| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Spain |
| Dates | 24 July – 8 August 1992 |
| Teams | 16 (from 6 confederations) |
| Venue | 5 (in 4 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Spain (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Poland |
| Third place |  Ghana |
| Fourth place |  Australia |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 32 |
| Goals scored | 87 (2.72 per match) |
| Top scorer | Andrzej Juskowiak (7 goals) |
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The 1992Summer Olympics Football Tournament competition at the1992 Summer Olympics featured 16 national sides from the six continental confederations. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four and each group played 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 atCamp Nou on 8 August 1992.[1]
For the first time, an age limit has been set for participants under the age of 23 (Under-23), which has been used ever since.[2][3]
Spain became the first host country to win the gold medal in an Olympic football tournament since Belgium in1920, an achievement which would not be repeated until Brazil won it in2016.
Notably, these were the first matches played with football's newback-pass rule[4] and was the last Olympic football competition which was open to men only before the introduction of a women's tournament four years later.[5]
| G | Group stage | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| 24 Fri | 25 Sat | 26 Sun | 27 Mon | 28 Tue | 29 Wed | 30 Thu | 31 Fri | 1 Sat | 2 Sun | 3 Mon | 4 Tue | 5 Wed | 6 Thu | 7 Fri | 8 Sat |
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| G | G | G | G | G | G | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | B | F |
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The following 16 teams qualified for the 1992 Olympic men's football tournament:
| Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified |
|---|---|---|
| Host nation | 1 | Spain |
| 1992 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship | 4 |  Italy Sweden Denmark Poland |
| AFC Preliminary Competition | 3 |  Qatar South Korea Kuwait |
| CAF Preliminary Competition | 3 |  Egypt Ghana Morocco |
| 1992 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 |  Mexico United States |
| 1992 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 |  Colombia Paraguay |
| OFC–UEFA play-off | 1 | Australia |
| Total | 16 |
| Barcelona | Valencia | |
|---|---|---|
| Camp Nou | Estadi de Sarrià | Estadio Luis Casanova |
| Capacity:100,000 | Capacity:42,000 | Capacity:50,000 |
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| Sabadell | ||
| Estadi de la Nova Creu Alta | ||
| Capacity:16,000 | ||
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| Zaragoza | ||
| Estadio La Romareda | ||
| Capacity:43,001 | ||
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| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poland | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 5 |
| Italy | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 |
| United States | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 3 |
| Kuwait | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | +8 | 6 |
| Qatar | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 |
| Egypt | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 2 |
| Colombia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 1 |
| Colombia | 1–1 | Qatar |
|---|---|---|
Aristizábal 62' | Report | Soufi 89' |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 4 |
| Paraguay | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 4 |
| South Korea | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Morocco | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 1 |
| Morocco | 1–1 | South Korea |
|---|---|---|
| Bahja 64' | Report | Jung Jae-kwon 73' |
| Sweden | 1–1 | South Korea |
|---|---|---|
| Rödlund 52' | Report | Seo Jung-won 28' |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 |
| Australia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 3 |
| Mexico | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Denmark | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 2 |
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | ||||||||
| 1 August –Valencia | ||||||||||
| Spain | 1 | |||||||||
| 5 August –Valencia | ||||||||||
| Italy | 0 | |||||||||
| Spain | 2 | |||||||||
| 2 August –Zaragoza | ||||||||||
| Ghana | 0 | |||||||||
| Paraguay | 2 | |||||||||
| 8 August –Barcelona (Camp Nou) | ||||||||||
| Ghana(a.e.t.) | 4 | |||||||||
| Spain | 3 | |||||||||
| 1 August –Barcelona (Camp Nou) | ||||||||||
| Poland | 2 | |||||||||
| Poland | 2 | |||||||||
| 5 August –Barcelona (Camp Nou) | ||||||||||
| Qatar | 0 | |||||||||
| Poland | 6 | |||||||||
| 2 August –Barcelona (Camp Nou) | ||||||||||
| Australia | 1 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
| Sweden | 1 | |||||||||
| 7 August –Barcelona (Camp Nou) | ||||||||||
| Australia | 2 | |||||||||
| Ghana | 1 | |||||||||
| Australia | 0 | |||||||||
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With seven goals, Poland'sAndrzej Juskowiak was the top scorer of the tournament. In total, 87 goals were scored by 57 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.
Zlatko ArambašićDamian MoriShaun MurphyCarl VeartVíctor AristizábalVíctor PachecoClaus ThomsenIbrahim El-MasryMohamed YoussefIsaac AsareMohammed GargoOli RahmanDemetrio AlbertiniJung Jae-kwonSeo Jung-wonAli MarwiJorge CastañedaAhmed BahjaNoureddine NaybetFrancisco ArceMauro CaballeroJorge CamposCarlos GamarraMarcin JałochaMarek KoźmińskiGrzegorz MielcarskiMahmoud SoufiMubarak MustafaAlfonsoPep GuardiolaLuis EnriquePaco SolerRoberto SolozábalPatrik AnderssonHåkan MildDario BroseErik ImlerManuel LagosJoe-Max MooreShaun Murphy (playing against Poland)Joachim Yaw Acheampong (playing against Paraguay)| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Spain (ESP) | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | +12 | 12 |
| 2 | Poland (POL) | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | +11 | 9 |
| 3 | Ghana (GHA) | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 8 |
| 4 |  Australia (AUS) | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | −4 | 5 |
| 5 | Sweden (SWE) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 4 |
| 6 | Paraguay (PAR) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | Italy (ITA) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 4 |
| 8 |  Qatar (QAT) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 3 |
| 9 | United States (USA) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 3 |
| 10 | Mexico (MEX) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Egypt (EGY) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 2 |
| 13 |  Denmark (DEN) | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 2 |
| 14 | Colombia (COL) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 1 |
| 15 | Morocco (MAR) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 1 |
| 16 |  Kuwait (KUW) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 |
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