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A total of 16 teams are scheduled to compete in the men's football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics. In addition to the host nation France, 15 men's national under-23 teams qualified or will qualify from the tournaments of the six continental confederations.
On 24 February 2022, the FIFA Council approved the slot allocation for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The host nation France, earns automatic qualification to the tournament. For the remaining 15 slots, the AFC and CAF each received 3.5 slots, UEFA received 3 slots, CONCACAF and CONMEBOL received 2 slots, and the OFC received 1 slot. [1]
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 | |
AFC–CAF play-off | 9 May 2024 | France | 1 | |
Total | 16 |
The semi-final winners qualified. [2]
Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
25 June – Tegucigalpa | ||||||||||||||
United States | 5 | |||||||||||||
28 June – San Pedro Sula (Morazán) | ||||||||||||||
Nicaragua | 0 | |||||||||||||
United States | 2 | |||||||||||||
25 June – San Pedro Sula (Rosenthal) | ||||||||||||||
Costa Rica | 0 | |||||||||||||
Costa Rica | 4 | |||||||||||||
1 July – San Pedro Sula (Morazán) | ||||||||||||||
Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | |||||||||||||
United States | 3 | |||||||||||||
25 June – Tegucigalpa | ||||||||||||||
Honduras | 0 | |||||||||||||
Cuba | 0 | |||||||||||||
28 June – San Pedro Sula (Morazán) | ||||||||||||||
Panama | 1 | |||||||||||||
Panama | 1 | |||||||||||||
25 June – San Pedro Sula (Rosenthal) | ||||||||||||||
Honduras | 2 | |||||||||||||
Honduras | 4 | |||||||||||||
3 July – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico) | ||||||||||||||
Curaçao | 1 | |||||||||||||
United States | 6 | |||||||||||||
26 June – Tegucigalpa | ||||||||||||||
Dominican Republic | 0 | |||||||||||||
El Salvador | 4 | |||||||||||||
29 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico) | ||||||||||||||
Dominican Republic | 5 | |||||||||||||
Dominican Republic | 1 | |||||||||||||
26 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico) | ||||||||||||||
Jamaica | 0 | |||||||||||||
Haiti | 1 | |||||||||||||
1 July – San Pedro Sula (Morazán) | ||||||||||||||
Jamaica | 2 | |||||||||||||
Dominican Republic (p) | 2 (4) | |||||||||||||
26 June – Tegucigalpa | ||||||||||||||
Guatemala | 2 (2) | |||||||||||||
Guatemala (p) | 1 (4) | |||||||||||||
29 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico) | ||||||||||||||
Canada | 1 (3) | |||||||||||||
Guatemala (p) | 1 (2) | |||||||||||||
26 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico) | ||||||||||||||
Mexico | 1 (1) | |||||||||||||
Mexico | 6 | |||||||||||||
Puerto Rico | 0 | |||||||||||||
The top three eligible teams (not including England and Olympic hosts France) qualified. [3]
England would have qualified as winners of the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. However, an English team cannot participate in Olympic qualification for Great Britain due to there being no agreements between the associations of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. [4]
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
1 July – Boris Paichadze Stadium | ||||||||||
Georgia | 0 (3) | |||||||||
5 July – Adjarabet Arena | ||||||||||
Israel (p) | 0 (4) | |||||||||
Israel | 0 | |||||||||
2 July – Ramaz Shengelia Stadium | ||||||||||
England | 3 | |||||||||
England | 1 | |||||||||
8 July – Adjarabet Arena | ||||||||||
Portugal | 0 | |||||||||
England | 1 | |||||||||
1 July – Stadionul Rapid-Giulești | ||||||||||
Spain | 0 | |||||||||
Spain (a.e.t.) | 2 | |||||||||
5 July – Stadionul Steaua | ||||||||||
Switzerland | 1 | |||||||||
Spain | 5 | |||||||||
2 July – Cluj Arena | ||||||||||
Ukraine | 1 | |||||||||
France | 1 | |||||||||
Ukraine | 3 | |||||||||
The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the knockout stage. The winners of the semi-finals and the third-place match qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [5] The loser of the third-place match advanced to the AFC–CAF play-off match.
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
4 July – Rabat | ||||||
Morocco (p) | 2 (4) | |||||
8 July – Rabat | ||||||
Mali | 2 (3) | |||||
Morocco (a.e.t.) | 2 | |||||
4 July – Tangier | ||||||
Egypt | 1 | |||||
Egypt | 1 | |||||
Guinea | 0 | |||||
Third-place match | ||||||
7 July – Tangier | ||||||
Mali (p) | 0 (4) | |||||
Guinea | 0 (3) |
New Zealand qualified after defeating Fiji in the final. [6]
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
6 September 2023 | ||||||
New Zealand | 8 | |||||
9 September 2023 | ||||||
Vanuatu | 0 | |||||
New Zealand | 9 | |||||
6 September 2023 | ||||||
Fiji | 0 | |||||
Solomon Islands | 0 | |||||
Fiji | 3 | |||||
Teams were drawn into two groups of five teams each and played a single round-robin stage. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to a final single round-robin stage, with the top two teams qualifying for the Olympics. [7] All ten nations entered the competition. [8]
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Source: CONMEBOL |
Pos | Team | Pld | Pts |
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1 | Paraguay (C) | 3 | 7 |
2 | Argentina | 3 | 5 |
3 | Brazil | 3 | 3 |
4 | Venezuela (H) | 3 | 1 |
Fifteen teams will join hosts Qatar to play in four groups of single-leg league format matches. The winners and runners-up of each group will advance to the knockout stage, and the winners of the semi-final matches and the third-place match will qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The loser of the third-place match will advance to the AFC–CAF play-off match.
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Source: AFC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group C | Group D | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source: AFC |
Source: AFC |
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
25 April – Al Rayyan (Jassim) | ||||||||||
Qatar | 2 | |||||||||
29 April – Al Rayyan (Jassim) | ||||||||||
Japan (a.e.t.) | 4 | |||||||||
Japan | ||||||||||
26 April – Al Wakrah | ||||||||||
Iraq | ||||||||||
3 May – Al Rayyan (Jassim) | ||||||||||
Vietnam | ||||||||||
25 April – Doha | ||||||||||
South Korea | 2 (10) | |||||||||
29 April – Doha | ||||||||||
Indonesia (p) | 2 (11) | |||||||||
Indonesia | ||||||||||
26 April – Al Rayyan (Khalifa) | ||||||||||
Third place play-off | ||||||||||
Uzbekistan | ||||||||||
2 May – Doha | ||||||||||
Saudi Arabia | ||||||||||
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