Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics

The football tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics started on 18 July and ended on 31 July. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. 13 teams participated in the tournament, while three African teams took part in the boycott.

Qualification
The following 13 teams qualified for the 1976 Olympics football tournament:


 * Africa (CAF)
 * 🇬🇭 ghana (withdrew)
 * 🇳🇬 nigeria (withdrew)
 * (withdrew)
 * Asia (AFC)
 * 🇮🇷 iran
 * 🇮🇱 israel
 * 🇰🇵 north korea
 * North and Central America (CONCACAF)
 * 🇨🇺 cuba (replaced )
 * 🇲🇽 mexico
 * 🇲🇽 mexico


 * South America (CONMEBOL)
 * 🇧🇷 brazil
 * (withdrew)
 * Europe (UEFA)
 * 🇫🇷 france
 * (automatically qualified as 1972 Olympic Champions)
 * 🇪🇸 spain
 * Hosting nation
 * 🇨🇦 canada
 * Hosting nation
 * 🇨🇦 canada

Match officials

 * Asia
 * 🇮🇱 Abraham Klein
 * 🇮🇷 Jafar Namdar
 * North and Central America
 * 🇨🇦 Peter Thomas Johnson
 * 🇨🇦 Werner Winsemann
 * 🇲🇽 Marco Antonio Dorantes
 * South America
 * 🇦🇷 Ángel Coerezza
 * 🇧🇷 Arnaldo Cézar Coelho
 * 🇨🇴 Guillermo Velásquez
 * Ramón Barreto


 * Europe
 * 🇦🇹 Paul Schiller
 * 🇫🇷 Robert Héliès
 * 🇮🇹 Alberto Michelotti
 * Adolf Prokop
 * 🇭🇺 Károly Palotai
 * 🇵🇱 Marian Kuston
 * 🇬🇧 John Paterson
 * 🇪🇸 Emilio Guruceta-Muro
 * Vladimir Rudnev

Medal winners

 * – [[File:Med 1.png]] Gold

Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin

Wilfried Gröbner

Jürgen Croy

Gerd Weber

Hans-Jürgen Dörner

Konrad Weise

Lothar Kurbjuweit

Reinhard Lauck

Gert Heidler

Reinhard Häfner

Hans-Jürgen Riediger

Bernd Bransch

Martin Hoffmann

Gerd Kische

Wolfram Löwe

Hartmut Schade

Dieter Riedel

Coach: Georg Buschner


 * – [[File:Med 2.png]] Silver

Jan Tomaszewski

Piotr Mowlik

Antoni Szymanowski

Jerzy Gorgoń

Wojciech Rudy

Władysław Żmuda

Zygmunt Maszczyk

Grzegorz Lato

Henryk Wawrowski

Henryk Kasperczak

Roman Ogaza

Kazimierz Kmiecik

Kazimierz Deyna

Andrzej Szarmach

Henryk Wieczorek

Lesław Ćmikiewicz

Jan Benigier

Coach: Kazimierz Górski


 * – [[File:Med 3.png]] Bronze

Vladimir Astapovsky

Anatoliy Konkov

Viktor Matviyenko

Mykhaylo Fomenko

Stefan Reshko

Volodymyr Troshkin

David Kipiani

Volodymyr Onyshchenko

Viktor Kolotov

Volodymyr Veremeyev

Oleh Blokhin

Leonid Buryak

Vladimir Fyodorov

Aleksandr Minayev

Viktor Zvyahintsev

Leonid Nazarenko

Aleksandr Prokhorov

Coach: Valeriy Lobanovskyi

Goalscorers
With six goals, Andrzej Szarmach of Poland is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 66 goals were scored by 44 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.


 * 6 goals
 * 🇵🇱 Andrzej Szarmach
 * 4 goals
 * Hans-Jürgen Dörner
 * 3 goals
 * 🇫🇷 Michel Platini
 * 🇲🇽 Víctor Rangel
 * 🇵🇱 Grzegorz Lato
 * Volodymyr Onyshchenko
 * 2 goals


 * 🇧🇷 Jarbas
 * 🇨🇦 Jimmy Douglas
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Marc Schaer
 * 🇫🇷 Loïc Amisse
 * 🇮🇱 Vicky Peretz
 * 🇰🇵 Hong Song-Nam
 * Viktor Kolotov


 * 1 goal


 * 🇧🇷 Chico Fraga
 * 🇧🇷 Erivelto
 * 🇧🇷 Júnior
 * 🇧🇷 Rosemiro
 * Hans-Jürgen Riediger
 * Hartmut Schade
 * Lothar Kurbjuweit
 * Martin Hoffmann
 * Reinhard Häfner
 * Wolfram Löwe
 * 🇫🇷 Bruno Baronchelli
 * 🇫🇷 Francisco Rubio
 * Marco Fion
 * 🇮🇷 Ali Parvin
 * 🇮🇷 Gholam Hossein Mazloumi
 * 🇮🇷 Hassan Rowshan
 * 🇮🇷 Parviz Ghelichkhani
 * 🇮🇱 Itzhak Shum
 * 🇮🇱 Yaron Oz
 * 🇲🇽 Hugo Sánchez
 * 🇰🇵 An Se-Uk
 * 🇵🇱 Antoni Szymanowski
 * 🇵🇱 Kazimierz Deyna
 * Aleksandr Minayev
 * Leonid Nazarenko
 * Oleh Blokhin
 * Viktor Zvyahintsev
 * Volodymyr Veremeyev
 * 🇪🇸 Santiago Idígoras


 * Own goal
 * 🇲🇽 Eduardo Rergis (playing against Guatemala)