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Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Tournament details
Host country	Mexico
Dates	13–26 October 1968
Teams	16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Hungary (3rd title)
Runners-up	Bulgaria
Third place	Japan
Fourth place	Mexico
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	116 (3.63 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Kunishige Kamamoto (7 goals)
← 1964 1972 →

The 1968 Olympic football tournament was played as part of the 1968 Summer Olympics. The tournament features 16 men's national teams from five 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 the Azteca Stadium on 26 October 1968. This was the first time an Asian team won a medal, Japan claiming bronze.

Qualification

• Ghana replaced Morocco, who refused to play against Israel.

Venues

Mexico City	Puebla	Guadalajara	León
Estadio Azteca	Estadio Cuauhtémoc	Estadio Jalisco	Estadio León
Capacity: 104,000	Capacity: 35,563	Capacity: 31,891	Capacity: 23,609
Estadio AztecaEstadio CuauhtémocEstadio JaliscoEstadio León

Medalists

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

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	4	Advance to knockout stage
2	Mexico (H)	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	4
3	Colombia	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	2
4	Guinea	3	1	0	2	4	9	−5	2

Mexico	1–0	Colombia
Estrada 6'	Report

France	3–1	Guinea
Hallet 61' Horlaville 64' Perrigaud 70'	Report	Maxim 79'

Guinea	3–2	Colombia
Ndongo 26' Bouya 58', 84'	Report	Santa 49' Mosquera 66'

France	4–1	Mexico
Case 20', 69' Tamboueon 30' Medina 36' (o.g.)	Report	Victorino 26'

Mexico	4–0	Guinea
Pereda 70', 85' Pulido Rodríguez 86', 88'	Report

Colombia	2–1	France
Tamayo Hoyos 14' Jaramillo 35'	Report	Tamboueon 59'

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4	5	Advance to knockout stage
2	Japan	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	4
3	Brazil	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2
4	Nigeria	3	0	1	2	4	9	−5	1

Spain	1–0	Brazil
Fernández 77'	Report

Japan	3–1	Nigeria
Kamamoto 24', 72', 89'	Report	Okoye 33'

Spain	3–0	Nigeria
Ortuño 27' Grande 52', 69'	Report

Brazil	1–1	Japan
Ferretti 9'	Report	Watanabe 83'

Brazil	3–3	Nigeria
Ferretti 50' Olumodeji 59' (o.g.) Tião 65'	Report	Olayombo 10', 41' Anieke 19'

Spain	0–0	Japan
	Report

Group C

Ghana replaced Morocco, who refused to play against Israel.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	3	2	1	0	8	2	+6	5	Advance to knockout stage
2	Israel	3	2	0	1	8	6	+2	4
3	Ghana	3	0	2	1	6	8	−2	2
4	El Salvador	3	0	1	2	2	8	−6	1

Israel	5–3	Ghana
Spiegel 11', 75' Feigenbaum 16', 30', 70'	Report	Jabir 18', 79' Amosa 35'

Hungary	4–0	El Salvador
Menczel 19' A. Dunai 47' Fazekas 51' Sárközi 68'	Report

Hungary	2–2	Ghana
A. Dunai 15' Menczel 17'	Report	Sunday 12' Sampene 33'

Israel	3–1	El Salvador
Talbi 20' Spiegler 44' Bar 85'	Report	Martínez 35'

El Salvador	1–1	Ghana
Rodríguez 42'	Report	Kofi 55'

Hungary	2–0	Israel
A. Dunai 40', 75'	Report

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bulgaria	3	2	1	0	11	3	+8	5	Advance to knockout stage
2	Guatemala	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	4
3	Czechoslovakia	3	1	1	1	10	3	+7	3
4	Thailand	3	0	0	3	1	19	−18	0

Guatemala	1–0	Czechoslovakia
Stokes 28'	Report

Bulgaria	7–0	Thailand
Gyonin 25' Zhekov 55' Mihaylov 56', 61' Zafirov 73' Nikodimov 85' Ivkov 88'	Report

Bulgaria	2–2	Czechoslovakia
Georgiev 44' Zhekov 77'	Report	Jarabinský 25' Petráš 42'

Guatemala	4–1	Thailand
N. Melgar 23', 85' Roldán 55' López Oliva 67'	Report	Udomsilp 44'

Bulgaria	2–1	Guatemala
Nikodimov 50' Zhekov 84'	Report	López Oliva 88'

Czechoslovakia	8–0	Thailand
Herbst 12' Petráš 17', 18', 67' Stratil 28', 34' Večerek 38' Krnáč 83'	Report

Knockout stage

Bracket

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

Quarter-finals

Mexico	2–0	Spain
Morales 34' Pereda 48'	Report

Hungary	1–0	Guatemala
Szűcs 69'	Report

Japan	3–1	France
Kamamoto 27', 59' Watanabe 70'	Report	Tamboueon 32'

Bulgaria	1–1	Israel
Hristakiev 5'	Report	Feigenbaum 89'

Bulgaria progressed after a drawing of lots.

Semi-finals

Mexico	2–3	Bulgaria
Morales 39' Pulido Rodríguez 48'	Report	Zhekov 8' Mihaylov 9' Veselinov 58'

Hungary	5–0	Japan
Szűcs 30', 60', 75' Novák 53', 65'	Report

Bronze Medal match

Japan	2–0	Mexico
Kamamoto 20', 40'	Report

Gold Medal match

Bulgaria finished the match with only eight players after having three players sent off.

Hungary	4–1	Bulgaria
Menczel 40' A. Dunai 41', 49' Juhász 62'	Report 1	Veselinov 22'

Team details

Hungary GK 1 Károly Fatér DF 3 Lajos Dunai DF 4 Miklós Páncsics DF 2 Dezső Novák DF 5 Iván Menczel MF 10 Antal Dunai MF 7 László Fazekas MF 6 Lajos Szűcs FW 14 Erno Noskó FW 15 István Juhász FW 11 László Nagy Manager: Károly Lakat Bulgaria GK 1 Stoyan Yordanov DF 2 Atanas Gerov DF 3 Georgi Hristakiev DF 5 Kiril Ivkov DF 4 Milko Gaydarski MF 6 Ivaylo Georgiev MF 15 Yancho Dimitrov MF 8 Evgeni Yanchovski FW 7 Tsvetan Veselinov FW 9 Petar Zhekov FW 10 Atanas Mihaylov Substitutes: MF 12 Kiril Stankov Manager: Georgi Berkov

Statistics

Goalscorers

With seven goals, Kunishige Kamamoto of Japan is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 116 goals were scored by 68 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.

7 goals

• Kunishige Kamamoto

6 goals

• Antal Dunai

4 goals

• Petar Zhekov
• Ladislav Petráš
• Lajos Szűcs
• Yehoshua Feigenbaum

3 goals

• Atanas Mihaylov
• Charles Tamboueon
• Iván Menczel
• Pulido Rodríguez
• Vicente Pereda

2 goals

• Fernando Ferretti
• Asparuh Nikodimov
• Tsvetan Veselinov
• Pavel Stratil
• Marc-Kanyan Case
• Malik Jabir
• Alberto López Oliva
• Nelson Melgar
• Fodé Bouya Camara
• Dezső Novák
• Giora Spiegel
• Masashi Watanabe
• Albino Morales
• Kenneth Olayombo
• Toni Grande

1 goal

• Tião
• Ivaylo Georgiev
• Mihail Gyonin
• Georgi Hristakiev
• Kiril Ivkov
• Ivan Zafirov
• Alfonso Jaramillo
• Fabio Mosquera
• Gustavo Santa
• Javier Tamayo
• Miloš Herbst
• Jozef Jarabinský
• Mikuláš Krnáč
• Jiří Večerek
• Juan Ramón Martínez
• Pipo Rodríguez
• Gérard Hallet
• Daniel Horlaville
• Daniel Perrigaud
• Gbadamosi Amosa
• Osei Kofi
• Ibrahim Sunday
• Sammy Stevens Sampene
• Jorge Roldán
• David Stokes
• Maxime Camara
• N'Dongo Camara
• László Fazekas
• István Juhász
• István Sárközi
• Shraga Bar
• Mordechai Spiegler
• Rachamim Talbi
• Luis Estrada
• Cesáreo Victorino
• Peter Anieke
• Samuel Okoye
• Juan Fernández Vilela
• Fernando Ortuño
• Udomsilp Sornbutnark

Own goals

• Humberto Medina (playing against France)
• Segun Olumodeji (playing against Brazil)

Final ranking

As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
	Hungary	6	5	1	0	18	3	+15	11	Gold medal
	Bulgaria	6	3	2	1	16	10	+6	8	Silver medal
	Japan	6	3	2	1	9	8	+1	8	Bronze medal
4	Mexico	6	3	0	3	10	9	+1	6	Fourth place
5	Israel	4	2	1	1	9	7	+2	5	Eliminated in quarter-finals
6	Spain	4	2	1	1	4	2	+2	5
7	France	4	2	0	2	9	7	+2	4
8	Guatemala	4	2	0	2	6	4	+2	4
9	Czechoslovakia	3	1	1	1	10	3	+7	3	Eliminated in group stage
10	Colombia	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	2
11	Guinea	3	1	0	2	4	9	−5	2
12	Ghana	3	0	2	1	6	8	−2	2
13	Brazil	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2
14	Nigeria	3	0	1	2	4	9	−5	1
15	El Salvador	3	0	1	2	2	8	−6	1
16	Thailand	3	0	0	3	1	19	−18	0

References

1. "Football at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
2. 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 78. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
3. 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 75. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
4. ^ 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 79. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
5. "WorldReferee.com - referee - Augusto Robles Morán - bio". worldreferee.com. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
6. Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 288. ISBN 0140066322.

External links

• Olympic Football Tournament Mexico City 1968, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Summary

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