Football at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Spain |
Dates | 24 July – 8 August 1992 |
Teams | 16 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 5 (in 4 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Third place | ![]() |
Fourth place | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 87 (2.72 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() |
The 1992 Summer Olympics Football Tournament competition at the 1992 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 a round-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 Camp 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.
Spain became the first host country to win the gold medal in an Olympic football tournament since Belgium in 1920, an achievement which would not be repeated again until Brazil won it in 2016.
Notably, these were the first matches played with football's new back-pass rule[2] and was the last Olympic football competition which was open to men only before the introduction of a women’s tournament four years later.
Competition schedule
[edit]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 |
Source: [3]
Qualification
[edit]The following 16 teams qualified for the 1992 Olympic men's football tournament:
Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified |
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Host nation | 1 | ![]() |
1992 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship | 4 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
AFC Preliminary Competition | 3 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
CAF Preliminary Competition | 3 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
1992 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 | ![]() ![]() |
1992 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 | ![]() ![]() |
OFC–UEFA play-off | 1 | ![]() |
Total | 16 |
Venues
[edit]Barcelona | Valencia | |
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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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Match officials
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Squads
[edit]Group stage
[edit]Group A
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 5 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 |
Group B
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | +8 | 6 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 2 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 1 |
Colombia ![]() | 1–1 | ![]() |
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Aristizábal ![]() |
Report | Soufi ![]() |
Group C
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 4 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 4 |
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 1 |
Morocco ![]() | 1–1 | ![]() |
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Bahja ![]() |
Report | Jung Jae-kwon ![]() |
Sweden ![]() | 1–1 | ![]() |
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Rödlund ![]() |
Report | Seo Jung-won ![]() |
Group D
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 2 |
Knockout stage
[edit]Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | ||||||||
1 August – Valencia | ||||||||||
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5 August – Valencia | ||||||||||
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2 August – Zaragoza | ||||||||||
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8 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | ||||||||||
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1 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | ||||||||||
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5 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | ||||||||||
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2 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | ||||||||||
![]() | 1 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
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7 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou) | ||||||||||
![]() | 2 | |||||||||
![]() | 1 | |||||||||
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Quarter-finals
[edit]Paraguay ![]() | 2–4 (a.e.t.) | ![]() |
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Acheampong ![]() Campos ![]() |
Report | Ayew ![]() Rahman ![]() |
Semi-finals
[edit]Bronze medal match
[edit]Gold medal match
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Medal winners
[edit]Goalscorers
[edit]With seven goals, Poland's Andrzej 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.
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- 7 goals
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Zlatko Arambašić
Damian Mori
Shaun Murphy
Carl Veart
Víctor Aristizábal
Víctor Pacheco
Claus Thomsen
Ibrahim El-Masry
Mohamed Youssef
Isaac Asare
Mohammed Gargo
Oli Rahman
Demetrio Albertini
Jung Jae-kwon
Seo Jung-won
Ali Marwi
Jorge Castañeda
Ahmed Bahja
Noureddine Naybet
Francisco Arce
Mauro Caballero
Jorge Campos
Carlos Gamarra
Marcin Jałocha
Marek Koźmiński
Grzegorz Mielcarski
Mahmoud Soufi
Mubarak Mustafa
Alfonso
Pep Guardiola
Luis Enrique
Paco Soler
Roberto Solozábal
Patrik Andersson
Håkan Mild
Dario Brose
Erik Imler
Manuel Lagos
Joe-Max Moore
- Own goals
Shaun Murphy (playing against Poland)
Joachim Yaw Acheampong (playing against Paraguay)
Final ranking
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | ![]() |
6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | +12 | 12 |
2 | ![]() |
6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | +11 | 9 |
3 | ![]() |
6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 8 |
4 | ![]() |
6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | −4 | 5 |
5 | ![]() |
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 4 |
6 | ![]() |
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
7 | ![]() |
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 4 |
8 | ![]() |
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 3 |
9 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 3 |
10 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
11 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
12 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 2 |
13 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 2 |
14 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 1 |
15 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 1 |
16 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Football at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
- ^ Miller, Nick (18 February 2015). "Who was the last goalkeeper to legally pick up a backpass?". the Guardian. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ "Football Tournament 1992 Olympiad".
- ^ "Football Tournament 1992 Olympiad". RSSSF.
External links
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