Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics

1984 Olympic Football Tournament

Tournament details
Host country	United States
Dates	(1984-07-29) (1984-08-11)29 July – 11 August 1984 (13 days)
Teams	16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	France (1st title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	Yugoslavia
Fourth place	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	84 (2.63 per match)
Attendance	1,425,181 (44,537 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Daniel Xuereb Borislav Cvetković Stjepan Deverić (5 goals each)

The association football tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics started on July 29 and ended on August 11. It featured only a men's tournament, as women's football had yet to become an Olympic event. It was the first Olympic football competition in which professionals were allowed. Until then, the amateur-only rule had heavily favored socialist countries from Eastern Europe whose players were professionals in all but name. However, as agreed with FIFA to preserve the primacy of the World Cup, the Olympic competition was restricted to players with no more than five "A" caps at tournament start, regardless of age.

The football tournament was held in four venues:

• Harvard Stadium (Boston)
• Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (Annapolis, Maryland)
• Stanford Stadium (Stanford, California)
• Rose Bowl, (Pasadena, California)

The Gold Medal game between France and Brazil at the Rose Bowl attracted an Olympic Games football attendance record of 101,799. Until 2014 this remained the record attendance for a football game in the United States. This broke the previous Olympics record attendance of 100,000 set at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia for the corresponding game of the 1956 Olympic Games played between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. The Rose Bowl attendance would remain the Olympic record until 104,098 attended the Gold Medal game of the 2000 Summer Olympics between Cameroon and Spain at the Stadium Australia in Sydney.

The attendance also stood as the highest for a football game in the United States until 109,318 saw Manchester United defeat Real Madrid during the 2014 International Champions Cup at the Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.

Schedule

G	Group stage	¼	Quarterfinals	½	Semifinals	B	3rd place play-off	F	Final

Event↓/Date →	Sun 29	Mon 30	Tue 31	Wed 1	Thu 2	Fri 3	Sat 4	Sun 5	Mon 6	Tue 7	Wed 8	Thu 9	Fri 10	Sat 11
Men's tournament	G	G	G	G	G	G		¼	¼		½		B	F

Qualifying

Sixteen teams qualified for the Olympic tournament after continental qualifying rounds. Three Warsaw Pact countries had qualified but withdrew as part of the Soviet-led boycott. They were replaced as follows:

• East Germany won UEFA Group 2. They were replaced by Norway, who came third; second-place Poland were also boycotting.
• USSR won UEFA Group 1. They were replaced by West Germany, second in Group 4. Hungary and Bulgaria, second and third in Group 1, were also boycotting.
• Czechoslovakia qualified as 1980 champions. They were replaced by Italy, third in UEFA Group 3.

Venues

Pasadena	Rose Bowl Harvard Stadium Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium Stanford Stadium Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics (the US)					Boston
Rose Bowl						Harvard Stadium
Capacity: 103,300						Capacity: 30,323
Annapolis						Stanford
Navy–Marine Corps Stadium						Stanford Stadium
Capacity: 34,000						Capacity: 84,500

Medalists

Match officials

Squads

Final tournament

First round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
France	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1	4
Chile	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	4
Norway	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	3
Qatar	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1

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Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Yugoslavia	3	3	0	0	7	3	+4	6
Canada	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	3
Cameroon	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	2
Iraq	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1

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Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	3	0	0	6	1	+5	6
West Germany	3	2	0	1	8	1	+7	4
Morocco	3	1	0	2	1	4	−3	2
Saudi Arabia	3	0	0	3	1	10	−9	0

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Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	2	0	1	2	1	+1	4
Egypt	3	1	1	1	5	3	+2	3
United States	3	1	1	1	4	2	+2	3
Costa Rica	3	1	0	2	2	7	−5	2

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Knockout stages

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	August 5 – Pasadena, CA
	France	2
					August 8 – Pasadena, CA
	Egypt	0
					France (aet)	4
	August 6 – Pasadena, CA
					Yugoslavia	2
	Yugoslavia	5
									August 11 – Pasadena, CA
	West Germany	2
									France	2
	August 5 – Stanford, CA
									Brazil	0
	Italy (aet)	1
					August 8 – Stanford, CA
	Chile	0
					Italy	1			Bronze medal match
	August 6 – Stanford, CA
					Brazil (aet)	2			August 10 – Pasadena, CA
	Brazil (pen)	1 (4)
									Yugoslavia	2
	Canada	1 (2)
									Italy	1

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze Medal match

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Gold Medal match

Final team rankings

Note: As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	France (FRA)	6	4	2	0	13	6	+7	10
2	Brazil (BRA)	6	4	1	1	9	5	+4	9
3	Yugoslavia (YUG)	6	5	0	1	16	10	+6	10
4	Italy (ITA)	6	3	0	3	5	5	0	6
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
5	West Germany (FRG)	4	2	0	2	10	6	+4	4
6	Canada (CAN)	4	1	2	1	5	4	+1	4
7	Chile (CHI)	4	1	2	1	2	2	0	4
8	Egypt (EGY)	4	1	1	2	5	5	0	3
Eliminated in the group stage
9	United States (USA)	3	1	1	1	4	2	+2	3
10	Norway (NOR)	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	3
11	Cameroon (CMR)	3	1	0	2	3	5	–2	2
12	Morocco (MAR)	3	1	0	2	1	4	–3	2
13	Costa Rica (CRC)	3	1	0	2	2	7	–5	2
14	Iraq (IRQ)	3	0	1	2	3	6	–3	1
15	Qatar (QAT)	3	0	1	2	2	5	–3	1
16	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	3	0	0	3	1	10	–9	0

Statistics

Goalscorers

With five goals, Daniel Xuereb of France, Borislav Cvetković and Stjepan Deverić of Yugoslavia are the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 84 goals were scored by 52 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

5 goals

• Daniel Xuereb
• Borislav Cvetković
• Stjepan Deverić

4 goals

• Gilmar Popoca

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Discipline

In the final tournament, a player was suspended for the subsequent match in the competition for getting a red card. The following twelve players were sent off and suspended during the final tournament:

Player	Offences	Date	Suspensions
Sebastiano Nela	in group D v Egypt	29 July	Group D v United States
Mohamed Sedky	in group D v Italy	29 July	Group D v Costa Rica
Morsy El Alaa	in group D v Italy	29 July	Group D v Costa Rica
Moustafa Ahmed Ismail	in group D v Italy	29 July	Group D v Costa Rica
Marko Elsner	in group B v Cameroon	30 July	Group B v Canada
Mustapha El Biyaz	in group C v West Germany	30 July	Group C v Saudi Arabia
Mubarak Al-Kaater	in group A v Norway	2 August	None (Qatar eliminated)
Issa Al-Mohammadi	in group A v Norway	2 August	None (Qatar eliminated)
Théophile Abega	in group B v Canada	3 August	None (Cameroon eliminated)
Sameer Abdulshaker	in group C v West Germany	3 August	None (Saudi Arabia eliminated)
Jovica Nikolić	in semi-final v France	8 August	Bronze medal match v Italy
Borislav Cvetković	in semi-final v France	8 August	Bronze medal match v Italy

References

External links

• Olympic Football Tournament Los Angeles 1984, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Summary
• FIFA Technical Report