- Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Final results for the Football competition at the
1976 Summer Olympics held inMontreal ,Toronto ,Ottawa , and Sherbrooke. Groups A, C and D had only three teams instead of four, as Nigeria, Ghana and Zambia national teams adhered to African-led boycott of the Games against the participation of apartheidSouth Africa (which was announced only a day before the opening ceremony).Venues
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Stade Olympique (Montreal )
*Varsity Stadium (Toronto )
*Lansdowne Park (Ottawa )
*Municipal Stadium (Sherbrooke)Qualification
The following thirteen teams qualified for the 1976 Olympics football tournament:
*Asia (AFC)
**fb|IRN|1964
**fb|ISR
**fb|PRK
*North and Central America (CONCACAF )
**fb|CUB
**fb|GUA
**fb|MEX
*South America (CONMEBOL )
**fb|BRA
*Europe (UEFA )
**fb|GDR
**fb|FRA
**fb|POL (automatically qualified as 1972 Olympic Champions)
**fb|ESP
**fb|URS
*Hosting nation
**fb|CANMatch Officials
;Asia
*Abraham Klein
*Jafar Namdar
;North and Central America
*Werner Winsemann
*Marco Antonio Dorantes
;South America
*Angel Coerezza
*Arnaldo Cézar Coelho
*Guillermo Velasquez
*Ramon Barreto ;Europe
*Paul Schiller
*Robert Helies
*Alberto Michelotti
*Adolf Prokop
*Károly Palotai
*Marian Kuston
* John Paterson
*Emilio Guruceta-Muro
*Vladimir Rudnev quads
*Main|Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics - Men's team squads
Results
First round
Group A
* **Ghana withdrew
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date =July 18 ,1976
12:00
team1 = fb-rt|POL
score= 0–0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197121/matches/match=32164/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|CUB
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =Lansdowne Park ,Ottawa
Attendance: 29.417
Referee:Abraham Klein flagicon|ISR----footballbox
date =July 20 ,1976
12:00
team1 = fb-rt|IRN|1964
score= 1–0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197121/matches/match=32169/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|CUB
goals1 = Mazloumi goal|28
goals2 =
stadium =Lansdowne Park ,Ottawa
Attendance: 11.324
Referee:Adolf Prokop flagicon|GDR----footballbox
date =July 22 ,1976
12:00
team1 = fb-rt|POL
score= 3–2
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197121/matches/match=32174/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|IRN|1964
goals1 = Szarmach goal|48 goal|75
Deyna goal|51
goals2 = Parvin goal|6
Roshan goal|79
stadium = Olympic Stadium,Montreal
Attendance: 32.309
Referee:Arnaldo Cézar Coelho flagicon|BRAGroup D
* **Zambia withdrew
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date =July 19 ,1976
12:00
team1 = fb-rt|CAN
score= 1–2
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197121/matches/match=32166/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|USSR
goals1 = Douglas goal|88
goals2 = Onischenko goal|8 goal|11
stadium = Olympic Stadium,Montreal
Attendance: 34.320
Referee:Robert Helies flagicon|FRA----footballbox
date =July 21 ,1976
12:00
team1 = fb-rt|PRK
score= 3–1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197121/matches/match=32170/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|CAN
goals1 =An Se-Uk goal|18
Hong Song-Nam goal|66 goal|80
goals2 = Douglas goal|51
stadium =Varsity Stadium ,Toronto
Attendance: 12.638
Referee:Marco Antonio Dorantes flagicon|MEX----footballbox
date =July 23 ,1976
12:00
team1 = fb-rt|USSR
score= 3–0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197121/matches/match=32176/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|PRK
goals1 = Kolotov goal|16|p.k.
Veremeev goal|81
Blokhin goal|89
goals2 =
stadium =Lansdowne Park ,Ottawa
Attendance: 15.233
Referee:Emilio Guruceta-Muro flagicon|ESP|1939Bracket
Round8-with third
July 25 -Ottawa |fb|GDR|4|fb|FRA|0July 25 -Sherbrooke |fb|URS|2|fb|IRN|1964|1July 25 -Toronto |fb|BRA|4|fb|ISR|1July 25 -Montreal |fb|POL|5|fb|PRK|0July 27 -Montreal |fb|GDR|2|fb|URS|1July 27 -Toronto |fb|POL|2|fb|BRA|0July 31 -Montreal |fb|GDR|3|fb|POL|1July 29 -Montreal |fb|URS|2|fb|BRA|0Quarter finals
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date =July 25 ,1976
12:00
team1 = fb-rt|GDR
score= 4–0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197121/matches/match=32180/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|FRA
goals1 = Löwe goal|27
Dörner goal|60|p.k. goal|68|p.k.
Riediger goal|77
goals2 =
stadium =Lansdowne Park ,Ottawa
Attendance: 20.083
Referee:Alberto Michelotti flagicon|ITA----footballbox
date =July 25 ,1976
12:00
team1 = fb-rt|USSR
score= 2–1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197121/matches/match=32181/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|IRN|1964
goals1 = Minayev goal|40
Zvyagintsev goal|67
goals2 = Ghelichkhani goal|82|p.k.
stadium = Municipal Stadium,Sherbrooke
Attendance: 5.855
Referee:Guillermo Velasquez flagicon|COL----footballbox
date =July 25 ,1976
12:00
team1 = fb-rt|BRA
score= 4–1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197121/matches/match=32178/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|ISR
goals1 =Jarbas goal|56 goal|74
Erivelto goal|72
Júnior goal|88
goals2 = Peretz goal|80
stadium =Varsity Stadium ,Toronto
Attendance: 18.601
Referee:Károly Palotai flagicon|HUN|1957----footballbox
date =July 25 ,1976
12:00
team1 = fb-rt|POL
score= 5–0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197121/matches/match=32179/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|PRK
goals1 = Szarmach goal|13 goal|49
Lato goal|59 goal|79
Szymanowski goal|64
goals2 =
stadium = Olympic Stadium,Montreal
Attendance: 46.885
Referee:Paul Schiller flagicon|AUTemi finals
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date =July 27 ,1976
12:00
team1 = fb-rt|USSR
score= 1–2
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197121/matches/match=32183/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|GDR
goals1 = Kolotov goal|84|p.k.
goals2 = Dörner goal|59|p.k.
Kurbjuweit goal|66
stadium = Olympic Stadium,Montreal
Attendance: 57.182
Referee:Marco Antonio Dorantes flagicon|MEX----footballbox
date =July 27 ,1976
12:00
team1 = fb-rt|POL
score= 2–0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197121/matches/match=32182/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|BRA
goals1 = Szarmach goal|51 goal|82
goals2 =
stadium =Varsity Stadium ,Toronto
Attendance: 21.743
Referee: John Paterson flagicon|SCOBronze Medal Match
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date =July 29 ,1976
team1 = fb-rt|URS
score = 2–0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197121/matches/match=32184/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|BRA
goals1 = Onishcenko goal|5
Nazarenko goal|49
goals2 =
stadium = Olympic Stadium,Montreal
Referee:Abraham Klein (ISR)
Attendance: 55.647Final
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date =July 31 ,1976
team1 = fb-rt|GDR
score = 3–1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197121/matches/match=32185/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|POL
goals1 = Schade goal|7
Hoffmann goal|14
Häfner goal|84
goals2 = Lato goal|59
stadium = Olympic Stadium,Montreal
Referee:Ramon Barreto (URU)
Attendance: 71.617Medal Winners
;fb|GDR – Gold
Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin Wilfried Gröbner Jürgen Croy Gerd Weber Hans-Jürgen Dörner Konrad Weise Lothar Kurbjuweit Reinhard Lauck
Gert HeidlerReinhard Häfner Hans-Jürgen Riediger Bernd Bransch
Martin HoffmannGerd Kische Wolfram Löwe Hartmut Schade Dieter Riedel
Coach:Georg Buschner ;fb|POL – SilverJan Tomaszewski Piotr Mowlik Antoni Szymanowski Jerzy Gorgoń Wojciech Rudy Władysław Żmuda Zygmunt Maszczyk Grzegorz Lato Henryk Wawrowski Henryk Kasperczak Roman Ogaza Kazimierz Kmiecik Kazimierz Deyna Andrzej Szarmach Henryk Wieczorek Leslaw Cmikiewicz Jan Benigier
Coach:Kazimierz Górski ;fb|URS – BronzeVladimir Astapovsky Anatoli Konkov Viktor Matvienko Mikhail Fomenko Stefan Reshko Vladimir Troshkin David Kipiani Vladimir Onishchenko Viktor Kolotov Vladimir Veremeev Oleg Blokhin Leonid Buryak
Vladimir FyodorovAleksandr Minayev Viktor Zvyagintsev Leonid Nazarenko
Aleksandr Prokhorov
Coach:References
* [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197121/results/index.html FIFA match reports]
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