Football at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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|image=Football pictogram black (1972 Summer Olympics style).svg

|size=175px

|country=West Germany

|dates=27 August – 10 September 1972

|num_teams=16

|confederations=5

|venues=6

|cities=6

|champion_other={{fb|POL|1928}} (1st title)

|second_other={{fb|HUN}}

|third_other={{fb|GDR}} (shared)
{{fb|URS|1955}} (shared)

|fourth_other=

|matches=38

|goals=135

|attendance=795433

|top_scorer={{fbicon|POL|1928}} Kazimierz Deyna (9 goals)

|updated=

|prevseason=1968

|nextseason=1976

}}

The 1972 Olympic football tournament, held in Munich, Augsburg, Ingolstadt, Nuremberg, Passau, and Regensburg, was played as part of the 1972 Summer Olympics. The tournament features 16 men's national teams from five continental confederations. The 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four and each group plays a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the second group stage, where the second-placed teams in each group advanced to the bronze medal match while the first-placed teams advanced to the gold medal match held at Olympiastadion on 10 September 1972.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1972/FTB/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055246/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1972/FTB/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Football at the 1972 Munich Summer Games |work=Sports Reference |access-date=22 October 2018}} The medalists were Poland (gold), Hungary (silver), and shared bronze medalists East Germany and the Soviet Union, the first of three consecutive Olympic football tournaments where all the medalists were communist countries and the first since 1956.

In 2017, the physician of the Soviet team revealed that the bronze medal match between the Soviet Union and East Germany was fixed at the request of Soviet coach Aleksandr Ponomarev.{{cite web|first=Denis|last=Romantsov|language=ru|website=sports.ru |title=«Высоцкий дал установку: «Макаронщиков надо обыграть». Он знает о нашем футболе все|trans-title=Vysotsky gave the order: "We need to beat the Makarons." He knows everything about our football|url=https://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/youth/1293543.html|date=2 June 2017|access-date=13 August 2024|quote=Мы не вышли в финал, а игру за третье место против ГДР назначили на десять утра. Тренер Пономарев сказал: «Что-то не хочется с ними бодаться. Как бы нам вничью сыграть». Ничья означала бронзовые медали для обеих команд. Используя свой немецкий, выученный в институте, я подошел перед игрой к доктору сборной ГДР. «Как ты смотришь на то, чтобы медали получили и вы, и мы?» – «Положительно», – и пошел к тренеру. Тот повернулся ко мне и показал большой палец: вопрос решен. Мы забили друг другу по два мяча, но на второй тайм вышел динамовец Андрей Якубик, который, ни о чем не подозревая, ворвался в штрафную и чуть не сделал счет 3:2. Слава богу, не попал, а то немцы бы нас уничтожили.|trans-quote=We didn't make it to the finals, and the third-place game against East Germany was scheduled for ten in the morning. Coach Ponomarev said, "I don't feel like butting heads with them. How about we play to a draw." A draw would have meant bronze medals for both teams. Using my German, learned at the institute, I approached the East Germany team doctor before the game. "How do you feel about both of us getting medals?" "Yes," I said, and went to the coach. He turned to me and gave me a thumbs-up: the issue was decided. We scored twice each, but Dynamo's Andrei Yakubik came out for the second half, unsuspectingly burst into the penalty area and almost made the score 3:2. Thank God he missed, otherwise the Germans would have destroyed us.}}

Qualifications

{{main article|Football at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification}}

Squads

{{main article|Football at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads}}

Venues

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Munich

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!Nuremberg

Olympiastadion

|Frankenstadion

170px

|170px

Regensburg

!Passau

Jahnstadion

|Dreiflüssestadion

170px

|170px

Ingolstadt

!Augsburg

ESV-Stadion

|Rosenaustadion

170px

|170px

First round

=Group A=

{{#invoke:sports table|main|style=WDL

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|winpoints=2

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|team1=FRG|name_FRG={{flagIOC|FRG|1972 Summer}}

|team2=MAR|name_MAR={{flagIOC|MAR|1972 Summer}}

|team3=MAS|name_MAS={{flagIOC|MAS|1972 Summer}}

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|win_MAS=1|draw_MAS=0|loss_MAS=2|gf_MAS=3|ga_MAS=9

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|col_A=#ccffcc|text_A=Advanced to second round

|result1=A|result2=A

|update=complete|source=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/mensolympic/munich1972/match-center FIFA]

}}

{{football box

| date = 27 August 1972

| time=15:00

| team1 = {{fb-rt|FRG}}

| score= 3–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32127/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|MAS}}

| goals1 = Worm {{goal|56}}
Kalb {{goal|71}}
Seliger {{goal|82}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich

| attendance = 60,000

| referee = Armando Marques (Brazil)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 27 August 1972

| time=15:00

| team1 = {{fb-rt|MAR}}

| score= 0–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32126/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|USA}}

| goals1 =

| goals2 =

| stadium = Rosenaustadion, Augsburg

| attendance = 4,000

| referee = Rudi Glöckner (East Germany)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 29 August 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|FRG}}

| score= 3–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32135/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|MAR}}

| goals1 = Nickel {{goal|30|pen.|33|pen.}}
Hitzfeld {{goal|53}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Dreiflüssestadion, Passau

| attendance = 16,000

| referee = Doğan Babacan (Turkey)

}}

----

{{football box

| date = 29 August 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|MAS}}

| score= 3–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32136/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|USA}}

| goals1 = Shaharuddin {{goal|14}}
Salleh {{goal|67}}
Wan Zawawi {{goal|77}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = ESV-Stadion, Ingolstadt

| attendance = 3,000

| referee = Henry Oberg (Norway)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 31 August 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|MAR}}

| score= 6–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32144/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|MAS}}

| goals1 = Benkhrif {{goal|16}}
Faras {{goal|19||21||25}}
El Filali {{goal|56}}
Tati {{goal|85}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = ESV-Stadion, Ingolstadt

| attendance = 2,500

| referee = Károly Palotai (Hungary)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 31 August 1972

| time=21:00

| team1 = {{fb-rt|FRG}}

| score= 7–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32143/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|USA}}

| goals1 = Nickel {{goal|17||43||70||86}}
Hitzfeld {{goal|47}}
Seliger {{goal|62}}
Bitz {{goal|79}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich

| attendance = 65,000

| referee = Marco Antonio Dorantes García (Mexico)

}}

=Group B=

{{#invoke:sports table|main|style=WDL

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|winpoints=2

|show_positions=n

|team1=URS|name_URS={{fb|URS|1955}}

|team2=MEX|name_MEX={{fb|MEX}}

|team3=BIR|name_BIR={{flagIOC|BIR|1972 Summer}}

|team4=SUD|name_SUD={{fb|SUD}}

|win_URS=3|draw_URS=0|loss_URS=0|gf_URS=7|ga_URS=2

|win_MEX=2|draw_MEX=0|loss_MEX=1|gf_MEX=3|ga_MEX=4

|win_BIR=1|draw_BIR=0|loss_BIR=2|gf_BIR=2|ga_BIR=2

|win_SUD=0|draw_SUD=0|loss_SUD=3|gf_SUD=1|ga_SUD=5

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|result1=A|result2=A

|update=complete|source=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/mensolympic/munich1972/match-center FIFA]

}}

{{football box

| date = 28 August 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|USSR}}

| score= 1–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32130/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|Burma|1948}}

| goals1 = Kolotov {{goal|51}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Jahnstadion, Regensburg

| attendance = 6,000

| referee = Jafar Namdar (Iran)

}}

----

{{football box

| date = 28 August 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|MEX}}

| score= 1–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32129/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|SUD}}

| goals1 = Manzo {{goal|16}}

| goals2 =

| stadium =Frankenstadion, Nuremberg

| attendance = 500

| referee = Francesco Francescon (Italy)

}}

----

{{football box

| date = 30 August 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|MEX}}

| score= 1–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32137/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|Burma|1948}}

| goals1 = Cuéllar {{goal|86}}

| goals2 =

| stadium =Frankenstadion, Nuremberg

| attendance = 1,000

| referee = Robert Quarshie (Ghana)

}}

----

{{football box

| date = 30 August 1972

| time=17:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|USSR}}

| score= 2–1

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32139/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|SUD}}

| goals1 = Yevriuzhikin {{goal|42|pen.}}
Zanazanyan {{goal|44}}

| goals2 = Jaksa {{goal|59}}

| stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich

| attendance = 25,000

| referee = Ferdinand Biwersi (West Germany)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 1 September 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|USSR}}

| score= 4–1

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32146/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|MEX}}

| goals1 = Blokhin {{goal|7||13||14}}
Semyonov {{goal|58}}

| goals2 = Razo {{goal|60}}

| stadium = Jahnstadion, Regensburg

| attendance = 8,000

| referee = Luis Pestarino (Argentina)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 1 September 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|Burma|1948}}

| score= 2–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32148/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|SUD}}

| goals1 = Soe Than {{goal|7}}
Aung Moe Thin {{goal|61}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Dreiflüssestadion, Passau

| attendance = 2,000

| referee = Marian Środecki (Poland)

}}

=Group C=

{{#invoke:sports table|main|style=WDL

|res_col_header=Q

|winpoints=2

|show_positions=n

|team1=HUN|name_HUN={{fb|HUN}}

|team2=DEN|name_DEN={{fb|DEN}}

|team3=IRN|name_IRN={{fb|IRN|1964}}

|team4=BRA|name_BRA={{fb|BRA|1968}}

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|win_DEN=2|draw_DEN=0|loss_DEN=1|gf_DEN=7|ga_DEN=4

|win_IRN=1|draw_IRN=0|loss_IRN=2|gf_IRN=1|ga_IRN=9

|win_BRA=0|draw_BRA=1|loss_BRA=2|gf_BRA=4|ga_BRA=6

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|result1=A|result2=A

|update=complete|source=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/mensolympic/munich1972/match-center FIFA]

}}

{{football box

| date = 27 August 1972

| time=15:00

| team1 = {{fb-rt|HUN}}

| score= 5–0

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| team2 = {{fb|IRN|1964}}

| goals1 = A. Dunai {{goal|31||48||90+1}}
Várady {{goal|52}}
Kozma {{goal|81}}

| goals2 =

| stadium =Frankenstadion, Nuremberg

| attendance = 2,000

| referee = Guillermo Velásquez (Colombia)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 27 August 1972

| time=15:00

| team1 = {{fb-rt|DNK}}

| score= 3–2

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32128/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|BRA|1968}}

| goals1 = Simonsen {{goal|28||83}}
Røntved {{goal|50}}

| goals2 = Dirceu {{goal|68}}
Zé Carlos {{goal|69}}

| stadium = Dreiflüssestadion, Passau

| attendance = 10,000

| referee = Pavel Kazakov (Soviet Union)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 29 August 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|DNK}}

| score= 4–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32133/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|IRN|1964}}

| goals1 = Heino Hansen {{goal|16||58}}
Simonsen {{goal|39}}
Nygaard {{goal|44}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Rosenaustadion, Augsburg

| attendance = 3,500

| referee = Abdelkrim Ziani (Morocco)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 29 August 1972

| time=17:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|HUN}}

| score= 2–2

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32134/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|BRA|1968}}

| goals1 = A. Dunai {{goal|4}}
Juhász {{goal|84}}

| goals2 = Pedrinho {{goal|67}}
Dirceu {{goal|73}}

| stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich

| attendance = 50,000

| referee = William Mullan (Great Britain)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 31 August 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|DNK}}

| score= 0–2

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32142/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|HUN}}

| goals1 =

| goals2 = E. Dunai {{goal|17||84}}

| stadium = Rosenaustadion, Augsburg

| attendance = 8,500

| referee = Oei Poh Hwa (Malaysia)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 31 August 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|IRN|1964}}

| score= 1–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32141/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|BRA|1968}}

| goals1 = Halvai {{goal|63}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Jahnstadion, Regensburg

| attendance = 2,200

| referee = Gerhard Schulenburg (West Germany)

}}

=Group D=

{{#invoke:sports table|main|style=WDL

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|winpoints=2

|show_positions=n

|team1=POL|name_POL={{fbo|POL|1928}}

|team2=GDR|name_GDR={{fb|GDR}}

|team3=COL|name_COL={{fb|COL}}

|team4=GHA|name_GHA={{fb|GHA}}

|win_POL=3|draw_POL=0|loss_POL=0|gf_POL=11|ga_POL=2

|win_GDR=2|draw_GDR=0|loss_GDR=1|gf_GDR=11|ga_GDR=3

|win_COL=1|draw_COL=0|loss_COL=2|gf_COL=5|ga_COL=12

|win_GHA=0|draw_GHA=0|loss_GHA=3|gf_GHA=1|ga_GHA=11

|col_A=#ccffcc|text_A=Advanced to second round

|result1=A|result2=A

|update=complete|source=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/mensolympic/munich1972/match-center FIFA]

}}

{{football box

| date = 28 August 1972

| time=16:45

| team1 = {{fbo-rt|POL|1928}}

| score= 5–1

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32132/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|COL}}

| goals1 = Deyna {{goal|16||32}}
Gadocha {{goal|42||49||72}}

| goals2 = Morón {{goal|63}}

| stadium = ESV-Stadion, Ingolstadt

| attendance = 4,000

| referee = Ahmed Gindil Salih (Sudan)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 28 August 1972

| time=17:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|GDR}}

| score= 4–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32131/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|GHA}}

| goals1 = Kreische {{goal|19||89}}
Streich {{goal|45}}
Sparwasser {{goal|66}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich

| attendance = 40,000

| referee = Michael Wuertz (United States)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 30 August 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|GDR}}

| score= 6–1

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32140/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|COL}}

| goals1 = Streich {{goal|1||10}}
Sparwasser {{goal|9}}
Ducke {{goal|31}}
Vogel {{goal|85}}
Kreische {{goal|88|pen.}}

| goals2 = Espinosa {{goal|38}}

| stadium = Dreiflüssestadion, Passau

| attendance = 4,500

| referee = Abdelkader Aouissi (Algeria)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 30 August 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fbo-rt|POL|1928}}

| score= 4–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32138/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|GHA}}

| goals1 = Lubański {{goal|40}}
Gadocha {{goal|59||89}}
Deyna {{goal|86}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Jahnstadion, Regensburg

| attendance = 2,200

| referee = Lee Kan-Chee (Hong Kong)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 1 September 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fbo-rt|POL|1928}}

| score= 2–1

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32145/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|GDR}}

| goals1 = Gorgoń {{goal|6||63}}

| goals2 = Streich {{goal|45}}

| stadium =Frankenstadion, Nuremberg

| attendance = 10.000

| referee = Werner Winsemann (Canada)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 1 September 1972

| time=21:00

| team1 = {{fb-rt|COL}}

| score= 3–1

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197111/match=32147/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|GHA}}

| goals1 = Morón {{goal|56}}
Torres {{goal|60}}
Montaño {{goal|82}}

| goals2 = Sunday {{goal|79}}

| stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich

| attendance = 25,000

| referee = Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)

}}

Second round

=Group 1=

{{#invoke:sports table|main|style=WDL

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|winpoints=2

|show_positions=n

|team1=HUN|name_HUN={{fb|HUN}}

|team2=GDR|name_GDR={{fb|GDR}}

|team3=FRG|name_FRG={{fb|FRG}}

|team4=MEX|name_MEX={{fb|MEX}}

|win_HUN=3|draw_HUN=0|loss_HUN=0|gf_HUN=8|ga_HUN=1

|win_GDR=2|draw_GDR=0|loss_GDR=1|gf_GDR=10|ga_GDR=4

|win_FRG=0|draw_FRG=1|loss_FRG=2|gf_FRG=4|ga_FRG=8

|win_MEX=0|draw_MEX=1|loss_MEX=2|gf_MEX=1|ga_MEX=10

|col_A=green1|text_A=Gold Medal match

|col_B=blue1|text_B=Bronze Medal match

|result1=A|result2=B

|update=complete|source=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/mensolympic/munich1972/match-center FIFA]

}}

{{football box

| date = 3 September 1972

| time=15:00

| team1 = {{fb-rt|FRG}}

| score= 1–1

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197116/match=32149/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|MEX}}

| goals1 = Hitzfeld {{goal|5}}

| goals2 = Cuéllar {{goal|69}}

| stadium =Frankenstadion, Nuremberg

| attendance = 40,000

| referee = Oei Poh Hwa (Malaysia)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 3 September 1972

| time=15:00

| team1 = {{fb-rt|HUN}}

| score= 2–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197116/match=32152/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|GDR}}

| goals1 = A. Dunai {{goal|60}}
Tóth {{goal|66}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Dreiflüssestadion, Passau

| attendance = 8,500

| referee = Armando Marques (Brazil)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 5 September 1972

| time=15:00

| team1 = {{fb-rt|GDR}}

| score= 7–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197116/match=32155/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|MEX}}

| goals1 = Ganzera {{goal|34}}
Sparwasser {{goal|39||51||89}}
Streich {{goal|48}}
Kreische {{goal|72}}
Häfner {{goal|79}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = ESV-Stadion, Ingolstadt

| attendance = 5,500

| referee = Jafar Namdar (Iran)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 6 September 1972

| time=20:00

| team1 = {{fb-rt|HUN}}

| score= 4–1

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197116/match=32156/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|FRG}}

| goals1 = E. Dunai {{goal|14}}
A. Dunai {{goal|43}}
{{goal|75||87}}

| goals2 = Hitzfeld {{goal|33}}

| stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich

| attendance = 70,000

| referee = Luis Pestarino (Argentina)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 8 September 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|HUN}}

| score= 2–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197116/match=32159/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|MEX}}

| goals1 = A. Dunai {{goal|35}}
Kocsis {{goal|53}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Jahnstadion, Regensburg

| attendance = 2,500

| referee = Lee Kan-Chee (Hong Kong)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 8 September 1972

| time=21:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|GDR}}

| score= 3–2

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197116/match=32157/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|FRG}}

| goals1 = Pommerenke {{goal|10}}
Streich{{goal|53}}
Vogel {{goal|82}}

| goals2 = Hoeneß {{goal|31}}
Hitzfeld {{goal|68}}

| stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich

| attendance = 80,000

| referee = William Mullan (Great Britain)

}}

=Group 2=

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|team1=POL|name_POL={{fbo|POL|1928}}

|team2=URS|name_URS={{fb|URS|1955}}

|team3=DEN|name_DEN={{fb|DEN}}

|team4=MAR|name_MAR={{fb|MAR}}

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|win_URS=2|draw_URS=0|loss_URS=1|gf_URS=8|ga_URS=2

|win_DEN=1|draw_DEN=1|loss_DEN=1|gf_DEN=4|ga_DEN=6

|win_MAR=0|draw_MAR=0|loss_MAR=3|gf_MAR=1|ga_MAR=11

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|col_B=blue1|text_B=Bronze Medal match

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{{football box

| date = 3 September 1972

| time=15:00

| team1 = {{fb-rt|DNK}}

| score= 1–1

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197116/match=32150/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fbo|POL|1928}}

| goals1 = Heino Hansen {{goal|27}}

| goals2 = Deyna {{goal|36}}

| stadium = Jahnstadion, Regensburg

| attendance = 4,000

| referee = Abdelkader Aouissi (Algeria)

}}

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{{football box

| date = 3 September 1972

| time=21:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|USSR}}

| score= 3–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197116/match=32151/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|MAR}}

| goals1 = Semyonov {{goal|1}}
Kolotov {{goal|15}}
Elissev {{goal|69}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich

| attendance = 55,000

| referee = Guillermo Velásquez (Colombia)

}}

----

{{football box

| date = 5 September 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|USSR}}

| score= 1–2

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197116/match=32153/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fbo|POL|1928}}

| goals1 = Blokhin {{goal|28}}

| goals2 = Deyna {{goal|79|pen.}}
Szołtysik {{goal|87}}

| stadium = Rosenaustadion, Augsburg

| attendance = 5,000

| referee = Henry Oberg (Norway)

}}

----

{{football box

| date = 5 September 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|DNK}}

| score= 3–1

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197116/match=32154/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|MAR}}

| goals1 = Bak {{goal|55||83}}
Printzlau {{goal|90}}

| goals2 = Merzaq {{goal|89}}

| stadium = Dreiflüssestadion, Passau

| attendance = 3,100

| referee = Werner Winsemann (Canada)

}}

----

{{football box

| date = 8 September 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fbo-rt|POL|1928}}

| score= 5–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197116/match=32158/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|MAR}}

| goals1 = Kmiecik {{goal|3}}
Lubański {{goal|10}}
Deyna {{goal|45|pen.|63}}
Gadocha {{goal|53}}

| goals2 =

| stadium =Frankenstadion, Nuremberg

| attendance = 500

| referee = Francesco Francescon (Italy)

}}

----

{{football box

| date = 8 September 1972

| time=16:30

| team1 = {{fb-rt|USSR}}

| score= 4–0

| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197116/match=32160/index.html Report]

| team2 = {{fb|DNK}}

| goals1 = Kolotov {{goal|20}}
Semyonov {{goal|28}}
Blokhin {{goal|55}}
Sabo {{goal|88}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Rosenaustadion, Augsburg

| attendance = 4,000

| referee = Doğan Babacan (Turkey)

}}

Knockout stage

=Bronze Medal match=

{{football box

|date = 10 September 1972

|time=10:00

|team1 = {{fb-rt|USSR}}

|score = 2–2

|report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197119/match=32161/index.html Report]

|team2 = {{fb|GDR}}

|goals1 = Blokhin {{goal|10}}
Khurtsilava {{goal|30}}

|goals2 = Kreische {{goal|33|pen.}}
Vogel {{goal|78}}

|stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich

| attendance = 80,000

| referee = Armando Marques (Brazil)

}}

Bronze medals shared.

=Gold Medal match=

{{football box

|date = 10 September 1972

|time=20:15

|event =

|team1 = {{fbo-rt|POL|1928}}

|score = 2–1

|report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/munich1972/matches/round=197120/match=32162/index.html Report]

|team2 = {{fb|HUN}}

|goals1 = Deyna {{goal|47||68}}

|goals2 = Várady {{goal|42}}

|stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich

| attendance = 80,000

| referee = Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)

}}

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Team details
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GK1Hubert Kostka
RB19Zbigniew Gut
CB5Lesław Ćmikiewicz
CB3Jerzy Gorgoń
LB4Zygmunt Anczok
MF6Zygmunt Maszczyk
MF8Zygfryd Szołtysik
MF13Jerzy Kraska
AM9Kazimierz Deyna{{suboff|76}}
FW11Robert Gadocha
FW10Włodzimierz Lubański
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MF7Ryszard Szymczak{{subon|76}}
colspan=3|Manager:
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GK1István Géczi
DF4Péter Juhász
DF3Miklós Páncsics
DF16László Bálint
DF2Péter Vépi{{yel|87}}
MF7Mihály Kozma
MF14Ede Dunai
MF10Lajos Kü{{suboff|74}}
MF11Béla Várady
FW5Lajos Szűcs
FW9Antal Dunai{{suboff|79}}
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MF17Lajos Kocsis{{subon|74}}
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Goalscorers

With nine goals, Kazimierz Deyna of Poland is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 135 goals were scored by 66 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

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;1 goal

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Final ranking

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Medalists

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|!align="center" bgcolor="silver" width=125 |Silver

|!align="center" bgcolor="CC9966" width=175 |Bronze

|!align="center" bgcolor="CC9966" width=150 |Bronze

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Hubert Kostka

Zbigniew Gut

Jerzy Gorgoń

Zygmunt Anczok

Lesław Ćmikiewicz

Zygmunt Maszczyk

Jerzy Kraska

Kazimierz Deyna

Zygfryd Szołtysik

Włodzimierz Lubański

Robert Gadocha

Ryszard Szymczak

Antoni Szymanowski

Joachim Marx

Grzegorz Lato

Marian Ostafiński

Kazimierz Kmiecik

Marian Szeja

Coach: Kazimierz Górski

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István Géczi

Péter Vépi

Miklós Páncsics

Péter Juhász

Lajos Szűcs

Mihály Kozma

Antal Dunai

Lajos Kű

Béla Váradi

Ede Dunai

László Bálint

Lajos Kocsis

Kálmán Tóth

László Branikovits

József Kovács

Csaba Vidács

Adám Rothermel

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Oleh Blokhin

Murtaz Khurtsilava

Yuriy Istomin

Volodymyr Kaplychnyi

Viktor Kolotov

Yevgeni Lovchev

Sergei Olshansky

Yevhen Rudakov

Vyacheslav Semyonov

Gennadi Evryuzhikhin

Oganes Zanazanyan

Andrei Yakubik

Arkady Andreasyan

Revaz Dzodzuashvili

Yozhef Sabo

Yuriy Yeliseyev

Volodymyr Onyshchenko

Anatoliy Kuksov

Vladimir Pilgui

Coach: Aleksandr Ponomarev

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Jürgen Croy

Manfred Zapf

Konrad Weise

Bernd Bransch

Jürgen Pommerenke

Jürgen Sparwasser

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

Joachim Streich

Wolfgang Seguin

Peter Ducke

Frank Ganzera

Lothar Kurbjuweit

Eberhard Vogel

Harald Irmscher

Ralf Schulenberg

Reinhard Häfner

Siegmar Wätzlich

Coach: Georg Buschner

References

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