| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | Mexico |
| Dates | 13–26 October 1968 |
| Teams | 16 (from 5 confederations) |
| Venue | 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 | Kunishige Kamamoto (7 goals) |
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The 1968Olympic football tournament was played as part of the1968 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 around-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 theAzteca Stadium on 26 October 1968. This was the first time an Asian team won a medal,Japan claiming bronze.[1]
Africa (3) Asia (3) | Europe (5)
| North America (3)
South America (2) |
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| Mexico City | Puebla | Guadalajara | León | |
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| Estadio Azteca | Estadio Cuauhtémoc | Estadio Jalisco | Estadio León | |
| Capacity:104,000[2] | Capacity:35,563[3] | Capacity:31,891[4] | Capacity:23,609[4] | |
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 |  France | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 4 | Advance toknockout 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 |
| France | 4–1 | Mexico |
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 |  Spain | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 5 | Advance toknockout 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 |
| Japan | 3–1 | Nigeria |
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Ghana replaced Morocco, who refused to play against Israel.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Hungary | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 5 | Advance toknockout 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 |
| Hungary | 4–0 | El Salvador |
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| Israel | 5–3 | Ghana |
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| Israel | 3–1 | El Salvador |
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| El Salvador | 1–1 | Ghana |
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 |  Bulgaria | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 5 | Advance toknockout 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 | 4–1 | Thailand |
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| Bulgaria | 2–1 | Guatemala |
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| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | ||||||||
| 20 October –Puebla | ||||||||||
| Mexico | 2 | |||||||||
| 22 October –Guadalajara | ||||||||||
 Spain | 0 | |||||||||
| Mexico | 2 | |||||||||
| 20 October –Leon | ||||||||||
| Bulgaria | 3 | |||||||||
| Bulgaria | 1 | |||||||||
| 26 October –Mexico City | ||||||||||
| Israel | 1 | |||||||||
| Bulgaria | 1 | |||||||||
| 20 October –Guadalajara | ||||||||||
| Hungary | 4 | |||||||||
| Hungary | 1 | |||||||||
| 22 October –Mexico City | ||||||||||
| Guatemala | 0 | |||||||||
| Hungary | 5 | |||||||||
| 20 October –Mexico City | ||||||||||
| Japan | 0 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
| Japan | 3 | |||||||||
| 24 October –Mexico City | ||||||||||
| France | 1 | |||||||||
| Japan | 2 | |||||||||
| Mexico | 0 | |||||||||
| Bulgaria | 1–1 | Israel |
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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.
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final result |
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 | 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 |
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