Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

2000 Men's Olympic Football Tournament
Tournament details
Host country	Australia
Dates	13–30 September
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Cameroon (1st title)
Runners-up	Spain
Third place	Chile
Fourth place	United States
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	103 (3.22 per match)
Attendance	1,034,500 (32,328 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Iván Zamorano ; (6 goals)
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Last updated August 23, 2025

The men's football tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held in Sydney and four other cities in Australia from 13 to 30 September. It was the 22nd edition of the men's Olympic football tournament.

The final, played at the Olympic Stadium in Sydney, Australia, attracted the Olympic Games Football attendance record of 104,098 which broke the previous record of 101,799 set at the Rose Bowl for the gold medal match of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Cameroon won the gold medal with a victory over Spain,^[1] the country's first Olympic gold in history.

Competition schedule

The match schedule of the tournament.

Legend
G	Group stage	¼	Quarter-finals	½	Semi-finals	B	Bronze medal match	F	Gold medal match

13 Wed	14 Thu	15 Fri	16 Sat	17 Sun	18 Mon	19 Tue	20 Wed	21 Thu	22 Fri	23 Sat	24 Sun	25 Mon	26 Tue	27 Wed	28 Thu	29 Fri	30 Sat
G	G		G	G		G	G			¼		½				B	F

Qualification

The following 16 teams qualified for the 2000 Olympic men's football tournament:

Means of qualification	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	1	Australia
CAF Preliminary Competition	3	Cameroon Morocco Nigeria
AFC Preliminary Competition	3	Kuwait Japan South Korea
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition	2	Honduras (winner) United States (runner-up)
2000 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	2	Brazil (winner) Chile (runner-up)
2000 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship	4	Italy (winner) Czech Republic (runner-up) Spain (third-place) Slovakia (fourth-place)
OFC–CAF play-off	1	South Africa
Total	16

Four countries competed for the first time in 2000: the Czech Republic and Slovakia (previously champions together as Czechoslovakia at the 1980 Summer Olympics), South Africa and Honduras.

Squads

Venues

Six venues were used during the tournament, four of them outside of Sydney at cities around Australia. Olympic stadium hosted the Final.

Sydney		Melbourne
Olympic Stadium	Sydney Football Stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground
Capacity: 110,000	Capacity: 42,500	Capacity: 98,000

Brisbane	Canberra	Adelaide
Brisbane Cricket Ground	Bruce Stadium	Hindmarsh Stadium
Capacity: 37,000	Capacity: 25,011	Capacity: 20,000

Adelaide Brisbane Canberra Melbourne Sydney

Match officials

Africa

Asia

North and Central America

South America

Europe

Oceania

Seeding

The draw for the tournament took place on 3 June 2000. Australia, South Korea, the United States and Brazil were seeded for the draw and placed into groups A–D, respectively. The remaining teams were drawn from four pots with teams from the same region kept apart.

Pot 1: Host, Top-Seeded teams from Americas and Asia	Pot 2: Europe	Pot 3: Africa	Pot 4: Non-top seeded teams from Americas and Asia
Australia (assigned to A1) South Korea (assigned to B1) United States (assigned to C1) Brazil (assigned to D1)	Czech Republic Italy Slovakia Spain	Cameroon Morocco Nigeria South Africa	Chile Honduras Japan Kuwait

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
Nigeria	3	1	2	0	7	6	+1	5
Honduras	3	1	1	1	6	7	−1	4
Australia	3	0	0	3	3	6	−3	0

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13 September 2000

18:30

Nigeria	3–3	Honduras
Igbinadolor 50' Agali 78' Yakubu 90+1'	Report	Suazo 36', 76' León 60'

Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide

Attendance: 13,386

Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)

13 September 2000