Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Tournament details
Host country	Mexico
Dates	October 13-October 26
Teams	16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Hungary
Runners-up	Bulgaria
Third place	Japan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	116 (3.63 per match)

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 October 26, 1968. This was the first time an Asian team won a medal, Japan claiming bronze.

Qualification

Venues

Mexico City	Puebla	Guadalajara	León
Estadio Azteca	Estadio Cuauhtémoc	Estadio Jalisco	Estadio León
Capacity: 104,000	Capacity: 42,648	Capacity: 56,713	Capacity: 33,943
Estadio Azteca Estadio Cuauhtémoc Estadio Jalisco Estadio León Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics (Mexico)

Medalists

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

Squads

• Main article: Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics - Men's team squads

First round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
France	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	4
Mexico	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	4
Colombia	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	2
Guinea	3	1	0	2	4	9	−5	2

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Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4	5
Japan	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	4
Brazil	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2
Nigeria	3	0	1	2	4	9	−5	1

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Group C

Ghana replaced Morocco, who refused to play Israel.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Hungary	3	2	1	0	8	2	+6	5
Israel	3	2	0	1	8	6	+2	4
Ghana	3	0	2	1	6	8	−2	2
El Salvador	3	0	1	2	2	8	−6	1

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Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Bulgaria	3	2	1	0	11	3	+8	5
Guatemala	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	4
Czechoslovakia	3	1	1	1	10	3	+7	3
Thailand	3	0	0	3	1	19	−18	0

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Bracket

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

Quarter-finals

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Bulgaria progressed after a drawing of lots.

Semi-finals

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Bronze Medal match

Gold Medal match

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

• Kunishige Kamamoto

6 goals

• Antal Dunai

4 goals

• Petar Zhekov
• Ladislav Petráš
• Lajos Szűcs
• Yehoshua Feigenbaum

3 goals

• Atanas Mihaylov
• Charles Teamboueon
• Iván Menczel
• Pulido Rodríguez
• Vicente Pereda

2 goals

1 goal

Own goals

• Humberto Medina (playing against France)
• Segun Olumodeji (playing against Brazil)

Final Ranking

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Hungary (HUN)	6	5	1	0	18	3	+15	11
2	Bulgaria (BUL)	6	3	2	1	16	10	+6	8
3	Japan (JPN)	6	3	2	1	9	8	+1	8
4	Mexico (MEX)	6	3	0	3	10	9	+1	6
5	Israel (ISR)	4	2	1	1	9	7	+2	5
6	Spain (ESP)	4	2	1	1	4	2	+2	5
7	France (FRA)	4	2	0	2	9	7	+2	4
8	Guatemala (GUA)	4	2	0	2	6	4	+2	4
9	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	3	1	1	1	10	3	+7	3
10	Colombia (COL)	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	2
11	Guinea (GUI)	3	1	0	2	4	9	−5	2
12	Ghana (GHA)	3	0	2	1	6	8	−2	2
13	Brazil (BRA)	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2
14	Nigeria (NGR)	3	0	1	2	4	9	−5	1
15	El Salvador (ESA)	3	0	1	2	2	8	−6	1
16	Thailand (THA)	3	0	0	3	1	19	−18	0

References

External links

• Olympic Football Tournament Mexico City 1968, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Summary