Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics

1984 Olympic Football Tournament

Tournament details
Host country	United States
Dates	July 29 – August 11, 1984
Teams	16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	France (1st title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	Yugoslavia
Fourth place	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	84 (2.63 per match)
Attendance	1,425,181 (44,537 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Borislav Cvetković Stjepan Deverić Daniel Xuereb (5 goals each)
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The association football (soccer) tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics started on July 29 and ended on August 11, taking place throughout the United States.^[1] It was the first Olympic football competition in which officially professional players were allowed. Until then, the amateur-only rule had heavily favored socialist countries from the Eastern Bloc whose players were professionals in all but name. However, as agreed with FIFA to preserve the primacy of the World Cup, the Olympic competition was restricted to players with no more than five "A" caps at tournament start, regardless of age.^[2]

The soccer tournament was held in four venues:

• Harvard Stadium (Boston)
• Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (Annapolis, Maryland)
• Stanford Stadium (Stanford, California)
• Rose Bowl (Pasadena, California)

The Gold medal game between France and Brazil at the Rose Bowl attracted an Olympic Games soccer attendance record of 101,799. Until 2014 this remained the record attendance for a soccer game in the United States. This broke the previous Olympics record attendance of 100,000 set at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia for the game of the 1956 Olympic Games played between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. The Rose Bowl attendance would remain the Olympic record until 104,098 attended the game of the 2000 Summer Olympics between Cameroon and Spain at the Stadium Australia in Sydney.

The attendance also stood as the highest for a soccer game in the United States until 109,318 saw Manchester United defeat Real Madrid during the 2014 International Champions Cup at the Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.

Schedule

G

Group stage

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Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

B

3rd place play-off

F

Final

Event↓/Date →	Sun 29	Mon 30	Tue 31	Wed 1	Thu 2	Fri 3	Sat 4	Sun 5	Mon 6	Tue 7	Wed 8	Thu 9	Fri 10	Sat 11
Men's tournament	G	G	G	G	G	G		¼	¼		½		B	F

Qualifying

Sixteen teams qualified for the Olympic tournament after continental qualifying rounds. Three Warsaw Pact countries had qualified but withdrew as part of the Soviet-led boycott. They were replaced as follows:

• East Germany were replaced by Norway.
• USSR were replaced by West Germany.
• Czechoslovakia were replaced by Italy.

Venues

Pasadena	Boston	Annapolis	Stanford
Rose Bowl	Harvard Stadium	Navy–Marine Corps Stadium	Stanford Stadium
Capacity: 103,300	Capacity: 30,323	Capacity: 34,000	Capacity: 84,500
Rose Bowl Harvard Stadium Navy–Marine Corps Stadium Stanford Stadium

Medalists

Match officials

Squads

Final tournament

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1	4	Qualified for quarter-finals
2	Chile	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	4
3	Norway	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	3
4	Qatar	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Yugoslavia	3	3	0	0	7	3	+4	6	Qualified for quarter-finals
2	Canada	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	3
3	Cameroon	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	2
4	Iraq	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1

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Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	3	3	0	0	6	1	+5	6	Qualified for quarter-finals
2	West Germany	3	2	0	1	8	1	+7	4
3	Morocco	3	1	0	2	1	4	−3	2
4	Saudi Arabia	3	0	0	3	1	10	−9	0

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Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	2	0	1	2	1	+1	4	Qualified for quarter-finals
2	Egypt	3	1	1	1	5	3	+2	3
3	United States	3	1	1	1	4	2	+2	3
4	Costa Rica	3	1	0	2	2	7	−5	2

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Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	August 5 – Pasadena, CA
	France	2
					August 8 – Pasadena, CA
	Egypt	0
					France (a.e.t.)	4
	August 6 – Pasadena, CA
					Yugoslavia	2
	Yugoslavia	5
									August 11 – Pasadena, CA
	West Germany	2
									France	2
	August 5 – Stanford, CA
									Brazil	0
	Italy (a.e.t.)	1
					August 8 – Stanford, CA
	Chile	0
					Italy	1
	August 6 – Stanford, CA
					Brazil (a.e.t.)	2			Bronze medal match
	Brazil (pen.)	1 (4)
									August 10 – Pasadena, CA
	Canada	1 (2)
									Yugoslavia	2
									Italy	1

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze Medal match

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Gold Medal match

Team details

France Brazil GK 1 Albert Rust DF 2 William Ayache DF 4 Michel Bibard DF 8 Philippe Jeannol DF 16 Jean-Louis Zanon MF 10 Jean-Claude Lemoult MF 11 Jean-Philippe Rohr MF 9 Guy Lacombe FW 4 Dominique Bijotat FW 15 Daniel Xuereb FW 5 François Brisson Substitutions: FW 7 Patrice Garande FW 6 Patrick Cubaynes Manager: Henri Michel GK 1 Gilmar Rinaldi DF 2 Ronaldo Silva DF 3 Pinga DF 4 Mauro Galvão DF 6 André Luís MF 5 Ademir MF 8 Dunga MF 10 Gilmar Popoca FW 15 Tonho FW 9 Kita FW 11 Silvinho Substitutions: FW 16 Chicão FW 17 Milton Cruz Manager: Jair Picerni

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of two substitutions.

Final team rankings

Note: As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Result
1	France (FRA)	6	4	2	0	13	6	+7	10
2	Brazil (BRA)	6	4	1	1	9	5	+4	9
3	Yugoslavia (YUG)	6	5	0	1	16	10	+6	10
4	Italy (ITA)	6	3	0	3	5	5	0	6
5	West Germany (FRG)	4	2	0	2	10	6	+4	4	Eliminated in the quarter-finals
6	Canada (CAN)	4	1	2	1	5	4	+1	4
7	Chile (CHI)	4	1	2	1	2	2	0	4
8	Egypt (EGY)	4	1	1	2	5	5	0	3
9	United States (USA)	3	1	1	1	4	2	+2	3	Eliminated in the group stage
10	Norway (NOR)	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	3
11	Cameroon (CMR)	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	2
12	Morocco (MAR)	3	1	0	2	1	4	−3	2
13	Costa Rica (CRC)	3	1	0	2	2	7	−5	2
14	Iraq (IRQ)	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1
15	Qatar (QAT)	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1
16	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	3	0	0	3	1	10	−9	0

Statistics

Goalscorers

With five goals, Daniel Xuereb of France, Borislav Cvetković and Stjepan Deverić of Yugoslavia are the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 84 goals were scored by 52 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

5 goals

• Daniel Xuereb
• Borislav Cvetković
• Stjepan Deverić

4 goals

• Gilmar Popoca

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Discipline

In the final tournament, a player was suspended for the subsequent match in the competition for getting a red card. The following twelve players were sent off and suspended during the final tournament:

Player	Offences	Date	Suspensions
Sebastiano Nela	in group D v Egypt	July 29	Group D v United States
Mohamed Sedky	in group D v Italy	July 29	Group D v Costa Rica
Morsy El Alaa	in group D v Italy	July 29	Group D v Costa Rica
Moustafa Ahmed Ismail	in group D v Italy	July 29	Group D v Costa Rica
Marko Elsner	in group B v Cameroon	July 30	Group B v Canada
Mustapha El Biyaz	in group C v West Germany	July 30	Group C v Saudi Arabia
Mubarak Al-Kaater	in group A v Norway	August 2	None (Qatar eliminated)
Issa Al-Mohammadi	in group A v Norway	August 2	None (Qatar eliminated)
Théophile Abega	in group B v Canada	August 3	None (Cameroon eliminated)
Sameer Abdulshaker	in group C v West Germany	August 3	None (Saudi Arabia eliminated)
Jovica Nikolić	in semi-final v France	August 8	Bronze medal match v Italy
Borislav Cvetković	in semi-final v France	August 8	Bronze medal match v Italy

Trivia

The wave was first broadcast internationally during the 1984 Olympic football final, when it was done among the 100,000 in attendance at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena.^[3]

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