Football at the 1972 Summer Olympics

The 1972 Olympic football tournament, held in Munich, Augsburg, Ingolstadt, Nürnberg, 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 Olympic Stadium on 10 September 1972.

In 2017, the physician of the Soviet team revealed that the match for the bronze medal between the Soviet Union and East Germany was fixed.

Bronze Medal match
Bronze medals shared.

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.


 * 9 goals
 * 🇵🇱 Kazimierz Deyna
 * 7 goals
 * 🇭🇺 Antal Dunai
 * 6 goals


 * Joachim Streich
 * 🇵🇱 Robert Gadocha
 * Oleh Blokhin
 * Bernd Nickel


 * 5 goals


 * Hans-Jürgen Kreische
 * Jürgen Sparwasser
 * Ottmar Hitzfeld


 * 3 goals


 * Allan Simonsen
 * Heino Hansen
 * Eberhard Vogel
 * 🇭🇺 Ede Dunai
 * 🇲🇦 Ahmed Faras
 * Viktor Kolotov
 * Vyacheslav Semyonov


 * 2 goals


 * 🇧🇷 Dirceu
 * 🇨🇴 Jaime Morón
 * Keld Bak
 * 🇭🇺 Béla Várady
 * 🇭🇺 Lajos Kű
 * 🇲🇽 Leonardo Cuéllar
 * 🇵🇱 Jerzy Gorgoń
 * 🇵🇱 Włodzimierz Lubański
 * Rudolf Seliger


 * 1 goal


 * 🇧🇷 Pedrinho
 * 🇧🇷 Zé Carlos
 * Aung Moe Thin
 * Soe Than
 * 🇨🇴 Ángel Torres
 * 🇨🇴 Fabio Espinosa
 * 🇨🇴 Luis Montaño
 * Kristen Nygaard
 * Leif Printzlau
 * Per Røntved
 * Frank Ganzera
 * Jürgen Pommerenke
 * Peter Ducke
 * Reinhard Häfner
 * 🇬🇭 Ibrahim Sunday
 * 🇭🇺 Kálmán Tóth
 * 🇭🇺 Lajos Kocsis
 * 🇭🇺 Mihály Kozma
 * 🇭🇺 Péter Juhász
 * 🇮🇷 Majid Halvai
 * Salleh Ibrahim
 * Shaharuddin Abdullah
 * Zawawi Yusoff
 * 🇲🇦 Boujemaa Benkhrif
 * 🇲🇦 Mohamed Merzaq
 * 🇲🇦 Mohammed El Filali
 * 🇲🇦 Mohammed Tati
 * 🇲🇽 Daniel Razo
 * 🇲🇽 Manuel Manzo
 * 🇵🇱 Kazimierz Kmiecik
 * 🇵🇱 Zygfryd Szołtysik
 * Gennady Yevriuzhikin
 * Murtaz Khurtsilava
 * Oganes Zanazanyan
 * Yozhef Sabo
 * Yuriy Yeliseyev
 * Jaksa
 * Hermann Bitz
 * Jürgen Kalb
 * Ronald Worm
 * Uli Hoeneß