Tournament details | |
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Host country | France |
Dates | 24 July – 9 August |
Teams | 16 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 7 (in 7 host cities) |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 8 |
Goals scored | 22 (2.75 per match) |
Attendance | 176,066 (22,008 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Shōta Fujio Shunsuke Mito Soufiane Rahimi (2 goals each) |
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The men's football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics is held from 24 July to 9 August 2024. [1] It is the 28th edition of the men's Olympic football tournament. Together with the women's competition, the 2024 Summer Olympics football tournament is held at seven stadiums in seven cities in France. The final will be held at Parc des Princes in Paris. Teams participating in the men's competition are restricted to under-23 players (born on or after 1 January 2001) with a maximum of three overage players allowed. Brazil were two time defending champions, having won 2016 and 2020, but did not qualify for this tournament. [2]
The schedule is as follows. [3]
G | Group stage | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | 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 |
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GS | GS | GS | QF | SF | B | F |
In addition to host nation France, fifteen men's national teams qualified from six separate continental confederations. The Organising Committee for FIFA Competitions ratified the distribution of spots at their meeting on 24 February 2022. [4]
Means of qualification | Date(s) [lower-alpha 1] | Venue(s) [lower-alpha 1] | Berth(s) | Qualified |
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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 |
Marseille | Décines-Charpieu (Lyon area) | Paris |
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Stade de Marseille | Stade de Lyon | Parc des Princes |
Capacity: 67,394 | Capacity: 59,186 | Capacity: 47,929 |
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 |
Each team had to submit a squad of 18 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers with at least fifteen born on or after 1 January 2001, and three who could be older dispensation players. Additionally, each team could also have a list of four alternate players, who might replace any player in the squad in case of injury during the tournament. [5]
On 3 April 2024, FIFA released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympics. [6]
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The draw for the groups was held on 20 March 2024, 20:00 CET (UTC+1), at the Pulse building in Saint-Denis, France. [7] The sixteen teams were drawn into four groups of four teams each. The hosts France were automatically seeded into Pot 1 and placed into the first position of Group A, while the remaining teams were seeded into their respective pots based on their results in the last five Men’s Olympic Football Tournament (with more recent tournaments weighted more heavily), as follows: [8] [9]
Furthermore, five bonus points were added to each of the six continental champions from the qualifying tournaments. [9]
Pot | Team | Confederation | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | BP | Total points | |||||
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Pts | 20% | Pts | 40% | Pts | 60% | Pts | 80% | Pts 100% | ||||||
1 | France (H) | UEFA | Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1 | |||||||||||
Japan (AFC 1, results of Japan) [lower-alpha 1] | AFC | 3 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 3.2 | 10 | 19.8 | |||
Uzbekistan (AFC 2, results of South Korea) [lower-alpha 1] | AFC | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1.6 | 9 | 5.4 | 7 | 5.6 | 6 | 19.6 | |||
Argentina | CONMEBOL | 18 | 3.6 | 18 | 7.2 | DNQ | 4 | 3.2 | 4 | 18 | ||||
2 | Spain | UEFA | DNQ | 1 | 0.6 | DNQ | 11 | +5 | 16.6 | |||||
New Zealand | OFC | DNQ | 1 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.6 | DNQ | 5 | +5 | 11 | ||||
Paraguay | CONMEBOL | 12 | 2.4 | DNQ | +5 | 7.4 | ||||||||
Morocco | CAF | 4 | 0.8 | DNQ | 2 | 1.2 | DNQ | +5 | 7 | |||||
3 | United States | CONCACAF | DNQ | 4 | 1.6 | DNQ | +5 | 6.6 | ||||||
Egypt | CAF | DNQ | 4 | 2.4 | DNQ | 4 | 6.4 | |||||||
Iraq (AFC 3, results of Australia) [lower-alpha 1] | AFC | — | 1 | 0.4 | DNQ | 3 | 3.4 | |||||||
Mali | CAF | 5 | 1 | DNQ | 1 | |||||||||
4 | Dominican Republic | CONCACAF | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||||
Israel | UEFA | DNQ | 0 | |||||||||||
Ukraine | UEFA | DNQ | 0 | |||||||||||
Guinea [lower-alpha 2] | CAF | AFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4 |
Notes
The draw started with teams from pot one being drawn first and placed in the first position of their groups (hosts France automatically assigned to A1). Then were drawn the teams from pot 2, followed by pot 3 and pot 4, with each team also being drawn to one of the positions within their group, No group could contain more than one team from each confederation. [10] The ceremony was hosted by the local presenter Fabien Leveque and conducted by FIFA's Director of Tournaments Jaime Yarza and Chief Women's Football Officer Sarai Bareman, with the former Argentine footballer Javier Saviola and French track and field legend athlete Marie-José Pérec as draw assistants. [11]
The draw resulted in the following groups: [12] [13]
Pos | Team |
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A1 | France |
A2 | United States |
A3 | Guinea [lower-alpha 1] |
A4 | New Zealand |
Pos | Team |
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B1 | Argentina |
B2 | Morocco |
B3 | Iraq [lower-alpha 1] |
B4 | Ukraine |
Pos | Team |
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C1 | Uzbekistan [lower-alpha 1] |
C2 | Spain |
C3 | Egypt |
C4 | Dominican Republic |
Pos | Team |
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D1 | Japan [lower-alpha 1] |
D2 | Paraguay |
D3 | Mali |
D4 | Israel |
Notes
The competing countries were divided into four groups of four teams, denoted as groups A, B, C and D. Teams in each group play one another in a round-robin basis, with the top two teams of each group advancing to the quarter-finals.
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2). [14]
The ranking of teams in the group stage will be determined as follows: [5]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | France (H) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | +3 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | New Zealand | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 3 | |
3 | Guinea | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 0 | |
4 | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 0 |
New Zealand | Match 10 | United States |
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France | Match 9 | Guinea |
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Iraq | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 3 [lower-alpha 1] | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Morocco | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 3 [lower-alpha 1] | |
3 | Argentina | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 0 [lower-alpha 2] | |
4 | Ukraine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 0 [lower-alpha 2] |
Iraq | 2–1 | Ukraine |
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Spain | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Egypt | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 [lower-alpha 1] | |
3 | Dominican Republic | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 [lower-alpha 1] | |
4 | Uzbekistan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 0 |
Uzbekistan | 1–2 | Spain |
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Dominican Republic | Match 14 | Spain |
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Uzbekistan | Match 13 | Egypt |
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Japan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | +5 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Israel | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 [lower-alpha 1] | |
3 | Mali | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 [lower-alpha 1] | |
4 | Paraguay | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 0 |
In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner. [5]
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | ||||||||
2 August – Bordeaux | ||||||||||
Winner Group A | ||||||||||
5 August – Décines-Charpieu | ||||||||||
Runner-up Group B | ||||||||||
2 August – Marseille | ||||||||||
Winner Group C | ||||||||||
9 August – Paris | ||||||||||
Runner-up Group D | ||||||||||
2 August – Paris | ||||||||||
Winner Group B | ||||||||||
5 August – Marseille | ||||||||||
Runner-up Group A | ||||||||||
2 August – Décines-Charpieu | ||||||||||
Bronze medal match | ||||||||||
Winner Group D | ||||||||||
8 August – Nantes | ||||||||||
Runner-up Group C | ||||||||||
There have been 22 goals scored in 8 matches, for an average of 2.75 goals per match (as of 24 July 2024).
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal
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