An association football tournament was played as part of the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

. The tournament featured 16 men's national teams from six continental confederations. The teams were drawn into four groups of four with each group playing 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 Seoul Olympic Stadium on 1 October 1988. Before the final match, the Soviets relocated from the Olympic Village to Soviet steamship stationed nearby. After winning the gold medal, each player from the Soviet team received 15 thousand dollars from the Soviet government.

Venues

Medal summary

Note: The players above the line played at least one game in this tournament, the players below the line were only squad members. Nevertheless, th
International Olympic Committee medal database
credits them all as medalists.

Qualification

The following 16 teams qualified for the 1988 Olympics football tournament:

Participating nations

Each country was allowed to enter a team of 20 players and they all were eligible for participation. A total number of 314 footballers were entered. A total of 268''(*)'' footballers from 16 nations competed at the Seoul Games: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ''(*) NOTE: Players who participated in at least one match.''

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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Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Final ranking

Venues

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– Daegu * Daejeon Hanbat Stadium –

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– Gwangju

Match officials

;Africa * Jean-Fidele Diramba * Baba Laouissi * Badara Sène ;Asia *

Jamal Al Sharif Jamal Al Sharif ( ar, جمال الشريف; born 8 December 1954) is a retired football referee from Damascus, Syria. He is mostly known for supervising six matches in the FIFA World Cup. Two matches in 1986, one in 1990 and three in 1994, incl ...

* Choi Gil-Soo * Mandi Jassim * Shizuo Takada ;South America *

Juan Daniel Cardellino Juan Daniel Cardellino de San Vicente''(March 4, 1942 – September 8, 2007) was a football (soccer) Referee (association football), referee from Uruguay, who officiated at two FIFA World Cups: 1982 FIFA World Cup, 1982 (two matches) and 1990 F ...

* Arnaldo Cézar Coelho * Jesús Díaz *

Juan Carlos Loustau Juan Carlos Loustau (born July 13, 1947) is a former Argentine football referee. He is known for supervising three matches at the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy. He refereed the Germany V Netherlands match in which he sent off Germany's Rudi Voell ...

* Hernán Silva ;North and Central America * Edgardo Codesal * Lennox Sirjuesingh * Vincent Mauro ;Europe * Gérard Biguet * Keith Hackett * Kenny Hope *

Kurt Röthlisberger Kurt Röthlisberger (born 21 May 1951 in Suhr) is a retired football referee from Switzerland. He is known for supervising five matches in the FIFA World Cup: three matches in 1990, and two in 1994. Career In the 1994 World Cup, he refereed the ...

Tullio Lanese Tullio Lanese (born 10 January 1947, in Messina) is a former Italian football referee and a former President of the Italian Referees Association, the AIA. Referee From 1987 to 1992 he held the qualification of international referee, officia ...

Michał Listkiewicz Michał Józef Listkiewicz (born May 20, 1953) is a retired Polish football referee, former president of Polish Football Association. He graduated from Warsaw University in 1977. He was a football referee since 1973, officiating internationall ...

* Karl-Heinz Tritschler * Alexey Spirin ;Oceania * Chris Bambridge

Goalscorers

With seven goals, Romário of Brazil was the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 95 goals were scored by 53 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal. Romario with brazil

;7 goals * Romário ;6 goals * Igor Dobrovolski *

Kalusha Bwalya Kalusha Bwalya (born 16 August 1963) is a Zambian former international footballer. He is Zambia's eighth-most capped player and third on the list of all-time top goalscorers behind Godfrey Chitalu and Alex Chola. Kalusha was named African Fo ...

;5 goals * Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko ;4 goals *

Jürgen Klinsmann Jürgen Klinsmann (, born 30 July 1964) is a German professional football manager and former player. Klinsmann played for several prominent clubs in Europe including VfB Stuttgart, Inter Milan, Monaco, Tottenham Hotspur, and Bayern Munich. He ...

;3 goals * Carlos Alfaro *

Pietro Paolo Virdis Antonio Pietro Paolo Virdis (born 26 June 1957) is an Italian football manager and former player, who played as a forward. Throughout his career, he played for Nuorese, before playing in Serie A with Cagliari Calcio, Juventus, Udinese Calcio, ...

* Jan Hellström * Frank Mill ;2 goals * Bebeto * Ahmed Radhi *

Andrea Carnevale Andrea Carnevale (; born 12 January 1961) is an Italian former footballer, who played as a forward. Club career After playing for various Italian teams, Carnevale enjoyed notable success with Napoli from 1986 to 1990, playing alongside Diego ...

* Arminas Narbekovas * Peter Lönn * Nabil Maaloul * Holger Fach * Wolfram Wuttke *

Dragan Stojković Dragan Stojković ( sr-Cyrl, Драган Стојковић, ; born 3 March 1965), also known by the nickname Piksi (Пикси), is a Serbian former footballer who played as a midfielder, and the current manager of the Serbia national team. Wi ...

* Refik Šabanadžović * Derby Makinka ;1 goal * Néstor Fabbri *

Frank Farina Frank Farina OAM (born 5 September 1964) is an Australian football (soccer) coach and former player who played as a forward. His playing career spanned Australia, Belgium, France, Italy and England, and was a major player for the Australia ...

John Kosmina Alexander John Kosmina (born 17 August 1956), known as John Kosmina, is an Australian former football (soccer) player and manager, most recently being the Senior Head Coach of Brisbane Strikers. He is a member of the Football Federation Austral ...

André Cruz André Alves da Cruz (born 20 September 1968) is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a central defender. He played for several clubs in Brazil and Europe, and also represented the Brazil national team, taking part in the 1989 and 199 ...

* Edmar * Geovani Silva * Adán Paniagua * Carlos Castañeda *

Karim Allawi Karim Mohammed Allawi (born 1 April 1960) is an Iraqi football midfielder who played for Iraq in the 1986 FIFA World Cup The 1986 FIFA World Cup was the 13th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national tea ...

* Mudhafar Jabbar * Alberigo Evani *

Ciro Ferrara Ciro Ferrara (; born 11 February 1967) is an Italian former footballer and manager. His most recent position was as manager of Wuhan Zall. He had also previously coached Juventus and the Italy national under-21 team. As an assistant coach to M ...

* Massimo Crippa * Massimo Mauro *

Ruggiero Rizzitelli Ruggiero Rizzitelli (; born 2 September 1967) is an Italian former footballer who played as a striker. Due to his goalscoring ability, he was given the nickname "Rizzi-gol" by the fans. Club career Rizzitelli started his professional career f ...

* Stefano Desideri *

Noh Soo-Jin Noh Soo-Jin (, born on February 10, 1962) is a former South Korea football player. He was a part of the South Korea national football team who of the FIFA World Cup in 1986, 1990. Also he was a member of 1988 Summer Olympics and 1988 AFC A ...

* Rashidi Yekini * Yury Savichev * Jonas Thern * Leif Engqvist * Tarak Dhiab * Brent Goulet * John Doyle * Mike Windischmann * Christian Schreier *

Fritz Walter Friedrich "Fritz" Walter (, ; 31 October 1920 – 17 June 2002) was a German footballer who spent his entire senior career at 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He usually played as an attacking midfielder or inside forward. In his time with the Germany an ...

* Gerhard Kleppinger * Roland Grahammer *

Wolfgang Funkel Wolfgang Funkel (born 10 August 1958) is a German former footballer. The defender played over 300 matches in the (West) German top-flight. In 1986 Funkel won two caps for the West German national team. He is the brother of Friedhelm Funkel. ...

* Jonson Bwalya * Stone Nyirenda ;Own goal * Rocael Mazariegos (playing against Iraq)

References

External links

Olympic Football Tournament Seoul 1988
FIFA.com
FIFA Technical Report (Part 1)(Part 2)(Part 3)
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