Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Tournament details
Host countryMexico
Dates13–26 October 1968
Teams16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Hungary (3rd title)
Runners-up Bulgaria
Third place Japan
Fourth place Mexico
Tournament statistics
Matches played32
Goals scored116 (3.63 per match)
Top scorerJapan Kunishige Kamamoto (7 goals)
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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

  • Ghana replaced Morocco, who refused to play against Israel.

Venues

Mexico City Puebla Guadalajara León
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

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

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
Source: FIFA
(H) Hosts
Mexico 1–0 Colombia
  • Estrada 6'
 Report
Referee: István Zsolt (Hungary)
France 3–1 Guinea
  • Hallet 61'
  • Horlaville 64'
  • Périgaud 70'
 Report
  • Camara 79'
Referee: Milivoje Gugulovic (Yugoslavia)
France 4–1 Mexico
  • Case 20', 69'
  • Teamboueon 30'
  • Medina 36' (o.g.)
 Report
  • Victorino 26'
Referee: Erwin Hieger (Peru)
Guinea 3–2 Colombia
  • M. Camara 26'
  • F. Camara 58', 84'
 Report
  • Santa 49'
  • Mosquera 66'
Referee: Dimitar Rumenchev (Bulgaria)
Mexico 4–0 Guinea
  • Pereda 70', 85'
  • Pulido 86', 88'
 Report
Referee: Suvaree Wanchai (Thailand)
Colombia 2–1 France
  • Tamayo 14'
  • Jaramillo 35'
 Report
  • Teamboueon 59'
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
Spain 1–0 Brazil
  • Fernández 77'
 Report
Japan 3–1 Nigeria
 Report
  • Garba 33'
Referee: Ramón Mármol (El Salvador)
Spain 3–0 Nigeria
  • Ortuño 27'
  • Grande 52', 69'
 Report
Referee: Augusto Robles (Guatemala)
Brazil 1–1 Japan
  • Ferretti 9'
 Report
  • Watanabe 83'
Referee: George Lamptey (Ghana)
Spain 0–0 Japan
Report
Referee: Erwin Hieger (Austria)
Brazil 3–3 Nigeria
  • Ferretti 50'
  • Olumodeji 59' (o.g.)
  • Tião 65'
 Report
  • Olayombo 10', 41'
  • Anieke 19'
Referee: George Lamptey (Ghana)

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
 Report
Referee: Diego Di Leo (Mexico)
Israel 5–3 Ghana
 Report
  • Jabir 18', 79'
  • Gbadamosi 35'
Referee: Michel Kitabdjian (France)
Hungary 2–2 Ghana
 Report
Referee: Yoshiyuki Maruyama (Japan)
Israel 3–1 El Salvador
 Report
  • Martínez 35'
Referee: Shakibudeen Thompson (Nigeria)
Hungary 2–0 Israel
 Report
Referee: Arturo Yamasaki (Peru)
El Salvador 1–1 Ghana
 Report
  • Kofi 55'
Referee: Mariano Medina Iglesias (Spain)

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
  • Stokes 28'
 Report
Bulgaria 7–0 Thailand
  • Gyonin 25'
  • Zhekov 55'
  • Mihaylov 56', 61'
  • Zafirov 73'
  • Nikodimov 85'
  • Ivkov 88'
 Report
Referee: Guillermo Velásquez (Colombia)
Bulgaria 2–2 Czechoslovakia
 Report
  • Jarabinský 25'
  • Petráš 42'
Referee: Abel Aguilar Elizalde (Mexico)
Guatemala 4–1 Thailand
  • N. Melgar 23', 85'
  • Roldán 55'
  • López Oliva 67'
 Report
  • Udomsilp 44'
Referee: Jean-Louis Faber (Guinea)
Bulgaria 2–1 Guatemala
 Report
  • López Oliva 88'
Referee: Raúl Osorio (Mexico)
Czechoslovakia 8–0 Thailand
  • Herbst 12'
  • Petráš 17', 18', 67'
  • Stratil 28', 34'
  • Večerek 38'
  • Krnáč 83'
 Report
Referee: Felipe Buergo Elcuaz (Mexico)

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsGold medal match
 
          
 
20 October – Puebla
 
 
 Mexico2
 
22 October – Guadalajara
 
 Spain0
 
 Mexico2
 
20 October – Leon
 
 Bulgaria3
 
 Bulgaria1
 
26 October – Mexico City
 
 Israel1
 
 Bulgaria1
 
20 October – Guadalajara
 
 Hungary4
 
 Hungary1
 
22 October – Mexico City
 
 Guatemala0
 
 Hungary5
 
20 October – Mexico City
 
 Japan0 Bronze medal match
 
 Japan3
 
24 October – Mexico City
 
 France1
 
 Japan2
 
 
 Mexico0
 

Quarter-finals

Japan 3–1 France
 Report
  • Teamboueon 32'
Referee: Seyoum Tarekegn (Ethiopia)
Mexico 2–0 Spain
  • Morales 34'
  • Pereda 48'
 Report
Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)
Hungary 1–0 Guatemala
  • Szűcs 69'
 Report
Referee: Arturo Yamasaki (Peru)
Bulgaria 1–1 Israel
  • Hristakiev 5'
 Report
Referee: Michel Kitabdjian (France)


Semi-finals

Hungary 5–0 Japan
  • Szűcs 30', 60', 75'
  • Novák 53', 65'
 Report
Mexico 2–3 Bulgaria
  • Morales 39'
  • Pulido Rodríguez 48'
 Report
  • Zhekov 8'
  • Mihaylov 9'
  • Veselinov 58'
Referee: Seyoum Tarekegn (Ethiopia)


Bronze medal match

Japan 2–0 Mexico
 Report
Attendance: 105,000


Gold medal match

Bulgaria 1–4 Hungary
  • Veselinov 22'
 Report
Attendance: 75,000
Referee: Diego Di Leo (Mexico)


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
  • Bulgaria Atanas Mihaylov
  • France Charles Teamboueon
  • Hungary Iván Menczel
  • Mexico Pulido Rodríguez
  • Mexico Vicente Pereda
2 goals
  • Brazil Fernando Ferretti
  • Bulgaria Asparuh Nikodimov
  • Bulgaria Tsvetan Veselinov
  • Czechoslovakia Pavel Stratil
  • France Marc-Kanyan Case
  • Ghana Malik Jabir
  • Guatemala Alberto López Oliva
  • Guatemala Nelson Melgar
  • Guinea Fodé Bouya Camara
  • Hungary Dezső Novák
  • Israel Giora Spiegel
  • Japan Masashi Watanabe
  • Mexico Albino Morales
  • Nigeria Kenneth Olayombo
  • Spain Toni Grande
1 goal
  • Brazil Tião
  • Bulgaria Ivaylo Georgiev
  • Bulgaria Mihail Gyonin
  • Bulgaria Georgi Hristakiev
  • Bulgaria Kiril Ivkov
  • Bulgaria Ivan Zafirov
  • Colombia Alfonso Jaramillo
  • Colombia Fabio Mosquera
  • Colombia Gustavo Santa
  • Colombia Javier Tamayo
  • Czechoslovakia Miloš Herbst
  • Czechoslovakia Jozef Jarabinský
  • Czechoslovakia Mikuláš Krnáč
  • Czechoslovakia Jiří Večerek
  • El Salvador Juan Ramón Martínez
  • El Salvador Pipo Rodríguez
  • France Gérard Hallet
  • France Daniel Horlaville
  • France Daniel Perrigaud
  • Ghana Gbadamosi Amosa
  • Ghana Osei Kofi
  • Ghana Ibrahim Sunday
  • Ghana Sammy Stevens Sampene
  • Guatemala Jorge Roldán
  • Guatemala David Stokes
  • Guinea Maxime Camara
  • Guinea N'Dongo Camara
  • Hungary László Fazekas
  • Hungary István Juhász
  • Hungary István Sárközi
  • Israel Shraga Bar
  • Israel Mordechai Spiegler
  • Israel Rachamim Talbi
  • Mexico Luis Estrada
  • Mexico Cesáreo Victorino
  • Nigeria Peter Anieke
  • Nigeria Samuel Okoye
  • Spain Juan Fernández Vilela
  • Spain Fernando Ortuño
  • Thailand Udomsilp Sornbutnark
Own goals
  • Mexico Humberto Medina (playing against France)
  • Nigeria 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
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Hungary 6 5 1 0 18 3 +15 11 Gold medal
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Bulgaria 6 3 2 1 16 10 +6 8 Silver medal
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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

  1. ^ "Football at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  2. ^ 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 78. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
  3. ^ 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 75. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
  4. ^ a b 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 79. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
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