At the XXII. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , a football competition was held. In the final stood the teams from the GDR, which had won the gold medal four years earlier, and Czechoslovakia, which won the tournament the first time they participated. For Czechoslovakia it was the only title in an intercontinental football tournament. The team of the Soviet Union could not use the home advantage and only reached 3rd place.
Because of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan , many Western countries and their allies boycotted the Olympic Games. This also applied to the soccer competition. Here is an overview of the states that qualified for the tournament but did not start (in brackets are the states that were invited instead):
The final draw, in which the fixtures were determined, took place on May 15, 1980 under the direction of FIFA Secretary General Helmut Käser and the Chairman of the FIFA Amateur Committee, Abilio D'Almeida, in the Olympic press center on Moscow's Subovsky Boulevard.
Before the draw, the United States, Malaysia, Iran and Egypt boycotted the Olympic Games in Moscow. There was no replacement for the United States at the time of the draw, and Iraq, Syria and Zambia were nominated for the other teams.
The hosts of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, defending champions GDR and Yugoslavia were set as group heads. Then the teams from South America ( Argentina and Colombia ), the two remaining representatives from Europe ( Spain and Norway ), from Africa ( Zambia, Ghana and Algeria ), from North and Central America ( Costa Rica and second participant ) as well as from Asia ( Kuwait, Syria and Iraq ).
After the draw, Argentina, Norway and Ghana boycotted the Olympic Games until the start of the tournament, which were then replaced by Venezuela, Finland and Nigeria. Cuba was reported as the second participant from North and Central America.
The 16 qualified teams were divided into four groups of four teams each. The first two in each group qualified for the quarter-finals. From the quarter-finals onwards, the tournament was played in the knockout system .
In the groups, the ranking was determined according to the following criteria:
Drawing of lots by the FIFA Organizing Committee in the event of a tie and goal difference.
From the quarter-finals onwards, if the score was tied, there was an extension of 15 minutes twice , if there was still a tie, a penalty shoot- out was carried out.
GDR team Olympic team 1980 - upper row v. l. To the right: Matthias Liebers, Frank Baum, Frank Uhlig, Lothar HOME, Jürgen Bähringer, goalkeeper Bodo Rudwaleit, goalkeeper Bernd Jakubowski, Andreas Trautmann, Norbert Trieloff and Rüdiger Schnuphase. Lower row v. l. To right: Wolfgang Steinbach, Werner Peter, Artur Ullrich, team captain Frank Terletzki, Matthias Müller, Dieter Kühn and Wolf-Rüdiger Netz.
24 referees from the five participating confederations were used at the games. Klaus Scheurell was there from the GDR and was allowed to lead two meetings.
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Ghana
Algeria
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Spain
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