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The association football tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics started on July 29 and ended on August 11. It featured only a men's tournament, as women's football had yet to become an Olympic event. It was the first Olympic football competition in which professionals were allowed. Until then, the amateur-only rule had heavily favored socialist countries from Eastern Europe whose players were professionals in all but name. However, as agreed with FIFA to preserve the primacy of the World Cup, the Olympic competition was restricted to players with no more than five "A" caps at tournament start, regardless of age. The football tournament was held in four venues: * Harvard Stadium (Boston) * Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (Annapolis, Maryland) * Stanford Stadium (Stanford, California) * Rose Bowl, (Pasadena, California) The Gold Medal game between France and Brazil at the Rose Bowl attracted an Olympic Games football attendance record of 101,799. Until 2014 this remained the record attendance for a football game in the United States. This broke the previous Olympics record attendance of 100,000 set at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia for the corresponding game of the 1956 Olympic Games played between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. The Rose Bowl attendance would remain the Olympic record until 104,098 attended the Gold Medal game of the 2000 Summer Olympics between Cameroon and Spain at the Stadium Australia in Sydney. The attendance also stood as the highest for a football game in the United States until 109,318 saw Manchester United defeat Real Madrid during the 2014 International Champions Cup at the Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor. ==Qualification== Sixteen teams qualified for the Olympic tournament after continental qualifying rounds. Three Warsaw Pact countries had qualified but withdrew as part of the Soviet-led boycott. They were replaced as follows: * East Germany won UEFA Group 2. They were replaced by Norway, who came third; second-place Poland were also boycotting. * USSR won UEFA Group 1. They were replaced by West Germany, second in Group 4. Hungary and Bulgaria, second and third in Group 1, were also boycotting. * Czechoslovakia qualified as 1980 champions. They were replaced by Italy, third in UEFA Group 3. *Africa (CAF) * * * * * * *Asia (AFC) * * * * * * *North and Central America (CONCACAF) * * * * *South America (CONMEBOL) * * * * *Europe (UEFA) * * * * (replaces ) * * (replaces ) * * (replaces ) * * *Hosting nation * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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