Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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

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.

Results

First round

Group A

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	Sweden (SWE)	3	2	1	0	6	3	5		X	2:1	2:2	2:0
2.	West Germany (FRG)	3	2	0	1	8	3	4		1:2	X	4:1	3:0
3.	Tunisia (TUN)	3	0	2	1	3	6	2		2:2	1:4	X	0:0
4.	China (CHN)	3	0	1	2	0	5	1		0:2	0:3	0:0	X

Group B

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	Zambia (ZAM)	3	2	1	0	10	2	5		X	4:0	2:2	4:0
2.	Italy (ITA)	3	2	0	1	7	6	4		0:4	X	2:0	5:2
3.	Iraq (IRQ)	3	1	1	1	5	4	3		2:2	0:2	X	3:0
4.	Guatemala (GUA)	3	0	0	3	2	12	0		0:4	2:5	0:3	X

Group C

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	Soviet Union (URS)	3	2	1	0	6	3	5		X	2:1	0:0	4:2
2.	Argentina (ARG)	3	1	1	1	4	4	3		1:2	X	2:1	1:1
3.	South Korea (KOR)	3	0	2	1	1	2	2		0:0	1:2	X	0:0
4.	United States (USA)	3	0	2	1	3	5	2		2:4	1:1	0:0	X

Group D

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	Brazil (BRA)	3	3	0	0	9	1	6		X	3:0	2:1	4:0
2.	Australia (AUS)	3	2	0	1	2	3	4		0:3	X	1:0	1:0
3.	Yugoslavia (YUG)	3	1	0	2	4	4	2		1:2	0:1	X	3:1
4.	Nigeria (NGR)	3	0	0	3	1	8	0		0:4	0:1	1:3	X

Knockout stage

	Quarter finals				Semi finals				Final
	September 25 - Daegu
	Sweden	1
					September 27 - Busan
	Italy (AET)	2
					Italy	2
	September 25 - Busan
					USSR (AET)	3
	USSR	3
									October 1 - Seoul
	Australia	0
									USSR (AET)	2
	September 25 - Gwangju
									Brazil	1
	Zambia	0
					September 27 - Seoul
	West Germany	4
					West Germany	1 (2)			Third place
	September 25 - Seoul
					Brazil	1 (3)
	Brazil	1							Italy	0
	Argentina	0							West Germany	3
									September 30 - Seoul

Participating nations

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.

Qualification

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

Venues

• Olympic Stadium – Seoul
• Dongdaemun Stadium – Seoul
• Daegu Civil Stadium – Daegu
• Goodeok Stadium – Busan
• Gwangju Stadium – Gwangju
• Hanbat Stadium – Daejeon

Match Officials

Topscorers

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

References

• FIFA Match Reports
• RSSSF Archive

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