The 1992 Summer Olympics Football Tournament 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 until Brazil won it in 2016.
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
24 Fri25 Sat26 Sun27 Mon28 Tue29 Wed30 Thu31 Fri1 Sat2 Sun3 Mon4 Tue5 Wed6 Thu7 Fri8 SatG G G GGG ¼ ¼ ½ B F Source:
Qualification
The following 16 teams qualified for the 1992 Olympic men's football tournament: Means of qualification Berths Qualified Host nation 1 1992 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship 4 AFC Preliminary Competition 3 CAF Preliminary Competition 3 1992 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament 2 1992 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament 2 OFC–UEFA play-off 1 Total 16
Venues Barcelona Valencia Camp Nou Estadi de Sarrià Estadio Luis Casanova Capacity: 100,000 Capacity: 42,000 Capacity: 50,000 Sabadell Estadi de la Nova Creu Alta Capacity: 16,000 Zaragoza Estadio La Romareda Capacity: 43,001
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
Squads
Group stage Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Team details GK 1 Aleksander KłakRB 2 Marcin Jałocha CB 5 Tomasz Wałdoch CB 6 Dariusz GęsiorLB 3 Tomasz ŁapińskiCM 4 Marek KoźmińskiCM 10 Jerzy Brzęczek (c)CM 15 Andrzej KobylańskiAM 13 Ryszard StaniekCF 20 Wojciech Kowalczyk CF 11 Andrzej JuskowiakSubstitutes:MF 7 Piotr Świerczewski Manager:Janusz Wójcik
GK 13 ToniRB 2 Albert Ferrer (c)CB 4 Roberto SolozábalCB 5 Juanma LópezCB 10 AbelardoLB 3 Mikel Lasa CM 8 Luis EnriqueCM 9 Josep GuardiolaCM 17 Rafael BergesCF 19 KikoCF 20 AlfonsoSubstitutes:MF 7 Amavisca Manager:Vicente Miera
Medal winners
Gold medalists – José Amavisca Rafael Berges Santiago Cañizares Abelardo Albert Ferrer Josep Guardiola Miguel Hernández Toni Jiménez Mikel Lasa Juanma López Javier Manjarín Luis Enrique Kiko Narváez Alfonso Pérez Antonio Pinilla Paco Soler Gabriel Vidal Roberto Solozábal David Billabona 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 Acheampong Simon Addo Sammi Adjei Maxwell Konadu Mamood Amadu Isaac Asare Frank Amankwah Bernard Aryee Kwame Ayew Ibrahim Dossey Mohammed Gargo Dramani Kalilu Samuel Kuffour Samuel Kumah Nii Lamptey 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
John Markovski Tony Vidmar Hernán Gaviria Hady Khashaba Alessandro Melli Francisco Rotllán Ryszard Staniek Abelardo Rafael Berges Tomas Brolin Jonny Rödlund Steve Snow
1 goal
Zlatko Arambašić Damian Mori Shaun Murphy Carl Veart 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 Francisco Arce Mauro Caballero Jorge Campos Carlos Gamarra Marcin Jałocha Marek Koźmiński Grzegorz Mielcarski Mahmoud Soufi Mubarak Mustafa Alfonso Pep Guardiola Luis Enrique Paco Soler Roberto Solozábal Patrik Andersson Håkan Mild Dario Brose Erik Imler Manuel Lagos Joe-Max Moore
Own goals Shaun Murphy (playing against Poland) Joachim Acheampong (playing against Paraguay)
Final ranking
References
External links
Olympic Football Tournament Barcelona 1992, FIFA.com RSSSF Summary FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)