Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Tournament details
Host country	South Korea
Dates	17 September – 1 October 1988
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Soviet Union (2nd title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	West Germany
Fourth place	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	95 (2.97 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Romário (7 goals)
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Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Tournament
	Group A
	Group B
	Group C
	Group D
	Knockout stage
Squads
	Men
v t e

An association football tournament was played as part of the 1988 Summer Olympics in South Korea, featuring 16 men's national teams from six continental confederations. The teams were drawn into four groups of four with each group playing 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 Seoul Olympic Stadium on 1 October 1988.^[1][2]

Before the final match, the Soviet team relocated from the Olympic Village to a Soviet steamship stationed nearby. After winning the gold medal, each player from the Soviet team received 15 thousand dollars from the Soviet government.^[3]

Seoul		Busan
Olympic Stadium	Dongdaemun Stadium	Busan Stadium
Capacity: 69,950	Capacity: 26,383	Capacity: 30,000
Daegu	Daejeon	Gwangju
Daegu Stadium	Daejeon Stadium	Gwangju Stadium
Capacity: 23,278	Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 30,000
Olympic Stadium Busan Stadium Daegu Stadium Daejeon Stadium Dongdaemun Stadium Gwangju Stadium

The following 16 teams qualified for the 1988 Olympics football tournament:

Means of qualification	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	1	South Korea
AFC Preliminary Competition	2	China  Iraq
CAF Preliminary Competition	3	Nigeria  Tunisia  Zambia
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition	2	Guatemala  United States
1987 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	2	Brazil (winner)  Argentina (runner-up)
OFC Preliminary Competition	1	Australia
UEFA Preliminary Competition	5	Italy  Sweden  Soviet Union  West Germany  Yugoslavia
Total	16

A total of 314 footballers from 16 participating nations were called up to the Games, with 268 having played in at least one match. Tunisia used the most players of any team throughout their run with 19 out of 20, while China only utilised 14 of their 18-man list.

•  Argentina (16/19 players)
•  Australia (16/20 players)
•  Brazil (16/20 players)
•  China (14/18 players)
•  Guatemala (17/19 players)
•  Iraq (16/20 players)
•  Italy (18/20 players)
•  South Korea (16/20 players)
•  Nigeria (17/20 players)
•  Sweden (17/20 players)
•  Tunisia (19/20 players)
•  United States (16/20 players)
•  Soviet Union (18/20 players)
•  West Germany (18/20 players)
•  Yugoslavia (16/18 players)
•  Zambia (18/20 players)

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Sweden	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	5
2	West Germany	3	2	0	1	8	3	+5	4
3	Tunisia	3	0	2	1	3	6	−3	2
4	China	3	0	1	2	0	5	−5	1

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Zambia	3	2	1	0	10	2	+8	5
2	Italy	3	2	0	1	7	6	+1	4
3	Iraq	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	3
4	Guatemala	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Soviet Union	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	5
2	Argentina	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	3
3	South Korea (H)	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	2
4	United States	3	0	2	1	3	5	−2	2

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Brazil	3	3	0	0	9	1	+8	6
2	Australia	3	2	0	1	2	3	−1	4
3	Yugoslavia	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	2
4	Nigeria	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0

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	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	25 September – Daegu
	Sweden	1
					27 September – Busan
	Italy (a.e.t.)	2
					Italy	2
	25 September – Busan
					Soviet Union (a.e.t.)	3
	Soviet Union	3
									1 October – Seoul
	Australia	0
									Soviet Union (a.e.t.)	2
	25 September – Gwangju
									Brazil	1
	Zambia	0
					27 September – Seoul
	West Germany	4
					West Germany	1 (2)
	25 September – Seoul
					Brazil (a.e.t.)	1 (3)			Bronze medal match
	Brazil	1
									30 September – Seoul
	Argentina	0
									Italy	0
									West Germany	3

Team details

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Borodyuk Oleksiy Cherednyk Igor Dobrovolski Sergei Fokin Sergei Gorlukovich Arvydas Janonis Gela Ketashvili Dmitri Kharine Yevgeni Kuznetsov Viktor Losev Volodymyr Lyutyi Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko Arminas Narbekovas Igor Ponomaryov Yury Savichev Igor Sklyarov Vladimir 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) Rudolf 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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
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) (H)	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

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.

With seven goals, Romário of Brazil was the top scorer. In total, 95 goals were scored by 53 different players, with one of them credited as an own goal.

7 goals

• Romário

6 goals

• Igor Dobrovolski
• Kalusha Bwalya

5 goals

• Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko

4 goals

• Jürgen Klinsmann

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goal

• Rocael Mazariegos (playing against Iraq)

• Olympic Football Tournament Seoul 1988, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Summary
• FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)