Football at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Tournament details | |
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Host country | West Germany |
Dates | 27 August – 10 September 1972 |
Teams | 16 (from 5 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 6 (in 6 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Poland (1st title) |
Runners-up | Hungary |
Third place | East Germany (shared) Soviet Union (shared) |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 38 |
Goals scored | 135 (3.55 per match) |
Attendance | 795,433 (20,932 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Kazimierz Deyna (9 goals) |
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The 1972 Olympic football tournament, held in Munich, Augsburg, Ingolstadt, Nuremberg, Passau, and Regensburg, was played as part of the 1972 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 a round-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 at Olympiastadion on 10 September 1972.[1] The medalists were Poland (gold), Hungary (silver), and shared bronze medalists East Germany and the Soviet Union, the first of three consecutive Olympic football tournaments where all the medalists were communist countries and the first since 1956.
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 coach Aleksandr Ponomarev.[2]
Qualifications
Squads
Venues
Munich | Nuremberg | ||
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Olympiastadion | Frankenstadion | ||
Regensburg | Passau | ||
Jahnstadion | Dreiflüssestadion | ||
Ingolstadt | Augsburg | ||
ESV-Stadion | Rosenaustadion | ||
First round
Group A
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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West Germany | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | +13 | 6 | Advanced to second round |
Morocco | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 3 | |
Malaysia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 2 | |
United States | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | −10 | 1 |
Malaysia | 3–0 | United States |
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Shaharuddin 14' Salleh 67' Wan Zawawi 77' |
Report |
West Germany | 7–0 | United States |
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Nickel 17', 43', 70', 86' Hitzfeld 47' Seliger 62' Bitz 79' |
Report |
Group B
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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Soviet Union | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 6 | Advanced to second round |
Mexico | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 | |
Burma | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
Sudan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0 |
Soviet Union | 1–0 | Burma |
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Kolotov 51' | Report |
Soviet Union | 2–1 | Sudan |
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Yevriuzhikin 42' (pen.) Zanazanyan 44' |
Report | Jaksa 59' |
Burma | 2–0 | Sudan |
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Soe Than 7' Aung Moe Thin 61' |
Report |
Group C
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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Hungary | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | +7 | 5 | Advanced to second round |
Denmark | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 4 | |
Iran | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | −8 | 2 | |
Brazil | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 1 |
Group D
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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Poland | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | +9 | 6 | Advanced to second round |
East Germany | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 4 | |
Colombia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 12 | −7 | 2 | |
Ghana | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 11 | −10 | 0 |
East Germany | 4–0 | Ghana |
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Kreische 19', 89' Streich 45' Sparwasser 66' |
Report |
East Germany | 6–1 | Colombia |
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Streich 1', 10' Sparwasser 9' Ducke 31' Vogel 85' Kreische 88' (pen.) |
Report | Espinosa 38' |
Poland | 2–1 | East Germany |
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Gorgoń 6', 63' | Report | Streich 45' |
Second round
Group 1
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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Hungary | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | +7 | 6 | Gold Medal match |
East Germany | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 4 | Bronze Medal match |
West Germany | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 1 | |
Mexico | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | −9 | 1 |
West Germany | 1–1 | Mexico |
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Hitzfeld 5' | Report | Cuéllar 69' |
Hungary | 2–0 | East Germany |
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A. Dunai 60' Tóth 66' |
Report |
East Germany | 7–0 | Mexico |
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Ganzera 34' Sparwasser 39', 51', 89' Streich 48' Kreische 72' Häfner 79' |
Report |
East Germany | 3–2 | West Germany |
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Pommerenke 10' Streich 53' Vogel 82' |
Report | Hoeneß 31' Hitzfeld 68' |
Group 2
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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Poland | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 5 | Gold Medal match |
Soviet Union | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 4 | Bronze Medal match |
Denmark | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 | |
Morocco | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 11 | −10 | 0 |
Denmark | 1–1 | Poland |
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Heino Hansen 27' | Report | Deyna 36' |
Knockout stage
Bronze Medal match
Soviet Union | 2–2 | East Germany |
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Blokhin 10' Khurtsilava 30' |
Report | Kreische 33' (pen.) Vogel 78' |
Bronze medals shared.
Gold Medal match
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Goalscorers
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.
- 9 goals
- 7 goals
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Pedrinho
- Zé Carlos
- Than Soe
- Tin Aung Moe
- Fabio Espinosa
- Luis Montaño
- Ángel Torres
- Kristen Nygaard
- Leif Printzlau
- Per Røntved
- Peter Ducke
- Frank Ganzera
- Reinhard Häfner
- Jürgen Pommerenke
- Ibrahim Sunday
- Péter Juhász
- Lajos Kocsis
- Mihály Kozma
- Kálmán Tóth
- Majid Halvai
- Salleh
- Shaharuddin
- Wan Zawawi
- Boujemaa Benkhrif
- Mohamed Merzaq
- Mohammed El Filali
- Mohammed Tati
- Daniel Razo
- Manuel Manzo
- Kazimierz Kmiecik
- Zygfryd Szołtysik
- Murtaz Khurtsilava
- Yozhef Sabo
- Yuriy Yeliseyev
- Gennady Yevriuzhikin
- Hovhannes Zanazanyan
- Jaksa
- Hermann Bitz
- Uli Hoeneß
- Jürgen Kalb
- Ronald Worm
Final ranking
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | Poland (POL) | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 5 | +16 | 13 |
2 | Hungary (HUN) | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 5 | +13 | 11 |
3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | +11 | 11 |
3 | East Germany (GDR) | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 9 | +14 | 9 |
5 | West Germany (FRG) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 8 | +9 | 7 |
6 | Denmark (DEN) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 10 | +1 | 7 |
7 | Mexico (MEX) | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 14 | −10 | 5 |
8 | Morocco (MAR) | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 14 | −7 | 3 |
9 | Burma (BIR) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
10 | Malaysia (MAS) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 2 |
11 | Colombia (COL) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 12 | −7 | 2 |
12 | Iran (IRI) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | −8 | 2 |
13 | Brazil (BRA) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 1 |
14 | United States (USA) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | −10 | 1 |
15 | Sudan (SUD) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0 |
16 | Ghana (GHA) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 11 | −10 | 0 |
Medalists
References
- ^ "Football at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
- ^ 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). Retrieved 13 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.]