Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics

An association football tournament was played as part of the 1988 Summer Olympics. The tournament featured 16 men's national teams from six continental confederations. The teams were drawn into four groups of four with each group playing 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 Seoul Olympic Stadium on 1 October 1988.

Before the final match, the Soviet team relocated from the Olympic Village to a Soviet steamship stationed nearby. After winning the gold medal, each player from the Soviet team received 15 thousand dollars from the Soviet government.

Medal summary
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.

Qualification
The following 16 teams qualified for the 1988 Olympics football tournament:

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:



(*) NOTE: Players who participated in at least one match.

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Group C
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Group D
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Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Venues

 * Olympic Stadium – Seoul
 * Dongdaemun Stadium – Seoul
 * Busan Gudeok Stadium – Busan
 * Daegu Civic Stadium – Daegu
 * Daejeon Hanbat Stadium – Daejeon
 * Gwangju Mudeung Stadium – Gwangju

Match officials

 * Africa
 * 🇬🇦 Jean-Fidele Diramba
 * 🇲🇦 Baba Laouissi
 * 🇸🇳 Badara Sène


 * Asia
 * 🇸🇾 Jamal Al-Sharif
 * 🇰🇷 Choi Gil-Soo
 * 🇧🇭 Mandi Jassim
 * 🇯🇵 Shizuo Takada


 * South America
 * Juan Daniel Cardellino
 * 🇧🇷 Arnaldo Cézar Coelho
 * 🇨🇴 Jesús Díaz
 * 🇦🇷 Juan Carlos Loustau
 * 🇨🇱 Hernán Silva


 * North and Central America
 * 🇲🇽 Edgardo Codesal
 * Lennox Sirjuesingh
 * 🇺🇸 Vincent Mauro


 * Europe
 * 🇫🇷 Gérard Biguet
 * 🇬🇧 Keith Hackett
 * 🇬🇧 Kenny Hope
 * Kurt Röthlisberger
 * 🇮🇹 Tullio Lanese
 * 🇵🇱 Michał Listkiewicz
 * Karl-Heinz Tritschler
 * Alexey Spirin


 * Oceania
 * 🇦🇺 Chris Bambridge

Goalscorers
With seven goals, Romário of Brazil was the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 95 goals were scored by 53 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
 * 7 goals
 * 🇧🇷 Romário
 * 6 goals
 * Igor Dobrovolski
 * Kalusha Bwalya
 * 5 goals
 * Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko
 * 4 goals
 * Jürgen Klinsmann
 * 3 goals


 * 🇦🇷 Carlos Alfaro
 * 🇮🇹 Pietro Paolo Virdis
 * 🇸🇪 Jan Hellström
 * Frank Mill


 * 2 goals


 * 🇧🇷 Bebeto
 * 🇮🇶 Ahmed Radhi
 * 🇮🇹 Andrea Carnevale
 * Arminas Narbekovas
 * 🇸🇪 Peter Lönn
 * 🇹🇳 Nabil Maaloul
 * Holger Fach
 * Wolfram Wuttke
 * Dragan Stojković
 * Refik Šabanadžović
 * Derby Makinka


 * 1 goal


 * 🇦🇷 Néstor Fabbri
 * 🇦🇺 Frank Farina
 * 🇦🇺 John Kosmina
 * 🇧🇷 André Cruz
 * 🇧🇷 Edmar
 * 🇧🇷 Geovani Silva
 * Adán Paniagua
 * Carlos Castañeda
 * 🇮🇶 Karim Allawi
 * 🇮🇶 Mudhafar Jabbar
 * 🇮🇹 Alberigo Evani
 * 🇮🇹 Ciro Ferrara
 * 🇮🇹 Massimo Crippa
 * 🇮🇹 Massimo Mauro
 * 🇮🇹 Ruggiero Rizzitelli
 * 🇮🇹 Stefano Desideri
 * 🇰🇷 Noh Soo-Jin
 * 🇳🇬 Rashidi Yekini
 * Yury Savichev
 * 🇸🇪 Jonas Thern
 * 🇸🇪 Leif Engqvist
 * 🇹🇳 Tarak Dhiab
 * 🇺🇸 Brent Goulet
 * 🇺🇸 John Doyle
 * 🇺🇸 Mike Windischmann
 * Christian Schreier
 * Fritz Walter
 * Gerhard Kleppinger
 * Roland Grahammer
 * Wolfgang Funkel
 * Jonson Bwalya
 * Stone Nyirenda


 * Own goal
 * Rocael Mazariegos (playing against Iraq)