An association football tournament was played as part of the 1988 Summer Olympics in South Korea, featuring 16 men's national teams from six continental confederations. The teams were drawn into four groups of four with each group playing 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 the Seoul Olympic Stadium on 1 October 1988.FIFA.com
Before the final match, the Soviet team relocated from the Olympic Village to a Soviet steamship stationed nearby. After winning the gold medal, each player from the Soviet team received 15 thousand dollars from the Soviet government.
Venues Seoul Busan Olympic Stadium Dongdaemun Stadium Busan Stadium Capacity: 69,950 Capacity: 26,383 Capacity: 30,000 Daegu Daejeon Gwangju Daegu Stadium Daejeon Stadium Gwangju Stadium Capacity: 23,278 Capacity: 30,000 Capacity: 30,000
Qualification The following 16 teams qualified for the 1988 Olympics football tournament: Means of qualification Berths Qualified Host nation 1 AFC Preliminary Competition 2 CAF Preliminary Competition 3 CONCACAF Preliminary Competition 2 1987 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament 2 (winner) (runner-up) OFC Preliminary Competition 1 UEFA Preliminary Competition 5 Total 16
Participating nations
A total of 314 footballers from 16 participating nations were called up to the Games, with 268 having played in at least one match. Tunisia used the most players of any team throughout their run with 19 out of 20, while China only utilised 14 of their 18-man list.
Match officials
Africa Jean-Fidele Diramba Baba Laouissi Badara Sène
Asia Jamal Al-Sharif Choi Gil-Soo Mandi Jassim Shizuo Takada
South America Juan Daniel Cardellino Arnaldo Cézar Coelho Jesús Díaz Juan Carlos Loustau Hernán Silva
North and Central America Edgardo Codesal Lennox Sirjuesingh Vincent Mauro
Europe Gérard Biguet Keith Hackett Kenny Hope Kurt Röthlisberger Tullio Lanese Michał Listkiewicz Karl-Heinz Tritschler Alexey Spirin
Oceania Chris Bambridge
Final tournament Group stage Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Team details GK 1 Dmitri Kharine RB 17 Viktor Losev (c) CB 18 Sergei Gorlukovich CB 12 Yevgeny Yarovenko LB 2 Gela Ketashvili CM 15 Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko CM 7 Yevgeni Kuznetsov RW 14 Volodymyr Tatarchuk AM 20 Arminas Narbekovas LW 10 Igor Dobrovolski CF 11 Volodymyr Lyutyi Substitutions:FW 19 Yury Savichev DF 3 Igor Sklyarov Manager:Anatoliy Byshovets
GK 1 Cláudio Taffarel RB 14 Luiz Carlos Winck CB 15 Aloísio CB 13 André Cruz (c) LB 2 Jorginho DM 16 Milton DM 19 Andrade AM 10 Careca II AM 17 Neto CF 11 Romário CF 20 Bebeto Substitutions:FW 9 Edmar FW 18 João Paulo Manager:Carlos Alberto Silva
Medal summary Aleksandr BorodyukOleksiy CherednykIgor DobrovolskiSergei FokinSergei GorlukovichArvydas JanonisGela KetashviliDmitri KharineYevgeni KuznetsovViktor LosevVolodymyr LyutyiOleksiy MykhaylychenkoArminas NarbekovasIgor PonomaryovYury SavichevIgor SklyarovVladimir TatarchukYevgeny YarovenkoAlexei PrudnikovVadym Tyshchenko AdemirAloísioAndradeBatistaBebetoCarecaAndré CruzEdmarGeovaniJoão PauloJorginhoMiltonNetoRomárioCláudio TaffarelLuiz Carlos WinckRicardo GomesMazinhoValdo FilhoZé Carlos Rudi BommerHolger FachWolfgang FunkelArmin GörtzRoland GrahammerThomas HäßlerThomas HörsterOlaf JanßenUwe KampsGerhard KleppingerJürgen KlinsmannFrank MillKarl-Heinz RiedleChristian SchreierMichael SchulzRalf SieversFritz WalterWolfram WuttkeOliver ReckGunnar Sauer
Final rankings
Note: The players above the line played at least one game in this tournament, the players below the line were only squad members. Nevertheless, the International Olympic Committee medal database credits them all as medalists.
Goalscorers With seven goals, Romário of Brazil was the top scorer. In total, 95 goals were scored by 53 different players, with one of them credited as an own goal.
7 goals Romário 6 goals Igor Dobrovolski Kalusha Bwalya 5 goals Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko 4 goals Jürgen Klinsmann 3 goals
Carlos Alfaro Pietro Paolo Virdis Jan Hellström Frank Mill
2 goals
Bebeto Ahmed Radhi Andrea Carnevale Arminas Narbekovas Peter Lönn Nabil Maâloul Holger Fach Wolfram Wuttke Dragan Stojković Refik Šabanadžović Derby Makinka
1 goal
Néstor Fabbri Frank Farina John Kosmina André Cruz Edmar Geovani Adán Paniagua Carlos Castañeda Karim Allawi Mudhafar Jabbar Alberigo Evani Ciro Ferrara Massimo Crippa Massimo Mauro Ruggiero Rizzitelli Stefano Desideri Rashidi Yekini Yury Savichev Noh Soo-jin Jonas Thern Leif Engqvist Tarak Dhiab Brent Goulet John Doyle Mike Windischmann Christian Schreier Fritz Walter Gerhard Kleppinger Roland Grahammer Wolfgang Funkel Jonson Bwalya Stone Nyirenda
Own goal Rocael Mazariegos (playing against Iraq)
References
External links
Olympic Football Tournament Seoul 1988, FIFA.com RSSSF Summary FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)