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.
Venues
Qualification
The following 13 teams qualified for the 1976 Olympics football tournament:
Africa (CAF) (withdrew) (withdrew) (withdrew) Asia (AFC)
North and Central America (CONCACAF) (replaced )
South America (CONMEBOL)
(withdrew) Europe (UEFA)
(automatically qualified as 1972 Olympic Champions)
Hosting nation
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
Squads
Final tournament
First round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
**Zambia withdrew
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
Medal winners
– 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
– 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
Leslaw Cmikiewicz
Jan Benigier
Coach: Kazimierz Górski
– 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)
