The 1972Olympic football tournament, held inMunich,Augsburg,Ingolstadt,Nuremberg,Passau, andRegensburg, was played as part of the1972 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 second group stage, where the second-placed teams in each group advanced to the bronze medal match while the first-placed teams advanced to the gold medal match held atOlympiastadion on 10 September 1972.[1] The medalists werePoland (gold),Hungary (silver), and shared bronze medalistsEast Germany and theSoviet Union, the first of three consecutive Olympic football tournaments where all the medalists werecommunist countries and the first since1956.
In 2017, the physician of the Soviet team revealed that the bronze medal match between the Soviet Union and East Germany was fixed at the request of Soviet coachAleksandr Ponomarev.[2]
With nine goals, Kazimierz Deyna of Poland is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 135 goals were scored by 66 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
^Romantsov, Denis (2 June 2017)."«Высоцкий дал установку: «Макаронщиков надо обыграть». Он знает о нашем футболе все" [Vysotsky gave the order: "We need to beat the Makarons." He knows everything about our football].sports.ru (in Russian). Retrieved13 August 2024.Мы не вышли в финал, а игру за третье место против ГДР назначили на десять утра. Тренер Пономарев сказал: «Что-то не хочется с ними бодаться. Как бы нам вничью сыграть». Ничья означала бронзовые медали для обеих команд. Используя свой немецкий, выученный в институте, я подошел перед игрой к доктору сборной ГДР. «Как ты смотришь на то, чтобы медали получили и вы, и мы?» – «Положительно», – и пошел к тренеру. Тот повернулся ко мне и показал большой палец: вопрос решен. Мы забили друг другу по два мяча, но на второй тайм вышел динамовец Андрей Якубик, который, ни о чем не подозревая, ворвался в штрафную и чуть не сделал счет 3:2. Слава богу, не попал, а то немцы бы нас уничтожили. [We didn't make it to the finals, and the third-place game against East Germany was scheduled for ten in the morning. Coach Ponomarev said, "I don't feel like butting heads with them. How about we play to a draw." A draw would have meant bronze medals for both teams. Using my German, learned at the institute, I approached the East Germany team doctor before the game. "How do you feel about both of us getting medals?" "Yes," I said, and went to the coach. He turned to me and gave me a thumbs-up: the issue was decided. We scored twice each, but Dynamo's Andrei Yakubik came out for the second half, unsuspectingly burst into the penalty area and almost made the score 3:2. Thank God he missed, otherwise the Germans would have destroyed us.]
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Poland (1st title)
Hungary
East Germany (shared)
Soviet Union (shared)
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West Germany
Morocco
Malaysia
United States
14'
Mexico
Burma
Sudan
Denmark
Iran
Brazil
Colombia
Ghana
Denmark (DEN)
