Football_at_the_1976_Summer_Olympics
Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics
International football competition
The football tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics started on 18 July and ended on 31 July. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. 13 teams participated in the tournament, while three African teams took part in the boycott.[1]
Quick Facts Tournament details, Host country ...
| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | Canada |
| Dates | 18–31 July 1976 |
| Teams | 13 (from 4 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 4 (in 4 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  East Germany (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Poland |
| Third place |  Soviet Union |
| Fourth place |  Brazil |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 23 |
| Goals scored | 66 (2.87 per match) |
| Attendance | 597,574 (25,981 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Andrzej Szarmach (6 goals) |
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More information Montreal, Ottawa ...
| Montreal | Ottawa | Sherbrooke | Toronto |
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| Olympic Stadium | Lansdowne Park | Sherbrooke Stadium | Varsity Stadium |
| Capacity: 72,406 | Capacity: 30,065 | Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 21,739 |
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The following 13 teams qualified for the 1976 Olympics football tournament:
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Main article: Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads
First round
Group A
More information Team, Pld ...
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Brazil |
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 3 |
| East Germany |
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 3 |
 Spain |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 0 |
 Nigeria[lower-alpha 1] |
0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
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Source: FIFA
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More information Brazil, 2–1 ...
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Group B
More information Team, Pld ...
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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 France |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 5 |
 Israel |
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
 Mexico |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 2 |
 Guatemala |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 2 |
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Source: FIFA
More information France, 4–1 ...
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More information Mexico, 2–2 ...
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Group C
More information Team, Pld ...
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Poland |
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
 Iran |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
 Cuba |
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 |
 Ghana[lower-alpha 1] |
0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
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Source: FIFA
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Group D
More information Team, Pld ...
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Soviet Union |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 4 |
 North Korea |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 2 |
 Canada (H) |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 |
 Zambia[lower-alpha 1] |
0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
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More information Canada, 1–2 ...
| Canada | 1–2 | Soviet Union |
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Douglas  88' |
Report | Onyshchenko 8', 11' |
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More information North Korea, 3–1 ...
| North Korea | 3–1 | Canada |
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| An Se-uk 18' Hong Song-nam 66', 80' |
Report | Douglas 51' |
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More information Soviet Union, 3–0 ...
| Soviet Union | 3–0[lower-alpha 1] | North Korea |
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| Kolotov 16' (pen.) Veremeyev 81' Blokhin 89' |
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- North Korean player An Gil-wan was suspended a year for attacking the referee three times during the game.[2] The Olympic federation warned the entire North Korean team to its future conduct.
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 25 July – Ottawa | ||||||||||
| East Germany | 4 | |||||||||
| 27 July – Montreal | ||||||||||
| France | 0 | |||||||||
| East Germany | 2 | |||||||||
| 25 July – Sherbrooke | ||||||||||
| Soviet Union | 1 | |||||||||
| Soviet Union | 2 | |||||||||
| 31 July – Montreal | ||||||||||
| Iran | 1 | |||||||||
| East Germany | 3 | |||||||||
| 25 July – Toronto | ||||||||||
| Poland | 1 | |||||||||
| Brazil | 4 | |||||||||
| 27 July – Toronto | ||||||||||
| Israel | 1 | |||||||||
| Brazil | 0 | |||||||||
| 25 July – Montreal | ||||||||||
| Poland | 2 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
| Poland | 5 | |||||||||
| 29 July – Montreal | ||||||||||
| North Korea | 0 | |||||||||
| Soviet Union | 2 | |||||||||
| Brazil | 0 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
More information East Germany, 4–0 ...
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More information Soviet Union, 2–1 ...
| Soviet Union | 2–1 | Iran |
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| Minayev 40' Zvyahintsev 67' |
Report | Ghelichkhani 82' (pen.) |
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More information Brazil, 4–1 ...
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More information Poland, 5–0 ...
| Poland | 5–0 | North Korea |
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| Szarmach 13', 49' Lato 59', 79' Szymanowski 64' |
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Semi-finals
More information Soviet Union, 1–2 ...
| Soviet Union | 1–2 | East Germany |
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| Kolotov 84' (pen.) |
Report | Dörner 59' (pen.) Kurbjuweit 66' |
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Bronze Medal match
More information Soviet Union, 2–0 ...
| Soviet Union | 2–0 | Brazil |
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| Onyshchenko 5' Nazarenko 49' |
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Gold Medal match
More information East Germany, 3–1 ...
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1976 Summer Olympics Football Final
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With six goals, Andrzej Szarmach of Poland is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 66 goals were scored by 44 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
- 6 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Chico Fraga- Erivelto
- Júnior
- Rosemiro
Hans-Jürgen Riediger- Hartmut Schade
- Lothar Kurbjuweit
- Martin Hoffmann
- Reinhard Häfner
- Wolfram Löwe
Bruno Baronchelli- Francisco Rubio
Marco Fion
Ali Parvin- Gholam Hossein Mazloumi
- Hassan Rowshan
- Parviz Ghelichkhani
Itzhak Shum- Yaron Oz
Hugo Sánchez
An Se-Uk
Antoni Szymanowski- Kazimierz Deyna
Aleksandr Minayev- Leonid Nazarenko
- Oleh Blokhin
- Viktor Zvyahintsev
- Volodymyr Veremeyev
Santiago Idígoras
- Own goal
- Eduardo Rergis (playing against Guatemala)
More information Pos, Team ...
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 |  East Germany (GDR) |
5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 9 |
| 2 |  Poland (POL) |
5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 7 |
| 3 |  Soviet Union (URS) |
5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 8 |
| 4 | Brazil (BRA) |
5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 |  France (FRA) |
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 5 |
| 6 |  Israel (ISR) |
4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 3 |
| 7 |  Iran (IRI) |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 2 |
| 8 |  North Korea (PRK) |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 2 |
| 9 |  Mexico (MEX) |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 2 |
| 10 |  Guatemala (GUA) |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 2 |
| 11 |  Cuba (CUB) |
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 |
| 12 |  Spain (ESP) |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 0 |
| 13 |  Canada (CAN) |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 |
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Source: rsssf.com
- "Football at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- "An Gil Wan notice". Cambridge Evening News. 29 July 1976. Retrieved 25 June 2023 – via newspaper.com.
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