Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Tournament details
Host country	South Korea
Dates	September 17-October 1
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Soviet Union
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	West Germany
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	95 (2.97 per match)
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Final results for the football competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics. The tournament was held from September 17, 1988 to October 1, 1988.

Medal summary [edit]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Borodyuk Oleksiy Cherednyk Igor Dobrovolski Sergei Fokin Sergei Gorlukovich Arvydas Janonis Gela Ketashvili Dmitry Kharin Yevgeni Kuznetsov Viktor Losev Volodymyr Lyuty Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko Arminas Narbekovas Igor Ponomarev Yury Savichev Igor Sklyarov Volodymyr Tatarchuk Yevgeny Yarovenko Alexei Prudnikov Vadym Tyshchenko	Brazil (BRA) Ademir Aloísio Andrade Batista Bebeto Careca André Cruz Edmar Geovani João Paulo Jorginho Milton Neto Romário Cláudio Taffarel Luiz Carlos Winck Ricardo Gomes Mazinho Valdo Filho Zé Carlos	West Germany (FRG) Rudi Bommer Holger Fach Wolfgang Funkel Armin Görtz Roland Grahammer Thomas Häßler Thomas Hörster Olaf Janßen Uwe Kamps Gerhard Kleppinger Jürgen Klinsmann Frank Mill Karl-Heinz Riedle Christian Schreier Michael Schulz Ralf Sievers Fritz Walter Wolfram Wuttke Oliver Reck Gunnar Sauer

Note: The players above the line played at least one game in this tournament, the players below the line were only squad members. Nevertheless the International Olympic Committee medal database credits them all as medalists.

Qualification [edit]

The following sixteen teams qualified for the 1988 Olympics football tournament:

Participating nations [edit]

Each country was allowed to enter a team of 20 players and they all were eligible for participation. A total number of 314 footballers were entered.

A total of 268(*) footballers from 16 nations competed at the Seoul Games:

• Argentina (16 - from a squad of 19)
• Australia (16 - from a squad of 20)
• Brazil (16 - from a squad of 20)
• China (14 - from a squad of 18)
• Guatemala (17 - from a squad of 19)
• Iraq (16 - from a squad of 20)
• Italy (18 - from a squad of 20)
• South Korea (16 - from a squad of 20)
• Nigeria (17 - from a squad of 20)
• Sweden (17 - from a squad of 20)
• Tunisia (19 - from a squad of 20)
• United States (16 - from a squad of 20)
• Soviet Union (18 - from a squad of 20)
• West Germany (18 - from a squad of 20)
• Yugoslavia (16 - from a squad of 18)
• Zambia (18 - from a squad of 20)

(*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.

Final tournament [edit]

First round [edit]

Group A [edit]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	5
West Germany	3	2	0	1	8	3	+5	4
Tunisia	3	0	2	1	3	6	−3	2
China PR	3	0	1	2	0	5	−5	1

September 17, 1988	China PR	0–3	West Germany	Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan Referee: Attendance:

September 17, 1988	Sweden	2–2	Tunisia	Daegu Civic Stadium, Daegu Referee: Attendance:

September 19, 1988	Tunisia	1–4	West Germany	Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan Referee: Attendance:

September 19, 1988	China PR	0–2	Sweden	Daegu Civic Stadium, Daegu Referee: Attendance:

September 21, 1988	China PR	0–0	Tunisia	Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan Referee: Attendance:

September 21, 1988	Sweden	2–1	West Germany	Daegu Civic Stadium, Daegu Referee: Attendance:

Group B [edit]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Zambia	3	2	1	0	10	2	+8	5
Italy	3	2	0	1	7	6	+1	4
Iraq	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	3
Guatemala	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0

September 17, 1988	Italy	5–2	Guatemala	Gwangju Mudeung Stadium, Gwangju Referee: Attendance:

September 17, 1988	Zambia	2–2	Iraq	Daejeon Hanbat Stadium, Daejeon Referee: Attendance:

September 19, 1988	Zambia	4–0	Italy	Gwangju Mudeung Stadium, Gwangju Referee: Attendance:

September 19, 1988	Iraq	3–0	Guatemala	Daejeon Hanbat Stadium, Daejeon Referee: Attendance:

September 21, 1988	Zambia	4–0	Guatemala	Gwangju Mudeung Stadium, Gwangju Referee: Attendance:

September 21, 1988	Iraq	0–2	Italy	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul Referee: Attendance:

Group C [edit]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Soviet Union	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	5
Argentina	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	3
South Korea	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	2
United States	3	0	2	1	3	5	−2	2

September 18, 1988	South Korea	0–0	Soviet Union	Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan Referee: Attendance:

September 18, 1988	United States	1–1	Argentina	Daegu Civic Stadium, Daegu Referee: Attendance:

September 20, 1988	South Korea	0–0	United States	Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan Referee: Attendance:

September 20, 1988	Argentina	1–2	Soviet Union	Daegu Civic Stadium, Daegu Referee: Attendance:

September 22, 1988	South Korea	1–2	Argentina	Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan Referee: Attendance:

September 22, 1988	United States	2–4	Soviet Union	Daegu Civic Stadium, Daegu Referee: Attendance:

Group D [edit]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	3	0	0	9	1	+8	6
Australia	3	2	0	1	2	3	−1	4
Yugoslavia	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	2
Nigeria	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0

September 18, 1988	Australia	1–0	Yugoslavia	Gwangju Mudeung Stadium, Gwangju Referee: Attendance:

September 18, 1988	Brazil	4–0	Nigeria	Daejeon Hanbat Stadium, Daejeon Referee: Attendance:

September 20, 1988	Nigeria	1–3	Yugoslavia	Daejeon Hanbat Stadium, Daejeon Referee: Attendance:

September 20, 1988	Australia	0–3	Brazil	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul Referee: Attendance:

September 22, 1988	Brazil	2–1	Yugoslavia	Daejeon Hanbat Stadium, Daejeon Referee: Attendance:

September 22, 1988	Australia	1–0	Nigeria	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul Referee: Attendance:

Knockout stage [edit]

	Quarter finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	September 25 - Daegu
	Sweden	1
					September 27 - Busan
	Italy (AET)	2
					Italy	2
	September 25 - Busan
					Soviet Union (AET)	3
	Soviet Union	3
									October 1 - Seoul
	Australia	0
									Soviet Union (AET)	2
	September 25 - Gwangju
									Brazil	1
	Zambia	0
					September 27 - Seoul
	West Germany	4
					West Germany	1 (2)			Bronze medal match
	September 25 - Seoul
					Brazil	1 (3)
	Brazil	1							Italy	0
	Argentina	0							West Germany	3
									September 30 - Seoul

Quarter-finals [edit]

September 25, 1988	Sweden	1–2 (aet)	Italy	Daegu Civic Stadium, Daegu Referee: Attendance:

September 25, 1988	Soviet Union	3–0	Australia	Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan Referee: Attendance:

September 25, 1988	West Germany	4–0	Zambia	Gwangju Mudeung Stadium, Gwangju Referee: Attendance:

September 25, 1988	Brazil	1–0	Argentina	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul Referee: Attendance:

Semi-finals [edit]

September 27, 1988	Soviet Union	3–2 (aet)	Italy	Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan Referee: Attendance: 10,000

September 27, 1988	Brazil	1–1 (3-2p)	West Germany	Olympic Stadium, Seoul Referee: Attendance: 65,000

Bronze Medal match [edit]

September 30, 1988	Italy	0–3	West Germany	Olympic Stadium, Seoul Referee: Attendance: 61,000

Gold Medal match [edit]

October 1, 1988	Soviet Union	2–1 (aet)	Brazil	Olympic Stadium, Seoul Referee: Attendance: 74,000

Venues [edit]

• Olympic Stadium – Seoul
• Dongdaemun Stadium – Seoul
• Busan Gudeok Stadium – Busan
• Daegu Civic Stadium – Daegu
• Daejeon Hanbat Stadium – Daejeon
• Gwangju Mudeung Stadium – Gwangju

Match officials [edit]

Top scorers [edit]

A total of 52 players scored 95 goals (including one own goal) in the 32 matches. Only China was unable to score a goal.

Place	Name	Nation	Goals
1.	Romário	Brazil (BRA)	7
2.	Igor Dobrovolski	Soviet Union (URS)	6
	Kalusha Bwalya	Zambia (ZAM)	6
4.	Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko	Soviet Union (URS)	5
5.	Jürgen Klinsmann	West Germany (FRG)	4
6.	Frank Mill	West Germany (FRG)	3
	Pietro Paolo Virdis	Italy (ITA)	3
	Carlos Alfaro	Argentina (ARG)	3
	Jan Hellström	Sweden (SWE)	3

External links [edit]

• Olympic Football Tournament Seoul 1988, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Archive

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