Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

2024 Men's Olympic Football Tournament
Tournament details
Host countryFrance
Dates24 July – 9 August
Teams16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)7 (in 7 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played30
Goals scored82 (2.73 per match)
Attendance750,310 (25,010 per match)
Top scorer(s)Morocco Soufiane Rahimi
(6 goals)
← 2020
2028 →
All statistics correct as of 5 August 2024.
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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 in 2016 and 2020, but did not qualify for this tournament.[2]

Schedule

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The schedule is as follows.[3]

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


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
GS GS GS QF SF B F

Qualification

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

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

Venues

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Further information: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics § Venues
Marseille Décines-Charpieu
(Lyon area) 		Paris
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

Squads

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

Each team had to submit a squad of eighteen 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]

Match officials

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On 3 April 2024, FIFA released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympics.[6]

Draw

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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
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)[a] AFC 3 0.6 0 0 10 6 4 3.2 10 19.8
 Uzbekistan (AFC 2, results of South Korea)[a] 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)[a] 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[b] CAF AFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4

Notes

  1. ^ a b c As the three teams qualified through the AFC U-23 Asian Cup were to be known only after the draw, placeholders were allocated according to the ranking of the AFC teams in the 2020 Men's Olympic Football Tournament, i.e. the results of Japan, South Korea, and Australia in the previous 5 Men's Olympic Football Tournament were taken into account. The placeholders were named “AFC 1”, “AFC 2” and “AFC 3”.[9]
  2. ^ As the AFC–CAF play-off was to be played after the draw, the placeholder was allocated to Pot 4 and would not be drawn into a group already containing an AFC or CAF team.[9]

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]

Group A
Pos Team
A1  France
A2  United States
A3  Guinea[a]
A4  New Zealand
Group B
Pos Team
B1  Argentina
B2  Morocco
B3  Iraq[a]
B4  Ukraine
Group C
Pos Team
C1  Uzbekistan[a]
C2  Spain
C3  Egypt
C4  Dominican Republic
Group D
Pos Team
D1  Japan[a]
D2  Paraguay
D3  Mali
D4  Israel

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d The identity of these teams was not known at the time of the draw.

Group stage

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The competing countries were divided into four groups of four teams, denoted as groups A, B, C and D. Teams in each group played 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]

Tiebreakers

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The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:[5]

  1. Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat);
  2. Goal difference in all group matches;
  3. Number of goals scored in all group matches;
  4. Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
  5. Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
  6. Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
  7. Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):
    • Yellow card: −1 point;
    • Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
    • Direct red card: −4 points;
    • Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
  8. Drawing of lots.

Group A

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Main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Group A
Pos Team
 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
(H) Hosts
Guinea 1–2 New Zealand
  • Diawara 72'
 Report
Attendance: 4,909[15]
Referee: Adel Al-Naqbi (United Arab Emirates)
France 3–0 United States
 Report
Attendance: 48,721[16]
Referee: Yael Falcón (Argentina)
New Zealand 1–4 United States
 Report
Attendance: 9,468[17]
Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)
France 1–0 Guinea
Sildillia 75' Report
Attendance: 25,965[18]
Referee: Ilgiz Tantashev (Uzbekistan)
New Zealand 0–3 France
Report
Attendance: 45,790[19]
United States 3–0 Guinea
 Report
Attendance: 6,245[20]

Group B

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Main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Group B
Pos Team
 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
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Head-to-head result: Argentina 1–2 Morocco.
Argentina 1–2 Morocco
 Report
Attendance: 26,717[21]
Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)
Iraq 2–1 Ukraine
 Report
Attendance: 10,637[22]
Referee: Mahmood Ali Ismail (Sudan)
Argentina 3–1 Iraq
 Report
Attendance: 30,008[23]
Referee: Espen Eskås (Norway)
Ukraine 2–1 Morocco
 Report Rahimi 64' (pen.)
Attendance: 28,655[24]
Ukraine 0–2 Argentina
Report
Attendance: 10,017[25]
Referee: Dahane Beida (Mauritania)
Morocco 3–0 Iraq
 Report
Attendance: 19,300[26]
Referee: Ramon Abatti (Brazil)

Group C

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Main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Group C
Pos Team
 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
Uzbekistan 1–2 Spain
 Report
Attendance: 33,732[27]
Referee: Dahane Beida (Mauritania)


Egypt 0–0 Dominican Republic
Report
Attendance: 13,945[28]
Dominican Republic 1–3 Spain
Montes de Oca 38' Report
Attendance: 16,099[29]
Referee: Adel Al-Naqbi (United Arab Emirates)
Uzbekistan 0–1 Egypt
Report Ahmed Koka 11'
Attendance: 20,658[30]
Referee: Campbell-Kirk Kawana-Waugh (New Zealand)
Dominican Republic 1–1 Uzbekistan
Núñez 51' (pen.) Report Odilov 58'
Attendance: 30,475[31]
Referee: Mahmood Ali Ismail (Sudan)
Spain 1–2 Egypt
Omorodion 90' Report Ibrahim Adel 40', 62'
Attendance: 12,180[32]
Referee: Drew Fischer (Canada)

Group D

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Main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Group D
Pos Team
 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
Japan 5–0 Paraguay
 Report
Attendance: 14,000[33]
Mali 1–1 Israel
 Report
Attendance: 26,305[34]
Referee: Campbell-Kirk Kawana-Waugh (New Zealand)
Israel 2–4 Paraguay
 Report
Attendance: 28,887[35]
Referee: Drew Fischer (Canada)
Japan 1–0 Mali
Yamamoto 82' Report
Attendance: 9,893[36]
Israel 0–1 Japan
Report Hosoya 90+1'
Attendance: 11,671[37]
Paraguay 1–0 Mali
M. Fernández 5' Report
Attendance: 35,736[38]
Referee: Ilgiz Tantashev (Uzbekistan)

Knockout stage

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

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]

Bracket

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Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsGold medal match
 
          
 
2 August – Bordeaux
 
 
 France1
 
5 August – Décines-Charpieu
 
 Argentina0
 
 France (a.e.t.)3
 
2 August – Marseille
 
 Egypt1
 
 Egypt (p)1 (5)
 
9 August – Paris
 
 Paraguay1 (4)
 
 France
 
2 August – Paris
 
 Spain
 
 Morocco4
 
5 August – Marseille
 
 United States0
 
 Morocco1
 
2 August – Décines-Charpieu
 
 Spain2 Bronze medal match
 
 Japan0
 
8 August – Nantes
 
 Spain3
 
 Egypt
 
 
 Morocco
 

Quarter-finals

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Morocco 4–0 United States
 Report
Attendance: 42,868[39]
Referee: Yael Falcón (Argentina)
Japan 0–3 Spain
Report
Attendance: 19,111[40]
Referee: Dahane Beida (Mauritania)
Egypt 1–1 (a.e.t.) Paraguay
Ibrahim Adel 88' Report D. Gómez 71'
Penalties
 5–4
Attendance: 23,753[41]
Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)
France 1–0 Argentina
Mateta 5' Report
Attendance: 37,153[42]
Referee: Ilgiz Tantashev (Uzbekistan)

Semi-finals

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Morocco 1–2 Spain
Rahimi 37' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 59,882[43]
Referee: Ilgiz Tantashev (Uzbekistan)
France 3–1 (a.e.t.) Egypt
 Report Mahmoud Saber 62'
Attendance: 47,530[44]

Bronze medal match

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Egypt Match 31 Morocco
Report
Referee: Espen Eskås (Norway)

Gold medal match

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Main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament final
France Match 32 Spain
Report
Referee: Ramon Abatti (Brazil)

Statistics

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Goalscorers

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There have been 82 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.73 goals per match (as of 5 August 2024). Players highlighted in bold are still active in the competition.

6 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Source: FIFA

Final ranking

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As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Final result
1   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gold medal
2   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Silver medal
3   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bronze medal
4   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fourth place
5  Japan 4 3 0 1 7 3 +4 9 Eliminated in
quarter-finals
6  Paraguay 4 2 1 1 6 8 −2 7
7  Argentina 4 2 0 2 6 4 +2 6
8  United States 4 2 0 2 7 8 −1 6
9  Ukraine 3 1 0 2 3 5 −2 3 Eliminated in
group stage
10  Iraq 3 1 0 2 3 7 −4 3
11  New Zealand 3 1 0 2 3 8 −5 3
12  Dominican Republic 3 0 2 1 2 4 −2 2
13  Uzbekistan 3 0 1 2 2 4 −2 1
14  Mali 3 0 1 2 1 3 −2 1
15  Israel 3 0 1 2 3 6 −3 1
16  Guinea 3 0 0 3 1 6 −5 0
Updated to match(es) played on 2 August 2024. Source: COJOP2024

See also

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