Football_at_the_1968_Summer_Olympics

Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Tournament details
Host country	Mexico
Dates	13–26 October 1968
Teams	16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Hungary
Runners-up	Bulgaria
Third place	Japan
Fourth place	Mexico
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	116 (3.63 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Kunishige Kamamoto (7 goals)
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Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics

International football competition

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.^[1]

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Mexico City	Puebla	Guadalajara	León
Estadio Azteca	Estadio Cuauhtémoc	Estadio Jalisco	Estadio León
Capacity: 104,000^[2]	Capacity: 35,563^[3]	Capacity: 31,891^[4]	Capacity: 23,609^[4]

Estadio Azteca Estadio Cuauhtémoc Estadio Jalisco Estadio León

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hungary	Bulgaria	Japan
István Básti Antal Dunai Lajos Dunai Ernő Noskó Dezső Novák Károly Fatér László Fazekas István Juhász László Keglovich Lajos Kocsis Iván Menczel László Nagy Miklós Páncsics István Sárközi Lajos Szűcs Zoltán Szarka Miklós Szalai	Stoyan Yordanov Atanas Gerov Georgi Hristakiev Milko Gaydarski Kiril Ivkov Ivaylo Georgiev Tsvetan Veselinov Evgeni Yanchovski Petar Zhekov Atanas Hristov Asparuh Donev Kiril Stankov Georgi Ivanov Todor Nikolov Yancho Dimitrov Ivan Zafirov Mihail Gyonin Georgi Vasilev	Kenzo Yokoyama Hiroshi Katayama Masakatsu Miyamoto Yoshitada Yamaguchi Mitsuo Kamata Ryozo Suzuki Kiyoshi Tomizawa Takaji Mori Aritatsu Ogi Eizo Yuguchi Shigeo Yaegashi Teruki Miyamoto Masashi Watanabe Yasuyuki Kuwahara Kunishige Kamamoto Ikuo Matsumoto Ryuichi Sugiyama Masahiro Hamazaki

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	2	1	8	4	+4	4	Advance to knockout stage
2	Mexico (H)	3	2	1	6	4	+2	4	Advance to knockout stage
3	Colombia	3	1	2	4	5	−1	2
4	Guinea	3	1	2	4	9	−5	2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4	5	Advance to knockout stage
2	Japan	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	4	Advance to knockout stage
3	Brazil	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2
4	Nigeria	3	0	1	2	4	9	−5	1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	3	2	1	0	8	2	+6	5	Advance to knockout stage
2	Israel	3	2	0	1	8	6	+2	4	Advance to knockout stage
3	Ghana	3	0	2	1	6	8	−2	2
4	El Salvador	3	0	1	2	2	8	−6	1

Football_at_the_1968_Summer_Olympics

Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Qualification

Venues

Medalists

Squads

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Bronze Medal match

Gold Medal match

Statistics

Goalscorers

Final ranking

References

External links

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bulgaria	3	2	1	0	11	3	+8	5	Advance to knockout stage
2	Guatemala	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	4	Advance to knockout stage
3	Czechoslovakia	3	1	1	1	10	3	+7	3
4	Thailand	3	0	0	3	1	19	−18	0

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

20 October – Guadalajara

Hungary	1
		22 October – Mexico City
Guatemala	0
		Hungary	5
20 October – Mexico City
		Japan	0
Japan	3
				26 October – Mexico City
France	1
				Hungary	4
20 October – Leon
				Bulgaria	1
Bulgaria	1
		22 October – Guadalajara
Israel	1
		Bulgaria	3
20 October – Puebla
		Mexico	2	Bronze medal match
Mexico	2
				24 October – Mexico City
Spain	0
				Japan	2

				Mexico	0

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
	Hungary	6	5	1	0	18	3	+15	11	Gold medal
	Bulgaria	6	3	2	1	16	10	+6	8	Silver medal

	Japan	6	3	2	1	9	8	+1	8	Bronze medal
4	Mexico	6	3	0	3	10	9	+1	6	Fourth place

5	Israel	4	2	1	1	9	7	+2	5	Eliminated in quarter-finals
6	Spain	4	2	1	1	4	2	+2	5
7	France	4	2	0	2	9	7	+2	4
8	Guatemala	4	2	0	2	6	4	+2	4

9	Czechoslovakia	3	1	1	1	10	3	+7	3	Eliminated in group stage
10	Colombia	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	2
11	Guinea	3	1	0	2	4	9	−5	2
12	Ghana	3	0	2	1	6	8	−2	2
13	Brazil	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2
14	Nigeria	3	0	1	2	4	9	−5	1
15	El Salvador	3	0	1	2	2	8	−6	1
16	Thailand	3	0	0	3	1	19	−18	0