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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:


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



MEN'S TOURNAMENT EVENT



Group A

  • July 20

  • ---Moscow, Central. USSR 4-0 Venezuela

  • ---Leningrad. Zambia 0-1 Cuba

  • July 22

  • ---Moscow, Central. USSR 3-1 Zambia

  • ---Leningrad. Venezuela 1-2 Cuba

  • July 24

  • ---Moscow, Dynamo. USSR 8-0 Cuba

  • ---Leningrad. Venezuela 2-1 Zambia



Group B

  • July 21

  • ---Leningrad. Czechoslovakia 3-0 Colombia

  • ---Moscow, Dynamo. Nigeria 1-3 Kuwait

  • July 23

  • ---Leningrad. Czechoslovakia 1-1 Nigeria

  • ---Moscow, Dynamo. Colombia 1-1 Kuwait

  • July 25

  • ---Leningrad. Czechoslovakia 0-0 Kuwait

  • ---Moscow, Dynamo. Colombia 1-0 Nigeria



Group C

  • July 20

  • ---Kiev. GDR 1-1 Spain

  • ---Minsk. Algeria 3-0 Syria

  • July 22

  • ---Kiev. GDR 1-0 Algeria

  • ---Minsk. Spain 0-0 Syria

  • July 24

  • ---Kiev. GDR 5-0 Syria

  • ---Minsk. Spain 1-1 Algeria



Group D

  • July 21

  • ---Minsk. Yugoslavia 2-0 Finland

  • ---Kiev. Costa Rica 0-3 Iraq

  • July 23

  • ---Minsk. Yugoslavia 3-2 Costa Rica

  • ---Kiev. Finland 0-0 Iraq

  • July 25

  • ---Minsk. Yugoslavia 1-1 Iraq

  • ---Kiev. Finland 3-0 Costa Rica



Quarter finals

All matches held in July 27 , 1980 . Matches in the left column were played in Moscow (Dynamo) and Leningrad and matches in the right column - in Kiev and Minsk respectively.






 












USSR 2 - 1 Kuwait
Czechoslovakia 3 - 0  Cuba













GDR 4 - 0 Iraq
Yugoslavia 3 - 0 Algeria




Semifinals

Both matches held in July 29 , 1980 in Moscow - at Central (left) and at Dynamo (right).






 







USSR 0 - 1 GDR








Yugoslavia 0 - 2  Czechoslovakia




Third place match






August 1 , 1980 . Moscow, Dynamo.







USSR 1 - 0 Yugoslavia




Final






August 2 , 1980 . Moscow, Central.







GDR 0 - 1 Czechoslovakia



Remark:country names are given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1980 .