The 1972 Olympic football tournament, held in Munich, Augsburg, Ingolstadt, Nuremberg, 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 Olympiastadion on 10 September 1972. The medalists were Poland (gold), Hungary (silver), and shared bronze medalists East Germany and the Soviet Union, the first of three consecutive Olympic football tournaments where all the medalists were communist countries and the first since 1956.
In 2017, the physician of the Soviet team claimed that the bronze medal match between the Soviet Union and East Germany was fixed at the request of Soviet coach Aleksandr Ponomarev.
Qualifications
Squads
Venues MunichNurembergOlympiastadionFrankenstadionRegensburgPassauJahnstadionDreiflüssestadionIngolstadtAugsburgESV-StadionRosenaustadion
First round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Second round
Group 1
Group 2
Knockout stage
Bronze Medal match
Bronze medals shared.
Gold Medal match
Team details GK 1 Hubert Kostka RB 19 Zbigniew Gut CB 5 Lesław Ćmikiewicz CB 3 Jerzy Gorgoń LB 4 Zygmunt Anczok MF 6 Zygmunt Maszczyk MF 8 Zygfryd Szołtysik MF 13 Jerzy Kraska AM 9 Kazimierz Deyna FW 11 Robert Gadocha FW 10 Włodzimierz Lubański Substitutes:MF 7 Ryszard Szymczak Manager: Kazimierz Górski
GK 1 István GécziDF 4 Péter JuhászDF 3 Miklós PáncsicsDF 16 László Bálint DF 2 Péter Vépi MF 7 Mihály Kozma MF 14 Ede Dunai MF 10 Lajos Kü MF 11 Béla Várady FW 5 Lajos Szűcs FW 9 Antal Dunai Substitutes:FW 8 Kálmán Tóth MF 17 Lajos Kocsis Manager: Rudolf Illovszky
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 Kazimierz Deyna 7 goals Antal Dunai 6 goals
Joachim Streich Robert Gadocha Oleh Blokhin Bernd Nickel
5 goals
Hans-Jürgen Kreische Jürgen Sparwasser Ottmar Hitzfeld
3 goals
Allan Simonsen Heino Hansen Eberhard Vogel Ede Dunai Ahmed Faras Viktor Kolotov Vyacheslav Semyonov
2 goals
Dirceu Jaime Morón Keld Bak Béla Várady Lajos Kű Leonardo Cuéllar Jerzy Gorgoń Włodzimierz Lubański Rudolf Seliger
1 goal
Pedrinho Zé Carlos Than Soe Tin Aung Moe Fabio Espinosa Luis Montaño Ángel Torres Kristen Nygaard Leif Printzlau Per Røntved Peter Ducke Frank Ganzera Reinhard Häfner Jürgen Pommerenke Ibrahim Sunday Péter Juhász Lajos Kocsis Mihály Kozma Kálmán Tóth Majid Halvai Salleh Shaharuddin Wan Zawawi Boujemaa Benkhrif Mohamed Merzaq Mohammed El Filali Mohammed Tati Daniel Razo Manuel Manzo Kazimierz Kmiecik Zygfryd Szołtysik Murtaz Khurtsilava Yozhef Sabo Yuriy Yeliseyev Gennady Yevriuzhikin Hovhannes Zanazanyan Jaksa Hermann Bitz Uli Hoeneß Jürgen Kalb Ronnie Worm
Final ranking
Medalists GoldSilverBronzeBronze Hubert Kostka Zbigniew Gut Jerzy Gorgoń Zygmunt Anczok Lesław Ćmikiewicz Zygmunt Maszczyk Jerzy Kraska Kazimierz Deyna Zygfryd Szołtysik Włodzimierz Lubański Robert Gadocha Ryszard Szymczak Antoni Szymanowski Joachim Marx Grzegorz Lato Marian Ostafiński Kazimierz Kmiecik Marian Szeja Coach: Kazimierz GórskiIstván Géczi Péter Vépi Miklós Páncsics Péter Juhász Lajos Szűcs Mihály Kozma Antal Dunai Lajos Kű Béla Váradi Ede Dunai László Bálint Lajos Kocsis Kálmán Tóth László Branikovits József Kovács Csaba Vidács Adám RothermelOleh Blokhin Murtaz Khurtsilava Yuriy Istomin Volodymyr Kaplychnyi Viktor Kolotov Yevgeni Lovchev Sergei Olshansky Yevhen Rudakov Vyacheslav Semyonov Gennadi Evryuzhikhin Oganes Zanazanyan Andrei Yakubik Arkady Andreasyan Revaz Dzodzuashvili Yozhef Sabo Yuriy Yeliseyev Volodymyr Onyshchenko Anatoliy Kuksov Vladimir Pilgui Coach: Aleksandr PonomarevJürgen Croy Manfred Zapf Konrad Weise Bernd Bransch Jürgen Pommerenke Jürgen Sparwasser Hans-Jürgen Kreische Joachim Streich Wolfgang Seguin Peter Ducke Frank Ganzera Lothar Kurbjuweit Eberhard Vogel Harald Irmscher Ralf Schulenberg Reinhard Häfner Siegmar Wätzlich Coach: Georg Buschner
References
External links
Olympic Football Tournament Munich 1972, FIFA.com RSSSF Summary