Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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Final results for the Football competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, 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 apartheid South Africa (which was announced only a day before the opening ceremony).

[edit] Venues

[edit] Qualification

The following thirteen teams qualified for the 1976 Olympics football tournament:

Asia (AFC)
- Iran
- Israel
- Korea DPR

North and Central America (CONCACAF)
- Cuba
- Guatemala
- Mexico

South America (CONMEBOL)
- Brazil

Europe (UEFA)
- East Germany
- France
- Poland (automatically qualified as 1972 Olympic Champions)
- Spain
- USSR

Hosting nation
- Canada

[edit] Match Officials

Asia

North and Central America

South America

Europe

[edit] Squads

Main article: Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics - Men's team squads

[edit] Results

[edit] First round

[edit] Group A

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Brazil	2	1	1	0	2	1	3
East Germany	2	1	1	0	1	0	3
Spain	2	0	0	2	1	3	0
** Nigeria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

**Nigeria withdrew

July 18, 1976 12:00	Brazil	0–0	East Germany	Varsity Stadium, Toronto Attendance: 21.643 Referee: John Paterson
		Report

July 20, 1976 12:00	Brazil	2–1	Spain	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 38.123 Referee: Paul Schiller
	Rosemiro 7' Chico Fraga 47' (p.k.)	Report	Idígoras 14'

July 22, 1976 12:00	East Germany	1–0	Spain	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 36.198 Referee: Werner Winsemann
	Dörner 46'	Report

[edit] Group B

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
France	3	2	1	0	9	3	5
Israel	3	0	3	0	3	3	3
Guatemala	3	0	2	1	2	5	2
Mexico	3	0	2	1	4	7	2

July 19, 1976 12:00	Israel	0–0	Guatemala	Varsity Stadium, Toronto Attendance: 9.500 Referee: Vladimir Rudnev
		Report

July 19, 1976 12:00	France	4–1	Mexico	Lansdowne Park, Ottawa Attendance: 14.286 Referee: Angel Coerezza
	Schaer 14' Baronchelli 33' Rubio 78' Amisse 90'	Report	Sánchez 81'

July 21, 1976 12:00	France	4–1	Guatemala	Municipal Stadium, Sherbrooke Attendance: 3.163 Referee: Jafar Namdar
	Platini 7' 86' Amisse 41' Schaer 82'	Report	Fion 58'

July 21, 1976 12:00	Mexico	2–2	Israel	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 36.569 Referee: Alberto Michelotti
	Rangel 19' 44'	Report	Oz 51' Shum 55' (p.k.)

July 23, 1976 12:00	Mexico	1–1	Guatemala	Municipal Stadium, Sherbrooke Attendance: 4.118 Referee: Marian Kuston
	Rangel 36'	Report	Rergis 18' (o.g.)

July 23, 1976 12:00	France	1–1	Israel	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 33.639 Referee: Ramón Barreto
	Platini 80' (p.k.)	Report	Peretz 75'

[edit] Group C

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Poland	2	1	1	0	3	2	3
Iran	2	1	0	1	3	3	2
Cuba	2	0	1	1	0	1	1
** Ghana	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

**Ghana withdrew

July 18, 1976 12:00	Poland	0–0	Cuba	Lansdowne Park, Ottawa Attendance: 29.417 Referee: Abraham Klein
		Report

July 20, 1976 12:00	Iran	1–0	Cuba	Lansdowne Park, Ottawa Attendance: 11.324 Referee: Adolf Prokop
	Mazloumi 28'	Report

July 22, 1976 12:00	Poland	3–2	Iran	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 32.309 Referee: Arnaldo Cézar Coelho
	Szarmach 48' 75' Deyna 51'	Report	Parvin 6' Roshan 79'

[edit] Group D

	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	Pts
USSR	2	2	0	5	1	4
Korea DPR	2	1	1	3	4	2
Canada	2	0	2	2	5	0
** Zambia	0	0	0	0	0	0

**Zambia withdrew

July 19, 1976 12:00	Canada	1–2	USSR	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 34.320 Referee: Robert Helies
	Douglas 88'	Report	Onischenko 8' 11'

July 21, 1976 12:00	Korea DPR	3–1	Canada	Varsity Stadium, Toronto Attendance: 12.638 Referee: Marco Antonio Dorantes
	An Se-Uk 18' Hong Song-Nam 66' 80'	Report	Douglas 51'

July 23, 1976 12:00	USSR	3–0	Korea DPR	Lansdowne Park, Ottawa Attendance: 15.233 Referee: Emilio Guruceta-Muro
	Kolotov 16' (p.k.) Veremeev 81' Blokhin 89'	Report

[edit] Bracket

Quarter finals

Semi finals

Final

July 25 - Ottawa

East Germany

4

July 27 - Montreal

France

0

East Germany

2

July 25 - Sherbrooke

USSR

1

USSR

2

July 31 - Montreal

Iran

1

East Germany

3

July 25 - Toronto

Poland

1

Brazil

4

July 27 - Toronto

Israel

1

Poland

2

Third place

July 25 - Montreal

Brazil

0

Poland

5

USSR

2

Korea DPR

0

Brazil

0

July 29 - Montreal

[edit] Quarter finals

July 25, 1976 12:00	East Germany	4–0	France	Lansdowne Park, Ottawa Attendance: 20.083 Referee: Alberto Michelotti
	Löwe 27' Dörner 60' (p.k.) 68' (p.k.) Riediger 77'	Report

July 25, 1976 12:00	USSR	2–1	Iran	Municipal Stadium, Sherbrooke Attendance: 5.855 Referee: Guillermo Velasquez
	Minayev 40' Zvyagintsev 67'	Report	Ghelichkhani 82' (p.k.)

July 25, 1976 12:00	Brazil	4–1	Israel	Varsity Stadium, Toronto Attendance: 18.601 Referee: Károly Palotai
	Jarbas 56' 74' Erivelto 72' Júnior 88'	Report	Peretz 80'

July 25, 1976 12:00	Poland	5–0	Korea DPR	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 46.885 Referee: Paul Schiller
	Szarmach 13' 49' Lato 59' 79' Szymanowski 64'	Report

[edit] Semi finals

July 27, 1976 12:00	USSR	1–2	East Germany	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 57.182 Referee: Marco Antonio Dorantes
	Kolotov 84' (p.k.)	Report	Dörner 59' (p.k.) Kurbjuweit 66'

July 27, 1976 12:00	Poland	2–0	Brazil	Varsity Stadium, Toronto Attendance: 21.743 Referee: John Paterson
	Szarmach 51' 82'	Report

[edit] Bronze Medal Match

July 29, 1976	USSR	2–0	Brazil	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Referee: Abraham Klein (ISR) Attendance: 55.647
	Onishcenko 5' Nazarenko 49'	Report

[edit] Final

July 31, 1976	East Germany	3–1	Poland	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Referee: Ramon Barreto (URU) Attendance: 71.617
	Schade 7' Hoffmann 14' Häfner 84'	Report	Lato 59'