The following is the list of squads that took place in the men's field hockey tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Cuba The following players represented Cuba:

Angel Mora Severo Frometa Bernabé Izquierdo Edgardo Vázquez Héctor Pedroso Tomás Varela Raúl García Jorge Mico Rodolfo Delgado Lazaro Hernández Juan Blanco Juan Caballero Roberto Ramírez Ángel Fontane Ricardo Campos Juan Ríos

India The following players represented India:

Allan Schofield Bir Bahadur Chettri Dung Dung Sylvanus Rajinder Singh Devinder Singh Gurmail Singh Ravinder Pal Singh Vasudevan Bhaskaran Somaya Muttana Maneypandey Maharaj Krishon Kaushik Charanjit Kumar Merwyn Fernandis Amarjit Rana Mohammed Shahid Zafar Iqbal Surinder Singh Sodhi

Poland The following players represented Poland:

Zygfryd Józefiak Andrzej Mikina Krystian Bąk Włodzimierz Stanisławski Leszek Hensler Jan Sitek Jerzy Wybieralski Leszek Tórz Zbigniew Rachwalski Henryk Horwat Andrzej Myśliwiec Leszek Andrzejczak Jan Mielniczak Mariusz Kubiak Adam Dolatowski Krzysztof Głodowski

Spain The following players represented Spain:

José Miguel García Juan Amat Santiago Malgosa Rafael Garralda Francisco Fábregas Juan Luís Coghen Ricardo Cabot Jaime Arbós Carlos Roca Juan Pellón Miguel de Paz Miguel Chaves Juan Arbós Javier Cabot Paulino Monsalve Jaime Zumalacárregui

Soviet Union The following players represented Soviet Union:

Vladimir Pleshakov Vyacheslav Lampeyev Leonid Pavlovsky Sos Hayrapetyan Farit Zigangirov Valery Belyakov Sergey Klevtsov Oleg Zagorodnev Aleksandr Gusev Sergey Pleshakov Mikhail Nichepurenko Minneula Azizov Aleksandr Sychov Aleksandr Myasnikov Viktor Deputatov Aleksandr Goncharov

Tanzania The following players represented Tanzania:

Leopold Gracias Benedict Mendes Soter Da Silva Abraham Sykes Youssef Manwar Jaypal Singh Mohamed Manji Rajabu Rajab Jasbir Virdee Islam Islam Stephen Da Silva Frederick Furtado Taher Ali Hassan Ali Anoop Mukundan Patrick Toto Julius Peter

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