Football at the 1992 Summer Olympics

1992 Summer Olympics Football Tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Spain
Dates	24 July – 8 August 1992
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (1st title)
Runners-up	Poland
Third place	Ghana
Fourth place	Australia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	87 (2.72 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Andrzej Juskowiak (7 goals)
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The football 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.^[1]

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^[2] 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

Legend

G

Group stage

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Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

B

Bronze medal match

F

Gold medal match

24 Fri	25 Sat	26 Sun	27 Mon	28 Tue	29 Wed	30 Thu	31 Fri	1 Sat	2 Sun	3 Mon	4 Tue	5 Wed	6 Thu	7 Fri	8 Sat
G		G	G	G	G	G		¼	¼			½		B	F

Source: ^[3]

Qualification

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

Means of qualification	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	1	Spain
1992 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship	4	Italy  Sweden  Denmark  Poland
AFC Preliminary Competition	3	Qatar  South Korea  Kuwait
CAF Preliminary Competition	3	Egypt  Ghana  Morocco
1992 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament	2	Mexico  United States
1992 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	2	Colombia  Paraguay
OFC–UEFA play-off	1	Australia
Total	16

Venues

Barcelona		Valencia
Camp Nou	Estadi de Sarrià	Estadio Luis Casanova
Capacity: 100,000	Capacity: 42,000	Capacity: 50,000
Sabadell	Camp Nou Estadi de Sarrià Estadi de la Nova Creu Alta Estadio Luis Casanova Estadio La Romareda
Estadi de la Nova Creu Alta
Capacity: 16,000
Zaragoza
Estadio La Romareda
Capacity: 43,001

Match officials

Squads

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Poland	3	2	1	0	7	2	+5	5
Italy	3	2	0	1	3	4	−1	4
United States	3	1	1	1	6	5	+1	3
Kuwait	3	0	0	3	1	6	−5	0

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Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain	3	3	0	0	8	0	+8	6
Qatar	3	1	1	1	2	3	−1	3
Egypt	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	2
Colombia	3	0	1	2	4	9	−5	1

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Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	3	1	2	0	5	1	+4	4
Paraguay	3	1	2	0	3	1	+2	4
South Korea	3	0	3	0	2	2	0	3
Morocco	3	0	1	2	2	8	−6	1

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Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ghana	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	4
Australia	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	3
Mexico	3	0	3	0	3	3	0	3
Denmark	3	0	2	1	1	4	−3	2

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Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	1 August – Valencia
	Spain	1
					5 August – Valencia
	Italy	0
					Spain	2
	2 August – Zaragoza
					Ghana	0
	Paraguay	2
									8 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou)
	Ghana (a.e.t.)	4
									Spain	3
	1 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou)
									Poland	2
	Poland	2
					5 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou)
	Qatar	0
					Poland	6
	2 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou)
					Australia	1			Bronze medal match
	Sweden	1
									7 August – Barcelona (Camp Nou)
	Australia	2
									Ghana	1
									Australia	0

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Team details

Poland Spain GK 1 Aleksander Kłak CB 2 Marcin Jałocha  55' CB 5 Tomasz Wałdoch  31' CB 3 Tomasz Łapiński RWB 6 Dariusz Gęsior LWB 4 Marek Koźmiński CM 13 Ryszard Staniek CM 10 Jerzy Brzęczek (c) CM 15 Andrzej Kobylański CF 20 Wojciech Kowalczyk  74' CF 11 Andrzej Juskowiak Substitutes: MF 7 Piotr Świerczewski  55' Manager: Janusz Wójcik GK 13 Toni Jiménez CB 10 Abelardo CB 5 Juanma López CB 4 Roberto Solozábal (c) RWB 2 Albert Ferrer LWB 17 Rafael Berges CM 8 Luis Enrique CM 9 Pep Guardiola CM 3 Mikel Lasa  51' CF 20 Alfonso CF 19 Kiko Substitutes: FW 7 José Amavisca  51' Manager: Vicente Miera

Medal winners

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

1 goal

Own goals

• Shaun Murphy (playing against Poland)
• Joachim Yaw Acheampong (playing against Paraguay)

Final ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Spain (ESP)	6	6	0	0	14	2	+12	12
2	Poland (POL)	6	4	1	1	17	6	+11	9
3	Ghana (GHA)	6	3	2	1	9	6	+3	8
4	Australia (AUS)	6	2	1	3	8	12	−4	5
5	Italy (ITA)	4	2	0	2	3	5	−2	4
6	Sweden (SWE)	4	1	2	1	6	3	+3	4
7	Paraguay (PAR)	4	1	2	1	5	5	0	4
8	Qatar (QAT)	4	1	1	2	2	5	−3	3
9	United States (USA)	3	1	1	1	6	5	+1	3
10	Mexico (MEX)	3	0	3	0	3	3	0	3
11	South Korea (KOR)	3	0	3	0	2	2	0	3
12	Egypt (EGY)	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	2
13	Denmark (DEN)	3	0	2	1	1	4	−3	2
14	Colombia (COL)	3	0	1	2	4	9	−5	1
15	Morocco (MAR)	3	0	1	2	2	8	−6	1
16	Kuwait (KUW)	3	0	0	3	1	6	−5	0

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