| Tourney Name: | 1980 Men's Olympic football tournament |
| Country: | Soviet Union |
| Dates: | 20 July – 2 August 1980 |
| Num Teams: | 16 |
| Confederations: | 5 |
| Venues: | 5 |
| Cities: | 4 |
| Count: | 1 |
| Matches: | 32 |
| Goals: | 82 |
| Attendance: | 1821624 |
| Nextseason: | 1984 |
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.
| Moscow | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Lenin Stadium | Dynamo Stadium | |||||
| Capacity: 91,251 | Capacity: 50,475 | |||||
| Minsk | Leningrad | Kiev | ||||
| Dinamo Stadium | Kirov Stadium | Republican Stadium | ||||
| Capacity: 50,125 | Capacity: 74,000 | Capacity: 100,169 | ||||
The football tournament was the most attended event on these Olympics: 1,821,624 spectators watched 32 matches of it at the stadiums.
See main article: Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification. Due to the American-led boycott, countries (in brackets) who qualified did not enter the finaltournament. Spain sent a team under the IOC flag. The following 16 teams qualified for the 1980 Olympics football tournament:
Bassey Eyo-Honesty
Salim Naji Al-Hachami
Marwan Arafat
Ramón Calderón Castro
Mario Rubio Vázquez
Romualdo Arppi Filho
Guillermo Velásquez
Enrique Labo Revoredo
José Castro Lozada
Franz Wöhrer
Anders Mattsson
Riccardo Lattanzi
Bob Valentine
Emilio Guruceta-Muro
Ulf ErikssonSee main article: Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads.
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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.
Falah Hassan Iker Zubizarreta Benjamin Cardona Carlos Molinares Luis Hernández Ramón Núñez Andrés Roldán Jouko Alila Jouko Soini Ari Tissari Hadi Ahmed Hussein Saeed Marcos Alonso Peña Hipólito Rincón Robert ElieBelow the final ranking after the end of the tournament.[3]