Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics


The football tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics started on 20 July and ended on 2 August. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. Seven qualified countries did not participate joining the American-led boycott in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Sixteen teams were divided into four groups:
In the technical report following the competition, FIFA reported that: "Compared with the 1979 World Youth Tournament in Japan and the 1978 World Cup finals in Argentina, the standard of football at the Olympic Football Tournament was generally of an inferior quality,".

Venues

The football tournament was the most attended event on these Olympics: 1,821,624 spectators watched 32 matches of it at the stadiums.

Qualification

Due to the American-led boycott, countries who qualified did not enter the final
tournament. Spain sent a team under the IOC flag. The following 16 teams qualified for the 1980 Olympics football tournament:
;Africa
;Asia
;North and Central America
;South America
;Europe

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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Bracket

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze Medal match

Gold Medal match

Team details--

from 1980
The final was played in a hard rain for the third straight Olympics. Both teams played with ten players after the 58th minute after one player from each team was red-carded.

Medalists

Goalscorers

With five goals, Sergey Andreyev of Soviet Union is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 82 goals were scored by 52 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
;5 goals
  • Sergey Andreyev
;4 goals
;3 goals
;2 goals
;1 goal
;Own goals
Below the final ranking after the end of the tournament.
RankTeam
16420101+910
26411122+109
36501193+1610
4631297+27
5412154+14
6412145-14
74202312-94
8411245-13
9311132+13
1030302203
11311124-23
12310237-42
13301225-31
14301208-81
15300326-40
16300329-70

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