Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Tournament details | |
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Host country | South Korea |
Dates | September 17-October 1 |
Teams | 16 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 6 (in 5 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Soviet Union |
Runners-up | Brazil |
Third place | West Germany |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 95 (2.97 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Romário (7 goals) |
Football tournament was played as part of the 1988 Summer Olympics. The tournament features 16 men's national teams from six 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 Olympic Stadium on October 1, 1988.
Medal summary
Gold | Silver | Bronze |
Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Borodyuk Oleksiy Cherednyk Igor Dobrovolski Sergei Fokin Sergei Gorlukovich Arvydas Janonis Gela Ketashvili Dmitry Kharin Yevgeni Kuznetsov Viktor Losev Volodymyr Lyuty Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko Arminas Narbekovas Igor Ponomarev Yury Savichev Igor Sklyarov Volodymyr Tatarchuk Yevgeny Yarovenko Alexei Prudnikov Vadym Tyshchenko |
Brazil (BRA) Ademir Aloísio Andrade Batista Bebeto Careca André Cruz Edmar Geovani João Paulo Jorginho Milton Neto Romário Cláudio Taffarel Luiz Carlos Winck Ricardo Gomes Mazinho Valdo Filho Zé Carlos |
West Germany (FRG) Rudi Bommer Holger Fach Wolfgang Funkel Armin Görtz Roland Grahammer Thomas Häßler Thomas Hörster Olaf Janßen Uwe Kamps Gerhard Kleppinger Jürgen Klinsmann Frank Mill Karl-Heinz Riedle Christian Schreier Michael Schulz Ralf Sievers Fritz Walter Wolfram Wuttke Oliver Reck Gunnar Sauer |
Note: The players above the line played at least one game in this tournament, the players below the line were only squad members. Nevertheless the International Olympic Committee medal database credits them all as medalists.
Qualification
The following sixteen teams qualified for the 1988 Olympics football tournament:
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Participating nations
Each country was allowed to enter a team of 20 players and they all were eligible for participation. A total number of 314 footballers were entered.
A total of 268(*) footballers from 16 nations competed at the Seoul Games:
- Argentina (16 - from a squad of 19)
- Australia (16 - from a squad of 20)
- Brazil (16 - from a squad of 20)
- China (14 - from a squad of 18)
- Guatemala (17 - from a squad of 19)
- Iraq (16 - from a squad of 20)
- Italy (18 - from a squad of 20)
- South Korea (16 - from a squad of 20)
- Nigeria (17 - from a squad of 20)
- Sweden (17 - from a squad of 20)
- Tunisia (19 - from a squad of 20)
- United States (16 - from a squad of 20)
- Soviet Union (18 - from a squad of 20)
- West Germany (18 - from a squad of 20)
- Yugoslavia (16 - from a squad of 18)
- Zambia (18 - from a squad of 20)
(*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.
Final tournament
First round
Group A
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Sweden | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 5 |
West Germany | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 4 |
Tunisia | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 2 |
China PR | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 1 |
Group B
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Zambia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 5 |
Italy | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 4 |
Iraq | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 3 |
Guatemala | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 12 | −10 | 0 |
Group C
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Soviet Union | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 5 |
Argentina | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
South Korea | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 2 |
United States | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 2 |
Group D
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Brazil | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | +8 | 6 |
Australia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 4 |
Yugoslavia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
Nigeria | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | −7 | 0 |
Knockout stage
Quarter finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | ||||||||
September 25 - Daegu | ||||||||||
Sweden | 1 | |||||||||
September 27 - Busan | ||||||||||
Italy (aet) | 2 | |||||||||
Italy | 2 | |||||||||
September 25 - Busan | ||||||||||
Soviet Union (aet) | 3 | |||||||||
Soviet Union | 3 | |||||||||
October 1 - Seoul | ||||||||||
Australia | 0 | |||||||||
Soviet Union (aet) | 2 | |||||||||
September 25 - Gwangju | ||||||||||
Brazil | 1 | |||||||||
Zambia | 0 | |||||||||
September 27 - Seoul | ||||||||||
West Germany | 4 | |||||||||
West Germany | 1 (2) | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
September 25 - Seoul | ||||||||||
Brazil | 1 (3) | September 30 - Seoul | ||||||||
Brazil | 1 | |||||||||
Italy | 0 | |||||||||
Argentina | 0 | |||||||||
West Germany | 3 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
September 27, 1988 |
Soviet Union | 3–2 (aet) | Italy |
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Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan
Referee: Attendance: 10,000 |
September 27, 1988 |
Brazil | 1–1 (3-2p) | West Germany |
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Olympic Stadium, Seoul
Referee: Keith Hackett Attendance: 65,000 |
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
Final ranking
Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 6 | +8 | 11 |
2 | Brazil (BRA) | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 9 |
3 | West Germany (FRG) | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 4 | +12 | 9 |
4 | Italy (ITA) | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 13 | –2 | 6 |
5 | Zambia (ZAM) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 5 |
6 | Sweden (SWE) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 5 |
7 | Australia (AUS) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | –4 | 4 |
8 | Argentina (ARG) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | –1 | 3 |
9 | Iraq (IRQ) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 3 |
10 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
11 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | –1 | 2 |
12 | United States (USA) | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 2 |
13 | Tunisia (TUN) | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 2 |
14 | China (CHN) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | –5 | 1 |
15 | Nigeria (NGR) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | –7 | 0 |
16 | Guatemala (GUA) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 12 | –10 | 0 |
Venues
- Olympic Stadium – Seoul
- Dongdaemun Stadium – Seoul
- Busan Gudeok Stadium – Busan
- Daegu Civic Stadium – Daegu
- Daejeon Hanbat Stadium – Daejeon
- Gwangju Mudeung Stadium – Gwangju
Match officials
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Goalscorers
With seven goals, Romário of Brazil is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 95 goals were scored by 53 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
- 7 goals
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
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- 1 goal
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- Own goal
References
External links
- Olympic Football Tournament Seoul 1988, FIFA.com
- RSSSF Summary
- FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)
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