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Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics

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Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Football at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan
Tournament details
Host countryJapan
Dates11–23 October 1964
Teams14 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)8 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Hungary (2nd title)
Runners-up Czechoslovakia
Third place United Team of Germany
Fourth place Egypt
Tournament statistics
Matches played29
Goals scored123 (4.24 per match)
Top scorer(s)Hungary Ferenc Bene (12 goals)
1960
1968

The football competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics started on 11 October and ended on 23 October. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. The tournament features 14 men's national teams from six continental confederations. The 14 teams are drawn into two groups of four and two groups of three 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 Olympic Stadium on 23 October 1964. There was also three consolation matches played by losing quarter-finalists. The winner of these matches placed fifth in the tournament.[1]

Qualification

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Regional qualifying tournaments were held. During the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament among South American national teams, a riot in Lima during the decisive PeruArgentina match, after Peru's equalizing goal in the last minutes was disallowed by the referee, resulted in 328 deaths, which was considered the worst football disaster in history.[2] Due to the riot, further CONMEBOL matches were not played that year, except for a playoff between Brazil and Peru (won by Brazil), and Argentina qualified instead of Peru.

16 teams qualified, and were divided into four groups:

The two best teams of each group competed in the quarter-finals.

Ultimately, the tournament was played two teams short:

  • Italy were disqualified as their team was not amateur; Poland, who Italy had beaten to qualify, declined to take Italy's place due to a lack of preparation time.
  • North Korea withdrew from the entire Games before the Opening Ceremony after Japanese immigration officials refused six of their athletes entry.

Venues

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Tokyo
Prince Chichibu Football Field (1) National Olympic Stadium (2) Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium (3)
Capacity: 17,569 Capacity: 71,556 Capacity: 20,780
Saitama
Ōmiya Football Field (4)
Capacity: 14,392
Yokohama
Mitsuzawa Football Field (5)
Capacity: 10,102

Medalists

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Gold Silver Bronze
 Hungary  Czechoslovakia  United Team of Germany
Ferenc Bene
Tibor Csernai
János Farkas
József Gelei
Kálmán Ihász
Sándor Katona
Imre Komora
Ferenc Nógrádi
Dezső Novák
Árpád Orbán
Károly Palotai
Antal Szentmihályi
Gusztáv Szepesi
Zoltán Varga
Jan Brumovský
Ludovít Cvetler
Ján Geleta
František Knebort
Karel Knesl
Karel Lichtnégl
Vojtech Masný
Štefan Matlák
Ivan Mráz
Karel Nepomucký
Zdeněk Pičman
František Schmucker
Anton Švajlen
Anton Urban
František Valošek
Josef Vojta
Vladimír Weiss
Gerd Backhaus
Wolfgang Barthels
Bernd Bauchspieß
Gerhard Körner
Otto Fräßdorf
Henning Frenzel
Dieter Engelhardt
Herbert Pankau
Manfred Geisler
Jürgen Heinsch
Klaus Lisiewicz
Jürgen Nöldner
Peter Rock
Klaus-Dieter Seehaus
Hermann Stöcker
Werner Unger
Klaus Urbanczyk
Eberhard Vogel
Manfred Walter
Horst Weigang

Note: Only players from the East Germany represented the joint Olympic team of United Team of Germany.

Squads

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First round

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Group A

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  United Team of Germany 3 2 1 0 7 1 +6 5 Advanced to knockout stage
2  Romania 3 2 1 0 5 2 +3 5
3  Mexico 3 0 1 2 2 6 −4 1
4  Iran 3 0 1 2 1 6 −5 1
Source: RSSSF
United Team of Germany 4–0 Iran
Report
Romania 3–1 Mexico
Report
Attendance: 12,932
Referee: Yozo Yokoyama (Japan)

Iran 1–1 Mexico
Report
Attendance: 15,938

United Team of Germany 2–0 Mexico
Report
Attendance: 12,814
Romania 1–0 Iran
Report
Attendance: 13,026

Group B

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Hungary 2 2 0 0 12 5 +7 4 Advanced to knockout stage
2  Yugoslavia 2 1 0 1 8 7 +1 2
3  Morocco 2 0 0 2 1 9 −8 0
4  North Korea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Withdrew
Source: RSSSF
Hungary 6–0 Morocco
  • Bene 13', 38' (pen.), 70', 74', 78', 87'
Report

Yugoslavia 3–1 Morocco
Report

Yugoslavia 5–6 Hungary
Report

Group C

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Czechoslovakia 3 3 0 0 12 2 +10 6 Advanced to knockout stage
2  United Arab Republic 3 1 1 1 12 6 +6 3
3  Brazil 3 1 1 1 5 2 +3 3
4  South Korea 3 0 0 3 1 20 −19 0
Source: RSSSF
Czechoslovakia 6–1 South Korea
Report
Brazil 1–1 United Arab Republic
Report

Czechoslovakia 5–1 United Arab Republic
Report
Brazil 4–0 South Korea
Report

Czechoslovakia 1–0 Brazil
Report
United Arab Republic 10–0 South Korea
Report

Group D

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Ghana 2 1 1 0 4 3 +1 3 Advanced to knockout stage
2  Japan 2 1 0 1 5 5 0 2
3  Argentina 2 0 1 1 3 4 −1 1
4  Italy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Withdrew
Source: RSSSF
Argentina 1–1 Ghana
Report

Japan 3–2 Argentina
Report

Knockout stage

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Bracket

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Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsGold medal match
 
          
 
18 October – Yokohama
 
 
 Romania0
 
20 October – Tokyo (CRS)
 
 Hungary2
 
 Hungary6
 
18 October – Saitama
 
 United Arab Republic0
 
 United Arab Republic5
 
23 October – Tokyo (NS)
 
 Ghana1
 
 Hungary2
 
18 October – Tokyo (KOPS)
 
 Czechoslovakia1
 
 Czechoslovakia4
 
20 October – Tokyo (KOPS)
 
 Japan0
 
 Czechoslovakia2
 
18 October – Tokyo (CRS)
 
 United Team of Germany1 Bronze medal match
 
 Yugoslavia0
 
23 October – Tokyo (NS)
 
 United Team of Germany1
 
 United Team of Germany3
 
 
 United Arab Republic1
 

Quarter-finals

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Yugoslavia 0–1 United Team of Germany
Report

Romania 0–2 Hungary
Report

Czechoslovakia 4–0 Japan
Report

United Arab Republic 5–1 Ghana
Report


Semi-finals

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Czechoslovakia 2–1 United Team of Germany
Report

Hungary 6–0 United Arab Republic
Report


First consolation round

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Japan 1–6 Yugoslavia
Report

Romania 4–2 Ghana
Report


Fifth place play-off

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Yugoslavia 0–3 Romania
Report
Attendance: 10,000


Bronze medal match

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United Team of Germany 3–1 United Arab Republic
Report
Attendance: 65,610
Referee: Yozo Yokoyama (Japan)


Gold medal match

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Hungary 2–1 Czechoslovakia
Report
Attendance: 65,610


Goalscorers

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With 12 goals, Ferenc Bene of Hungary is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 123 goals were scored by 56 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

12 goals
8 goals
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goal

Final ranking

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Hungary 5 5 0 0 22 6 +16 10
2  Czechoslovakia 6 5 0 1 19 5 +14 10
3  United Team of Germany 6 4 1 1 12 4 +8 9
4  United Arab Republic 6 2 1 3 18 16 +2 5
5  Romania 6 4 1 1 12 6 +6 9
6  Yugoslavia 5 2 0 3 14 12 +2 4
7  Ghana 4 1 1 2 7 12 −5 3
8  Japan 4 1 0 3 6 15 −9 2
9  Brazil 3 1 1 1 5 2 +3 3
10  Argentina 2 0 1 1 3 4 −1 1
11  Mexico 3 0 1 2 2 6 −4 1
12  Iran 3 0 1 2 1 6 −5 1
13  Morocco 2 0 0 2 1 9 −8 0
14  South Korea 3 0 0 3 1 20 −19 0
Source: rsssf.com

References

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  1. ^ "Football at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
  2. ^ Edwards, Piers (23 May 2014). "Lima 1964: The world's worst stadium disaster". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
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