualifying rounds. Three Warsaw Pact countries had qualified but withdrew as part of the Soviet-led boycott. They were replaced as follows:
- East Germany won UEFA Group 2. They were replaced by Norway, who came third; second-place Poland were also boycotting.
- USSR won UEFA Group 1. They were replaced by West Germany, second in Group 4. Hungary and Bulgaria, second and third in Group 1, were also boycotting.
- Czechoslovakia qualified as 1980 champions. They were replaced by Italy, third in UEFA Group 3.
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Venues
| Pasadena | Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics (the United States) |
Boston | ||||
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| Rose Bowl | Harvard Stadium | |||||
| Capacity: 103,300 | Capacity: 30,323 | |||||
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| Annapolis | Stanford | |||||
| Navy–Marine Corps Stadium | Stanford Stadium | |||||
| Capacity: 34,000 | Capacity: 84,500 | |||||
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Medalists
Match officials
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Squads
Final tournament
First round
Group A
Template:1984 Summer Olympics men's football group A standings
Group B
Template:1984 Summer Olympics men's football group B standings
| Yugoslavia | 1 – 0 |  Canada |
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Nikolić  76' |
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Group C
Template:1984 Summer Olympics men's football group C standings
West Germany  | 2 – 0 |  Morocco |
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| Rahn 43' Brehme 52' |
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| Brazil | 3 – 1 |  Saudi Arabia |
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| Gilmar Popoca 12' Silvinho 50'Dunga 59' |
Report | Abdullah 69' |
| Brazil | 1 – 0 | West Germany |
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| Gilmar Popoca 86' |
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| Morocco | 1 – 0 | Saudi Arabia |
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| Merry 72' |
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| Saudi Arabia | 0 – 6 | West Germany |
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| Report | Schreier 8', 66' Bommer 22', 72'Rahn 24'Mill 32' |
Group D
Template:1984 Summer Olympics men's football group D standings
United States  | 3 – 0 |  Costa Rica |
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| Davis 23', 86' Willrich 35' |
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Egypt  | 4 – 1 | Costa Rica |
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| Khatib 32' Abdelghani 35'Soliman 62'Gadallah 71' |
Report | Coronado 87' |
| Italy | 1 – 0 | United States |
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| Fanna 58' |
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| Egypt | 1 – 1 | United States |
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| Soliman 27' |
Report | Thompson 8' |
| Costa Rica | 1 – 0 | Italy |
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| Rivers 33' |
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Knockout stages
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| August 5 – Pasadena, CA | ||||||||||
| France | 2 | |||||||||
| August 8 – Pasadena, CA | ||||||||||
| Egypt | 0 | |||||||||
| France (aet) | 4 | |||||||||
| August 6 – Pasadena, CA | ||||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 2 | |||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 5 | |||||||||
| August 11 – Pasadena, CA | ||||||||||
| West Germany | 2 | |||||||||
| France | 2 | |||||||||
| August 5 – Stanford, CA | ||||||||||
| Brazil | 0 | |||||||||
| Italy (aet) | 1 | |||||||||
| August 8 – Stanford, CA | ||||||||||
 Chile | 0 | |||||||||
| Italy | 1 | |||||||||
| August 6 – Stanford, CA | ||||||||||
| Brazil (aet) | 2 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
| Brazil (pen) | 1 (4) | |||||||||
| August 10 – Pasadena, CA | ||||||||||
| Canada | 1 (2) | |||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 2 | |||||||||
| Italy | 1 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
| Brazil | 1 – 1 (aet) | Canada |
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| Gilmar Popoca 72' |
Report | Mitchell 58' |
| Penalties | ||
Gilmar  Kita Ademir André Luiz |
4 – 2 | Wilson Mitchell Bridge Gray |
| Yugoslavia | 5 – 2 | West Germany |
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| Cvetković 21', 58', 70' Radanović 27'Gračan 46' (pen) |
Report | Bommer 1' Bockenfeld 28' |
Semi-finals
| France | 4 – 2 (aet) | Yugoslavia |
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| Bijotat 7' Jeannol 15'Lacombe 96'Xuereb 119' |
Report | Cvetković 63' Deverić 74' |
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
Final team rankings
Note: As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 |  France (FRA)
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6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | +7 | 10 |
| 2 |  Brazil (BRA)
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 9 |
| 3 |  Yugoslavia (YUG)
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6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 10 | +6 | 10 |
| 4 |  Italy (ITA)
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6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| Eliminated in the quarter-finals | |||||||||
| 5 |  West Germany (FRG)
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 4 |
| 6 |  Canada (CAN)
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4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 |
| 7 |  Chile (CHI)
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4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 |  Egypt (EGY)
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4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 |
| Eliminated in the group stage | |||||||||
| 9 |  United States (USA)
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 3 |
| 10 |  Norway (NOR)
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
| 11 |  Cameroon (CMR)
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | –2 | 2 |
| 12 |  Morocco (MAR)
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | –3 | 2 |
| 13 |  Costa Rica (CRC)
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | –5 | 2 |
| 14 |  Iraq (IRQ)
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | –3 | 1 |
| 15 |  Qatar (QAT)
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | –3 | 1 |
| 16 |  Saudi Arabia (KSA)
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 | –9 | 0 |
Statistics
Goalscorers
With five goals, Daniel Xuereb of France, Borislav Cvetković and Stjepan Deverić of Yugoslavia are the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 84 goals were scored by 52 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
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- 1 goal
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Discipline
In the final tournament, a player was suspended for the subsequent match in the competition for getting a red card. The following twelve players were sent off and suspended during the final tournament:
| Player | Offences | Date | Suspensions |
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| Sebastiano Nela
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 in group D v Egypt
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29 July | Group D v United States |
| Mohamed Sedky
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  in group D v Italy
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29 July | Group D v Costa Rica |
| Morsy El Alaa
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in group D v Italy
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29 July | Group D v Costa Rica |
| Moustafa Ahmed Ismail
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in group D v Italy
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29 July | Group D v Costa Rica |
| Marko Elsner
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in group B v Cameroon
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30 July | Group B v Canada |
| Mustapha El Biyaz
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in group C v West Germany
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30 July | Group C v Saudi Arabia |
 Mubarak Al-Kaater
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in group A v Norway
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2 August | None (Qatar eliminated) |
| Issa Al-Mohammadi
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in group A v Norway
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2 August | None (Qatar eliminated) |
 Théophile Abega
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in group B v Canada
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3 August | None (Cameroon eliminated) |
| Sameer Abdulshaker
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in group C v West Germany
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3 August | None (Saudi Arabia eliminated) |
| Jovica Nikolić
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in semi-final v France
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8 August | Bronze medal match v Italy |
| Borislav Cvetković
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in semi-final v France
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8 August | Bronze medal match v Italy |
References
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