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tournament at the

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started on 20 July and ended on 2 August. Only one event, the ''men's tournament'', was contested. Seven qualified countries did not participate joining the American-led

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. Sixteen teams were divided into four groups: *''Group A'' (

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, Cuba,

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) *''Group B'' ( Colombia,

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, Czechoslovakia) *''Group C'' (

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) *''Group D'' ( Costa Rica,

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) In the technical report following the competition, FIFA reported that: "Compared with the 1979 World Youth Tournament in Japan and the 1978 World Cup finals in Argentina, the standard of football at the Olympic Football Tournament was generally of an inferior quality,".

Venues

The football tournament was the most attended event on these Olympics: 1,821,624 spectators watched 32 matches of it at the stadiums.

Qualification

Due to the American-led boycott, countries (in brackets) who qualified did not enter the final tournament. Spain sent a team under the IOC flag. The following 16 teams qualified for the 1980 Olympics football tournament: *Africa ( CAF) ** ** (replaces ) ** (replaces ) *Asia ( AFC) ** (replaces ) ** ** (replaces ) *North and Central America ( CONCACAF) ** ** (replaces ) *South America ( CONMEBOL) ** ** (replaces ) *Europe (

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) ** ** (replaces ) ** ** ** *Hosting nation **

Match officials

;Africa * Belaïd Lacarne * Bassey Eyo-Honesty * Nyrenda Chayu ;Asia * Salim Naji Al-Hachami * Ali Abdulwahab Al Bannai * Marwan Arafat ;North and Central America *

Luis Paulino Siles Luis Paulino Siles Calderón (born December 13, 1941 in San José) is a Costa Rican lawyer, civil engineer and former association football referee. He is known for officiating two matches (Brazil vs Scotland and Poland vs Belgium) in the 1982 FIFA ...

* Ramón Calderón Castro * Mario Rubio Vázquez ;South America * Romualdo Arppi Filho * Guillermo Velásquez * Enrique Labo Revoredo * José Castro Lozada ;Europe * Franz Wöhrer * Vojtěch Christov * Anders Mattsson * Riccardo Lattanzi * Klaus Scheurell * Bob Valentine * Emilio Guruceta-Muro * Ulf Eriksson *

André Daina André Daina (born 8 July 1940) is a retired Swiss football referee. He is known for having refereed one match in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. He also refereed one match in the 1984 UEFA European Football Championship The 1984 UEFA Eu ...

* Marjan Raus * Eldar Azimzade

Squads

Final tournament

First round

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Bracket

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze Medal match

Gold Medal match

The final was played in a hard rain for the third straight Olympics. Both teams played with ten players after the 58th minute after one player from each team was red-carded.

Medalists

Goalscorers

With five goals, Sergey Andreyev of Soviet Union was the top scorer of the tournament. In total, 82 goals were scored by 52 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal. ;5 goals *

Sergey Andreyev Sergey Vasilyevich Andreyev (russian: Сергей Васильевич Андреев; born 16 May 1956 in Luhansk) is a football manager and a former Soviet and Russian player. Honors * Olympic bronze: 1980. * Olympic tournament top scorer: ...

;4 goals * Ladislav Vízek * Wolf-Rüdiger Netz * Fyodor Cherenkov ;3 goals * Frank Terletzki * Faisal Al-Dakhil * Yuri Gavrilov ;2 goals *

Lakhdar Belloumi Lakhdar Belloumi ( ar, لخضر بلومي; born on 29 December 1958) is an Algerian former football player and manager. He is widely considered as the best Algerian player of all time and one of the best players in Africa. He is said to have inv ...

* Lubomír Pokluda *

Falah Hassan Falah Hassan ( ar, فلاح حسن, born 1 July 1951) is a former Iraqi international football player, and current president of Al-Zawraa Sport Club in Baghdad. Early life Falah Hassan was born in 1951 in the village of Mimouna, in a district of ...

Jasem Yaqoub Jasem Yaqoub Sultan Al-Besara ( ar, جاسم يعقوب سلطان البصارة; born 25 October 1953 in Kuwait City) is a former Kuwaiti professional Association football, footballer. He represented the Kuwait national football team, Kuwait na ...

* Vagiz Khidiyatullin *

Khoren Hovhannisyan Khoren Oganesian ( hy, Խորեն Հովհաննիսյան; born 10 January 1955), also known as Khoren Hovhannisyan, is a former Armenian and Soviet football player who played as a midfielder and current manager and coach. He was awarded the Ma ...

* Iker Zubizarreta * Miloš Šestić * Zlatko Vujović * Zoran Vujović *

Godfrey Chitalu Godfrey Chitalu, nicknamed Ucar (22 October 1947 – 27 April 1993), was a Zambian footballer who played as a forward. He is widely regarded as the greatest Zambian player of all time as he holds his national team's goalscoring record and wa ...

;1 goal *

Rabah Madjer Rabah Mustapha Madjer ( ar, رابح مصطفى ماجر; born 15 December 1958) is an Algerian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He reached stardom as a Porto player during the 1980s, being widely regarded as one of th ...

* Chaabane Merzekane * Benjamin Cardona * Carlos Molinares * Omar Arroyo * Jorge White * Luis Hernández * Ramón Núñez * Andrés Roldán * Jan Berger * Werner Lička *

Zdeněk Šreiner Zdeněk Šreiner (2 June 1954 – 28 November 2017) was a Czech football player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 19 ...

* Jindřich Svoboda * Jouko Alila * Jouko Soini * Ari Tissari *

Lothar Hause Lothar Hause (born 22 October 1955 in Lübbenau, Bezirk Cottbus) is a former football player from East Germany, who won the silver medal with the East German Olympic team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. He played 281 ...

* Dieter Kühn * Werner Peter * Rüdiger Schnuphase * Wolfgang Steinbach * Hadi Ahmed *

Hussein Saeed Hussein Saeed Mohammed ( ar, حسين سعيد محمد, born 21 January 1958) is an Iraqi former association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward for the Iraqi Premier League club Al-Talaba SC, Al-Talaba ...

* Henry Nwosu * Marcos Alonso Peña * Hipólito Rincón * Oleg Romantsev * Sergey Shavlo * Volodymyr Bessonov * Robert Elie * Dževad Šećerbegović * Boro Primorac * Ante Miročević ;Own goals * Mahboub Mubarak (playing against Nigeria)

Final ranking

Below the final ranking after the end of the tournament.

References

External links

Olympic Football Tournament Moscow 1980
FIFA.com
FIFA Technical Report
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