Football at the 1992 Summer Olympics
The football competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics was the first Olympic football tournament dedicated for under-23 teams. The competition features 16 men's national sides 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.
Notably, these were the first matches played with football's new back-pass rule.
Qualification
The following 16 teams qualified for the 1992 Olympic men's football tournament:| Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified |
| Host nation | 1 | |
| AFC Preliminary Competition | 3 | |
| CAF Preliminary Competition | 3 | |
| 1992 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 | |
| 1992 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 | |
| 1991 OFC Pre-Olympic Tournament | 1 | |
| 1992 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship | 4 | |
| Total | 16 |
Venues
Match officials
;Africa;Asia
;South America
;North and Central America
;Europe
Group stage
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
----Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
Medal winners
Gold medalists -José Amavisca
Rafael Berges
Santiago Cañizares
Abelardo
Albert Ferrer
Pep Guardiola
Miguel Hernández
Toni
Mikel Lasa
Juanma López
Javier Manjarín
Luis Enrique
Kiko
Alfonso
Antonio Pinilla
Paco Soler
Gabriel Vidal
Roberto Solozábal
David Villabona
Paqui
Coach: Vicente Miera
Silver medalists -
Dariusz Adamczuk
Marek Bajor
Jerzy Brzęczek
Marek Koźmiński
Dariusz Gęsior
Marcin Jałocha
Tomasz Łapiński
Tomasz Wałdoch
Aleksander Kłak
Andrzej Kobylański
Ryszard Staniek
Wojciech Kowalczyk
Andrzej Juskowiak
Grzegorz Mielcarski
Piotr Świerczewski
Mirosław Waligóra
Dariusz Koseła
Arkadiusz Onyszko
Dariusz Szubert
Tomasz Wieszczycki
Coach: Janusz Wójcik
Bronze medalists -
Joachin Yaw Acheampong
Simon Addo
Sammi Adjei
Maxwell Konadu
Mamood Amadu
Isaac Asare
Frank Amankwah
Nii Lamptey
Bernard Aryee
Kwame Ayew
Mohammed Gargo
Mohammed Kalilu
Ibrahim Dossey
Samuel Osei Kuffour
Samuel Kumah
Anthony Mensah
Alex Nyarko
Yaw Preko
Shamo Quaye
Oli Rahman
Coach: Sam Arday
Goalscorers
With seven goals, Andrzej Juskowiak of Poland is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 87 goals were scored by 57 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.;7 goals
- Andrzej Juskowiak
- Kwame Ayew
- Kiko
- Wojciech Kowalczyk
- Tony Vidmar
- John Markovski
- Hernán Gaviria
- Hady Khashaba
- Alessandro Melli
- Francisco Rotllán
- Ryszard Staniek
- Abelardo
- Rafael Berges
- Jonny Rödlund
- Thomas Brolin
- Steve Snow
- Carl Veart
- Damian Mori
- Shaun Murphy
- Zlatko Arambasic
- Víctor Aristizábal
- Víctor Pacheco
- Claus Thomsen
- Ibrahim El-Masry
- Mohamed Youssef
- Isaac Asare
- Mohammed Gargo
- Oli Rahman
- Demetrio Albertini
- Jung Kwang-seok
- Seo Jung-won
- Ali Marwi
- Jorge Castañeda
- Ahmed Bahja
- Noureddine Naybet
- Carlos Gamarra
- Francisco Arce
- Jorge Campos
- Mauro Caballero
- Grzegorz Mielcarski
- Marcin Jałocha
- Marek Koźmiński
- Mahmoud Soufi
- Mubarak Mustafa
- Alfonso
- Paco Soler
- Pep Guardiola
- Luis Enrique
- Roberto Solozábal
- Håkan Mild
- Patrik Andersson
- Dario Brose
- Erik Imler
- Joe-Max Moore
- Manuel Lagos
- Shaun Murphy
- Joachin Yaw Acheampong
Final ranking