Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

Last updated February 25, 2024

The qualification for women's football tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics .

Qualified teams

The following teams have qualified for the final tournament.

Confederation (Region)	Berths	Qualified Teams
Host nation (automatically qualified)	1	Greece
UEFA (Europe)	2	Germany Sweden
CONMEBOL (South America)	1	Brazil
CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean)	2	United States Mexico
CAF (Africa)	1	Nigeria
AFC (Asia)	2	China Japan
OFC (Oceania)	1	Australia

AFC

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All matches were held in Japan.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	North Korea	3	3	0	22	0	+22	9
2	Chinese Taipei	3	2	1	8	6	+2	6
3	Hong Kong	3	1	2	3	12	−9	3
4	Singapore	3	0	3	0	15	−15	0

Source: Japan Football Association

18 April 2004

North Korea	5 - 0	Chinese Taipei
Ri Kum-suk 11', 69' Ri Hyang-ok 19' Yun Yong-hui 36' Jin Pyol-hui 84'

Hiroshima Big Arch

18 April 2004

Singapore	0 - 2	Hong Kong

Hiroshima Big Arch

20 April 2004

Chinese Taipei	5 - 0	Singapore

Hiroshima Big Arch

20 April 2004

Hong Kong	0 - 9	North Korea
		Ra Mi-ae 6' Ho Sun-hui 7', 69' Jin Pyol-hui 8' Ri Kum-suk 50', 52', 90' Ri Hyang-ok 62' Pak Kyong-sun 80'

Hiroshima Big Arch

22 April 2004

North Korea	8 - 0	Singapore
Jin Pyol-hui 6' Seok Cheon-myong 12' Ri Kum-suk 16', 23' O Kum-ran 42' Pak Kyong-sun 45' Ri Un-gyong 49', 73'

Hiroshima Big Arch

22 April 2004

Hong Kong	1 - 3	Chinese Taipei

Hiroshima Big Arch

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	China	3	3	0	23	0	+23	9
2	South Korea	3	2	1	14	3	+11	6
3	Myanmar	3	1	2	2	18	−16	3
4	Guam	3	0	3	0	18	−18	0

Source: Japan Football Association

18 April 2004

China	11 - 0	Myanmar
Teng Wei 13', 47', 84', 90+2' Li Jie 29', 61', 79' Bi Yan 31' Qu Feifei 32' Han Duan 36' Ren Liping 74'

Hiroshima Stadium

18 April 2004

South Korea	7 - 0	Guam

Hiroshima Stadium

20 April 2004

Myanmar	0 - 7	South Korea

Hiroshima Stadium

20 April 2004

Guam	0 - 9	China
		Bai Lili 13', 59' Han Duan 25', 90+1' Liu Huana 31' Teng Wei 48' Bi Yan 64', 73'

Hiroshima Stadium

22 April 2004

Guam	0 - 2	Myanmar

Hiroshima Stadium

22 April 2004

China	3 - 0	South Korea
Li Jie 50' Qu Feifei 53' Ji Ting 90+1'

Hiroshima Stadium

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Japan	2	2	0	0	13	0	+13	6
2	Thailand	2	0	1	1	0	6	−6	1
3	Vietnam	2	0	1	1	0	7	−7	1

Source: Japan Football Association

18 April 2004

Japan	7 - 0	Vietnam
Miyamoto 3', 41' Otani 7', 59' Maruyama 60' Yamamoto 85' Sawa 90'

Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium

20 April 2004

Vietnam	0 - 0	Thailand

Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium

22 April 2004

Thailand	0 - 6	Japan
		Maruyama 11', 47' Ando 32' Kobayashi 51' Otani 72' Yamamoto 90+2'

National Stadium, Tokyo

Semifinals

Semi-finals		Final

24 April

North Korea	0
		26 April
Japan	3
		Japan	0
24 April
		China	1
China	1

South Korea	0
		Third place

		26 April

		North Korea	5

		South Korea	1

24 April 2004

North Korea	0 - 3	Japan
		Arakawa 11' 45+1' (o.g.) Otani 64'

National Stadium, Tokyo

24 April 2004

China	1 - 0	South Korea
Qu Feifei 60'

Hiroshima Big Arch

Third-place match

26 April 2004

North Korea	5 - 1	South Korea
Seok Cheon-myung 2' Ri Kum-suk 32' Ri Hyang-ok 40', 71' O Kum-ran 88'		Park Eun-sun 39'

Hiroshima Big Arch

Final

26 April 2004

Japan	0 - 1	China
		Li Jie 57'

Hiroshima Big Arch

Awards

Best Player Award	Top Goalscorer	Fair Play Award
Teng Wei ( China)	Ri Kum-suk ( North Korea, 8 goals)	Japan

CAF

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First round	Second round				Third round				Final round

South Africa

bye
	South Africa	13	13	26

	Namibia	0	1	1
Namibia (w/o)

Tanzania
					South Africa	6	2	8

					Angola	2	3	5
Zimbabwe

bye
	Zimbabwe	0	0	0

	Angola (a.e.t.)	0	1	1
Angola (w/o)

Cape Verde
									South Africa	2	0	2

									Nigeria	2	1	3
Nigeria

bye
	Nigeria (w/o)

	Kenya
Kenya (w/o)

Uganda
					Nigeria (p)	1	1	2 (3)

					Ghana	1	1	2 (2)
Ghana

bye
	Ghana	2	2	4

	DR Congo	0	1	1
DR Congo (w/o)

Equatorial Guinea

CONCACAF

Mexico and the United States earned Olympic qualification places by winning their semi-final matches.

Preliminary round

Caribbean Zone

Series A

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Suriname	2–6	Trinidad and Tobago	0–2	2–4

Series B

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Jamaica	4–0	Cayman Islands	3–0	1–0

Series C

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dominican Republic	2–10	Haiti	0–7	2–3

North/Central American Zone

Series D

Series E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	Pts
1	Mexico	2	6
2	Honduras (H)	2	3
3	Nicaragua	2	0

Source: CONCACAF
(H) Hosts

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	Pts
1	Guatemala (H)	2	4
2	Panama	2	4
3	Belize	2	0

Source: CONCACAF
(H) Hosts

Group stage

Eight teams participated in the group stage. The top two teams from each group advanced to the semi-finals.

Group A

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	Pts
1	Canada	3	9
2	Costa Rica (H)	3	6
3	Panama	3	3
4	Jamaica	3	0

Source: CONCACAF
(H) Hosts

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	Pts
1	United States	3	9
2	Mexico	3	6
3	Trinidad and Tobago	3	3
4	Haiti	3	0

Source: CONCACAF

Knockout stage

The winners of the semi-finals qualified for the Olympics.

Semi-finals		Final

3 March – San José

Canada	1
		5 March – Heredia
Mexico	2
		Mexico	2
3 March – San José
		United States	3
United States	4

Costa Rica	0
		Third place play-off

		5 March – Heredia

		Canada	4

		Costa Rica	0

CONMEBOL

CONMEBOL did not hold the qualifying competition for the one spot but nominated Brazil , the winners of 2003 South American Women's Football Championship and 2003 Pan American Games, as the South American representative.^[2] Brazil also achieved the best performance among CONMEBOL teams at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, having advanced to the quarter-finals, while the confederation's only other team, Argentina, were eliminated in the group stage.

OFC

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All matches were held in Fiji.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Australia	2	2	0	17	0	+17	6
2	Papua New Guinea	2	1	1	2	10	−8	3
3	Fiji	2	0	2	0	9	−9	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

2 March 2004

Fiji	0 - 2	Papua New Guinea

Fiji

4 March 2004

Australia	10 - 0	Papua New Guinea

Fiji

6 March 2004

Fiji	0 - 7	Australia

Fiji

UEFA

Due to scheduling issues, UEFA did not hold a separate qualifying competition; UEFA instead announced that the top two UEFA teams in 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup were to qualify for the Olympics. As a result, the World Cup winners Germany and the runners-up Sweden qualified for the Olympics^[1] (together with the hosts Greece ).

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References

1 2 FIFA report, page 132.
1 2 3 4 "Games of the XXVIII. Olympiad Football Qualifying Tournament". RSSSF . Retrieved 31 March 2018.
↑ "AFC女子サッカー予選大会2004" [AFC Women's football qualifying tournament 2004]. Japan Football Association. Archived from the original on 24 June 2004. Retrieved 31 March 2018.

General references

Olympic Football Tournaments Athens 2004, FIFA, retrieved on 31 March 2018.

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[qualification-outline-1] 1 2 FIFA report, page 132.

[RSSSF-2] 1 2 3 4 "Games of the XXVIII. Olympiad Football Qualifying Tournament". RSSSF . Retrieved 31 March 2018.

[3] "AFC女子サッカー予選大会2004" [AFC Women's football qualifying tournament 2004]. Japan Football Association. Archived from the original on 24 June 2004. Retrieved 31 March 2018.

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Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

Contents

Qualified teams

AFC

Group A

Group B

Group C

Semifinals

Third-place match

Final

Awards

CAF

CONCACAF

Preliminary round

Caribbean Zone

North/Central American Zone

Group stage

Knockout stage

CONMEBOL

OFC

UEFA

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References