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.
Qualification
Venues
Medalists
Squads
Group stage
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
''Ghana replaced Morocco, who refused to play against Israel.''
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Group D
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Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarter-finals
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Bulgaria progressed after a
drawing of lots.
Semi-finals
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Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
Bulgaria finished the match with only eight players after having three players sent off.
Statistics
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.
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Kunishige Kamamoto
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Antal Dunai
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Petar Zhekov
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Ladislav Petráš
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Lajos Szűcs
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Yehoshua Feigenbaum
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Honours
As a Player
*Israeli Premier ...
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Atanas Mihaylov
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Charles Tamboueon
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Career
Teamboueon won the New Caledonia Super Ligue in 1965 and 1966 with Frégate de Saint-Louis as a player-coach. In Dec ...
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Iván Menczel
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Pulido Rodríguez
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Vicente Pereda
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Fernando Ferretti
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Asparuh Nikodimov
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Tsvetan Veselinov
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Pavel Stratil
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Marc-Kanyan Case
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Malik Jabir
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Career
Jabir played club football for Asante Kotoko.
Int ...
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López Oliva
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Nelson Melgar
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Camara Fode Bouya
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Dezső Novák
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Giora Spiegel
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Masashi Watanabe
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Albino Morales
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Kenneth Olayombo
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Toni Grande
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Sebastião Carlos da Silva
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Georgi Hristakiev
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Ivan Zafirov
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Ivaylo Georgiev
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Kiril Ivkov
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Ivkov made ...
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Mihail Gyonin
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Alfonso Jaramillo
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Fabio Mosquera
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Gustavo Santa
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Tamayo Hoyos
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Jiří Večerek
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Jozef Jarabinský
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Mikuláš Krnáč
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Miloš Herbst
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Juan Ramón Martínez
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Mauricio Alonso Rodríguez Mauricio may refer to:
* Mauricio (given name)
*Maurício José da Silveira Júnior (born 1988), Brazilian footballer known by the mononym Maurício
*Maurício (footballer) (Maurício dos Santos Nascimento, born 1988), Brazilian footballer
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Daniel Horlaville
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Daniel Perrigaud
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Gérard Hallet
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Gbadamosi Amosa
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Ibrahim Sunday
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Osei Kofi
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Sammy Stevens Sampene
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David Stokes
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Jorge Roldán
Jorge Roldán Popol (16 November 1940 – 8 June 2023), known popularly as ''El Grillo'' ("cricket"), was a Guatemalan football coach and player.
A midfielder, Roldán played almost his entire career for the local team Aurora F.C., being perha ...
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Camara Mamadou Maxim
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Camara Mamadouba Ndongo
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István Juhász
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István Sárközi
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László Fazekas
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Mordechai Spiegler
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Rachamim Talbi
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Shraga Bar
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Cesáreo Victorino
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Luis Estrada
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Peter Anieke
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Samuel Okoye
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Early life and education
Samuel Ok ...
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Fernando Ortuño
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Juan Fernández Vilela
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Udomsilp Sornbutnark
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Humberto Medina (playing against France)
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Segun Olumodeji (playing against Brazil)
Final ranking
References
External links
Olympic Football Tournament Mexico City 1968 FIFA.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Football At The 1968 Summer Olympics
1968 Summer Olympics events
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1968 in association football
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