Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics

The 1968 Olympic football tournament was played as part of the 1968 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 knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at the Azteca Stadium on 26 October 1968. This was the first time an Asian team won a medal, Japan claiming bronze.

Group C
Ghana replaced Morocco, who refused to play against Israel.

Quarter-finals
Bulgaria progressed after a drawing of lots.

Gold Medal match
Bulgaria finished the match with only eight players after having three players sent off.

Goalscorers
With seven goals, Kunishige Kamamoto of Japan is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 116 goals were scored by 68 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.


 * 7 goals
 * 🇯🇵 Kunishige Kamamoto
 * 6 goals
 * 🇭🇺 Antal Dunai
 * 4 goals
 * 🇧🇬 Petar Zhekov
 * Ladislav Petráš
 * 🇭🇺 Lajos Szűcs
 * 🇮🇱 Yehoshua Feigenbaum
 * 3 goals
 * 🇧🇬 Atanas Mihaylov
 * 🇫🇷 Charles Tamboueon
 * 🇭🇺 Iván Menczel
 * 🇲🇽 Pulido Rodríguez
 * 🇲🇽 Vicente Pereda
 * 2 goals


 * 🇧🇷 Fernando Ferretti
 * 🇧🇬 Asparuh Nikodimov
 * 🇧🇬 Tsvetan Veselinov
 * Pavel Stratil
 * 🇫🇷 Marc-Kanyan Case
 * 🇬🇭 Malik Jabir
 * López Oliva
 * Nelson Melgar
 * Camara Fode Bouya
 * 🇭🇺 Dezső Novák
 * 🇮🇱 Giora Spiegel
 * 🇯🇵 Masashi Watanabe
 * 🇲🇽 Albino Morales
 * 🇳🇬 Kenneth Olayombo
 * 🇪🇸 Toni Grande


 * 1 goal


 * 🇧🇷 Tião
 * 🇧🇬 Georgi Hristakiev
 * 🇧🇬 Ivan Zafirov
 * 🇧🇬 Ivaylo Georgiev
 * 🇧🇬 Kiril Ivkov
 * 🇧🇬 Mihail Gyonin
 * 🇨🇴 Alfonso Jaramillo
 * 🇨🇴 Fabio Mosquera
 * 🇨🇴 Gustavo Santa
 * 🇨🇴 Tamayo Hoyos
 * Jiří Večerek
 * Jozef Jarabinský
 * Mikuláš Krnáč
 * Miloš Herbst
 * 🇸🇻 Juan Ramón Martínez
 * 🇸🇻 Mauricio Alonso Rodríguez
 * 🇫🇷 Daniel Horlaville
 * 🇫🇷 Daniel Perrigaud
 * 🇫🇷 Gérard Hallet
 * 🇬🇭 Gbadamosi Amosa
 * 🇬🇭 Ibrahim Sunday
 * 🇬🇭 Osei Kofi
 * 🇬🇭 Sammy Stevens Sampene
 * David Stokes
 * Jorge Roldán
 * Camara Mamadou Maxim
 * Camara Mamadouba Ndongo
 * 🇭🇺 István Juhász
 * 🇭🇺 István Sárközi
 * 🇭🇺 László Fazekas
 * 🇮🇱 Mordechai Spiegler
 * 🇮🇱 Rachamim Talbi
 * 🇮🇱 Shraga Bar
 * 🇲🇽 Cesáreo Victorino
 * 🇲🇽 Luis Estrada
 * 🇳🇬 Peter Anieke
 * 🇳🇬 Samuel Okoye
 * 🇪🇸 Fernando Ortuño
 * 🇪🇸 Juan Fernández Vilela
 * 🇹🇭 Udomsilp Sornbutnark


 * Own goals
 * 🇲🇽 Humberto Medina (playing against France)
 * 🇳🇬 Segun Olumodeji (playing against Brazil)

Final ranking
As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.