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 (3rd title) |
| 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) |
← 1964 1972 → | |
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]
Qualification
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Africa (3) Asia (3)
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Europe (5)
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North America (3)
South America (2)
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- Ghana replaced Morocco, who refused to play against Israel.
Venues
| Mexico City | Puebla | Guadalajara | León | |
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| Estadio Azteca | Estadio Cuauhtémoc | Estadio Jalisco | Estadio León | |
| Capacity: 104,000[2] | Capacity: 35,563[3] | Capacity: 31,891[4] | Capacity: 23,609[4] | |
Medalists
Squads
Group stage
Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | France | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Mexico (H) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 | |
| 3 | Colombia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 2 | |
| 4 | Guinea | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 2 |
| France | 3–1 | Guinea |
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Referee: Milivoje Gugulovic (Yugoslavia)
| France | 4–1 | Mexico |
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Referee: Erwin Hieger (Peru)
| Colombia | 2–1 | France |
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Referee: Karol Galba (Czechoslovakia)
Group B
| Pos | Team | 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 | |
| 3 | Brazil | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 2 | |
| 4 | Nigeria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 1 |
Source: FIFA
Group C
Ghana replaced Morocco, who refused to play against Israel.
| Pos | Team | 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 | |
| 3 | Ghana | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 2 | |
| 4 | El Salvador | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 1 |
Source: FIFA
| Hungary | 4–0 | El Salvador |
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Referee: Diego Di Leo (Mexico)
| Israel | 5–3 | Ghana |
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Referee: Michel Kitabdjian (France)
Group D
| Pos | Team | 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 | |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 3 | |
| 4 | Thailand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 19 | −18 | 0 |
Source: FIFA
| Guatemala | 1–0 | Czechoslovakia |
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Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil)
| Bulgaria | 2–2 | Czechoslovakia |
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Referee: Abel Aguilar Elizalde (Mexico)
| Guatemala | 4–1 | Thailand |
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Referee: Jean-Louis Faber (Guinea)
| Bulgaria | 2–1 | Guatemala |
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Referee: Raúl Osorio (Mexico)
| Czechoslovakia | 8–0 | Thailand |
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Referee: Felipe Buergo Elcuaz (Mexico)
Knockout stage
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | ||||||||
| 20 October – Puebla | ||||||||||
| Mexico | 2 | |||||||||
| 22 October – Guadalajara | ||||||||||
| Spain | 0 | |||||||||
| Mexico | 2 | |||||||||
| 20 October – Leon | ||||||||||
| Bulgaria | 3 | |||||||||
| Bulgaria | 1 | |||||||||
| 26 October – Mexico City | ||||||||||
| Israel | 1 | |||||||||
| Bulgaria | 1 | |||||||||
| 20 October – Guadalajara | ||||||||||
| Hungary | 4 | |||||||||
| Hungary | 1 | |||||||||
| 22 October – Mexico City | ||||||||||
| Guatemala | 0 | |||||||||
| Hungary | 5 | |||||||||
| 20 October – Mexico City | ||||||||||
| Japan | 0 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
| Japan | 3 | |||||||||
| 24 October – Mexico City | ||||||||||
| France | 1 | |||||||||
| Japan | 2 | |||||||||
| Mexico | 0 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
| Mexico | 2–0 | Spain |
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Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)
| Bulgaria | 1–1 | Israel |
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Referee: Michel Kitabdjian (France)
Semi-finals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Statistics
Goalscorers
With seven goals, Kunishige Kamamoto of Japan is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 116 goals were scored by 68 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.
- 7 goals
- 6 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Tião
- Ivaylo Georgiev
- Mihail Gyonin
- Georgi Hristakiev
- Kiril Ivkov
- Ivan Zafirov
- Alfonso Jaramillo
- Fabio Mosquera
- Gustavo Santa
- Javier Tamayo
- Miloš Herbst
- Jozef Jarabinský
- Mikuláš Krnáč
- Jiří Večerek
- Juan Ramón Martínez
- Pipo Rodríguez
- Gérard Hallet
- Daniel Horlaville
- Daniel Perrigaud
- Gbadamosi Amosa
- Osei Kofi
- Ibrahim Sunday
- Sammy Stevens Sampene
- Jorge Roldán
- David Stokes
- Maxime Camara
- N'Dongo Camara
- László Fazekas
- István Juhász
- István Sárközi
- Shraga Bar
- Mordechai Spiegler
- Rachamim Talbi
- Luis Estrada
- Cesáreo Victorino
- Peter Anieke
- Samuel Okoye
- Juan Fernández Vilela
- Fernando Ortuño
- Udomsilp Sornbutnark
- Own goals
- Humberto Medina (playing against France)
- Segun Olumodeji (playing against Brazil)
Final ranking
As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
| 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 |
Source: Olympics
References
- ^ "Football at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
- ^ 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 78. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
- ^ 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 75. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
- ^ a b 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 79. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
External links
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