The 1968 Olympic football tournament was played as part of the 1968 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 knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at the Azteca Stadium on 26 October 1968. This was the first time an Asian team won a medal, Japan claiming bronze.
Qualification
Africa (3)
Asia (3)
Europe (5)
(holders)
North America (3)
(hosts)
South America (2)
Notes
Venues
Mexico City Puebla Guadalajara León Estadio Azteca Estadio Cuauhtémoc Estadio Jalisco Estadio León Capacity: 104,0001968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 78. Accessed 4 November 2010. Capacity: 35,5631968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 75. Accessed 4 November 2010. Capacity: 31,8911968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 79. Accessed 4 November 2010. Capacity: 23,609
Medalists GoldSilverBronze István BástiAntal DunaiLajos DunaiErnő NoskóDezső NovákKároly FatérLászló FazekasIstván JuhászLászló KeglovichLajos KocsisIván MenczelLászló NagyMiklós PáncsicsIstván SárköziLajos SzűcsZoltán SzarkaMiklós Szalai Stoyan YordanovAtanas GerovGeorgi HristakievMilko GaydarskiKiril IvkovIvaylo GeorgievTsvetan VeselinovEvgeni YanchovskiPetar ZhekovAtanas HristovAsparuh DonevKiril StankovGeorgi IvanovTodor NikolovYancho DimitrovIvan ZafirovMihail GyoninGeorgi Vasilev Kenzo YokoyamaHiroshi KatayamaMasakatsu MiyamotoYoshitada YamaguchiMitsuo KamataRyozo SuzukiKiyoshi TomizawaTakaji MoriAritatsu OgiEizo YuguchiShigeo YaegashiTeruki MiyamotoMasashi WatanabeYasuyuki KuwaharaKunishige KamamotoIkuo MatsumotoRyuichi SugiyamaMasahiro Hamazaki
Squads
Group stage All times are Central Standard Time (UTC-6). Group A
Group B
Group C
Ghana replaced Morocco, who refused to play against Israel.
Group D
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Bulgaria won the match against Israel after coin-toss. No extra time was played.NYT, 21 Oct 1968.
Semi-finals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Statistics Goalscorers With seven goals, Kunishige Kamamoto of Japan is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 116 goals were scored by 68 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.
7 goals Kunishige Kamamoto 6 goals Antal Dunai 4 goals Petar Zhekov Ladislav Petráš Lajos Szűcs Yehoshua Feigenbaum 3 goals Atanas Mihaylov Charles Teamboueon Iván Menczel Pulido Rodríguez Vicente Pereda 2 goals
Fernando Ferretti Asparuh Nikodimov Tsvetan Veselinov Pavel Stratil Marc-Kanyan Case Malik Jabir Alberto López Oliva Nelson Melgar Fodé Bouya Camara Dezső Novák Giora Spiegel Masashi Watanabe Albino Morales Kenneth Olayombo Toni Grande
1 goal
Tião Ivaylo Georgiev Mihail Gyonin Georgi Hristakiev Kiril Ivkov Ivan Zafirov Alfonso Jaramillo Fabio Mosquera Gustavo Santa Javier Tamayo Miloš Herbst Jozef Jarabinský Mikuláš Krnáč Jiří Večerek Juan Ramón Martínez Pipo Rodríguez Gérard Hallet Daniel Horlaville Daniel Perrigaud Gbadamosi Amosa Osei Kofi Ibrahim Sunday Sammy Stevens Sampene Jorge Roldán David Stokes Maxime Camara N'Dongo Camara László Fazekas István Juhász István Sárközi Shraga Bar Mordechai Spiegler Rachamim Talbi Luis Estrada Cesáreo Victorino Peter Anieke Samuel Okoye Juan Fernández Vilela Fernando Ortuño Udomsilp Sornbutnark
Own goals Humberto Medina (playing against France) Segun Olumodeji (playing against Brazil)
Final ranking
References
External links
Olympic Football Tournament Mexico City 1968, FIFA.com RSSSF Summary