| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | Soviet Union |
| Dates | 20 July – 2 August 1980 |
| Teams | 16 (from 5 confederations) |
| Venue | 5 (in 4 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Czechoslovakia (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  East Germany |
| Third place |  Soviet Union |
| Fourth place |  Yugoslavia |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 32 |
| Goals scored | 82 (2.56 per match) |
| Attendance | 1,821,624 (56,926 per match) |
| Top scorer | Sergey Andreyev (5 goals) |
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Thefootball tournament at the1980 Summer Olympics started on 20 July and ended on 2 August. Only one event, themen's tournament, was contested. Seven qualified countries did not participate, joining theAmerican-ledboycott in protest of the December 1979Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.[1]
Sixteen teams were divided into four groups:
In the technical report following the competition, FIFA reported that: "Compared with the1979 World Youth Tournament in Japan and the1978 World Cup finals in Argentina, the standard of football at the Olympic Football Tournament was generally of an inferior quality".[2]
The tournament was primarily hosted byMoscow andLeningrad in theRussian SFSR, with some group stage games inKiev,Ukrainian SSR andMinsk,Byelorussian SSR.
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| Central Lenin Stadium | Dynamo Stadium | ||||
| Capacity:91,251 | Capacity:50,475 | ||||
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| Dinamo Stadium | Kirov Stadium | Republican Stadium | |||
| Capacity:50,125 | Capacity:74,000 | Capacity:100,169 | |||
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The football tournament was the most attended event on these Olympics: 1,821,624 spectators watched 32 matches of it at the stadiums.
Due to theAmerican-led boycott, countries (in brackets) who qualified did not enter the finaltournament. Spain sent a team under the IOC flag. The following 16 teams qualified for the 1980 Olympics football tournament:
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| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Soviet Union | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | +14 | 6 |
 Cuba | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 4 |
 Venezuela | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 |
 Zambia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 |
| Soviet Union | 4–0 | Venezuela |
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Andreyev 3'Cherenkov 25'Gavrilov 34'Hovhannisyan 51' | Report |
| Soviet Union | 3–1 | Zambia |
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| Khidiyatullin 9',51' Cherenkov 87' | Report | Chitalu 13' |
| Soviet Union | 8–0 | Cuba |
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| Andreyev 8',27',44' Romantsev 20'Shavlo 43'Cherenkov 55'Gavrilov 75'Bessonov 77' | Report |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Czechoslovakia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 4 |
 Kuwait | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 |
 Colombia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 3 |
 Nigeria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 |
| Czechoslovakia | 3–0 | Colombia |
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| Pokluda 14' Berger 18'Vízek 85' | Report |
| Kuwait | 3–1 | Nigeria |
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| Al-Dakhil 16',40',85' (pen.) | Report | Mubarak 25' (o.g.) |
| Czechoslovakia | 1–1 | Nigeria |
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| Vízek 25' | Report | Nwosu 84' |
| Colombia | 1–0 | Nigeria |
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| Cardona 55' | Report |
| Czechoslovakia | 0–0 | Kuwait |
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| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| East Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 5 |
 Algeria | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 3 |
 Spain | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
 Syria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 1 |
| East Germany | 1–1 | Spain |
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| Kühn 49' | Report | Marcos 50' |
| Algeria | 3–0 | Syria |
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| Belloumi 36' Madjer 48'Merzekane 73' (pen.) | Report |
| East Germany | 1–0 | Algeria |
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| Terletzki 61' | Report |
| Spain | 0–0 | Syria |
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| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Yugoslavia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 5 |
 Iraq | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 4 |
 Finland | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
 Costa Rica | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 0 |
| Yugoslavia | 2–0 | Finland |
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| Šećerbegović 56' Šestić 58' | Report |
| Iraq | 3–0 | Costa Rica |
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| Ahmed 45' Saeed 49'Hassan 75' | Report |
| Yugoslavia | 3–2 | Costa Rica |
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| Zlatko Vujović 6',54' Primorac 24' | Report | White 35' Arroyo 90' |
| Yugoslavia | 1–1 | Iraq |
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| Zoran Vujović 63' | Report | Hassan 61' |
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 27 July –Moscow | ||||||||||
| Soviet Union | 2 | |||||||||
| 29 July –Moscow | ||||||||||
| Kuwait | 1 | |||||||||
| Soviet Union | 0 | |||||||||
| 27 July –Kiev | ||||||||||
| East Germany | 1 | |||||||||
| East Germany | 4 | |||||||||
| 2 August –Moscow | ||||||||||
| Iraq | 0 | |||||||||
| East Germany | 0 | |||||||||
| 27 July –Leningrad | ||||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 1 | |||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 3 | |||||||||
| 29 July –Moscow | ||||||||||
| Cuba | 0 | |||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 2 | |||||||||
| 27 July –Minsk | ||||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 0 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 3 | |||||||||
| 1 August –Moscow | ||||||||||
| Algeria | 0 | |||||||||
| Soviet Union | 2 | |||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 0 | |||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 3–0 | Algeria |
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| Miročević 5' Šestić 19'Zoran Vujović 70' | Report |
| Czechoslovakia | 3–0 | Cuba |
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| Vízek 29',59' Pokluda 90' | Report |
| East Germany | 4–0 | Iraq |
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| Schnuphase 4' (pen.) Netz 11'Steinbach 17'Terletzki 22' | Report |
| Soviet Union | 0–1 | East Germany |
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| Report | Netz 16' |
| Czechoslovakia | 2–0 | Yugoslavia |
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| Lička 4' Šreiner 18' | Report |
| Soviet Union | 2–0 | Yugoslavia |
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| Hovhannisyan 67' Andreyev 82' | Report |
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The final was played in a hard rain for the third straight Olympics. Both teams played with ten players after the 58th minute after one player from each team was red-carded.
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With five goals, Sergey Andreyev of Soviet Union was the top scorer of the tournament. In total, 82 goals were scored by 52 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
Rabah MadjerChaabane MerzekaneBenjamin CardonaCarlos MolinaresOmar ArroyoJorge WhiteLuis HernándezRamón NúñezAndrés RoldánJan BergerWerner LičkaZdeněk ŠreinerJindřich SvobodaJouko AlilaJouko SoiniAri TissariLothar HauseDieter KühnWerner PeterRüdiger SchnuphaseWolfgang SteinbachHadi AhmedHussein SaeedHenry Nwosu
Marcos Alonso PeñaHipólito RincónOleg RomantsevSergey ShavloVolodymyr BessonovRobert ElieDževad ŠećerbegovićBoro PrimoracAnte MiročevićMahboub Mubarak (playing against Nigeria)Below the final ranking after the end of the tournament.[3]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | 10 |
| 2 | East Germany (GDR) | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 9 |
| 3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 3 | +16 | 10 |
| 4 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 7 |
| 5 |  Kuwait (KUW) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 |
| 6 | Iraq (IRQ) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 4 |
| 7 |  Cuba (CUB) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 4 |
| 8 | Algeria (ALG) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 |
| 9 | Finland (FIN) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
| 10 |  Spain (ESP) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | Colombia (COL) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 3 |
| 12 |  Venezuela (VEN) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 |
| 13 | Nigeria (NGR) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 |
| 14 | Syria (SYR) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 1 |
| 15 | Zambia (ZAM) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 |
| 16 | Costa Rica (CRC) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 0 |
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