Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics explained

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Country:	Mexico
Dates:	13–26 October 1968
Num Teams:	16
Confederations:	5
Venues:	4
Cities:	4
Champion Other:	(3rd title)
Matches:	32
Goals:	116
Top Scorer:	Kunishige Kamamoto (7 goals)
Prevseason:	1964
Nextseason:	1972

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

Africa (3)

Asia (3)

Europe (5)

- - - (holders)

North America (3)

- - (hosts)

South America (2)

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

Squads

See main article: Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads.

Group stage

Group A

See main article: Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Group A.

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Group B

See main article: Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Group B.

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Group C

Ghana replaced Morocco, who refused to play against Israel.

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Group D

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Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

------------Bulgaria progressed after a drawing of lots.

Semi-finals

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Gold Medal match

Bulgaria finished the match with only eight players after having three players sent off.^[5]

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.