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Football at the 1992 Summer Olympics

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Host country
  
Spain

Venue(s)
  
5 (in 5 host cities)

Runners-up
  
Poland

Dates
  
24 July–8 August

Champions
  
Spain (1st title)

Football at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Teams
  
16 (from 6 confederations)

The Football competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics was the first Under-23 competition. The competition features 16 men's national teams from the six continental confederations. The 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four 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 Camp Nou on 8 August 1992.

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Qualification

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

Goalscorers

With seven goals, Andrzej Juskowiak of Poland is the top scorer in 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)
  • Joachin Yaw Acheampong (playing against Paraguay)
  • References

    Football at the 1992 Summer Olympics Wikipedia