Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics

The football competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics started on 11 October and ended on 23 October. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. The tournament features 14 men's national teams from six continental confederations. The 14 teams are drawn into two groups of four and two groups of three and each group plays 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 Olympic Stadium on 23 October 1964. There was also three consolation matches played by losing quarter-finalists. The winner of these matches placed fifth in the tournament.^[1]

Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Football at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan
Tournament details
Host country	Japan
Dates	11–23 October 1964
Teams	14 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	8 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Hungary (2nd title)
Runners-up	Czechoslovakia
Third place	United Team of Germany
Fourth place	Egypt
Tournament statistics
Matches played	29
Goals scored	123 (4.24 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ferenc Bene (12 goals)
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Qualification

See also: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Regional qualifying tournaments were held. During the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament among South American national teams, a riot in Lima during the decisive Peru–Argentina match, after Peru's equalizing goal in the last minutes was disallowed by the referee, resulted in 328 deaths, which was considered the worst football disaster in history.^[2] Due to the riot, further CONMEBOL matches were not played that year, except for a playoff between Brazil and Peru (won by Brazil), and Argentina qualified instead of Peru.

16 teams qualified, and were divided into four groups:

• Group A (United Team of Germany (which was de facto East Germany), Romania, Mexico, Iran)
• Group B (Hungary, Yugoslavia, Morocco, Korea D.P.R.)
• Group C (Czechoslovakia, United Arab Republic (Egypt), Brazil, Korea Rep.)
• Group D (Japan, Ghana, Argentina, Italy)

The two best teams of each group competed in the quarter-finals.

Ultimately, the tournament was played two teams short:

• Italy were disqualified as their team was not amateur; Poland, who Italy had beaten to qualify, declined to take Italy's place due to a lack of preparation time.
• North Korea withdrew from the entire Games before the Opening Ceremony after Japanese immigration officials refused six of their athletes entry.

Africa (3)  Ghana  Morocco  United Arab Republic Asia (4)  Iran  Japan (hosts)  North Korea  South Korea

Europe (6)  Czechoslovakia  East Germany  Hungary  Italy  Romania  Yugoslavia (holders)

North America (1)  Mexico South America (2)  Argentina  Brazil

Venues

Tokyo
Prince Chichibu Football Field (1)	National Olympic Stadium (2)	Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium (3)
Capacity: 17,569	Capacity: 71,556	Capacity: 20,780
Saitama	30km 19miles 4 1 3 2 5
Ōmiya Football Field (4)
Capacity: 14,392
Yokohama
Mitsuzawa Football Field (5)
Capacity: 10,102

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hungary	Czechoslovakia	United Team of Germany
Ferenc Bene Tibor Csernai János Farkas József Gelei Kálmán Ihász Sándor Katona Imre Komora Ferenc Nógrádi Dezső Novák Árpád Orbán Károly Palotai Antal Szentmihályi Gusztáv Szepesi Zoltán Varga	Jan Brumovský Ludovít Cvetler Ján Geleta František Knebort Karel Knesl Karel Lichtnégl Vojtech Masný Štefan Matlák Ivan Mráz Karel Nepomucký Zdeněk Pičman František Schmucker Anton Švajlen Anton Urban František Valošek Josef Vojta Vladimír Weiss	Gerd Backhaus Wolfgang Barthels Bernd Bauchspieß Gerhard Körner Otto Fräßdorf Henning Frenzel Dieter Engelhardt Herbert Pankau Manfred Geisler Jürgen Heinsch Klaus Lisiewicz Jürgen Nöldner Peter Rock Klaus-Dieter Seehaus Hermann Stöcker Werner Unger Klaus Urbanczyk Eberhard Vogel Manfred Walter Horst Weigang

Note: Only players from the East Germany represented the joint Olympic team of United Team of Germany.

Squads

Main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

First round

Group A

Main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United Team of Germany	3	2	1	0	7	1	+6	5	Advanced to knockout stage
2	Romania	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	5
3	Mexico	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
4	Iran	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

Source: RSSSF

11 October 1964

15:00

United Team of Germany	4–0	Iran
Bauchspiess 7' Vogel 20', 63' Frenzel 44'	Report

Mitsuzawa Stadium, Yokohama

Attendance: 12,671

Referee: Eunápio de Queiroz (Brazil)

11 October 1964

15:00

Romania	3–1	Mexico
Creiniceanu 20' Pârcălab 33' Ionescu 47'	Report	Fragoso 73'

Omiya Ground, Saitama

Attendance: 12,932

Referee: Yozo Yokoyama (Japan)

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13 October 1964

15:00

United Team of Germany	1–1	Romania
Frenzel 22'	Report	Pavlovici 27'

Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 18,970

Referee: Václav Korelusz (Czechoslovakia)

13 October 1964

15:00

Iran	1–1	Mexico
Nirlou 59'	Report	González 54'

Chichibu Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 15,938

Referee: John Stanley Wontumi (Ghana)

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15 October 1964

15:00

United Team of Germany	2–0	Mexico
Barthels 37' Nöldner 66'	Report

Mitsuzawa Stadium, Yokohama

Attendance: 12,814

Referee: Gregg de Silva (Malaysia)

15 October 1964

15:00

Romania	1–0	Iran
Pavlovici 26'	Report

Omiya Ground, Saitama

Attendance: 13,026

Referee: Miguel Comesaña (Argentina)

Group B

Main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	2	2	0	0	12	5	+7	4	Advanced to knockout stage
2	Yugoslavia	2	1	0	1	8	7	+1	2
3	Morocco	2	0	0	2	1	9	−8	0
4	North Korea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

Source: RSSSF

11 October 1964

15:00

Hungary	6–0	Morocco
Bene 13', 38' (pen.), 70', 74', 78', 87'	Report

National Olympic Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 65,793

Referee: Kim Duk-chun (South Korea)

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13 October 1964

15:00

Yugoslavia	3–1	Morocco
Samardžić 8' Belin 12', 59'	Report	Bouachra 2'

Mitsuzawa Soccer Stadium, Yokohama

Attendance: 12,765

Referee: Hussein Imam (United Arab Emirates)

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15 October 1964

15:00

Yugoslavia	5–6	Hungary
Osim 1', 82' Belin 12', 35' Zambata 31'	Report	Csernai 5', 11', 44', 63' (pen.) Farkas 18' Bene 25' (pen.)

Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 19,316

Referee: Genishi Fukushima (Japan)

Group C

Main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czechoslovakia	3	3	0	0	12	2	+10	6	Advanced to knockout stage
2	United Arab Republic	3	1	1	1	12	6	+6	3
3	Brazil	3	1	1	1	5	2	+3	3
4	South Korea	3	0	0	3	1	20	−19	0

Source: RSSSF

12 October 1964

15:00

Czechoslovakia	6–1	South Korea
Lichtnégl 25' Vojta 26' Mráz 32', 68' Masný 43', 71'	Report	Yi-woo 59'

Omiya Park Soccer Stadium, Saitama

Attendance: 12,943

Referee: Rafael Valenzuela (Mexico)

12 October 1964

15:00

Brazil	1–1	United Arab Republic
Roberto 10'	Report	Shanin 88'

Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 16,450

Referee: Rudi Glöckner (Germany)

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14 October 1964

15:00

Czechoslovakia	5–1	United Arab Republic
Vojta 5', 27' Urban 36' Mráz 83' Cvetler 84'	Report	Riad 53'

Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 15,903

Referee: István Zsolt (Hungary)

14 October 1964

15:00

Brazil	4–0	South Korea
Zé Roberto 30' Elizeu 44', 54' Roberto 73'	Report

Mitsuzawa Soccer Stadium, Yokohama

Attendance: 12,672

Referee: Salih Mohamed Boukkili (Morocco)

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16 October 1964

15:00

Czechoslovakia	1–0	Brazil
Valošek 77'	Report

Omiya Park Soccer Stadium, Saitama

Attendance: 13,120

Referee: Hussein Tehrani (Iran)

16 October 1964

15:00

United Arab Republic	10–0	South Korea
Riad 14', 17', 40', 48', 72', 77' Mohamed 50' El-Fanagily 61' Etman 66' Hassan 78'	Report

Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 16,039

Referee: Glöckner (Germany)

Group D

Main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ghana	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1	3	Advanced to knockout stage
2	Japan	2	1	0	1	5	5	0	2
3	Argentina	2	0	1	1	3	4	−1	1
4	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

Source: RSSSF

12 October 1964

15:00

Argentina	1–1	Ghana
Bulla 26'	Report	Acquah 80'

Mitsuzawa Soccer Stadium, Yokohama

Attendance: 12,452

Referee: Menachem Ashkenazi (Israel)

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14 October 1964

15:00

Japan	3–2	Argentina
Sugiyama 54' Kawabuchi 81' Ogi 82'	Report	Domínguez 24', 62'

Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 19,049

Referee: Aleksandar Škorić (Yugoslavia)

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16 October 1964

15:00

Ghana	3–2	Japan
Agyemag-Gyau 27' Acquah 69' Aggrey-Fynn 80'	Report	Sugiyama 12' Yaegashi 52'

Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium, Tokyo

Referee: Cornel Niţescu (Romania)

Knockout stage

Main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	18 October – Yokohama
	Romania	0
					20 October – Tokyo (CRS)
	Hungary	2
					Hungary	6
	18 October – Saitama
					United Arab Republic	0
	United Arab Republic	5
									23 October – Tokyo (NS)
	Ghana	1
									Hungary	2
	18 October – Tokyo (KOPS)
									Czechoslovakia	1
	Czechoslovakia	4
					20 October – Tokyo (KOPS)
	Japan	0
					Czechoslovakia	2
	18 October – Tokyo (CRS)
					United Team of Germany	1			Bronze medal match
	Yugoslavia	0
									23 October – Tokyo (NS)
	United Team of Germany	1
									United Team of Germany	3
									United Arab Republic	1

Quarter-finals

18 October 1964 (1964-10-18)

15:00

Yugoslavia	0–1	United Team of Germany
	Report	Frenzel 1'

Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 15,767

Referee: Gregg de Silva (Malaysia)

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18 October 1964 (1964-10-18)

15:00

Romania	0–2	Hungary
	Report	Csernai 2', 84' (pen.)

Mitsuzawa Soccer Stadium, Yokohama

Attendance: 12,841

Referee: Menachem Ashkenazi (Israel)

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18 October 1964 (1964-10-18)

15:00

Czechoslovakia	4–0	Japan
Brumovský 43', 59' Vojta 69' (pen.) Mráz 86'	Report

Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 18,940

Referee: Eunapio de Queiroz (Brazil)

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18 October 1964 (1964-10-18)

15:00

United Arab Republic	5–1	Ghana
Badawi 42', 61' Reyadh 65' El-Fanagily 69', 85'	Report	Mfum 37'

Omiya Park Soccer Stadium, Saitama

Attendance: 13,121

Referee: Rudi Glöckner (Germany)

Semi-finals

20 October 1964 (1964-10-20)

15:00

Czechoslovakia	2–1	United Team of Germany
Lichtnégl 47' Mráz 89'	Report	Nöldner 25'

Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 19,435

Referee: Menachem Ashkenazi (Israel)

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20 October 1964 (1964-10-20)

15:00

Hungary	6–0	United Arab Republic
Bene 7', 20', 66', 77' Komora 29', 58'	Report

Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo

Referee: Miguel Comesaña (Argentina)

First consolation round

20 October 1964 (1964-10-20)

15:00

Japan	1–6	Yugoslavia
Kamamoto 61'	Report	Zambata 3', 5', 43', 63' Osim 28', 60'

Nagai Stadium, Osaka

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Hussein Imam (United Arab Emirates)

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20 October 1964 (1964-10-20)

15:00

Romania	4–2	Ghana
Pavlovici 12', 19', 74' Creiniceanu 41'	Report	Aggrey-Fynn 25', 44'

Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium, Kyoto

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Gregg de Silva (Malaysia)

Fifth place play-off

22 October 1964 (1964-10-22)

15:00

Yugoslavia	0–3	Romania
	Report	Pavlovici 50' Pârcălab 72' Constantin 78'

Nagai Stadium, Osaka

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: István Zsolt (Hungary)

Bronze medal match

23 October 1964 (1964-10-23)

13:00

United Team of Germany	3–1	United Arab Republic
Frenzel 17' Vogel 48' Stöcker 56'	Report	Attia 75' (pen.)

Olympic Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 65,610

Referee: Yozo Yokoyama (Japan)

Gold medal match

Main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – final

23 October 1964 (1964-10-23)

17:30

Hungary	2–1	Czechoslovakia
Weiss 47' (o.g.) Bene 59'	Report	Attia 75' (pen.)

Olympic Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 65,610

Referee: Menachem Ashkenazi (Israel)

Goalscorers

With 12 goals, Ferenc Bene of Hungary is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 123 goals were scored by 56 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

12 goals

• Ferenc Bene

8 goals

• Moustafa Reyadh

6 goals

• Tibor Csernai
• Cornel Pavlovici

5 goals

• Ivan Mráz
• Slaven Zambata

4 goals

• Josef Vojta
• Henning Frenzel
• Rudolf Belin
• Ivica Osim

3 goals

• Jan Brumovský
• Eberhard Vogel
• Hamoud Fulaiteh
• Rifaat El-Fanagily

2 goals

• Juan Carlos Domínguez
• Elizeu
• Roberto Miranda
• Karel Lichtnégl
• Vojtech Masný
• Jürgen Nöldner
• Imre Komora
• Ryūichi Sugiyama
• Carol Creiniceanu
• Ion Pârcălab
• Badawi Abdel Fattah

1 goal

• Carlos Alberto Bulla
• Zé Roberto
• Anton Urban
• František Valošek
• Ľudovít Cvetler
• Bernd Bauchspieß
• Hermann Stöcker
• Wolfgang Barthels
• Edward Acquah
• Gyau Agyemang
• Sam Acquah
• Wilberforce Mfum
• János Farkas
• Karam Ali Nirlou
• Aritatsu Ogi
• Kunishige Kamamoto
• Saburō Kawabuchi
• Shigeo Yaegashi
• Javier Fragoso
• José Luis González Dávila
• Ali Bouachra
• Ion Ionescu
• Gheorghe Constantin
• Lee Yi-Woo
• Aly Etman
• Kalil Shanin
• Mahmoud Hassan
• Raafat Attia
• Seddik Mohamed
• Spasoje Samardžić

Own goal

• Vladimír Weiss (playing against Hungary)

Final ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Hungary	5	5	0	0	22	6	+16	10
2	Czechoslovakia	6	5	0	1	19	5	+14	10
3	United Team of Germany	6	4	1	1	12	4	+8	9
4	United Arab Republic	6	2	1	3	18	16	+2	5
5	Romania	6	4	1	1	12	6	+6	9
6	Yugoslavia	5	2	0	3	14	12	+2	4
7	Ghana	4	1	1	2	7	12	−5	3
8	Japan	4	1	0	3	6	15	−9	2
9	Brazil	3	1	1	1	5	2	+3	3
10	Argentina	2	0	1	1	3	4	−1	1
11	Mexico	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
12	Iran	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1
13	Morocco	2	0	0	2	1	9	−8	0
14	South Korea	3	0	0	3	1	20	−19	0

Source: rsssf.com