Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics

[1] East Germany won the gold, defeating Poland in the final, with the Soviet Union taking the bronze.

Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin Wilfried Gröbner Jürgen Croy Gerd Weber Hans-Jürgen Dörner Konrad Weise Lothar Kurbjuweit Reinhard Lauck Gert Heidler Reinhard Häfner Hans-Jürgen Riediger Bernd Bransch Martin Hoffmann Gerd Kische Wolfram Löwe Hartmut Schade Dieter Riedel

Coach: Georg Buschner Jan Tomaszewski Piotr Mowlik Antoni Szymanowski Jerzy Gorgoń Wojciech Rudy Władysław Żmuda Zygmunt Maszczyk Grzegorz Lato Henryk Wawrowski Henryk Kasperczak Roman Ogaza Kazimierz Kmiecik Kazimierz Deyna Andrzej Szarmach Henryk Wieczorek Lesław Ćmikiewicz Jan Benigier

Coach: Kazimierz Górski Vladimir Astapovsky Anatoliy Konkov Viktor Matviyenko Mykhaylo Fomenko Stefan Reshko Volodymyr Troshkin David Kipiani Volodymyr Onyshchenko Viktor Kolotov Volodymyr Veremeyev Oleh Blokhin Leonid Buryak Vladimir Fyodorov Aleksandr Minayev Viktor Zvyahintsev Leonid Nazarenko Aleksandr Prokhorov

Coach: Valeriy Lobanovskyi With six goals, Andrzej Szarmach of Poland is the top scorer in the tournament.