The 1972 Olympic football tournament, held in Munich, Augsburg, Ingolstadt, Nürnberg, Passau, and Regensburg, was played as part of the 1972 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 second group stage, where the second-placed teams in each group advanced to the bronze medal match while the first-placed teams advanced to the gold medal match held at Olympic Stadium on 10 September 1972. In 2017, the physician of the Soviet team revealed that the match for the bronze medal between the Soviet Union and East Germany was fixed. Qualifications Squads Venues First round Group A Group B Group C Group D Second round Group 1 Group 2 Knockout stage Bronze Medal match Bronze medals shared. Gold Medal match Goalscorers With nine goals, Kazimierz Deyna of Poland is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 135 goals were scored by 66 different players, with none of them credited as own goal. 9 goals Kazimierz Deyna 7 goals Antal Dunai 6 goals Joachim Streich Robert Gadocha Oleh Blokhin Bernd Nickel 5 goals Hans-Jürgen Kreische Jürgen Sparwasser Ottmar Hitzfeld 3 goals Allan Simonsen Heino Hansen Eberhard Vogel Ede Dunai Ahmed Faras Viktor Kolotov Vyacheslav Semyonov 2 goals Dirceu Jaime Morón Keld Bak Béla Várady Lajos Kű Leonardo Cuéllar Jerzy Gorgoń Włodzimierz Lubański Rudolf Seliger 1 goal Pedrinho Zé Carlos Aung Moe Thin Soe Than Ángel Torres Fabio Espinosa Luis Montaño Kristen Nygaard Leif Printzlau Per Røntved Frank Ganzera Jürgen Pommerenke Peter Ducke Reinhard Häfner Ibrahim Sunday Kálmán Tóth Lajos Kocsis Mihály Kozma Péter Juhász Majid Halvai Salleh Ibrahim Shaharuddin Abdullah Zawawi Yusoff Boujemaa Benkhrif Mohamed Merzaq Mohammed El Filali Mohammed Tati Daniel Razo Manuel Manzo Kazimierz Kmiecik Zygfryd Szołtysik Gennady Yevriuzhikin Murtaz Khurtsilava Oganes Zanazanyan Yozhef Sabo Yuriy Yeliseyev Jaksa Hermann Bitz Jürgen Kalb Ronald Worm Uli Hoeneß Final ranking Medalists References External links Olympic Football Tournament Munich 1972, FIFA.com RSSSF Summary 1972 Summer Olympics events 1972 1972 in association football 1972 Sports competitions in Munich Sports competitions in Nuremberg Sport in Augsburg Sports competitions in Ingolstadt Passau Sport in Regensburg Oly 20th century in Nuremberg 20th century in Augsburg 1970s in Munich