| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | Soviet Union |
| Dates | 20 July – 2 August 1980 |
| Teams | 16 (from 5 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 5 (in 4 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Czechoslovakia (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  East Germany |
| Third place |  Soviet Union |
| Fourth place |  Yugoslavia |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 32 |
| Goals scored | 82 (2.56 per match) |
| Attendance | 1,821,624 (56,926 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Sergey Andreyev (5 goals) |
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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 December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.[1]
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,".[2]
The tournament was primarily hosted by Moscow and Leningrad in the Russian SFSR, with some group stage games in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR and Minsk, Byelorussian SSR.
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| Central Lenin Stadium | Dynamo Stadium | ||||
| Capacity: 91,251 | Capacity: 50,475 | ||||
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| Minsk | Leningrad | Kiev | |||
| Dinamo Stadium | Kirov Stadium | Republican Stadium | |||
| Capacity: 50,125 | Capacity: 74,000 | Capacity: 100,169 | |||
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The football tournament was the most attended event on these Olympics: 1,821,624 spectators watched 32 matches of it at the stadiums.
Due to the American-led boycott, countries (in brackets) 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:
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| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Soviet Union
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | +14 | 6 |
 Cuba
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 4 |
 Venezuela
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 |
 Zambia
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 |
| Cuba | 1–0 | Zambia |
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Roldán  58' |
Report |
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Marijan Raus (Yugoslavia)
| Soviet Union | 4–0 | Venezuela |
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| Andreyev 3' Cherenkov 25' Gavrilov 34' Hovhannisyan 51' |
Report |
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Franz Woehrer (Austria)
| Cuba | 2–1 | Venezuela |
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| Hernández 49' Núñez 71' |
Report | Zubizarreta 68' |
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Emilio Guruceta-Muro (Spain)
| Soviet Union | 3–1 | Zambia |
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| Khidiyatullin 9', 51' Cherenkov 87' |
Report | Chitalu 13' |
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Marwan Arafat (Syria)
| Soviet Union | 8–0 | Cuba |
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| Andreyev 8', 27', 44' Romantsev 20' Shavlo 43' Cherenkov 55' Gavrilov 75' Bessonov 77' |
Report |
Attendance: 52,000
Referee: Bob Valentine (Great Britain)
| Venezuela | 2–1 | Zambia |
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| Zubizarreta 86' Elie 90' (pen.) |
Report | Chitalu 73' |
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Luis Paulino Siles (Costa Rica)
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Czechoslovakia
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 4 |
 Kuwait
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 |
 Colombia
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 3 |
 Nigeria
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 |
| Czechoslovakia | 3–0 | Colombia |
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| Pokluda 14' Berger 18' Vízek 85' |
Report |
Referee: Belaid Lacarne (Argelia)
| Kuwait | 3–1 | Nigeria |
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| Al-Dakhil 16', 40', 85' (pen.) |
Report | Mubarak 25' (o.g.) |
Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)
| Colombia | 1–1 | Kuwait |
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| Molinares 73' |
Report | Yaqoub 64' |
Referee: Anders Mattson (Finland)
| Czechoslovakia | 1–1 | Nigeria |
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| Vízek 25' |
Report | Nwosu 84' |
Referee: Enrique Labo Revoredo (Peru)
| Colombia | 1–0 | Nigeria |
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| Cardona 55' |
Report |
Referee: Salim Naji Al-Hachami (Iraq)
| Czechoslovakia | 0–0 | Kuwait |
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| Report |
Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi (Italy)
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| East Germany
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 5 |
 Algeria
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 3 |
 Spain
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
 Syria
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 1 |
| East Germany | 1–1 | Spain |
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| Kühn 49' |
Report | Marcos 50' |
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)
| Algeria | 3–0 | Syria |
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| Belloumi 36' Madjer 48' Merzekane 73' (pen.) |
Report |
Referee: Vojtech Christov (Czechoslovakia)
| East Germany | 1–0 | Algeria |
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| Terletzki 61' |
Report |
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil)
| Spain | 0–0 | Syria |
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| Report |
Referee: José Castro Lozada (Venezuela)
| Spain | 1–1 | Algeria |
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| Rincón 38' |
Report | Belloumi 63' |
Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)
| East Germany | 5–0 | Syria |
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| Hause 6' Netz 25', 45' Peter 75' Terletzki 82' |
Report |
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Yugoslavia
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 5 |
 Iraq
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 4 |
 Finland
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
 Costa Rica
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 0 |
| Yugoslavia | 2–0 | Finland |
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| Šećerbegović 56' Šestić 58' |
Report |
Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez (Mexico)
| Iraq | 3–0 | Costa Rica |
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| Ahmed 45' Saeed 49' Hassan 75' |
Report |
Referee: Nyirenda Chayu (Zambia)
| Yugoslavia | 3–2 | Costa Rica |
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| Zlatko Vujović 6', 54' Primorac 24' |
Report | White 35' Arroyo 90' |
Referee: Bassey Eyo-Honesty (Nigeria)
| Finland | 0–0 | Iraq |
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| Report |
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Ramón Calderón Castro (Cuba)
| Finland | 3–0 | Costa Rica |
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| Tissari 18' Alila 58' Soini 88' |
Report |
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Ali Albannai Abdulwahab (Kuwait)
| Yugoslavia | 1–1 | Iraq |
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| Zoran Vujović 63' |
Report | Hassan 61' |
Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||
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| 27 July – Moscow | |||||||||
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| Soviet Union | 2 | ||||||||
| 29 July – Moscow | |||||||||
| Kuwait | 1 | ||||||||
| Soviet Union | 0 | ||||||||
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| East Germany | 1 | ||||||||
| East Germany | 4 | ||||||||
| 2 August – Moscow | |||||||||
| Iraq | 0 | ||||||||
| East Germany | 0 | ||||||||
| 27 July – Leningrad | |||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 1 | ||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 3 | ||||||||
| 29 July – Moscow | |||||||||
| Cuba | 0 | ||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 2 | ||||||||
| 27 July – Minsk | |||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 0 | Bronze medal match | |||||||
| Yugoslavia | 3 | ||||||||
| 1 August – Moscow | |||||||||
| Algeria | 0 | ||||||||
| Soviet Union | 2 | ||||||||
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| Yugoslavia | 0 | ||||||||
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| Yugoslavia | 3–0 | Algeria |
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| Miročević 5' Šestić 19' Zoran Vujović 70' |
Report |
Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)
| Soviet Union | 2–1 | Kuwait |
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| Cherenkov 30' Gavrilov 51' |
Report | Yaqoub 59' |
Attendance: 48,000
Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez (Mexico)
| Czechoslovakia | 3–0 | Cuba |
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| Vízek 29', 59' Pokluda 90' |
Report |
Referee: Enrique Labo Revoredo (Peru)
| East Germany | 4–0 | Iraq |
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| Schnuphase 4' (pen.) Netz 11' Steinbach 17' Terletzki 22' |
Report |
Attendance: 48,000
Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil)
| Soviet Union | 0–1 | East Germany |
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| Report | Netz 16' |
Attendance: 95,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)
| Czechoslovakia | 2–0 | Yugoslavia |
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| Lička 4' Šreiner 18' |
Report |
Attendance: 48,000
Referee: Franz Woehrer (Austria)
| Soviet Union | 2–0 | Yugoslavia |
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| Hovhannisyan 67' Andreyev 82' |
Report |
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Bob Valentine (Great Britain)
| Czechoslovakia | 1–0 | East Germany |
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| Svoboda 77' |
Report |
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)
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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.
With five goals, Sergey Andreyev of Soviet Union was the top scorer of the tournament. In total, 82 goals were scored by 52 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
Wolf-Rüdiger Netz Fyodor Cherenkov Faisal Al-Dakhil Yuri Gavrilov Lubomír Pokluda Falah Hassan Jasem Yaqoub Vagiz Khidiyatullin Khoren Hovhannisyan Iker Zubizarreta Miloš Šestić Zlatko Vujović Zoran Vujović Godfrey Chitalu Chaabane Merzekane Benjamin Cardona Carlos Molinares Omar Arroyo Jorge White Luis Hernández Ramón Núñez Andrés Roldán Jan Berger Werner Lička Zdeněk Šreiner Jindřich Svoboda Jouko Alila Jouko Soini Ari Tissari Lothar Hause Dieter Kühn Werner Peter Rüdiger Schnuphase Wolfgang Steinbach Hadi Ahmed Hussein Saeed Henry Nwosu
Marcos Alonso Peña Hipólito Rincón Oleg Romantsev Sergey Shavlo Volodymyr Bessonov Robert Elie Dževad Šećerbegović Boro Primorac Ante Miročević Mahboub Mubarak (playing against Nigeria)Below the final ranking after the end of the tournament.[3]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 |  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
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6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | 10 |
| 2 |  East Germany (GDR)
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 9 |
| 3 |  Soviet Union (URS)
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6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 3 | +16 | 10 |
| 4 |  Yugoslavia (YUG)
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6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 7 |
| 5 |  Kuwait (KUW)
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4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 |
| 6 |  Iraq (IRQ)
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4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 4 |
| 7 |  Cuba (CUB)
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 4 |
| 8 |  Algeria (ALG)
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4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 |
| 9 |  Finland (FIN)
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
| 10 |  Spain (ESP)
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 |  Colombia (COL)
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 3 |
| 12 |  Venezuela (VEN)
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 |
| 13 |  Nigeria (NGR)
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 |
| 14 |  Syria (SYR)
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 1 |
| 15 |  Zambia (ZAM)
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 |
| 16 |  Costa Rica (CRC)
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 0 |
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 Galt (Canada) (CAN) Great Britain (GBR) Great Britain (GBR) Belgium (BEL) Uruguay (URU) Uruguay (URU) Italy (ITA) Sweden (SWE) Hungary (HUN) Soviet Union (URS) Yugoslavia (YUG) Hungary (HUN) Hungary (HUN) Poland (POL) East Germany (GDR) Czechoslovakia (TCH) France (FRA) Soviet Union (URS) Spain (ESP) Nigeria (NGR) Cameroon (CMR) Argentina (ARG) Argentina (ARG) Mexico (MEX) Brazil (BRA) Brazil (BRA) |
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