Tournament details | |
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Host country | Spain |
Dates | 24 July–8 August |
Teams | 16 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 5 (in 5 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Spain (1st title) |
Runners-up | Poland |
Third place | Ghana |
Fourth place | Australia |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 87 (2.72 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Andrzej Juskowiak (7 goals) |
The Football competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics was the first Under-23 competition. The competition features 16 men's national teams from the six 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 Camp Nou on 8 August 1992.
The following 16 teams qualified for the 1992 Olympic men's football tournament: