Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics

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.

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. 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: The two best teams of each group competed in the quarter-finals.
 * 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 )

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.

Medalists
Note: Only players from the East Germany represented the joint Olympic team of United Team of Germany.

First consolation round
Played by losing quarter-finalists.

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
 * 🇭🇺 Ferenc Bene
 * 8 goals
 * Moustafa Reyadh
 * 6 goals
 * 🇭🇺 Tibor Csernai
 * 🇷🇴 Cornel Pavlovici
 * 5 goals
 * Ivan Mráz
 * Slaven Zambata
 * 4 goals
 * Josef Vojta
 * 🇩🇪 Henning Frenzel
 * Rudolf Belin
 * Ivica Osim
 * 3 goals
 * Jan Brumovský
 * 🇩🇪 Eberhard Vogel
 * 🇬🇭 Hamoud Fulaiteh
 * Rifaat El-Fanagily
 * 2 goals


 * 🇦🇷 Juan Carlos Domínguez
 * 🇧🇷 Elizeu
 * 🇧🇷 Roberto Miranda
 * Karel Lichtnégl
 * Vojtech Masný
 * 🇩🇪 Jürgen Nöldner
 * 🇭🇺 Imre Komora
 * 🇯🇵 Ryuichi Sugiyama
 * 🇷🇴 Carol Creiniceanu
 * 🇷🇴 Ion Pârcălab
 * Badawi Abdel Fattah


 * 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
 * 🇯🇵 Saburo Kawabuchi
 * 🇯🇵 Shigeo Yaegashi
 * Flag of Mexico (1934-1968).svg Javier Fragoso
 * Flag of Mexico (1934-1968).svg 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


 * Own goal
 * Vladimír Weiss (playing against Hungary)