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.^[1]

Regional qualifying tournaments were held. During the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament among South American national teams, a riot in Lima during the decisive Peru–Argentina match, after Peru's equalizing goal in the last minutes was disallowed by the referee, resulted in 328 deaths, which was considered the worst football disaster in history.^[2] Due to the riot, further CONMEBOL matches were not played that year, except for a playoff between Brazil and Peru (won by Brazil), and Argentina qualified instead of Peru.

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.

Tokyo
Prince Chichibu Football Field (1)	National Olympic Stadium (2)	Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium (3)
Capacity: 17,569	Capacity: 71,556	Capacity: 20,780
Saitama	45km 30miles 4 1 3 2 5
Ōmiya Football Field (4)
Capacity: 14,392
Yokohama
Mitsuzawa Football Field (5)
Capacity: 10,102

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hungary	Czechoslovakia	United Team of Germany
Ferenc Bene Tibor Csernai János Farkas József Gelei Kálmán Ihász Sándor Katona Imre Komora Ferenc Nógrádi Dezső Novák Árpád Orbán Károly Palotai Antal Szentmihályi Gusztáv Szepesi Zoltán Varga	Jan Brumovský Ludovít Cvetler Ján Geleta František Knebort Karel Knesl Karel Lichtnégl Vojtech Masný Štefan Matlák Ivan Mráz Karel Nepomucký Zdeněk Pičman František Schmucker Anton Švajlen Anton Urban František Valošek Josef Vojta Vladimír Weiss	Gerd Backhaus Wolfgang Barthels Bernd Bauchspieß Gerhard Körner Otto Fräßdorf Henning Frenzel Dieter Engelhardt Herbert Pankau Manfred Geisler Jürgen Heinsch Klaus Lisiewicz Jürgen Nöldner Peter Rock Klaus-Dieter Seehaus Hermann Stöcker Werner Unger Klaus Urbanczyk Eberhard Vogel Manfred Walter Horst Weigang

Note: Only players from the East Germany represented the joint Olympic team of United Team of Germany.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United Team of Germany	3	2	1	0	7	1	+6	5	Advanced to knockout stage
2	Romania	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	5
3	Mexico	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
4	Iran	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	2	2	0	0	12	5	+7	4	Advanced to knockout stage
2	Yugoslavia	2	1	0	1	8	7	+1	2
3	Morocco	2	0	0	2	1	9	−8	0
4	North Korea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czechoslovakia	3	3	0	0	12	2	+10	6	Advanced to knockout stage
2	United Arab Republic	3	1	1	1	12	6	+6	3
3	Brazil	3	1	1	1	5	2	+3	3
4	South Korea	3	0	0	3	1	20	−19	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ghana	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1	3	Advanced to knockout stage
2	Japan	2	1	0	1	5	5	0	2
3	Argentina	2	0	1	1	3	4	−1	1
4	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

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	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	18 October – Yokohama
	Romania	0
					20 October – Tokyo (CRS)
	Hungary	2
					Hungary	6
	18 October – Saitama
					United Arab Republic	0
	United Arab Republic	5
									23 October – Tokyo (NS)
	Ghana	1
									Hungary	2
	18 October – Tokyo (KOPS)
									Czechoslovakia	1
	Czechoslovakia	4
					20 October – Tokyo (KOPS)
	Japan	0
					Czechoslovakia	2
	18 October – Tokyo (CRS)
					United Team of Germany	1			Bronze medal match
	Yugoslavia	0
									23 October – Tokyo (NS)
	United Team of Germany	1
									United Team of Germany	3
									United Arab Republic	1

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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

• Moustafa Reyadh

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

1 goal

Own goal

• Vladimír Weiss (playing against Hungary)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Hungary	5	5	0	0	22	6	+16	10
2	Czechoslovakia	6	5	0	1	19	5	+14	10
3	United Team of Germany	6	4	1	1	12	4	+8	9
4	United Arab Republic	6	2	1	3	18	16	+2	5
5	Romania	6	4	1	1	12	6	+6	9
6	Yugoslavia	5	2	0	3	14	12	+2	4
7	Ghana	4	1	1	2	7	12	−5	3
8	Japan	4	1	0	3	6	15	−9	2
9	Brazil	3	1	1	1	5	2	+3	3
10	Argentina	2	0	1	1	3	4	−1	1
11	Mexico	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
12	Iran	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1
13	Morocco	2	0	0	2	1	9	−8	0
14	South Korea	3	0	0	3	1	20	−19	0

• Olympic Football Tournament Tokyo 1964, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Summary
• Hungarian medalists - Tokyo 1964

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