Football at the 1992 Summer Olympics

The 1992 Football at the Summer Olympics competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics featured 16 national sides from the six continental confederations. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four and each group played 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 Camp Nou on 8 August 1992.

For the first time, an age limit has been set for participants under the age of 23 (Under-23), which has been used ever since.

Spain became the first host country to win the gold medal in an Olympic football tournament since Belgium in 1920, an achievement which would not be repeated again until Brazil won it in 2016. As of 2023, Spain is still the last European side that won the gold medal at men's football event in the Summer Olympics.

Notably, these were the first matches played with football's new back-pass rule and was the last Olympic football competition which was open to men only before the introduction of a women’s tournament four years later.

Competition schedule
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Qualification
The following 16 teams qualified for the 1992 Olympic men's football tournament:

Match officials

 * Africa
 * Mohamed Sendid
 * Lim Kee Chong


 * Asia
 * 🇯🇵 Kiichiro Tachi
 * Ali Bujsaim


 * South America
 * 🇧🇷 Márcio Rezende de Freitas
 * 🇨🇴 José Torres Cadena
 * Juan Francisco Escobar


 * North and Central America
 * 🇲🇽 Arturo Brizio Carter
 * 🇺🇸 Arturo Angeles


 * Europe
 * 🇧🇬 Lube Spassov
 * 🇬🇧 Philip Don
 * 🇩🇪 Markus Merk
 * 🇮🇹 Fabio Baldas
 * 🇪🇸 Manuel Díaz Vega

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Group B


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Group C
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Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Medal winners
Gold medalists – José Amavisca Rafael Berges Santiago Cañizares Abelardo Albert Ferrer Pep Guardiola Miguel Hernández Toni Jiménez Mikel Lasa Juanma López Javier Manjarín Luis Enrique Kiko Alfonso Pérez Antonio Pinilla Paco Soler Gabriel Vidal Roberto Solozábal David Villabona Paqui

Coach: Vicente Miera

Silver medalists – Dariusz Adamczuk Marek Bajor Jerzy Brzęczek Marek Koźmiński Dariusz Gęsior Marcin Jałocha Tomasz Łapiński Tomasz Wałdoch Aleksander Kłak Andrzej Kobylański Ryszard Staniek Wojciech Kowalczyk Andrzej Juskowiak Grzegorz Mielcarski Piotr Świerczewski Mirosław Waligóra Dariusz Koseła Arkadiusz Onyszko Dariusz Szubert Tomasz Wieszczycki

Coach: Janusz Wójcik

Bronze medalists – Joachim Yaw Acheampong Simon Addo Sammi Adjei Maxwell Konadu Mamood Amadu Isaac Asare Frank Amankwah Nii Lamptey Bernard Aryee Kwame Ayew Mohammed Gargo Mohammed Kalilu Ibrahim Dossey Samuel Kuffour Samuel Kumah Anthony Mensah Alex Nyarko Yaw Preko Shamo Quaye Oli Rahman

Coach: Sam Arday

Goalscorers
With seven goals, Poland's Andrzej Juskowiak was the top scorer of the tournament. In total, 87 goals were scored by 57 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.
 * 7 goals
 * 🇵🇱 Andrzej Juskowiak
 * 6 goals
 * 🇬🇭 Kwame Ayew
 * 5 goals
 * 🇪🇸 Kiko
 * 4 goals
 * 🇵🇱 Wojciech Kowalczyk
 * 2 goals


 * 🇦🇺 Tony Vidmar
 * 🇦🇺 John Markovski
 * 🇨🇴 Hernán Gaviria
 * 🇪🇬 Hady Khashaba
 * 🇮🇹 Alessandro Melli
 * 🇲🇽 Francisco Rotllán
 * 🇵🇱 Ryszard Staniek
 * 🇪🇸 Abelardo
 * 🇪🇸 Rafael Berges
 * 🇸🇪 Jonny Rödlund
 * 🇸🇪 Tomas Brolin
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Snow


 * 1 goal


 * 🇦🇺 Carl Veart
 * 🇦🇺 Damian Mori
 * 🇦🇺 Shaun Murphy
 * 🇦🇺 Zlatko Arambasic
 * 🇨🇴 Víctor Aristizábal
 * 🇨🇴 Víctor Pacheco
 * Claus Thomsen
 * 🇪🇬 Ibrahim El-Masry
 * 🇪🇬 Mohamed Youssef
 * 🇬🇭 Isaac Asare
 * 🇬🇭 Mohammed Gargo
 * 🇬🇭 Oli Rahman
 * 🇮🇹 Demetrio Albertini
 * 🇰🇷 Jung Jae-kwon
 * 🇰🇷 Seo Jung-won
 * Ali Marwi
 * 🇲🇽 Jorge Castañeda
 * 🇲🇦 Ahmed Bahja
 * 🇲🇦 Noureddine Naybet
 * Carlos Gamarra
 * Francisco Arce
 * Jorge Campos
 * Mauro Caballero
 * 🇵🇱 Grzegorz Mielcarski
 * 🇵🇱 Marcin Jałocha
 * 🇵🇱 Marek Koźmiński
 * 🇶🇦 Mahmoud Soufi
 * 🇶🇦 Mubarak Mustafa
 * 🇪🇸 Alfonso Pérez
 * 🇪🇸 Paco Soler
 * 🇪🇸 Pep Guardiola
 * 🇪🇸 Luis Enrique
 * 🇪🇸 Roberto Solozábal
 * 🇸🇪 Håkan Mild
 * 🇸🇪 Patrik Andersson
 * 🇺🇸 Dario Brose
 * 🇺🇸 Erik Imler
 * 🇺🇸 Joe-Max Moore
 * 🇺🇸 Manuel Lagos


 * Own goals
 * 🇦🇺 Shaun Murphy (playing against Poland)
 * 🇬🇭 Joachim Yaw Acheampong (playing against Paraguay)