The 1968 Olympic football tournament was played as part of the 1968 Summer Olympics. The tournament features 16 men's national teams from five 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 the Azteca Stadium on 26 October 1968. This was the first time an Asian team won a medal, Japan claiming bronze.
Qualification
Venues
Medalists
Squads
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Ghana replaced Morocco, who refused to play against Israel.
Group D
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Bulgaria progressed after a drawing of lots.
Semi-finals
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
Bulgaria finished the match with only eight players after having three players sent off.
Statistics
Goalscorers
With seven goals, Kunishige Kamamoto of Japan is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 116 goals were scored by 68 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.
7 goals
Kunishige Kamamoto
6 goals
Antal Dunai
4 goals
Petar Zhekov
Ladislav Petráš
Lajos Szűcs
Yehoshua Feigenbaum
3 goals
Atanas Mihaylov
Charles Tamboueon
Iván Menczel
Pulido Rodríguez
Vicente Pereda
2 goals
Fernando Ferretti
Asparuh Nikodimov
Tsvetan Veselinov
Pavel Stratil
Marc-Kanyan Case
Malik Jabir
López Oliva
Nelson Melgar
Camara Fode Bouya
Dezső Novák
Giora Spiegel
Masashi Watanabe
Albino Morales
Kenneth Olayombo
Toni Grande
1 goal
Tião
Georgi Hristakiev
Ivan Zafirov
Ivaylo Georgiev
Kiril Ivkov
Mihail Gyonin
Alfonso Jaramillo
Fabio Mosquera
Gustavo Santa
Tamayo Hoyos
Jiří Večerek
Jozef Jarabinský
Mikuláš Krnáč
Miloš Herbst
Juan Ramón Martínez
Mauricio Alonso Rodríguez
Daniel Horlaville
Daniel Perrigaud
Gérard Hallet
Gbadamosi Amosa
Ibrahim Sunday
Osei Kofi
Sammy Stevens Sampene
David Stokes
Jorge Roldán
Camara Mamadou Maxim
Camara Mamadouba Ndongo
István Juhász
István Sárközi
László Fazekas
Mordechai Spiegler
Rachamim Talbi
Shraga Bar
Cesáreo Victorino
Luis Estrada
Peter Anieke
Samuel Okoye
Fernando Ortuño
Juan Fernández Vilela
Udomsilp Sornbutnark
Own goals
Humberto Medina (playing against France) Segun Olumodeji (playing against Brazil)