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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]

1976 Men's Olympic football tournament
Tournament details
Host countryCanada
Dates18–31 July 1976
Teams13 (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 played23
Goals scored66 (2.87 per match)
Attendance597,574 (25,981 per match)
Top scorer(s)Poland Andrzej Szarmach (6 goals)

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Venues

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Montreal Ottawa Sherbrooke Toronto
Olympic Stadium Lansdowne Park Sherbrooke Stadium Varsity Stadium
Capacity: 72,406 Capacity: 30,065 Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 21,739
     

Qualification

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Main article: Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

The following 13 teams qualified for the 1976 Olympics football tournament:

Match officials

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Squads

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Main article: Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

Final tournament

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First round

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Group A

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  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[a] 0 — — — — — — 0
Source: FIFA
Notes:
  1. ^ Withdrew
Brazil  0–0  East Germany
Report
Varsity Stadium, Toronto

Attendance: 21,643

Referee: John Paterson (Great Britain)

Brazil  2–1  Spain
Rosemiro   7'
Chico Fraga   47' (pen.)		 Report Idígoras   14'
Olympic Stadium, Montreal

Attendance: 38,123

Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria)

East Germany  1–0  Spain
Dörner   46' Report
Olympic Stadium, Montreal

Attendance: 36,198

Referee: Werner Winsemann (Canada)

Group B

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  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
Source: FIFA
Israel  0–0  Guatemala
Report
Varsity Stadium, Toronto

Attendance: 9,500

Referee: Vladimir Rudnev (Soviet Union)

France  4–1  Mexico
Schaer   14'
Baronchelli   33'
Rubio   78'
Amisse   90'		 Report Sánchez   81'
Lansdowne Park, Ottawa

Attendance: 14,286

Referee: Ángel Coerezza (Argentina)

France  4–1  Guatemala
Platini   7', 86'
Amisse   41'
Schaer   82'		 Report Fion   58'
Municipal Stadium, Sherbrooke

Attendance: 3,163

Referee: Jafar Namdar (Iran)

Mexico  2–2  Israel
Rangel   19', 44' Report Oz   51'
Shum   55' (pen.)
Olympic Stadium, Montreal

Attendance: 36,569

Referee: Alberto Michelotti (Italy)

Mexico  1–1  Guatemala
Rangel   36' Report Rergis   18' (o.g.)
Municipal Stadium, Sherbrooke

Attendance: 4,118

Referee: Marian Kuston (Poland)

France  1–1  Israel
Platini   80' (pen.) Report Peretz   75'
Olympic Stadium, Montreal

Attendance: 33,639

Referee: Ramón Barreto (Uruguay)

Group C

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  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[a] 0 — — — — — — 0
Source: FIFA
Notes:
  1. ^ Withdrew
Poland  0–0  Cuba
Report
Olympic Stadium, Montreal

Attendance: 29,417

Referee: Abraham Klein (Israel)

Iran  1–0  Cuba
Mazloumi   28' Report
Lansdowne Park, Ottawa

Attendance: 11,324

Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany)

Poland  3–2  Iran
Szarmach   48', 75'
Deyna   51'		 Report Parvin   6'
Rowshan   79'
Olympic Stadium, Montreal

Attendance: 32,309

Referee: Arnaldo Cézar Coelho (Brazil)

Group D

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  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[a] 0 — — — — — — 0
Source: FIFA
(H) Hosts
Notes:
  1. ^ Withdrew
Canada  1–2  Soviet Union
Douglas   88' Report Onyshchenko   8', 11'
Olympic Stadium, Montreal

Attendance: 34,320

Referee: Robert Héliès (France)

North Korea  3–1  Canada
An Se-uk   18'
Hong Song-nam   66', 80'		 Report Douglas   51'
Varsity Stadium, Toronto

Attendance: 12,638

Referee: Marco Antonio Dorantes (Mexico)

Soviet Union  3–0[a]  North Korea
Kolotov   16' (pen.)
Veremeyev   81'
Blokhin   89'		 Report
Lansdowne Park, Ottawa

Attendance: 15,233

Referee: Emilio Guruceta-Muro (Spain)

  1. ^ North Korean player An Gil-wan was suspended for a year for attacking the referee three times during the game.[2] The International Olympic Committee issued a warning to the entire North Korean team threatening to impose a blanket ban on the delegation.

Bracket

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Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal

 

          

 

25 July – Ottawa

 

 

  East Germany4

 

27 July – Montreal

 

  France0

 

  East Germany2

 

25 July – Sherbrooke

 

  Soviet Union1

 

  Soviet Union2

 

31 July – Montreal

 

  Iran1

 

  East Germany3

 

25 July – Toronto

 

  Poland1

 

  Brazil4

 

27 July – Toronto

 

  Israel1

 

  Brazil0

 

25 July – Montreal

 

  Poland2 Bronze medal match

 

  Poland5

 

29 July – Montreal

 

  North Korea0

 

  Soviet Union2

 

 

  Brazil0

 

Quarter-finals

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East Germany  4–0  France
Löwe   27'
Dörner   60' (pen.), 68' (pen.)
Riediger   77'		 Report
Lansdowne Park, Ottawa

Attendance: 20,083

Referee: Alberto Michelotti (Italy)

Soviet Union  2–1  Iran
Minayev   40'
Zvyahintsev   67'		 Report Ghelichkhani   82' (pen.)
Municipal Stadium, Sherbrooke

Attendance: 5,855

Referee: Guillermo Velasquez (Colombia)

Brazil  4–1  Israel
Jarbas   56', 74'
Erivélto   72'
Júnior   88'		 Report Peretz   80'
Varsity Stadium, Toronto

Attendance: 18,601

Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)

Poland  5–0  North Korea
Szarmach   13', 49'
Lato   59', 79'
Szymanowski   64'		 Report
Olympic Stadium, Montreal

Attendance: 46,885

Referee: Paul Schiller Austria)

Semi-finals

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Soviet Union  1–2  East Germany
Kolotov   84' (pen.) Report Dörner   59' (pen.)
Kurbjuweit   66'
Olympic Stadium, Montreal

Attendance: 57,182

Referee: Marco Antonio Dorantes (Mexico)

Poland  2–0  Brazil
Szarmach   51', 82' Report
Varsity Stadium, Toronto

Attendance: 21,743

Referee: John Paterson (Great Britain)

Bronze Medal match

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Soviet Union  2–0  Brazil
Onyshchenko   5'
Nazarenko   49'		 Report
Olympic Stadium, Montreal

Attendance: 55,647

Referee: Abraham Klein (Israel)

Gold Medal match

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1976 Summer Olympics Football Final
21:30
East Germany  3–1  Poland
Schade   7'
Hoffmann   14'
Häfner   84'		 Report Lato   59'
Olympic Stadium, Montreal

Attendance: 71,617

Referee: Ramón Barreto (Uruguay)

Medal winners

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Goalscorers

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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
  •   Jimmy Douglas
  •   Jean-Marc Schaer
  •   Loïc Amisse
  •   Vicky Peretz
  •   Hong Song-Nam
  •   Viktor Kolotov
    • 1 goal
  •   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

    Final ranking

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    Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
    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
    Source: rsssf.com

    References

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    1. ^ "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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