Football at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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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) |
| Fair play award |  Burma |
The 1972 Olympic football tournament, held in Munich, Augsburg, Ingolstadt, Nürnberg, 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 Olympic Stadium on 10 September 1972.[1]
In 2017, the physician of the Soviet team revealed that the match for the bronze medal between the Soviet Union and East Germany was fixed.[2]
Contents
Qualifications
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Squads
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Venues
| Munich | Nuremberg | ||
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| Olympiastadion | Frankenstadion | ||
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| Regensburg | Passau | ||
| Jahnstadion | Dreiflüssestadion | ||
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| Ingolstadt | Augsburg | ||
| ESV-Stadion | Rosenaustadion | ||
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First round
Group A
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31 August 1972
16:30 |
Morocco  |
6–0 |  Malaysia |
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Benkhrif  16'Faras 19', 21', 25'El Filali 56'Tati 85' |
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31 August 1972
21:00 |
West Germany  |
7–0 |  United States |
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| Nickel 17', 43', 70', 86' Hitzfeld 47'Seliger 62'Bitz 79' |
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Group B
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Group C
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27 August 1972
15:00 |
Denmark  |
3–2 | 23x15px Brazil |
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| Simonsen 28', 83' Røntved 50' |
Report | Dirceu 68' Zé Carlos 69' |
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29 August 1972
17:30 |
| Hungary |
2–2 | 23x15px Brazil |
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| A. Dunai 4' Juhász 84' |
Report | Pedrinho 67' Dirceu 73' |
Group D
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28 August 1972
16:45 |
| Poland [[File:{{{flag alias-1928}}}|23x15px|border |alt=|link=]] | 5–1 |  Colombia |
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| Deyna 16', 32' Gadocha 42', 49', 72' |
Report | Morón 63' |
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30 August 1972
16:30 |
| East Germany |
6–1 | Colombia |
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| Streich 1', 10' Sparwasser 9'Ducke 31'Vogel 85'Kreische 88' (pen.) |
Report | Espinosa 38' |
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30 August 1972
16:30 |
| Poland [[File:{{{flag alias-1928}}}|23x15px|border |alt=|link=]] | 4–0 |  Ghana |
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| Lubański 40' Gadocha 59', 89'Deyna 86' |
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1 September 1972
16:30 |
| Poland [[File:{{{flag alias-1928}}}|23x15px|border |alt=|link=]] | 2–1 | East Germany |
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| Gorgoń 6', 63' |
Report | Streich 45' |
Second round
Group 1
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5 September 1972
15:00 |
| East Germany |
7–0 |  Mexico |
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| Ganzera 34' Sparwasser 39', 51', 89'Streich 48'Kreische 72'Häfner 79' |
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6 September 1972
20:00 |
| Hungary |
4–1 | West Germany |
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| E. Dunai 14' A. Dunai 43'Kü 75', 87' |
Report | Hitzfeld 33' |
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8 September 1972
21:30 |
| East Germany |
3–2 | West Germany |
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| Pommerenke 10' Streich 53'Vogel 82' |
Report | Hoeneß 31' Hitzfeld 68' |
Group 2
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8 September 1972
16:30 |
| Poland [[File:{{{flag alias-1928}}}|23x15px|border |alt=|link=]] | 5–0 | Morocco |
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| Kmiecik 3' Lubański 10'Deyna 45' (pen.), 63'Gadocha 53' |
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8 September 1972
16:30 |
Soviet Union  |
4–0 | Denmark |
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| Kolotov 20' Semyonov 28'Blokhin 55'Sabo 88' |
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Knockout stage
Bronze Medal match
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10 September 1972
10:00 |
| 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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10 September 1972
20:15 |
| Poland [[File:{{{flag alias-1928}}}|23x15px|border |alt=|link=]] | 2–1 | Hungary |
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| Deyna 47', 68' |
Report | Várady 42' |
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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
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- 5 goals
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- 3 goals
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- 2 goals
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- 1 goal
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- 23x15px Pedrinho
- 23x15px Zé Carlos
- Aung Moe Thin
- Soe Than
- Ángel Torres
- Fabio Espinosa
- Luis Montaño
- Kristen Nygaard
- Leif Printzlau
- Per Røntved
- Frank Ganzera
- Jürgen Pommerenke
- Peter Ducke
- Reinhard Häfner
- Ibrahim Sunday
- Kálmán Tóth
- Lajos Kocsis
- Mihály Kozma
- Péter Juhász
Majid Halvai- Salleh Ibrahim
- Shaharuddin Abdullah
- Zawawi Yusoff
- Boujemaa Benkhrif
- Mohamed Merzaq
- Mohammed El Filali
- Mohammed Tati
- Daniel Razo
- Manuel Manzo
- Kazimierz Kmiecik
- Zygfryd Szołtysik
- Gennady Yevriuzhikin
- Murtaz Khurtsilava
- Oganes Zanazanyan
- Yozhef Sabo
- Yuriy Yeliseyev
Jaksa- Hermann Bitz
- Jürgen Kalb
- Ronald Worm
- Uli Hoeneß
Final ranking
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Medalists
References
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