The football tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics started on 18 July and ended on 31 July. 13 teams participated in the tournament, while three African teams withdrew in support of the anti-racism boycott. East Germany won gold by beating Poland 3-1 in the final and the Soviet Union took bronze.
Venues Montreal Ottawa Sherbrooke Toronto Olympic Stadium Lansdowne Park Sherbrooke Stadium Varsity Stadium Capacity: 72,406 Capacity: 30,065 Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 21,739
Qualification
The following 13 teams qualified for the 1976 Olympics football tournament:
Africa (CAF) (withdrew) (withdrew) (withdrew) Asia (AFC)
North and Central America (CONCACAF) (replaced )
South America (CONMEBOL)
(withdrew) Europe (UEFA)
(automatically qualified as 1972 olympic champions)
Hosting nation
Match officials
Asia Abraham Klein Jafar Namdar North and Central America Peter Thomas Johnson Werner Winsemann Marco Antonio Dorantes South America Ángel Coerezza Arnaldo Cézar Coelho Guillermo Velásquez Ramón Barreto
Europe Paul Schiller Robert Héliès Alberto Michelotti Adolf Prokop Károly Palotai Marian Kuston John Paterson Emilio Guruceta Muro Vladimir Rudnev
Squads
Final tournament
First round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Team details GK 1 Jürgen CroyDF 6 Reinhard LauckDF 4 Konrad WeiseDF 3 Hans-Jürgen DörnerDF 5 Lothar KurbjuweitMF 12 Gerd KischeMF 14 Hartmut Schade MF 9 Hans-Jürgen Riediger FW 8 Reinhard HäfnerFW 13 Wolfram Löwe FW 11 Martin HoffmannSubstitutes:MF 10 Bernd Bransch DF 17 Wilfried Gröbner Manager: Georg Buschner
GK 1 Jan Tomaszewski DF 2 Antoni SzymanowskiDF 14 Henryk WieczorekDF 5 Władysław ŻmudaDF 13 Henryk WawrowskiMF 6 Zygmunt MaszczykMF 9 Kazimierz DeynaMF 8 Henryk KasperczakFW 7 Grzegorz LatoFW 10 Andrzej SzarmachFW 11 Kazimierz KmiecikSubstitutes:GK 12 Piotr Mowlik Manager: Kazimierz Górski
Medal winners
– Gold
Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin Wilfried Gröbner Jürgen Croy Gerd Weber Hans-Jürgen Dörner Konrad Weise Lothar Kurbjuweit Reinhard Lauck Gert Heidler Reinhard Häfner Hans-Jürgen Riediger Bernd Bransch Martin Hoffmann Gerd Kische Wolfram Löwe Hartmut Schade Dieter Riedel
Coach: Georg Buschner
– Silver
Jan Tomaszewski Piotr Mowlik Antoni Szymanowski Jerzy Gorgoń Wojciech Rudy Władysław Żmuda Zygmunt Maszczyk Grzegorz Lato Henryk Wawrowski Henryk Kasperczak Roman Ogaza Kazimierz Kmiecik Kazimierz Deyna Andrzej Szarmach Henryk Wieczorek Lesław Ćmikiewicz Jan Benigier
Coach: Kazimierz Górski
– Bronze
Vladimir Astapovsky Anatoliy Konkov Viktor Matviyenko Mykhaylo Fomenko Stefan Reshko Volodymyr Troshkin David Kipiani Volodymyr Onyshchenko Viktor Kolotov Volodymyr Veremeyev Oleh Blokhin Leonid Buryak Vladimir Fyodorov Aleksandr Minayev Viktor Zvyahintsev Leonid Nazarenko Aleksandr Prokhorov
Coach: Valeriy Lobanovskyi
Goalscorers
With six goals, Andrzej Szarmach of Poland is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 66 goals were scored by 44 different players, with only one of them credited as an own goal.
6 goals Andrzej Szarmach 4 goals Hans-Jürgen Dörner 3 goals Michel Platini Víctor Rangel Grzegorz Lato Volodymyr Onyshchenko 2 goals
Jarbas Jimmy Douglas Jean-Marc Schaer Loïc Amisse Vicky Peretz Hong Song-Nam Viktor Kolotov
1 goal
Chico Fraga Erivélto Léo Júnior Rosemiro Hans-Jürgen Riediger Hartmut Schade Lothar Kurbjuweit Martin Hoffmann Reinhard Häfner Wolfram Löwe Bruno Baronchelli Francisco Rubio Marco Fion Ali Parvin Gholam Hossein Mazloumi Hassan Rowshan Parviz Ghelichkhani Itzhak Shum Yaron Oz Hugo Sánchez An Se-Uk Antoni Szymanowski Kazimierz Deyna Aleksandr Minayev Leonid Nazarenko Oleh Blokhin Viktor Zvyahintsev Volodymyr Veremeyev Santiago Idígoras
Own goal Eduardo Rergis (playing against Guatemala)
Final ranking
References
External links
Olympic Football Tournament Montreal 1976, FIFA.com RSSSF Summary