Games of the XIX. Olympiad

Football Tournament

(Mexico City, Mexico, October 13 - 26, 1968)

FIRST ROUND

Group A (Mexico City & Puebla)

Mexico           1-0 Colombia           1.FRANCE           3  2  0  1  8- 4  4
France           3-1 Guinea             2.MEXICO           3  2  0  1  6- 4  4
Mexico           1-4 France             3.Colombia         3  1  0  2  4- 5  2
Guinea           3-2 Colombia           4.Guinea           3  1  0  2  4- 9  2
Mexico           4-0 Guinea
Colombia         2-1 France

Group B (Mexico City & Puebla)

Japan            3-1 Nigeria            1.SPAIN            3  2  1  0  4- 0  5
Spain            1-0 Brazil             2.JAPAN            3  1  2  0  4- 2  4
Japan            1-1 Brazil             3.Brazil           3  0  2  1  4- 5  2
Spain            3-0 Nigeria            4.Nigeria          3  0  1  2  4- 9  1
Brazil           3-3 Nigeria
Japan            0-0 Spain

Group C (Guadalajara & Leon)

Hungary          4-0 El Salvador        1.HUNGARY          3  2  1  0  8- 2  5
Israel           5-3 Ghana              2.ISRAEL           3  2  0  1  8- 6  4
Israel           3-1 El Salvador        3.Ghana            3  0  2  1  6- 8  2
Hungary          2-2 Ghana              4.El Salvador      3  0  1  2  2- 8  1
Hungary          2-0 Israel
El Salvador      1-1 Ghana

Group D (Guadalajara & Leon)

Guatemala        1-0 Czechoslovakia     1.BULGARIA         3  2  1  0 11- 3  5
Bulgaria         7-0 Thailand           2.GUATEMALA        3  2  0  1  6- 3  4
Czechoslovakia   2-2 Bulgaria           3.Czechoslovakia   3  1  1  1 10- 3  3
Guatemla         4-1 Thailand           4.Thailand         3  0  0  3  1-19  0
Czechoslovakia   8-0 Thailand
Bulgaria         2-1 Guatemala

QUARTERFINALS

Japan            3-1 France                         (Mexico City)
Mexico           2-0 Spain                          (Puebla)
Hungary          4-0 Guatemala                      (Guadalajara)
Bulgaria         1-1 Israel (aet Bulgaria won toss) (Leon)

SEMIFINALS

Hungary          5-0 Japan                          (Mexico City)
Bulgaria         3-2 Mexico                         (Guadalajara)

MATCH FOR THIRD PLACE

Japan            2-0 Mexico                         (Mexico City)

FINAL

Hungary          4-1 Bulgaria

Played in Mexico City on October 26.
Referee: Le de Diego (Mexico)   Att: 75 000

0-1 Dimitrov 22' 1-1 Menczel 40' 2-1 A Dunai 41'
3-1 A Dunai 49' 4-1 Juhasz 62'

Hungary: Károly Fater - Dezsö Novák, Lajos Dunai, Miklós Páncsics,
    Ivan Menczel- Lajos Szücs, Lászlo Fazekas - Antal Dunai, László
    Nagy, Ernö Noskó, Istvan Juhász (sent off)
Bulgaria: Stoyan Yordanov - Atanasse Guerov, Guergui Christakiev,
    Milko Gadarski, Kiril Ivkov (sent off 43') - Ivalo Georgiev,
    Tzvetan Dimitrov (sent off 42') - Evgueni Yantchovski (Kirik
    Christov), Petar Jekov, Atanasse Christov (sent off 43'), Asparoukh 
    Donev (Gueorgui Ivanov)

Top scorers: Kunishige Yamamoto (Japan) 7 goals
             Antal Dunai (Hungary)      6 goals
             L Such (Hungary)           4 goals
             P Jekov (Bulgaria)         4 goals
             Pereda (Mexico)            4 goals
             Feigenboim (Israel)        4 goals
             Petras (Czechoslovakia)    4 goals
Sources:
Olympiaboken (Sweden) and own research.
About this document

Prepared and maintained by Mikael Jönsson for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Author: Mikael Jönsson
Last updated: 3 Nov 1999