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

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Qualification

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

Venues

Match officials

Squads

Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Medal winners

Gold medalists – José Amavisca Rafael Berges Santiago Cañizares Abelardo Albert Ferrer Pep Guardiola Miguel Hernández Toni Jiménez Mikel Lasa Juanma López Javier Manjarín Luis Enrique Kiko Alfonso Pérez Antonio Pinilla Paco Soler Gabriel Vidal Roberto Solozábal David Villabona 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 Yaw Acheampong Simon Addo Sammi Adjei Maxwell Konadu Mamood Amadu Isaac Asare Frank Amankwah Nii Lamptey Bernard Aryee Kwame Ayew Mohammed Gargo Mohammed Kalilu Ibrahim Dossey Samuel Kuffour Samuel Kumah 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.

Final ranking