Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics
1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an all international multi-sport events celebrated from September 17 to October 2, 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics...

. The tournament was held from September 17, 1988 to October 1, 1988.

Medal summary


Aleksandr Borodyuk
Aleksandr Borodyuk
Aleksandr Genrikhovich Borodyuk is a Russian football manager and former international player for USSR and Russia ....


Oleksiy Cherednyk
Oleksiy Cherednyk
Oleksiy Valentynovich Cherednyk is a retired Soviet and Ukrainian football player and a current scout.-Honours:* Olympic champion: 1988....


Igor Dobrovolski
Igor Dobrovolski
Igor Ivanovich Dobrovolski is retired footballer in the wide attacking midfielder role. He is currently the manager of Dacia Chişinău.He started his career at Moldavian SSR, then played in Russian SFSR, Spain, Italy, France, Germany before retired in Moldova...


Sergei Fokin
Sergei Fokin (footballer)
Sergei Aleksandrovich Fokin is a former Russian footballer. He was infamous during the days he played for CSKA Moscow for scoring numerous own goals, including 1990 league game against FC Spartak Moscow and European cup games against A.S...


Sergei Gorlukovich
Sergei Gorlukovich
Sergei Vadimovich Gorlukovich is an association footballer who played manager and former international player.-International career:In international football, Gorlukovich played at the 1990 and 1994 FIFA World Cups, and also in Euro 1996. He made his debut for USSR on 19 October 1988 in a 1990...


Arvydas Janonis
Arvydas Janonis
Arvydas Janonis is a former Lithuanian footballer.Jadonis played as a defender from 1978 until 1990 for FK Žalgiris Vilnius. The 1990/91 season he was part of the FC Lokomotiv Moscow squad. In 1991 he moved to Austria where he played for SKN St...


Gela Ketashvili
Gela Ketashvili
Gela Georgiyevich Ketashvili is a retired Soviet and Georgian football player.He is the father of Giorgi Ketashvili.-International career:...


Dmitry Kharin
Dmitri Kharine
Dmitri Viktorovich Kharine , is a retired association footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current goalkeeping coach at Conference National club Luton Town.-Russian football:...


Yevgeni Kuznetsov
Yevgeni Kuznetsov (footballer born 1961)
Yevgeni Borisovich Kuznetsov is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He made his professional debut in the Soviet First League in 1980 for FC Shinnik Yaroslavl.- Club career :*1980-1981 Shinnik Yaroslavl...


Viktor Losev
Viktor Losev
Viktor Vasilyevich Losev is a retired Soviet and Russian football player and a current manager. He is currently an assistant coach with the Russia U-21 team.-Honours:* Olympic Champion: 1988 .* Soviet Top League runner-up: 1986....


Volodymyr Lyuty
Vladimir Liuty
Volodymyr Ivanovych Lyutyi is a Ukrainian football coach and a former player.During his club career he played for Soviet/Ukrainian club FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, German clubs Schalke 04, MSV Duisburg, VfL Bochum and SpVgg Unterhaching, and Turkish club Bursaspor...


Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko
Alexei Mikhailichenko
Oleksiy Oleksandrovych Mykhaylychenko , is a Ukrainian football coach and former professional football player. He currently holds an administrative position in his home club, Dynamo Kyiv, as director of sport...


Arminas Narbekovas
Arminas Narbekovas
Arminas Andreyevich Narbekovas is a former Lithuanian football player, he is currently the Head Coach of Banga Gargždai.-Career:...


Igor Ponomarev
Igor Ponomarev
Igor Ponomarev , was the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the International Maritime Organization and Chairman of the Maritime Safety Committee since 2003...


Yury Savichev
Igor Sklyarov
Igor Sklyarov
Igor Yevgenyevich Sklyarov is a former Russian footballer. He last worked as an athletic director for FC Sibir Novosibirsk.-Background:...


Volodymyr Tatarchuk
Yevgeny Yarovenko
Alexei Prudnikov
Vadym Tyshchenko
Vadym Tyshchenko
Vadym Tyshchenko or Vadim Nikolayevich Tishchenko is a retired Soviet and Ukrainian football player and current football coach.-Honours:...


Ademir
Ademir Roque Kaefer
Ademir Roque Kaefer was a former Brazilian football player.In his career he played for SC Internacional, Toledo, Racing Club , Matsubara, Santo André and Cruzeiro...


Aloísio
Aloísio Pires Alves
Aloísio Pires Alves, simply Aloísio , is a retired Brazilian footballer who played as a central defender....


Andrade
Jorge Luís Andrade da Silva
Jorge Luís Andrade da Silva, better known as Andrade, is a former defensive midfielder born April 21, 1957 in Juiz de Fora, MG. After being sacked as Flamengo's general manager, currently he is unemployed.-Career:...


Batista
Bebeto
Bebeto
José Roberto Gama de Oliveira, known as 'Bebeto', is a former football forward, a World Champion for Brazil in the 1994 World Cup...


Careca
Hamilton de Souza
Hamilton de Souza, known as Careca is a former Brazilian football striker.Careca played for several Brazilian clubs as Cruzeiro, Atlético Mineiro and Coritiba and also for Sporting CP in Portugal....


André Cruz
Edmar
Geovani
Geovani Faria da Silva
Geovani Faria da Silva referred to simply as Geovani Silva or Geovani was a Brazilian football player....


João Paulo
Jorginho
Jorginho
Jorge de Amorim Campos , aka Jorginho, is a retired Brazilian footballer who played mainly as a right defender, and the current coach of Figueirense Futebol Clube....


Milton
Neto
José Ferreira Neto
José Ferreira Neto , commonly known as Neto, is a Brazilian former football player, and currently a football commentator for Rede Bandeirantes....


Romário
Romário
Romário de Souza Faria , better known simply as Romário , is a former footballer who played striker,manager and current politician where is currently running for a mayor like position in his hometown...


Cláudio Taffarel
Cláudio Taffarel
Cláudio André Mergen Taffarel is a retired Brazilian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is of German and Italian descent....


Luiz Carlos Winck
Luiz Carlos Winck
Luís Carlos Coelho Winck, was a Brazilian football player born in Portão, Rio Grande do Sul.-Career:Started his successful journey in soccer as a defensive midfielder in Internacional, moving to the right-back position in 1984 by late coach, Ênio Andrade...


Ricardo Gomes
Mazinho
Mazinho
Iomar do Nascimento, known as Mazinho , is a Brazilian football manager and former player, and the former head coach of Greek club Aris Thessaloniki.-Club career:...


Valdo Filho
Zé Carlos

Rudi Bommer
Rudolf Bommer
Rudolf "Rudi" Bommer is a former German footballer and football manager. He is the current manager of Wacker Burghausen.Born in Aschaffenburg, he played 417 games between 1976 and 1997 for Fortuna Düsseldorf, Bayer Uerdingen and Eintracht Frankfurt.He played in France in Euro 84...


Holger Fach
Holger Fach
Holger Fach is a former German footballer and a current manager for Lokomotiv Astana. Mainly a defensive midfielder, he could also pitch in at centre back.-Football career:...


Wolfgang Funkel
Wolfgang Funkel
Wolfgang Funkel is a German former footballer.He is the brother of Friedhelm Funkel.-External links:...


Armin Görtz
Armin Görtz
Armin Görtz is a German former footballer.-External links:...


Roland Grahammer
Roland Grahammer
Roland Grahammer is a German former footballer.-Honours:* Fußball-Bundesliga: 1988–89, 1989–90, 1993–94-External links:...


Thomas Häßler
Thomas Häßler
Thomas Jürgen "Icke" Häßler is a former German football midfielder and is currently a coach for 1. FC Köln. He was formerly a coach for the Nigeria national team....


Thomas Hörster
Thomas Hörster
Thomas Hörster is a German former footballer.-References:*...


Olaf Janßen
Olaf Janßen
Olaf Janßen is a retired German footballer who played in midfield. Janßen spent most of his playing career with German Bundesliga sides 1. FC Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt, where he later worked as a scout....


Uwe Kamps
Uwe Kamps
Uwe Kamps is a retired German footballer who played as a goalkeeper.-Playing career:Kamps joined Borussia Mönchengladbach from amateur outfit BV 04 Düsseldorf...


Gerhard Kleppinger
Gerhard Kleppinger
Gerhard Kleppinger is a German former footballer, he works currently as Assistant Coach from FSV Frankfurt.-References:*...


Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann is a German football manager and former player who is currently the coach of the United States Men's National Team. As a player, Klinsmann played for several prominent clubs in Europe and was part of the West German team that won the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the German one that...


Frank Mill
Frank Mill
Frank Mill was a German footballer and part of the 1990 FIFA World Cup winning squad of West Germany. Further, he participated at the 1984 and at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he won the bronze medal with the German team.-Biography:A clinical striker in his prime, the son of a junk dealer...


Karl-Heinz Riedle
Christian Schreier
Christian Schreier
Christian Schreier is a German former footballer who is currently general manager of SC Paderborn. He played as an attacking midfielder, most notably with VfL Bochum and Bayer Leverkusen, and won one cap for West Germany, in 1984...


Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz is a retired German soccer player. He played 243 matches in the Bundesliga for Borussia Dortmund, Werder Bremen and 1. FC Kaiserslautern and scored eight goals....


Ralf Sievers
Ralf Sievers
Ralf Sievers is a former German football player, most notably with Eintracht Frankfurt.Like his brother Jörg he began his career at Lower Saxon club SV Eddelstorf. From 1982 until 1991 Sievers played 232 matches in the Fußball-Bundesliga for Eintracht Frankfurt and FC St.Pauli, scoring 10 goals...


Fritz Walter
Wolfram Wuttke
Oliver Reck
Oliver Reck
Oliver Reck is a former German footballer who played as a goalkeeper.In a 20-year professional career, he was best known for his stints with Werder Bremen and Schalke 04, for whom he appeared in more than 500 official games combined, 471 in the Bundesliga alone.-Club career:Reck started his...


Gunnar Sauer
Gunnar Sauer
Gunnar Sauer is a former German footballer who played as a central defender, most notably with SV Werder Bremen.-Football career:...



Note: The players above the line played at least one game in this tournament, the players below the line were only squad members. Nevertheless the International Olympic Committee medal database credits them all as medalists.

Qualification

The following sixteen teams qualified for the 1988 Olympics football tournament:
  • Africa (CAF
    Confederation of African Football
    The Confederation of African Football is the administrative and controlling body for African association football.CAF represents the national football associations of Africa, runs continental, national, and club competitions, and controls the prize money, regulations and media rights to those...

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  • Asia (AFC
    Asian Football Confederation
    The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football in Asia. It has 46 member countries, mostly located on the Asian continent. However, due to the disputed boundary of Europe and Asia, nations such as Russia and Turkey which are located mostly in geographic Asia are...

    )

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}

  • North & Central America (CONCACAF
    CONCACAF
    The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football is the continental governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean...

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  • South America (CONMEBOL
    CONMEBOL
    The South American Football Confederation , commonly known as CONMEBOL , is the continental governing body of association football in South America and it is one of FIFA's six continental confederations...

    )

}
}

  • Oceania (OFC
    Oceania Football Confederation
    The Oceania Football Confederation is one of the six continental confederations of international association football, consisting of Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and island nations such as Tonga, Fiji and other Pacific Island countries...

    )

}

  • Europe (UEFA
    UEFA
    The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....

    )

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  • Hosting nation

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Participating nations

Each country was allowed to enter a team of 20 players and they all were eligible for participation. A total number of 314 footballers were entered.

A total of 268(*) footballers from 16 nations competed at the Seoul Games:
(*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.
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Group A

Team
3 2 1 0 6 3
3
5
3 2 0 1 8 3
5
4
3 0 2 1 3 6 −3 2
3 0 1 2 0 5 −5 1

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Group B

Team
3 2 1 0 10 2
8
5
3 2 0 1 7 6
1
4
3 1 1 1 5 4
1
3
3 0 0 3 2 12 −10 0

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Group C

Team
3 2 1 0 6 3
3
5
3 1 1 1 4 4 0 3
3 0 2 1 1 2 −1 2
3 0 2 1 3 5 −2 2

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Group D

Team
3 3 0 0 9 1
8
6
3 2 0 1 2 3 −1 4
3 1 0 2 4 4 0 2
3 0 0 3 1 8 −7 0

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Knockout stage

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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Match for third place

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Final

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Venues

  • Olympic Stadium
    Olympic Stadium (Seoul)
    The Seoul Olympic Stadium, aka Jamsil Olympic Stadium is located in Seoul, South Korea. It was the main stadium was built for the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 10th Asian Games in 1986...

     – Seoul
    Seoul
    Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

  • Dongdaemun Stadium
    Dongdaemun Stadium
    The Dongdaemun Stadium, was in Seoul, South Korea and included a multi-purpose athletics stadium, a baseball park and other sports facilities. It was located near the Dongdaemun or Great East Gate and the surrounding Dongdaemun market and had many vendors selling athletics-related goods...

     – Seoul
    Seoul
    Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

  • Daegu Civil Stadium
    Daegu Civil Stadium
    Daegu Civic Stadium is a sports complex in Daegu, South Korea. Its main stadium is currently used mostly for football matches, but it is occasionally used to host large-scale karaoke events. During the 1986 Asian Games and 1988 Summer Olympics, it hosted some football matches. The stadium has a...

     – Daegu
    Daegu
    Daegu , also known as Taegu, and officially the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea, the fourth largest after Seoul, Busan, and Incheon, and the third largest metropolitan area in the country with over 2.5 million residents. The city is the capital and principal city of the...

  • Goodeok Stadium – Busan
    Busan
    Busan , formerly spelled Pusan is South Korea's second largest metropolis after Seoul, with a population of around 3.6 million. The Metropolitan area population is 4,399,515 as of 2010. It is the largest port city in South Korea and the fifth largest port in the world...

  • Gwangju Stadium
    Gwangju Stadium
    Gwangju Moodeung Stadium is a Sports complex in Gwangju, South Korea. Main stadium is currently used mostly for football matches and has a capacity of 30,000 people and was opened in 1966. During the 1988 Summer Olympics, it hosted some football matches. This complex have Gwangju Mudeung Baseball...

     – Gwangju
    Gwangju
    Gwangju is the sixth largest city in South Korea. It is a designated metropolitan city under the direct control of the central government's Home Minister...

  • Hanbat Stadium – Daejeon
    Daejeon
    Daejeon is South Korea's fifth largest metropolis and the provincial capital of Chungnam. Located in the center of the country, Daejeon had a population of over 1.5 million in 2010. It is at the crossroads of Gyeongbu railway, Honam railway, Gyeongbu Expressway, and Honam Expressway. Within the...


Match Officials

Africa Jean-Fidele Diramba
Jean-Fidele Diramba
Jean-Fidele Diramba , is a former football referee from the African state of Gabon. He is known for having officiated the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Diramba officiated the 1990 Africa Cup of Nations Final in Algiers between Algeria and Nigeria.Jean-Fidele Diramba was the referee in...

 Baba Laouissi
Baba Laouissi
Baba Laouissi . Is a former football referee from the African state of Morocco. He is known for having officiated the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.-References:...

 Badara Sene
Badara Sène
Badara Sène is a Senegalese footballer, who most recently played in France for FC Sochaux-Montbéliard.- Career :...




Asia Jamal Al Sharif
Jamal Al Sharif
Jamal Al Sharif . A football referee from Damascus, Syria. He is mostly known for supervising six matches in the FIFA World Cup...

 Choi Gil-Soo
Choi Gil-Soo
Choi Gil-Soo . Is a former football referee from the Asian state of South Korea. He is known for having officiated the 1988 Summer Olympics on home soil in Seoul.-References:*...

 Mandi Jassim Shizuo Takada
Shizuo Takada
is a former Japanese football referee. He refereed a first round match between Spain and Algeria in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. He also officiated a first round match between Yugoslavia and UAE in the 1990 FIFA World Cup.-References:*...




South America Juan Daniel Cardellino
Juan Daniel Cardellino
Juan Daniel Cardellino de San Vicente was a football referee from Uruguay, who officiated at two FIFA World Cups: 1982 and 1990 .-References:*...

 Arnaldo Cézar Coelho
Arnaldo Cézar Coelho
Arnaldo David Cézar Coelho was the first Brazilian, indeed first non-European to take charge of the FIFA World Cup final when he officiated in the 1982 final between Italy and West Germany....

 Jesús Díaz
Jesús Díaz
Jesús Díaz Palacio is a retired Colombian football referee. He is known for having refereed two matches in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. He made several controversial calls against Mexico at the 1986 FIFA World Cup held in Mexico....

 Juan Carlos Loustau
Juan Carlos Loustau
Juan Carlos Loustau is a former Argentine football referee. He is known for supervising three matches in the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy.-References:...

 Hernán Silva
Hernán Silva
Hernán Silva Arce is a retired Chilean football referee. He is known for having refereed two matches in the FIFA World Cup, one in the 1986 and one in the 1990.-References:*...



North and Central America Edgardo Codesal
Edgardo Codesal
Edgardo Codesal Méndez is an Uruguayan-Mexican football referee, best known for supervising the final match of the 1990 World Cup held in Italy.-Career:...

 Lennox Sirjuesingh Vincent Mauro
Vincent Mauro
Vincent Mauro is a retired American referee. He is best known for having refereed one match in the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy.-References:*...




Europe Gérard Biguet
Gérard Biguet
Gérard Biguet is a retired French football referee, known for having refereed one match at the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship: CIS versus Germany.-References:*...

 Keith Hackett
Keith Hackett
Keith Stuart Hackett is an English former football referee, who began refereeing in local leagues in the Sheffield, Yorkshire, area in 1960...

 Kenny Hope
Kenny Hope
Kenneth J. "Kenny" Hope is a former football referee from Scotland. He is known for have officiated the 1988 Summer Olympics in SeoulHe is referenced in Willie Miller's autobiography, The Don, as being the best referee who ever lived....

 Kurt Röthlisberger
Kurt Röthlisberger
Kurt Röthlisberger is a retired football referee from Switzerland. He is mostly known for supervising five matches in the FIFA World Cup...

 Tullio Lanese
Tullio Lanese
Tullio Lanese is a former football referee from Italy. He is mostly known for supervising three matches in the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy. He also refereed the European Cup final in 1991....

 Michał Listkiewicz Karl-Heinz Tritschler
Karl-Heinz Tritschler
Karl-Heinz Tritschler , is a former football referee from Germany. He is known for having officiated at the 1988 Summer Olympics, and the 1989 European Cup Final between AC Milan and Steaua Bucureşti.-References:*...

 Alexey Spirin
Alexey Spirin
Alexey Nikolayevich Spirin is a former association football referee from Russia. He is mostly known for supervising one match in the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy.-References:...




Oceania Chris Bambridge
Chris Bambridge
Christopher "Chris" Francis Bambridge is a retired Australian football referee, known for having refereed one match in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico: Spain versus Brazil, in which he wrongly disallowed a Spanish goal by Míchel, in which after the ball hit the crossbar, it bounced behind the...



Topscorers

A total of 52 players scored 95 goals (including one own goal) in the 32 matches. Only China was unable to score a goal.
Place Name Nation Goals
1. Romário
Romário
Romário de Souza Faria , better known simply as Romário , is a former footballer who played striker,manager and current politician where is currently running for a mayor like position in his hometown...

 
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2. Igor Dobrovolski
Igor Dobrovolski
Igor Ivanovich Dobrovolski is retired footballer in the wide attacking midfielder role. He is currently the manager of Dacia Chişinău.He started his career at Moldavian SSR, then played in Russian SFSR, Spain, Italy, France, Germany before retired in Moldova...

 
6
Kalusha Bwalya
Kalusha Bwalya
Kalusha Bwalya , known as simply Kalusha, is a Zambian footballer and coach. He is Zambia's most capped player, all-time top goalscorer, and is regarded as the greatest Zambian player to play the game...

 
6
4. Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko
Alexei Mikhailichenko
Oleksiy Oleksandrovych Mykhaylychenko , is a Ukrainian football coach and former professional football player. He currently holds an administrative position in his home club, Dynamo Kyiv, as director of sport...

 
5
5. Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann is a German football manager and former player who is currently the coach of the United States Men's National Team. As a player, Klinsmann played for several prominent clubs in Europe and was part of the West German team that won the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the German one that...

 
4
6. Frank Mill
Frank Mill
Frank Mill was a German footballer and part of the 1990 FIFA World Cup winning squad of West Germany. Further, he participated at the 1984 and at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he won the bronze medal with the German team.-Biography:A clinical striker in his prime, the son of a junk dealer...

 
3
Pietro Paolo Virdis
Pietro Paolo Virdis
Antonio Pietro Paolo Virdis is a former Italian footballer who played for Cagliari Calcio, Juventus F.C., Udinese Calcio, AC Milan and was part of their European Cup victory in 1989.-Club:...

 
3
Carlos Alfaro
Carlos Alfaro Moreno
Carlos Alejandro "Beto" Alfaro Moreno is a former Argentine football striker. He played club football in Argentina, Spain, Ecuador and Mexico as well as representing the Argentina national football team....

 
3
Jan Hellström
Jan Hellström
Jan Hellström is a former Swedish footballer, who played as a striker.-Football career:Hellström played Swedish top league football for IFK Norrköping and Örgryte IS...

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