Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics


The football tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics started on July 18 and ended on July 31. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. 13 teams participated in the tournament, and 3 teams withdrew.

Venues


MontrealOttawaSherbrookeToronto
Olympic StadiumLansdowne ParkSherbrooke StadiumVarsity Stadium
Capacity: 70,000Capacity: 30,000Capacity: 10,000Capacity: 21,739

Qualification

The following 13 teams qualified for the 1976 Olympics football tournament:
;Asia
;North and Central America
;South America
;Europe

Final tournament

First round

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Bracket

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze Medal match

Gold Medal match

Team details--

Medal winners

; - Gold
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Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin

Wilfried Gröbner

Jürgen Croy

Gerd Weber

Hans-Jürgen Dörner

Konrad Weise

Lothar Kurbjuweit

Reinhard Lauck

Gert Heidler

Reinhard Häfner

Hans-Jürgen Riediger

Bernd Bransch

Martin Hoffmann

Gerd Kische

Wolfram Löwe

Hartmut Schade

Dieter Riedel

Coach: Georg Buschner
; - Silver
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Jan Tomaszewski

Piotr Mowlik

Antoni Szymanowski

Jerzy Gorgoń

Wojciech Rudy

Władysław Żmuda

Zygmunt Maszczyk

Grzegorz Lato

Henryk Wawrowski

Henryk Kasperczak

Roman Ogaza

Kazimierz Kmiecik

Kazimierz Deyna

Andrzej Szarmach

Henryk Wieczorek

Leslaw Cmikiewicz

Jan Benigier

Coach: Kazimierz Górski

; - Bronze
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Vladimir Astapovsky

Anatoliy Konkov

Viktor Matviyenko

Mykhaylo Fomenko

Stefan Reshko

Volodymyr Troshkin

David Kipiani

Volodymyr Onyshchenko

Viktor Kolotov

Volodymyr Veremeyev

Oleh Blokhin

Leonid Buryak

Vladimir Fyodorov

Aleksandr Minayev

Viktor Zvyahintsev

Leonid Nazarenko

Aleksandr Prokhorov

Coach: Valeriy Lobanovskyi

Goalscorers

With six goals, Andrzej Szarmach of Poland is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 66 goals were scored by 44 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
;6 goals
  • Andrzej Szarmach
;4 goals
;3 goals
;2 goals
;1 goal
;Own goal
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