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Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics
The football tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics started on July 20 and ended on August 2. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. 16 teams were divided into 4 groups:
- Group A (Cuba, USSR, Venezuela, Zambia)
- Group B (Colombia, Kuwait, Nigeria, Czechoslovakia)
- Group C (Algeria, Spain, GDR, Syria)
- Group D (Costa Rica, Finland, Iraq, Yugoslavia)
Two best teams of each group competed in the quarter-finals.
The football tournament was held in five venues:
- The Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium (Moscow)
- The Grand Arena of the Dynamo Stadium (Moscow)
- Kirov Stadium (Leningrad)
- Republican Stadium (Kiev)
- Dynamo Stadium (Minsk)
The final was held at the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium and the match for the 3rd place was held at the Grand Arena of the Dynamo Stadium. The football tournament was the most attended event on these Olympics: 1,821,624 spectators watched 32 matches of it at the stadiums.
Medals
| Pos | Country: | Total: | |||
| 1 |  Czechoslovakia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 |  GDR | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 |  USSR | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Men's tournament event
| Final Rank | Players | Country |
| 1 | Stanislav Seman , Ludek Macela , Josef Mazura , Libor Radimec , Zdenek Rugel , Petr Nemec , Ladislav Vizek , Jan Berger , Jindrich Svoboda , Lubos Pokluda , Werner Licka , Rotislav Vaclavicek , Jaroslav Netolicka , Oldrich Rott , Frantisek Stambacher , Frantisek Kunzo | Czechoslovakia |
| 2 | Bodo Rudwaleit , Arthur Ullrich , Lothar Hause , Frank Uhlig , Frank Baum , Rudiger Schnuphase , Frank Terletzki , Wolfgang Steinbach , Jurgen Bahringer , Werner Peter , Dieter Kuhn , Norbert Trieloff , Matthias Muller , Matthias Liebers , Bernd Jakubowski , Wolf-Rudiger Netz | GDR |
| 3 | Rinat Dasaev, Tengiz Sulakvelidze , Alexandr Chivadze , Vagiz Khidiyatullin , Oleg Romantsev , Sergey Shavlo , Sergey Andreev , Vladimir Bessonov , Yuri Gavrilov , Fyodor Cherenkov , Valeri Gazzaev , Vladimir Pilguj , Sergej Baltacha , Sergej Nikulin , Khoren Oganesyan , Alexandr Prokopenko | USSR |
Remark:country names are given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1980.
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