Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Final results for the football competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Contents 1 Medalists 2 Squads 3 First round 3.1 Group A 3.2 Group B 3.3 Group C 3.4 Group D 3.5 Bracket 3.6 Quarterfinals 3.7 Semifinals 3.8 Bronze Medal Match 3.9 Gold Medal Match 4 References

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hungary	Bulgaria	Japan
István Básti Antal Dunai Lajos Dunai Ernö Noskó Dezső Novák Károly Fatér László Fazekas István Juhász László Keglovich Lajos Kocsis Iván Menczel László Nagy Miklós Páncsics István Sárközi Lajos Szűcs Zoltan Szarka Miklos Szalai	Stoyan Yordanov Atanas Gerov Georgi Hristakiev Milko Gaydarski Kiril Ivkov Ivaylo Georgiev Tsvetan Dimitrov Evgeni Yanchovski Petar Zhekov Atanas Hristov Asparuh Donev Kiril Hristov 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

• Main article: Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics - Men's team squads

First round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
France	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	4
Mexico	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	4
Colombia	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	2
Guinea	3	1	0	2	4	9	−5	2

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1968-10-13 12:00	Mexico	1 – 0	Colombia	Azteca Stadium, Mexico City Referee: Istvan Zsolt
	Estrada  6'	Report

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1968-10-13 12:00	France	3 – 1	Guinea	Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla Referee: Milivoje Gugulovic
	Hallet  61' Horlaville  64' Perrigaud  70'	Report	Maxim  79'

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1968-10-15 12:00	Guinea	3 – 2	Colombia	Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla Referee: Dimitar Rumenchev
	Ndongo  26' Bouya  58'  84'	Report	Santa  49' Mosquera  66'

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1968-10-15 12:00	France	4 – 1	Mexico	Azteca Stadium, Mexico City Referee: Erwin Hieger
	Kanyan Case  20'  69' Teamboueon  30' Medina  36' (o.g.)	Report	Victorino  26'

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1968-10-17 12:00	Mexico	4 – 0	Guinea	Azteca Stadium, Mexico City Referee: Suvaree Wanchai
	Pereda  70'  85' Pulido Rodríguez  86'  88'	Report

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1968-10-17 12:00	Colombia	2 – 1	France	Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla Referee: Karol Galba
	Tamayo Hoyos  14' Jaramillo  35'	Report	Teamboueon  59'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4	5
Japan	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	4
Brazil	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2
Nigeria	3	0	1	2	4	9	−5	1

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1968-10-14 12:00	Spain	1 – 0	Brazil	Azteca Stadium, Mexico City Referee: Abraham Klein
	Fernández  77'	Report

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1968-10-14 12:00	Japan	3 – 1	Nigeria	Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla Referee: Ramon Sagastume Marmol
	Kamamoto  24'  72'  89'	Report	Okoye  33'

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1968-10-16 12:00	Spain	3 – 0	Nigeria	Azteca Stadium, Mexico City Referee: Augusto Robles [1]
	Ortuño  27' Grande  52'  69'	Report

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1968-10-16 12:00	Brazil	1 – 1	Japan	Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla Referee: George Lamptey
	Ferreti  9'	Report	Watanabe  83'

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1968-10-18 12:00	Brazil	3 – 3	Nigeria	Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla Referee: Seyoum Tarekegn
	Ferreti  50' Olumodeji  59' (o.g.) Tião  65'	Report	Olayombo  10'  41' Anieke  19'

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1968-10-18 12:00	Spain	0 – 0	Japan	Azteca Stadium, Mexico City Referee: Erwin Hieger
		Report

Group C

Ghana replaced Morocco, who refused to play Israel.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Hungary	3	2	1	0	8	2	+6	5
Israel	3	2	0	1	8	6	+2	4
Ghana	3	0	2	1	6	8	−2	2
El Salvador	3	0	1	2	2	8	−6	1

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1968-10-13 12:00	Israel	5 – 3	Ghana	Estadio Nou Camp, León Referee: Michel Kitabdjian
	Spiegel  11'  75' Feigenbaum  16'  30'  70'	Report	Jabir  18'  79' Amosa  35'

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1968-10-13 12:00	Hungary	4 – 0	El Salvador	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Referee: Diego De Leo
	Menczel  19' A. Dunai  47' Fazekas  51' Sárközi  68'	Report

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1968-10-15 12:00	Hungary	2 – 2	Ghana	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Referee: Yoshiyuki Maruyama
	A. Dunai  15' Menczel  17'	Report	Sunday  12' Sampene  33'

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1968-10-15 12:00	Israel	3 – 1	El Salvador	Estadio Nou Camp, León Referee: Thompson Shakibudeen Badru
	Talbi  20' Spiegler  44' Bar  85'	Report	Martínez  35'

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1968-10-17 12:00	El Salvador	1 – 1	Ghana	Estadio Nou Camp, León Referee: Mariano Medina Iglesias
	Rodríguez  42'	Report	Kofi  55'

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1968-10-17 12:00	Hungary	2 – 0	Israel	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Referee: Arturo Yamasaki
	A. Dunai  40'  75'	Report

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Bulgaria	3	2	1	0	11	3	+8	5
Guatemala	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	4
Czechoslovakia	3	1	1	1	10	3	+7	3
Thailand	3	0	0	3	1	19	−18	0

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1968-10-14 12:00	Guatemala	1 – 0	Czechoslovakia	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho
	Stokes  28'	Report

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1968-10-14 12:00	Bulgaria	7 – 0	Thailand	Estadio Nou Camp, León Referee: Guillermo Velasquez
	Gyonin  25' Zhekov  55' Hristov  56'  61' Zafirov  73' Donev  85' Ivkov  88'	Report

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1968-10-16 12:00	Bulgaria	2 – 2	Czechoslovakia	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Referee: Abel Aguilar Elizalde
	Georgiev  44' Zhekov  77'	Report	Jarabinský  25' Petráš  42'

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1968-10-16 12:00	Guatemala	4 – 1	Thailand	Estadio Nou Camp, León Referee: Jean-Louis Faber
	N. Melgar  23'  85' Roldán  55' López Oliva  67'	Report	Udomsilp Sornbutnark  44'

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1968-10-18 12:00	Bulgaria	2 – 1	Guatemala	Estadio Nou Camp, León Referee: Raul Osorio
	Donev  50' Zhekov  84'	Report	López Oliva  88'

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1968-10-18 12:00	Czechoslovakia	8 – 0	Thailand	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Referee: Felipe Buergo Elcuaz
	Herbst  12' Petráš  17'  18'  67' Stratil  28'  34' Vecerek  38' Krnac  83'	Report

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	October 20 - Guadalajara
	Hungary	1
					October 22 - Mexico City
	Guatemala	0
					Hungary	5
	October 20 - Mexico City
					Japan	0
	Japan	3
									October 26 - Mexico City
	France	1
									Hungary	4
	October 20 - Leon
									Bulgaria	1
	Bulgaria	1
					October 22 - Guadalajara
	Israel	1
					Bulgaria	3			Third place
	October 20 - Puebla
					Mexico	2
	Mexico	2							Japan	2
	Spain	0							Mexico	0
									October 24 - Mexico City

Quarterfinals

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1968-10-20 12:00	Mexico	2 – 0	Spain	Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla Referee: Milivoje Gugulović
	Morales  34' Pereda  48'	Report

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1968-10-20 12:00	Hungary	1 – 0	Guatemala	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Referee: Arturo Yamasaki
	Szűcs  69'	Report

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1968-10-20 12:00	Japan	3 – 1	France	Azteca Stadium, Mexico City Referee: Seyoum Tarekegn
	Kamamoto  27'  59' Watanabe  70'	Report	Teamboueon  32'

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1968-10-20 12:00	Bulgaria	1 – 1	Israel	Estadio Nou Camp, León Referee: Michel Kitabdjian
	Hristakiev  5'	Report	Feigenbaum  89'

Bulgaria progressed after a drawing of lots.

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Semifinals

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1968-10-22 12:00	Mexico	2 – 3	Bulgaria	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Referee: Seyoum Tarekegn
	Morales  39' Pulido Rodríguez  48'	Report	Jekov  8' Hristov  9' T. Dimitrov  58'

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1968-10-22 12:00	Hungary	5 – 0	Japan	Azteca Stadium, Mexico City Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho
	Szűcs  30'  60'  75' Novák  53'  65'	Report

Bronze Medal Match

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1968-10-24 12:00	Japan	2 – 0	Mexico	Azteca Stadium, Mexico City Attendance: 105,000 Referee: Abraham Klein
	Kamamoto  20'  40'	Report

Gold Medal Match

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1968-10-26 12:00	Hungary	4 – 1	Bulgaria	Azteca Stadium, Mexico City Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Diego De Leo
	Menczel  40' A. Dunai  41'  49' Juhász  62'	Report	Dimitrov  22'

References

• Official Olympic Report

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