Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Football at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Football pictogram for the 2024 Summer Olympics
Event details
Games	2024 Summer Olympics
Host country	France
Dates	24 July – 10 August
Venues	7 (in 7 host cities)
Competitors	504 from 23 nations
Men's tournament
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Medalists Gold   Spain Silver   France Bronze   Morocco
Women's tournament
Teams	12 (from 6 confederations)
Medalists Gold   United States Silver   Brazil Bronze   Germany
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The football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place from 24 July to 10 August 2024 in France. The draw took place in Paris on 20 March 2024. ^[1]

In addition to the Olympic host city of Paris, matches were also played in Bordeaux, Décines-Charpieu (near Lyon), Marseille, Nantes, Nice and Saint-Étienne. ^[2]

The games held separate tournaments for men and women Associations affiliated with FIFA participated in qualifying tournaments to clinch their spots for the Olympics. Men's teams were restricted to under-23 players (born on or after 1 January 2001) with a maximum of three overage players allowed, while there were no age restrictions on women's teams. ^[3]

Canada were the women's defending champions but lost in the quarter-finals. Brazil were the two-time men's defending champions but did not qualify.

Competition schedule

The competition schedule was announced on 1 April 2022. ^{[4] [5]} The final match schedule was confirmed by FIFA on 28 July 2022. ^{[6] [7]}

GS

Group stage

QF

Quarter-finals

SF

Semi-finals

B

Bronze medal match

F

Gold medal match

Date Event	Wed 24	Thu 25	Fri 26	Sat 27	Sun 28	Mon 29	Tue 30	Wed 31	Thu 1	Fri 2	Sat 3	Sun 4	Mon 5	Tue 6	Wed 7	Thu 8	Fri 9	Sat 10
Men	GS			GS			GS			QF			SF			B	F
Women		GS			GS			GS			QF			SF			B	F

Venues

A total of seven stadiums are used, ^[2] as confirmed on 17 December 2020. ^{[8] [9]}

Marseille	Décines-Charpieu (Lyon Area)	Paris
Stade de Marseille	Stade de Lyon	Parc des Princes
Capacity: 67,394	Capacity: 59,186	Capacity: 47,929
Marseille Décines-Charpieu Paris Bordeaux Saint-Étienne Nice Nantes		Bordeaux
		Stade de Bordeaux
		Capacity: 42,115
Saint-Étienne	Nice	Nantes
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard	Stade de Nice	Stade de la Beaujoire
Capacity: 41,965	Capacity: 36,178	Capacity: 35,322

Qualification

The FIFA Council approved the distribution of spots at their meeting on 24 February 2022. ^[3]

Qualification summary

Nation	Men's	Women's	Athletes
Argentina			18
Australia			18
Brazil			18
Canada			18
Colombia			18
Dominican Republic			18
Egypt			18
France			36
Germany			18
Guinea			18
Iraq			18
Israel			18
Japan			36
Mali			18
Morocco			18
New Zealand			36
Nigeria			18
Paraguay			18
Spain			36
Ukraine			18
United States			36
Uzbekistan			18
Zambia			18
Total: 23 NOCs	16/16	12/12	504/504

Men's qualification

Main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

In addition to host nation France, 15 men's national under-23 teams qualified from 6 separate continental confederations. ^[3]

Means of qualification	Date(s) [a]	Venue(s) [a]	Berth(s)	Qualified
Host nation	—	—	1	France
2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship	18 June – 3 July 2022	Honduras	2	United States   Dominican Republic
2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship	21 June – 8 July 2023	Georgia   Romania	3	Spain Israel Ukraine
2023 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations	24 June – 8 July 2023	Morocco	3	Morocco   Egypt   Mali
2023 OFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament	27 August – 9 September 2023	New Zealand	1	New Zealand
2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	20 January – 11 February 2024	Venezuela	2	Paraguay   Argentina
2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup	15 April – 3 May 2024	Qatar	3	Japan   Uzbekistan   Iraq
AFC–CAF play-off	9 May 2024	France	1	Guinea
Total			16

Women's qualification

Main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

In addition to host nation France, 11 women's national teams qualified from 6 separate continental confederations. ^[3]

Means of qualification	Dates [b]	Venue(s) [b]	Berth(s)	Qualified
Host nation	—	—	1	France
2022 CONCACAF W Championship	4–18 July 2022	Mexico	1	United States
2022 Copa América Femenina	8–30 July 2022	Colombia	2	Brazil   Colombia
CONCACAF play-off	22–26 September 2023	Jamaica   Canada	1	Canada
2024 OFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament	7–19 February 2024	Samoa	1	New Zealand
2024 UEFA Women's Nations League Finals	23–28 February 2024	Multiple	2	Spain   Germany
2024 AFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament	24–28 February 2024	Multiple	2	Australia   Japan
2024 CAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament	5–9 April 2024	Multiple	2	Nigeria   Zambia
Total			12

1. Dates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments); various qualification stages may precede these matches.
2. Dates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments); various qualification stages may precede these matches.

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Spain	1	0	0	1
	United States	1	0	0	1
3	Brazil	0	1	0	1
	France*	0	1	0	1
5	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men [10] details	Spain  (ESP) Álex Baena Pablo Barrios Adrián Bernabé Sergio Camello Pau Cubarsí Eric García Joan García Sergio Gómez Miguel Gutiérrez Alejandro Iturbe Diego López Fermín López Juan Miranda Cristhian Mosquera Samu Omorodion Aimar Oroz Jon Pacheco Marc Pubill Abel Ruiz Juanlu Sánchez Arnau Tenas Beñat Turrientes	France  (FRA) Maghnes Akliouche Loïc Badé Rayan Cherki Joris Chotard Andy Diouf Désiré Doué Arnaud Kalimuendo Manu Koné Alexandre Lacazette Johann Lepenant Bradley Locko Castello Lukeba Soungoutou Magassa Jean-Philippe Mateta Chrislain Matsima Enzo Millot Obed Nkambadio Michael Olise Guillaume Restes Kiliann Sildillia Adrien Truffert	Morocco  (MAR) Ilias Akhomach Eliesse Ben Seghir Benjamin Bouchouari Mehdi Boukamir Oussama El Azzouzi Bilal El Khannous Zakaria El Ouahdi Abde Ezzalzouli Rachid Ghanimi Achraf Hakimi Yassine Kechta Haytam Manaout El Mehdi Maouhoub Munir Mohamedi Akram Nakach Soufiane Rahimi Amir Richardson Adil Tahif Oussama Targhalline
Women [11] details	United States  (USA) Korbin Albert Croix Bethune Sam Coffey Tierna Davidson Crystal Dunn Emily Fox Naomi Girma Lindsey Horan Casey Krueger Rose Lavelle Casey Murphy Alyssa Naeher Jenna Nighswonger Trinity Rodman Emily Sams Jaedyn Shaw Sophia Smith Emily Sonnett Mallory Swanson Lynn Williams	Brazil  (BRA) Adriana Ana Vitória Antônia Angelina Duda Sampaio Gabi Nunes Gabi Portilho Jheniffer Kerolin Lauren Lorena Luciana Ludmila Marta Priscila Rafaelle Souza Tainá Tamires Tarciane Thaís Vitória Yaya Yasmim	Germany  (GER) Nicole Anyomi Ann-Katrin Berger Jule Brand Klara Bühl Sara Doorsoun Vivien Endemann Laura Freigang Merle Frohms Giulia Gwinn Marina Hegering Kathrin Hendrich Sarai Linder Sydney Lohmann Janina Minge Sjoeke Nüsken Alexandra Popp Felicitas Rauch Lea Schüller Bibiane Schulze Elisa Senß

Men's tournament

Main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France (H)	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	United States	3	2	0	1	7	4	+3	6
3	New Zealand	3	1	0	2	3	8	−5	3
4	Guinea	3	0	0	3	1	6	−5	0

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Morocco	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6 [a]	Advance to knockout stage
2	Argentina	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6 [a]
3	Ukraine	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	3
4	Iraq	3	1	0	2	3	7	−4	3

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points: Morocco 3, Argentina 0.

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Egypt	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Spain	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	6
3	Dominican Republic	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2
4	Uzbekistan	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Paraguay	3	2	0	1	5	7	−2	6
3	Mali	3	0	1	2	1	3	−2	1
4	Israel	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	2 August – Bordeaux
	France	1
					5 August – Décines-Charpieu
	Argentina	0
					France (a.e.t.)	3
	2 August – Marseille
					Egypt	1
	Egypt (p)	1 (5)
									9 August – Paris
	Paraguay	1 (4)
									France	3
	2 August – Paris
									Spain (a.e.t.)	5
	Morocco	4
					5 August – Marseille
	United States	0
					Morocco	1
	2 August – Décines-Charpieu
					Spain	2			Bronze medal match
	Japan	0
									8 August – Nantes
	Spain	3
									Egypt	0
									Morocco	6

Women's tournament

Main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France (H)	3	2	0	1	6	5	+1	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Canada	3	3	0	0	5	2	+3	3 [a]
3	Colombia	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3
4	New Zealand	3	0	0	3	2	6	−4	0

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Notes:

1. On 27 July 2024, Canada was penalized 6 points by FIFA for their coaching staff's involvement in illegal drone spying at an official training venue. ^[12] The decision was upheld by CAS on 31 July. ^[13]

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	0	9	2	+7	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Germany	3	2	0	1	8	5	+3	6
3	Australia	3	1	0	2	7	10	−3	3
4	Zambia	3	0	0	3	6	13	−7	0

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	3	3	0	0	5	1	+4	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Japan	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	6
3	Brazil	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
4	Nigeria	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A	Colombia	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3	Advance to knockout stage
2	C	Brazil	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
3	B	Australia	3	1	0	2	7	10	−3	3

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Fair play points in all group matches; 5) Drawing of lots.

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	3 August – Nantes
	France	0
					6 August – Marseille
	Brazil	1
					Brazil	4
	3 August – Décines-Charpieu
					Spain	2
	Spain (p)	2 (4)
									10 August – Paris
	Colombia	2 (2)
									Brazil	0
	3 August – Paris
									United States	1
	United States (a.e.t.)	1
					6 August – Décines-Charpieu
	Japan	0
					United States (a.e.t.)	1
	3 August – Marseille
					Germany	0			Bronze medal match
	Canada	0 (2)
									9 August – Décines-Charpieu
	Germany (p)	0 (4)
									Spain	0
									Germany	1

See also

• Football at the 2023 African Games
• Football at the 2023 Pan American Games
• Football 5-a-side at the 2024 Summer Paralympics

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External links

• Official website
• Results book Archived 11 August 2024 at the Wayback Machine