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'. UA-Football blogs. 5 December 2018 Out of 34 European football nations at the time in tournament participated only 27 with five allowing for qualification to the Summer Olympics football tournament. All participants were split in five groups of five teams with winners of each qualify for the Olympics. Four teams were contesting two berths in two of five groups. Seven football nations that did not participate included four team of

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(IOC), Malta (never fielded its team previously), Luxembourg (not fielding in 1980s), and Albania (political restrictions since 1972). Turkey and

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, returned to the Olympic competition.

Summary

Group A

Preliminary play-off

Group stage

Group B

Group C

Group D

Preliminary play-off

Group stage

Group E

Goalscorers

;7 goals * Claus Nielsen ;5 goals * Flemming Povlsen *

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* Walter Pellegrini ;4 goals *

Kim Vilfort Kim Vilfort (; born 15 November 1962) is a Danish retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is the head talent scout at Brøndby IF. His 17-year professional career was mainly associated with Brøndby IF, for which he play ...

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* Wolfram Wuttke * Gyula Plotár * Jan Furtok *

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Alain Sutter Alain Sutter (born 22 January 1968) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently the sporting director of Grasshopper Club Zurich. Playing career Born in Bern, Sutter played youth football for SC Bümpli ...

;3 goals *

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* Ioannis Samaras * Noel Larkin *

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Gavril Balint Gavril Pele "Gabi" Balint (born 3 January 1963) is a Romanian football manager and former player, who was part of the hugely successful Steaua team of the 1980s. Club career Born in Sângeorz-Băi, Bistrița, Balint made his Divizia A debut wit ...

Christophe Bonvin Christophe Bonvin (born 14 July 1965) is a former Swiss Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. He mostly played for FC Sion, but also for Servette FC, Servette and Neuchâtel Xamax. For Switzerland national football team h ...

* Roger Hegi *

Philippe Hertig Philippe Hertig (born 2 July 1965) is a Swiss former association football, footballer who played as a striker (association football), striker during the 1980s and 1990s. He is banker and is now assistant director of Mirabaud Group. In 2009 Herti ...

* Jan Hellström *

Tomáš Skuhravý Tomáš Skuhravý (born 7 September 1965) is a Czech former footballer who played as a striker. He scored five goals for Czechoslovakia in 1990 FIFA World Cup at international level. Club career On 28 September 1983, Skuhravý debuted for Spart ...

* Volodymyr Lyutyi *

Radmilo Mihajlović Radmilo Mihajlović ( sr-cyr, Радмило Михајловић; born 19 November 1964) is a Bosnian former footballer who played as a forward. Club career Early career Mihajlović started playing football in hometown club Sutjeska Foča an ...

Dejan Savićević Dejan Savićević ( cyrl, Дејан Савићевић, ; born 15 September 1966) is a Montenegrin former professional association football, footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Since 2001, he has been the president of the Football ...

Semir Tuce Semir Tuce (born 11 February 1964) is a Bosnian retired footballer, who played as left winger. He was part of the Velež Mostar ''second golden era'', which won the 1985–86 Yugoslav Cup. Club career Velež Mostar Tuce was born in Mostar an ...

;2 goals * Rupert Marko * P.J. Werner * Francis Severeyns * Petar Aleksandrov * Aleksandar Bonchev *

Vasil Dragolov Vasil Ivanov Dragolov (; born 15 September 1962) is a former Bulgarian footballer, who played as a forward. For the Bulgarian national team, he amassed 5 appearances, netting 1 goal. Honours ; Beroe: *A PFG The First Professional Footba ...

Lyuboslav Penev Lyuboslav Mladenov Penev (; born 31 August 1966) is a Bulgarian professional football manager and former player. Penev played as a forward for several clubs in Bulgaria and Spain. He started his career at CSKA Sofia in 1984, winning two B ...

* Bjørn Kristensen *

Ulrik Moseby Ulrik Cappelen (né Christensen) (born 28 March 1964), known as Ulrik Moseby, is a Danish former association football player in the midfielder position. Born in Odense, he played 338 games for Odense Boldklub, winning the 1982 and 1989 Danish c ...

Lars Olsen Lars Christian Olsen (born 2 February 1961) is a Danish former footballer and current manager, who was most recently the manager of Esbjerg fB in the Danish Superliga. He started his coaching career with Randers in 2003, guiding them to promot ...

* Seppo Nikkilä * Thierry Fernier * Bruno Roux * Damian Halata * Olaf Marschall *

Heiko Peschke Heiko Peschke (born 18 September 1963) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender. He appeared in 288 top-flight matches in Germany - 221 in the Oberliga and 67 in the Bundesliga. He won five caps for East Germany ...

* Hans Richter * György Katona *

Mick Bennett Michael John "Mick" Bennett (born 8 June 1949, Birmingham) is a British former cyclist and cycle race promoter. Cycling career He won the bronze medal in Team Pursuit in the Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1972 Munich and Cycling at the 19 ...

* Mick Byrne *

Andrea Carnevale Andrea Carnevale (; born 12 January 1961) is an Italian former footballer who played as a forward. Early life Carnevale was born to Gaetano and Filomena Carnevale as one of the seven children. As a child, he learned to be a carpenter in Mont ...

* Manuel Zúñiga * Martin Müller * René Müller *

Kubilay Türkyilmaz Kubilay Türkyilmaz (; born 4 March 1967) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a forward. He ended his international career as the all-time joint leading goal scorer for the Switzerland national team, with 34 goals in 64 appe ...

* Michael Andersson * Leif Engqvist * Leif Forsberg * Peter Herda *

Ziya Doğan Ziyaettin Dogan (born 1 January 1961 in Gümüşhane, Turkey) is a UEFA Pro Licensed Turkish football manager. Career Ziya Doğan has played at Beşiktaş (1979–1987), Ankaragücü (1987–1990), Kocaelispor (1990–1992) and Zeytinburnusp ...

* Stanislovas Baranauskas *

Igor Dobrovolski Igor Ivanovich Dobrovolski (, ; born 27 August 1967) is a Soviet and Russian professional football manager and former player. He is the head coach of Dinamo-Auto Tiraspol. He started his career in the Moldavian SSR, then played in the Russia ...

* Oleksiy Mykhailychenko *

Davor Jozić Davor Jozić (born 22 September 1960) is a Bosnian retired footballer. Club career Jozić started his career playing for hometown club Igman Konjic and then moved to Sarajevo where he played in 450 games. He was a member of the memorable Saraje ...

;1 goal * Paul Perstling * Andreas Spielmann * Manfred Zsak * Beugnies *

Danny Boffin Daniel Edouward Boffin (born 10 July 1965) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a left winger and current football coach. During his professional career, which spanned nearly two decades, he played for four clubs in his cou ...

Marc Degryse Marc Gabriel Degryse (born 4 September 1965), nicknamed ''Le Lutin d'Ardooie'' ("The Lutin/ Imp of Ardooie") and ''The Little One'',

* Goossens * Schoofs * Benoît Thans * Georgi Georgiev * Petar Mihtarski * Pavlos Savva *

John Jensen John Jensen (; born 3 May 1965), nicknamed Faxe (), is a Danish professional football manager and former player. A former midfielder, his playing career lasted almost two entire decades, including a stint with Arsenal in England and three stin ...

Brian Laudrup Brian Laudrup (, born 22 February 1969) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a winger, forward or as a midfielder, and was regarded as one of the most talented players of his generation. He currently works for the various T ...

Kent Nielsen Kent Nielsen (born 28 December 1961) is a Danish professional football manager and former player, who is currently the head coach of Silkeborg IF. He was named coach of the year by the Danish Football Association in 2014 after winning both the Da ...

Ismo Lius Ismo Lius (born 30 November 1965) is a Finnish former professional footballer who played as a forward. During his club career, Lius played for Kuusysi Lahti, Örgryte IS, HJK Helsinki, RoPS and FC Hämeenlinna. Lius led the league in go ...

* Marko Myyry * Jari Niinimäki * Patrick Cubaynes * Antoine Kombouaré * Fabrice Mege *

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* Philippe Prieur * Armin Görtz * Christian Hochstätter * Christian Schreier *

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* Matthias Lindner * Jürgen Raab * Markus Wuckel *

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* Ioukoudis * Charis Mbaniotis * Theodoros Pahatouridis *

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* József Dzurják * Imre Fodor * Béla Melis *

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* Péter Rubold * Sándor Steidl * István Vincze *

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* Peter Eccles * Barry Kehoe * Ólafur Þórðarson * Guðmundur Steinsson * Roberto Galia * Marco Pacione * Francesco Romano *

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* Ruud Brood * Juul Ellerman * Hans Gillhaus * Hennie Meyer * Peter van Velzen *

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* Marek Leśniak * Andrzej Rudy * Kazimierz Sokołowski * Grzegorz Wiezik * ? *

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* Cerqueiro * Coelho * Miguel * Haralambie Antohi * Claudiu Vaișcovici * Genar Andrinúa * Eusebio Sacristán * Rafael Martín Vázquez * Roger Kundert * Patrice Mottiez * Beat Rietmann * Mats Jingblad * Peter Lönn *

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* Jonas Thern *

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* Peter Fieber *

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* Ivo Staš * Nusret Erdi Demir *

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* Erdoğan Yılmaz *

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* Yevgeni Kuznetsov *

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* Predrag Jurić * Sead Kajtaz *

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* Dragan Stojković

Notes

References

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