Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics
International football competition
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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]
Football at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan | |
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Japan |
| Dates | 11–23 October 1964 |
| Teams | 14 (from 5 confederations) |
| Venues | 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 played | 29 |
| Goals scored | 123 (4.24 per match) |
| Top scorer | Ferenc Bene (12 goals) |
← 1960 1968 → | |
Qualification
Regional qualifying tournaments were held. During the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament among South American national teams, a riot in Lima during the decisive Peru–Argentina 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:
- Group A (United Team of Germany (which was de facto East Germany), Romania, Mexico, Iran)
- Group B (Hungary, Yugoslavia, Morocco,
Korea D.P.R.) - Group C (Czechoslovakia, United Arab Republic (Egypt), Brazil, Korea Rep.)
- Group D (Japan, Ghana, Argentina,
Italy)
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.
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Africa (3) Asia (4)
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Europe (6)
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North America (1) South America (2) |
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Venues
| Tokyo | |||
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| Prince Chichibu Football Field (1) | National Olympic Stadium (2) | Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium (3) | |
| Capacity: 17,569 | Capacity: 71,556 | Capacity: 20,780 | |
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| Saitama | |||
| Ōmiya Football Field (4) | |||
| Capacity: 14,392 | |||
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| Yokohama | |||
| Mitsuzawa Football Field (5) | |||
| Capacity: 10,102 | |||
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Medalists
Note: Only players from the East Germany represented the joint Olympic team of United Team of Germany.
Squads
First round
Group A
| 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 |
| United Team of Germany | 4–0 | Iran |
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Group B
| 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 |
Group C
| 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 |
| Brazil | 4–0 |  South Korea |
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| United Arab Republic | 10–0 | South Korea |
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Group D
| 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 |
| Ghana | 3–2 | Japan |
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Knockout stage
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | ||||||||
| 18 October – Yokohama | ||||||||||
| Romania | 0 | |||||||||
| 20 October – Tokyo (CRS) | ||||||||||
| Hungary | 2 | |||||||||
| Hungary | 6 | |||||||||
| 18 October – Saitama | ||||||||||
| United Arab Republic | 0 | |||||||||
| United Arab Republic | 5 | |||||||||
| 23 October – Tokyo (NS) | ||||||||||
| Ghana | 1 | |||||||||
| Hungary | 2 | |||||||||
| 18 October – Tokyo (KOPS) | ||||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 1 | |||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 4 | |||||||||
| 20 October – Tokyo (KOPS) | ||||||||||
| Japan | 0 | |||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 2 | |||||||||
| 18 October – Tokyo (CRS) | ||||||||||
| United Team of Germany | 1 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 0 | |||||||||
| 23 October – Tokyo (NS) | ||||||||||
| United Team of Germany | 1 | |||||||||
| United Team of Germany | 3 | |||||||||
| United Arab Republic | 1 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
| United Arab Republic | 5–1 | Ghana |
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Semi-finals
First consolation round
| Romania | 4–2 | Ghana |
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Fifth place play-off
| Yugoslavia | 0–3 | Romania |
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Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Goalscorers
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
Carlos Alberto Bulla
Zé Roberto
Anton Urban- František Valošek
- Ľudovít Cvetler
Bernd Bauchspieß- Hermann Stöcker
- Wolfgang Barthels
Edward Acquah- Gyau Agyemang
- Sam Acquah
- Wilberforce Mfum
János Farkas
Karam Ali Nirlou
Aritatsu Ogi- Kunishige Kamamoto
- Saburō Kawabuchi
- Shigeo Yaegashi
Javier Fragoso- José Luis González Dávila
Ali Bouachra
Ion Ionescu- Gheorghe Constantin
Lee Yi-Woo
Aly Etman- Kalil Shanin
- Mahmoud Hassan
- Raafat Attia
- Seddik Mohamed
Spasoje Samardžić
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- Own goal
- Vladimír Weiss (playing against Hungary)
Final ranking
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 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 |
