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.

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. 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)

Asia (4)

(hosts)

Europe (6)

(holders)

North America (1)

South America (2)

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 Ōmiya Football Field (4) Capacity: 14,392 Yokohama Mitsuzawa Football Field (5) Capacity: 10,102

Medalists GoldSilverBronze 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 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 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

First round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

First consolation round

Fifth place play-off

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

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

References

External links

Olympic Football Tournament Tokyo 1964, FIFA.com RSSSF Summary Hungarian medalists - Tokyo 1964