Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics

The football tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984...

started on July 29 and ended on August 11. It featured only a men's tournament, as women's football had yet to become an Olympic event. It was the first Olympic football competition in which professionals were allowed. Until then, the amateur

Amateur

An amateur is generally considered a person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science, without pay and often without formal training....

-only rule had heavily favored socialist countries from Eastern Europe whose players were professionals in all but name. However, as agreed with FIFA

FIFA

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by the acronym FIFA , is the international governing body of :association football, futsal and beach football. Its headquarters are located in Zurich, Switzerland, and its president is Sepp Blatter, who is in his fourth...

to preserve the primacy of the World Cup

FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...

, the Olympic competition was restricted to players with no more than five "A" caps at tournament start, regardless of age.

The football tournament was held in four venues:

Harvard Stadium
Harvard Stadium
Harvard Stadium is a horseshoe-shaped football stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Built in 1903, the stadium seats 30,323. The stadium seated up to 57,166 in the past, as permanent steel stands were installed in the north end of the stadium in 1929...

(Boston, Massachusetts)
Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
Navy – Marine Corps Memorial Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium near the campus of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It is the home field of the Navy Midshipmen football team, the men's lacrosse team, and the Chesapeake Bayhawks lacrosse team....

(Annapolis, Maryland
Annapolis, Maryland
Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland, as well as the county seat of Anne Arundel County. It had a population of 38,394 at the 2010 census and is situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, south of Baltimore and about east of Washington, D.C. Annapolis is...

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Stanford Stadium
Stanford Stadium
Stanford Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium on the Stanford University campus, the home of Stanford Cardinal college football team. It originally opened in 1921 as a football and track stadium, an earthen horseshoe with wooden bleacher seating and flooring upon a steel frame...

(Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is...

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Rose Bowl
Rose Bowl (stadium)
The Rose Bowl is an outdoor athletic stadium in Pasadena, California, U.S., in Los Angeles County. The stadium is the site of the annual college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl, held on New Year's Day. In 1982, it became the home field of the UCLA Bruins college football team of the Pac-12...

, (Pasadena, California
Pasadena, California
Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Although famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home to many scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology , the Jet...

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Qualification

Sixteen teams qualified for the Olympic tournament after continental qualifying rounds. Three Warsaw Pact

Warsaw Pact

The Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance , or more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe...

countries had qualified but withdrew as part of the Soviet-led boycott

Boycott

A boycott is an act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for political reasons...

. They were replaced as follows:

East Germany
East Germany national football team
The East Germany national football team was from 1952 to 1990 the football team of East Germany, playing as one of three post-war German teams, along with Saarland and West Germany....

won UEFA Group 2. They were replaced by Norway
Norway national football team
The Norway national football team represents Norway in association football and is controlled by the Football Association of Norway, the governing body for football in Norway. Norway's home ground is Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo and their head coach is Egil Olsen...

, who came third; second-place Poland
Poland national football team
The Poland national football team represents Poland in association football and is controlled by the Polish Football Association, the governing body for football in Poland...

were also boycotting.
USSR
USSR national football team
The Soviet Union National Football Team was the national football team of the Soviet Union. It ceased to exist after the break up of the Union...

won UEFA Group 1. They were replaced by West Germany
Germany Olympic football team
The Germany national football team has been active since 1908, and first competed in the Olympic Games in 1912. Olympic football was originally an amateur sport, and as the pre-World War II German national team was also amateur, it was able to send a full national team to the games. After the war,...

, second in Group 4. Hungary
Hungary national football team
The Hungary national football team represents Hungary in international football and is controlled by the Hungarian Football Federation....

and Bulgaria
Bulgaria national football team
The FIFA Bulgaria national football team is an association football team fielded by the Bulgarian Football Union, a member association of UEFA. The team's home ground is Vasil Levski in Sofia and Luboslav Penev is in charge manager after replacement of Lothar Matthäus...

, second and third in Group 1, were also boycotting.
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia national football team
The Czechoslovakia national football team was the national association football team of Czechoslovakia from 1922 to 1993. At the dissolution of Czechoslovakia at the end of 1992, the team was participating in UEFA qualifying Group 4 for the 1994 World Cup; it completed this campaign under the name...

qualified as 1980 champions
Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics
thumb|right|Official Programme of the match [[USSR]] vs [[Venezuela]]The football tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics started on July 20 and ended on August 2. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested...

. They were replaced by Italy
Italy national football team
The Italy National Football Team , represents Italy in association football and is controlled by the Italian Football Federation , the governing body for football in Italy. Italy is the second most successful national team in the history of the World Cup having won four titles , just one fewer than...

, third in UEFA Group 3.

Africa (CAF
Confederation of African Football
The Confederation of African Football is the administrative and controlling body for African association football.CAF represents the national football associations of Africa, runs continental, national, and club competitions, and controls the prize money, regulations and media rights to those...

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Asia (AFC
Asian Football Confederation
The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football in Asia. It has 46 member countries, mostly located on the Asian continent. However, due to the disputed boundary of Europe and Asia, nations such as Russia and Turkey which are located mostly in geographic Asia are...

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North and Central America (CONCACAF
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football is the continental governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean...

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South America (CONMEBOL
CONMEBOL
The South American Football Confederation , commonly known as CONMEBOL , is the continental governing body of association football in South America and it is one of FIFA's six continental confederations...

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Europe (UEFA
UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....

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Hosting nation

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Medalists

Gold Medal –

William Ayache

William Ayache is a retired French association football defender.-Football career:Ayache played on two championship teams in France in 1980 and 1983 with FC Nantes.-International career:...

Michel Bensoussan

Michel Bensoussan is a French former professional football player.Bensoussan was a member of the French squad that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California but did not play....

Michel Bibard

Michel Bibard is a former professional French football defender, who won the gold medal with the French team at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He earned six international caps team during the mid-1980s...

Dominique Bijotat

Dominique Bijotat is a former professional French football midfielder from France, who obtained eight international caps for the French national team during the 1980s.-Career:...

François Brisson

François Brisson is a retired professional French football striker. He obtained two international caps for the French national team during the 1980s...

Patrick Cubaynes

Patrick Cubaynes is a French former professional football player.-International career:Cubaynes was a member of the French squad that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California....

Patrice Garande

Patrice Garande is a former football striker from France, who obtained one international cap for the French national team during the 1980s: on April 27, 1988 against Northern Ireland...

Philippe Jeannol

Philippe Jeannol is a French former professional football player.Jeannol was a member of the French squad that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.-External links:...

Guy Lacombe

Guy Lacombe is a French former professional football player and manager.- International :Lacombe was a member of the French squad that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California...

Jean-Claude Lemoult

Jean-Claude Lemoult is a French former professional football player.Lemoult was a member of the French squad that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California....

Jean Philippe Rohr

Albert Rust

Albert Rust (footballer)

Albert Rust is a former French footballer, who currently works as Goalkeeper coach by AS Saint-Étienne.-International career:He won one international cap for the French national team during the 1980s...

Didier Sénac

Didier Sénac is a former football defender from France, who obtained three international caps for the French national team during the early 1980s...

Jean-Christophe Thouvenel

Jean-Christophe Thouvenel is a French former professional football player.Thouvenel was a member of the French squad that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California....

José Touré

José Touré is a former French professional football player.Touré was a member of the French squad that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.-External links:*...

Daniel Xuereb

Daniel Xuereb is a former football striker from France, who earned eight international caps for the French national team during the 1980s...

Jean-Louis Zanon

Jean-Louis Zanon is a French former professional football player.Zanon was a member of the French squad that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.-External links:**...

Coach: Henri Michel

Henri Michel

-External links:...

Silver Medal –

Pinga

Jorge Luis da Silva Brum

Jorge Luis da Silva Brum, best known as Pinga is a former Brazilian footballer in central-lateral defender role....

David Cortez Silva
Milton Cruz
Luís Henrique Dias
Andre Luiz Ferreira
Mauro Galvão

Mauro Galvão

Mauro Geraldo Galvão is a retired Braziian footballer who played as a sweeper, and a current manager.-Playing career:...

Antonio José Gil
João Leiehart Neto
Gilmar Popoca
Silvinho
Gilmar
Ademir

Ademir Roque Kaefer

Ademir Roque Kaefer was a former Brazilian football player.In his career he played for SC Internacional, Toledo, Racing Club , Matsubara, Santo André and Cruzeiro...

Paulo Santos
Ronaldo Silva
Dunga

Dunga

Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri , commonly known as Dunga , is a former Brazilian football defensive midfielder and a World Champion for Brazil in the 1994 World Cup...

Francisco Vidal
Luiz Carlos Winck

Luiz Carlos Winck

Luís Carlos Coelho Winck, was a Brazilian football player born in Portão, Rio Grande do Sul.-Career:Started his successful journey in soccer as a defensive midfielder in Internacional, moving to the right-back position in 1984 by late coach, Ênio Andrade...

Coach: Jair Picerni

Jair Picerni

Jair Picerni is a Brazilian football manager and former footballer. He is currently coaching Red Bull Brasil....

Bronze Medal –

Mirsad Baljić

Mirsad Baljic

Mirsad "Žvaka" Baljić is a former Yugoslav and Bosnian football player who played as an offensive full-backHe got his nickname Žvaka for his constant use of chewing gum during the game....

Mehmed Baždarević

Mehmed Baždarevic

Mehmed Baždarević is a Bosnian football manager and former football midfielder. He is the current manager of the French Ligue 1 club Sochaux-Montbéliard. Baždarević played for Bosnian side Željezničar Sarajevo and Sochaux-Montbéliard, among others...

Vlado Čapljić

Vlado Capljic

Vlado Čapljić is a Bosnian Serb football manager and former player.-Career:...

Borislav Cvetković

Borislav Cvetkovic

Borislav "Boro" Cvetković is a Croatian Serb football manager and former player....

Stjepan Deverić

Stjepan Deveric

Stjepan Deverić is a former Croatian and Yugoslav footballer.Deverić began his career with Dinamo Zagreb in the Yugoslav Federal League in 1979. He stayed at the club until 1984, playing in 345 games and scoring 158 goals before moving to Croatian rival Hajduk Split where he stayed from 1984 until...

Milko Đurovski
Marko Elsner

Marko Elsner

Marko Elsner is a retired Slovenian football player who played in the defender position.He is the son of Branko Elsner, also a former footballer....

Nenad Gračan

Nenad Gracan

Nenad Gračan is a retired Croatian footballer who played as a central midfielder, and a current coach.-Club career:...

Tomislav Ivković

Tomislav Ivkovic

Tomislav Ivković is a retired Croatian footballer who played as a goalkeeper....

Srečko Katanec

Srecko Katanec

Srečko Katanec is a Slovenian football manager and a former player capped for Yugoslavia and Slovenia. His last position was as the manager of the United Arab Emirates national football team.-Career:...

Branko Miljuš

Branko Miljuš is a former Croatian footballer.During his club career he played for NK Hajduk Split, Real Valladolid and Vitória Setúbal. He earned 14 caps for the Yugoslavia national football team, and participated in UEFA Euro 1984...

Mitar Mrkela

Mitar Mrkela is a retired Serbian football player, who was a member of the Yugoslavian team that won the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.-Career:...

Jovica Nikolić

Jovica Nikolic

Jovica Nikolić is a retired Serbian footballer who played as a central midfielder, and a current manager.-Club career:...

Ivan Pudar

Ivan Pudar is a former Croatian football goalkeeper.During his club career he played for Hajduk Split, Spartak Subotica and Boavista F.C....

Ljubomir Radanović

Ljubomir Radanovic

Ljubomir Radanović is a Montenegrin defender who played at Euro 1984 for SFR Yugoslavia.He is remembered with fondness by Yugoslavian football fans for his last-minute headed goal against Bulgaria in Split on 21 December 1983, which sent Yugoslavia to the finals of Euro 84 ahead of their opponents...

Admir Smajić

Admir Smajic

Admir Smajić is a Bosnian former football defender who played for SFR Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.-Football career:...

Dragan Stojković

Dragan Stojkovic

Dragan Stojković , also known under the nickname Piksi is a Serbian former footballer and current manager of J...

Coach: Ivan Toplak

Ivan Toplak

Ivan Toplak is a former Serbian football player and manager. He got 1 cap for Yugoslavia.-External links:*...

Match Officials

Africa Mohamed Hossameldin Gebreyesus Tesfaye Bester Kalombo

Asia Abdul Aziz Al-Salmi Kyung-Bok Cha Toshikazu Sano

Toshikazu Sano

Toshikazu Sano . Is a former football referee from the Asian state of Japan. He is known for having officiated the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.-References:*...

North and Central America Tony Evangelista

Tony Evangelista

Tony Evangelista is a Canadian FIFA referee and important builder to Canadian soccer.Evangelista was born in Sora, Italy, and came to Canada with his family when he was 13. He began refereeing when he was 23, and was for many years one of Canada's top referees. Tony was selected to the FIFA Panel...

Antonio Márquez Ramírez

Antonio Márquez Ramírez is a retired Mexican football referee. He is known for having refereed two matches in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. He was one of the top Mexican referees of his time...

Jesus Paulino Siles Calderón David Socha

David Socha

David Socha is a former soccer referee from the United States. He is best known for supervising two matches in the FIFA World Cup, one in 1982 and one in 1986.-References:...

South America Romualdo Arppi Filho

Romualdo Arppi Filho

Romualdo Arppi Filho is a retired football referee from Brazil. He is mostly known for supervising three matches in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, including the 1986 FIFA World Cup final between Germany and Argentina. Argentina eventually won the game 3-2. He was the second successive...

Gastón Castro

Gastón Edmundo Castro Makuc is a retired Chilean football referee. He is known for having refereed one match in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.He has chaired the Chilean committee of referees and is a FIFA trainer of referees....

Jesús Díaz

Jesús Díaz Palacio is a retired Colombian football referee. He is known for having refereed two matches in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. He made several controversial calls against Mexico at the 1986 FIFA World Cup held in Mexico....

Jorge Eduardo Romero

Jorge Eduardo Romero is a retired football referee from Argentina. He is known for having refereed matches at the FIFA World Youth Championship, the 1984 Summer Olympics and many more international matches in South American competitions.-References:...

Europe Enzo Barbaresco

Enzo Barbaresco

Enzo Barbaresco is a former football referee from Italy. He is known for having officiated the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.-References:*...

Ioan Igna

Ioan Igna is a retired Romanian football referee. He is known for having refereed two matches in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, including the quarterfinal epic match between Brazil and France, when he made a controversial call when in the penalty shootout he ruled a goal when Bruno Bellone's...

Jan Keizer Brian McGinlay

Brian McGinlay

Brian McGinlay is a retired football referee from Scotland, who officiated in 98 European club competition and international matches....

Joël Quiniou

Joël Quiniou is a former football referee from France. He is mostly known for supervising 8 matches in the FIFA World Cup. One in 1986, three in 1990 and four in 1994..-World Cup Matches:-Italy vs Bulgaria:...

Volker Roth

Volker Roth is a retired football referee from Germany. He is mostly known for supervising two matches in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. After retirement he became a referee's advisor for UEFA.-External links:*...

Victoriano Sánchez Arminio Edvard Sostarić

Edvard Sostaric

Edvard Sostarić is a former football referee from Slovenia. He is known for having officiated the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.-References:*...

Group A

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Team
	3	1	2	0	5	4
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	3	1	2	0	2	1
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	3	1	1	1	3	2
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Group B

4
Team
	3	3	0	0	7	3
6
	3	1	1	1	4	3
3
	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	2
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Group C

5
Team
	3	3	0	0	6	1
6
	3	2	0	1	8	1
4
	3	1	0	2	1	4	−3	2
	3	0	0	3	1	10	−9	0

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Group D

1
Team
	3	2	0	1	2	1
4
	3	1	1	1	5	3
3
	3	1	1	1	4	2
3
	3	1	0	2	2	7	−5	2

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Knockout stages

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

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Gold medal match

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Topscorers

5 goals Daniel Xuereb

Daniel Xuereb

Daniel Xuereb is a former football striker from France, who earned eight international caps for the French national team during the 1980s...

Borislav Cvetković

Borislav Cvetkovic

Borislav "Boro" Cvetković is a Croatian Serb football manager and former player....

Stjepan Deverić

Stjepan Deveric

4 goals Gilmar Popoca

3 goals François Brisson

François Brisson

François Brisson is a retired professional French football striker. He obtained two international caps for the French national team during the 1980s...

Jovica Nikolić

Jovica Nikolic

Jovica Nikolić is a retired Serbian footballer who played as a central midfielder, and a current manager.-Club career:...

Rudolf Bommer

Rudolf "Rudi" Bommer is a former German footballer and football manager. He is the current manager of Wacker Burghausen.Born in Aschaffenburg, he played 417 games between 1976 and 1997 for Fortuna Düsseldorf, Bayer Uerdingen and Eintracht Frankfurt.He played in France in Euro 84...

Uwe Rahn

Uwe Rahn is a former German football player.Rahn played 318 Bundesliga matches in his professional career, scoring the majority of his 107 Bundesliga goals in his eight years at Borussia Mönchengladbach where he grew to a West Germany international and lifted the kicker-Torjägerkanone award for...

Dale Mitchell

Dale Mitchell (soccer)

Dale William Dink Mitchell is a former top-level professional association football striker who played for several North American teams in the 1980s and 1990s....

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