Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

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A total of 16 teams 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 from the tournaments of the six continental confederations.

Table

On 24 February 2022, the FIFA Council approved the slot allocation for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The host nation France, earned automatic qualification to the tournament. For the remaining 15 slots, the AFC and CAF each received 3 automatic slots with a 4th nation from each confederation being granted a spot against each other, UEFA received 3 slots, CONCACAF and CONMEBOL received 2 slots, and the OFC received 1 slot.[1]


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


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

2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship

Main article: 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship

The semi-final winners qualified.[2]

Knockout stage

 
Round of 16Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
              
 
 25 June – Tegucigalpa
 
 
 United States5
 
28 June – San Pedro Sula (Morazán)
 
 Nicaragua0
 
 United States2
 
 25 June – San Pedro Sula (Rosenthal)
 
 Costa Rica0
 
 Costa Rica4
 
1 July – San Pedro Sula (Morazán)
 
 Trinidad and Tobago1
 
 United States3
 
 25 June – Tegucigalpa
 
 Honduras0
 
 Cuba0
 
28 June – San Pedro Sula (Morazán)
 
 Panama1
 
 Panama1
 
 25 June – San Pedro Sula (Rosenthal)
 
 Honduras2
 
 Honduras4
 
3 July – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico)
 
 Curaçao1
 
 United States6
 
 26 June – Tegucigalpa
 
 Dominican Republic0
 
 El Salvador4
 
29 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico)
 
 Dominican Republic5
 
 Dominican Republic1
 
 26 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico)
 
 Jamaica0
 
 Haiti1
 
1 July – San Pedro Sula (Morazán)
 
 Jamaica2
 
 Dominican Republic (p)2 (4)
 
 26 June – Tegucigalpa
 
 Guatemala2 (2)
 
 Guatemala (p)1 (4)
 
29 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico)
 
 Canada1 (3)
 
 Guatemala (p)1 (2)
 
 26 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico)
 
 Mexico1 (1)
 
 Mexico6
 
 
 Puerto Rico0
 

2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Main article: 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

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]

Knockout stage

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
1 July – Boris Paichadze Stadium
 
 
 Georgia0 (3)
 
5 July – Adjarabet Arena
 
 Israel (p)0 (4)
 
 Israel0
 
2 July – Ramaz Shengelia Stadium
 
 England3
 
 England1
 
8 July – Adjarabet Arena
 
 Portugal0
 
 England1
 
1 July – Stadionul Rapid-Giulești
 
 Spain0
 
 Spain (a.e.t.)2
 
5 July – Stadionul Steaua
 
  Switzerland1
 
 Spain5
 
2 July – Cluj Arena
 
 Ukraine1
 
 France1
 
 
 Ukraine3
 

2023 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations

Main article: 2023 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations

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.

Knockout stage

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
4 July – Rabat
 
 
 Morocco (p)2 (4)
 
8 July – Rabat
 
 Mali2 (3)
 
 Morocco (a.e.t.)2
 
4 July – Tangier
 
 Egypt1
 
 Egypt1
 
 
 Guinea0
 
Third-place match
 
 
7 July – Tangier
 
 
 Mali (p)0 (4)
 
 
 Guinea0 (3)

2023 OFC Men's Olympic qualifying tournament

Main article: 2023 OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

New Zealand qualified after defeating Fiji in the final.[6]

Knockout stage

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
 6 September 2023
 
 
  New Zealand 8
 
 9 September 2023
 
  Vanuatu 0
 
  New Zealand 9
 
 6 September 2023
 
  Fiji 0
 
  Solomon Islands 0
 
 
  Fiji 3
 

2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament

Main article: 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament

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]

Group stage

Group A Group B

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Brazil 4 9
2  Venezuela (H) 4 8
3  Ecuador 4 7
4  Bolivia 4 4
5  Colombia 4 0
Source: CONMEBOL
(H) Hosts

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Argentina 4 8
2  Paraguay 4 7
3  Chile 4 6
4  Uruguay 4 4
5  Peru 4 3
Source: CONMEBOL

Final stage

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Paraguay (C) 3 7
2  Argentina 3 5
3  Brazil 3 3
4  Venezuela (H) 3 1
Source: CONMEBOL
(C) Champions;
(H) Hosts

2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup

Main article: 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup

Fifteen teams joined hosts Qatar to play in four groups of single-leg league format matches. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the knockout stage, and the winners of the semi-final matches and the third-place match qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The loser of the third-place match advanced to the AFC–CAF play-off match.

Knockout stage

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
 25 April – Al Rayyan (JBHS)
 
 
  Qatar2
 
 29 April – Al Rayyan (JBHS)
 
  Japan (a.e.t.) 4
 
  Japan 2
 
 26 April – Al Wakrah
 
  Iraq 0
 
  Iraq 1
 
 3 May – Al Rayyan (JBHS)
 
  Vietnam 0
 
  Japan 1
 
 25 April – Doha
 
  Uzbekistan 0
 
  South Korea 2 (10)
 
 29 April – Doha
 
  Indonesia (p) 2 (11)
 
  Indonesia 0
 
 26 April – Al Rayyan (KIS)
 
  Uzbekistan 2 Third place play-off
 
  Uzbekistan 2
 
 2 May – Doha
 
  Saudi Arabia 0
 
  Iraq (a.e.t.) 2
 
 
  Indonesia 1
 

AFC–CAF play-off

This section shows the match contested between the 4th-placed teams of the qualification tournaments of Asia and Africa, as both confederations have three and one-half spots at the 2024 Olympic Football Tournament in Paris. The play-off was the 4th-placed team from Africa, Guinea, versus the 4th-placed team from Asia, Indonesia.

Indonesia 0–1 Guinea
Report
  • Moriba 29' (pen.)

Guinea advanced to group A of the Olympic men's football tournament.

References

  1. ^ "Olympic Football Tournaments Paris 2024 – information on preliminary competitions" (PDF). FIFA Circular Letter. No. 1792. FIFA. 11 April 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Concacaf Men's Under-20 Championship to qualify teams to 2023 FIFA U-20 Men's World Cup and 2024 Summer Olympic Games". Concacaf.com. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  3. ^ "2023 U21 EURO: Georgia and Romania". UEFA. 14 June 2022. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Home nations agree to GB women's football team". BBC Sport. 1 October 2018. Archived from the original on 13 May 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Teams raring to go in TotalEnergies U23 AFCON, Morocco 2023". CAFOnline.com. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  6. ^ "Impressive New Zealand book their place at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics". OFC. 9 September 2023. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  7. ^ "Los grupos para el CONMEBOL Preolímpico 2024" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. October 20, 2023.
  8. ^ "El Preolímpico Sudamericano ya tiene sede: Conmebol se lo asignó a Venezuela". El Universo (in Spanish). 12 July 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2023.