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. A riot in Lima during the decisive Peru–Argentina match resulted in 328 deaths. 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. Venues Medalists 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 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Bronze Medal match Gold Medal match First consolation round Played by losing quarter-finalists. Consolation Final (5th place match) Brackets 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 Ibrahim Riad 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 Antônio Ferreira Vinagre Godoy Roberto Miranda Karel Lichtnégl Vojtech Masný Jürgen Nöldner Imre Komora Ryuichi Sugiyama Carol Creiniceanu Ion Pârcălab Badawi Abdel