Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Tournament details
Host country	Japan
Dates	October 11-October 23
Teams	14 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	8 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Hungary
Runners-up	Czechoslovakia
Third place	East Germany
Tournament statistics
Matches played	29
Goals scored	123 (4.24 per match)

The football competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics started on October 11 and ended on October 23. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested.. The tournament features 14 men's national teams from six continental confederations. The 14 teams are drawn into two groups of four and two groups of three 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 Olympic Stadium on October 23, 1964. There was also three consolation matches played by losing quarter-finalists. The winner of these matches placed fifth in the tournament.

Qualification

Regional qualifying tournaments were held. A riot in Lima during the decisive Peru–Argentina match resulted in 328 deaths.^[1]

Tournament

16 teams qualified and were divided into 4 groups:

• Group A (Unified Team of Germany (which was de facto East Germany), Romania, Mexico, Iran)
• Group B (Hungary, Yugoslavia, Morocco, Korea D.P.R.)
• Group C (Czechoslovakia, United Arab Republic (Egypt), Brazil, Korea Rep.)
• Group D (Japan, Ghana, Argentina, Italy)

Two best teams of each group competed in the quarter-finals.

Italy and Korea D.P.R. withdrew: Italy because their team was not amateur, and North Korea because some Koreans were prevented from playing.

The football tournament was held in six venues:

• Olympic Stadium, Tokyo (Shinjuku, Tokyo)
• Chichibunomiya rugby stadium (Minato, Tokyo)
• Komazawa Stadium (Setagaya, Tokyo)
• Mitsuzawa Soccer Stadium (Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama)
• Omiya Park Soccer Stadium (Ōmiya, Saitama)
• Nishigaoka National Stadium (Kita, Tokyo)

Unofficial Consolation Round was held in two venues:

• Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium (Ukyo-ku, Kyoto)
• Nagai Stadium (Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka)

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hungary	Czechoslovakia	Germany*
Ferenc Bene Tibor Csernai János Farkas József Gelei Kálmán Ihász Sándor Katona Imre Komora Ferenc Nógrádi Dezső Novák Árpád Orbán Károly Palotai Antal Szentmihályi Gusztáv Szepesi Zoltán Varga	Jan Brumovský Ludovít Cvetler Ján Geleta František Knebort Karel Knesl Karel Lichtnégl Vojtech Masný Štefan Matlák Ivan Mráz Karel Nepomucký Zdeněk Pičman František Schmucker Anton Švajlen Anton Urban František Valošek Josef Vojta Vladimír Weiss	Gerd Backhaus Wolfgang Barthels Bernd Bauchspieß Gerhard Körner Otto Fräßdorf Henning Frenzel Dieter Engelhardt Herbert Pankau Manfred Geisler Jürgen Heinsch Klaus Lisiewicz Jürgen Nöldner Peter Rock Klaus-Dieter Seehaus Hermann Stöcker Werner Unger Klaus Urbanczyk Eberhard Vogel Manfred Walter Horst Weigang

Note: Only players from the East Germany represented the joint Olympic team of East and West Germany.

Squads

• Main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's team squads

First round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Germany	3	2	1	0	7	1	+6	5
Romania	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	5
Mexico	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
Iran	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

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Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Hungary	2	2	0	0	12	5	+7	4
Yugoslavia	2	1	0	1	8	7	+1	2
Morocco	2	0	0	2	1	9	−8	0
North Korea	Withdrew

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Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Czechoslovakia	3	3	0	0	12	2	+10	6
United Arab Republic	3	1	1	1	12	6	+6	3
Brazil	3	1	1	1	5	2	+3	3
South Korea	3	0	0	3	1	20	−19	0

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Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ghana	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1	3
Japan	2	1	0	1	5	5	0	2
Argentina	2	0	1	1	3	4	−1	1
Italy	Withdrew

Italian team withdrew.

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze Medal match

Gold Medal match

First Consolation Round

Played by losing quarter-finalists.

Consolation Final (5th place match)

Brackets

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Finals
	United Arab Republic	5
	Ghana	1
					United Arab Republic	0
					Hungary	6
	Hungary	2
	Romania	0
									Hungary	2
									Czechoslovakia	1
	Czechoslovakia	4
	Japan	0
					Czechoslovakia	2			Third place
					Germany	1
	Germany	1							Germany	3
	Yugoslavia	0							United Arab Republic	1

Goalscorers

With 12 goals, Ferenc Bene of Hungary is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 123 goals were scored by 56 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

12 goals

• Ferenc Bene

8 goals

• Ibrahim Riad

6 goals

• Tibor Csernai
• Cornel Pavlovici

5 goals

• Ivan Mráz
• Slaven Zambata

4 goals

• Josef Vojta
• Henning Frenzel
• Rudolf Belin
• Ivica Osim

3 goals

• Jan Brumovský
• Eberhard Vogel
• Hamoud Fulaiteh
• Rifaat El-Fanagily

2 goals

Juan Carlos Domínguez Elizeu Antônio Ferreira Vinagre Godoy Roberto Miranda Karel Lichtnégl

Vojtech Masný Jürgen Nöldner Imre Komora Ryuichi Sugiyama

Carol Creiniceanu Ion Pârcălab Badawi Abdel Fattah

1 goal

Carlos Alberto Bulla Zé Roberto Anton Urban František Valošek Ľudovít Cvetler Bernd Bauchspieß Hermann Stöcker Wolfgang Barthels Edward Acquah Gyau Agyemang

Sam Acquah Wilberforce Mfum János Farkas Karam Ali Nirlou Aritatsu Ogi Kunishige Kamamoto Saburo Kawabuchi Shigeo Yaegashi Javier Fragoso José Luis González Dávila

Ali Bouachra Ion Ionescu Gheorghe Constantin Lee Yi-Woo Aly Etman Kalil Shanin Mahmoud Hassan Raafat Attia Seddik Mohamed Spasoje Samardžić

Own goal

• Vladimír Weiss (playing against Hungary)

Final Ranking

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Hungary (HUN)	5	5	0	0	22	6	+16	10
2	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	6	5	0	1	19	5	+4	10
3	Germany (EUA)	6	4	1	1	12	4	+8	9
4	Egypt (EGY)	6	2	1	3	18	16	+2	5
5	Romania (ROU)	6	4	1	1	12	6	+6	9
6	Yugoslavia (YUG)	5	2	0	3	14	12	+2	4
7	Ghana (GHA)	4	1	1	2	7	12	−5	3
8	Japan (JPN)	4	1	0	3	6	15	−9	2
9	Brazil (BRA)	3	1	1	1	5	2	+3	3
10	Argentina (ARG)	2	0	1	1	3	4	−1	1
11	Mexico (MEX)	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
12	Iran (IRI)	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1
13	Morocco (MAR)	2	0	0	2	1	9	−8	0
14	South Korea (KOR)	3	0	0	3	1	20	−19	0

References

1. ↑ Edwards, Piers (2014-05-23). "Lima 1964: The world's worst stadium disaster". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-05-25. 

External links

• Olympic Football Tournament Tokyo 1964, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Summary
• Hungarian medalists - Tokyo 1964

Events at the 1964 Summer Olympics (Tokyo) Athletics Baseball (demonstration) Basketball Boxing Budo (demonstration) Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Gymnastics Judo Modern pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Volleyball Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling

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