The 1968 Summer Olympics football tournament gold medal match was the final match of the 1964 Summer Olympics football tournament, the 15th edition of Olympic competition for men's national football teams. The match was played at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, Mexico, on 26 October 1968, and was contested by Bulgaria and Hungary.
Description The tournament comprised hosts Mexico, holders Hungary and twelve other teams who emerged victorious from the qualification phase, The 16 teams competed in a group stage in the first round, from which eight teams qualified for the knockout stage. En route to the final, Bulgaria finished first in Group D with two wins (7–0 against Thailand, 2–1 against Guatemala) and one draw (2–2 against Czechoslovakia). They then beat Israel 1–1 after drawing of lots in the quarter-finals and hosts Mexico 3–2 in the semi-finals.
Hungary finished first in Group C with two wins, (4–0 against El Salvador, 2–0 against Israel) and one draw (2–2 against Ghana, defeating Guatemala 1–0 in the quarter-finals and Japan 5–0 in the semi-finals. The final took place in front of 75,000 spectators and was refereed by Diego Di Leo.
Bulgaria opened the scoring in the 20th minute through Tsvetan Veselinov until Hungary scored two goals by Iván Menczel and Antal Dunai in quick succession to take the lead towards the end of the first half. Straight afterwards, three Bulgaria players were sent off; Tsevtan Veselinov, Kiril Ivkov, and Atanas Mihaylov. The second half saw Hungary score another goal by Antal Dunai just four minutes in and was further topped with a fourth goal by István Juhász and towards the final minutes of the match he was sent off in the 85th minute. Hungary won the match 4–1 and the 1968 Olympic football tournament.
Route to the final
Bulgaria + Bulgaria's route to the final Opponent Result 7–0 2–2 2–1 1–1 3–2
Hungary + Hungary's route to the final Opponent Result 4–0 2–2 2–0 1–0 5–0
Match
Details
1 Stoyan Yordanov 2 Atanas Gerov 3 Georgi Hristakiev 4 Milko Gaydarski 5 Kiril Ivkov 6 Ivaylo Georgiev 7 Tsvetan Veselinov 8 Evgeni Yanchovski 9 Petar Zhekov 10Atanas Mihaylov 13Asparuh Nikodimov Substitutions: 19Todor Krastev 12Kiril Stankov 14Mihail Gyonin 15Yancho Dimitrov 16Georgi Tsvetkov Manager: Georgi Berkov 1 Károly Fatér 2 Dezső Novák 3 Lajos Dunai 4 Miklós Páncsics 5 Iván Menczel 6 Lajos Szűcs 7 László Fazekas 10Antal Dunai 11László Nagy 14Ernő Noskó 15István Juhász Substitutions: 19Zoltán Szarka 9 Lajos Kocsis 12László Keglovich 16Miklós Szalay 17István SárköziManager: Károly Lakat
Assistant referees: Arturo Yamasaki (Peru) Alfonso González (Mexico)
See also Bulgaria at the Olympics Hungary at the Olympics
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