Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

The men's football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 24 July to 9 August 2024. It was the 28th edition of the men's Olympic football tournament. Together with the women's competition, the 2024 Summer Olympics football tournament was held at seven stadiums in seven cities in France. Teams participating in the men's competition were restricted to under-23 players (born on or after 1 January 2001) with a maximum of three overage players allowed.

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Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Brazil were the two-time defending champions, having won in (/wiki/Footballatthe2016SummerOlympics–Men'stournament) and (/wiki/Footballatthe2020SummerOlympics–Men'stournament), but did not qualify for this tournament.

Spain won their second gold medal and first since (/wiki/Footballatthe1992SummerOlympics), defeating hosts France 5–3 after extra time in the final, held at Parc des Princes in Paris.

Schedule

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Qualification

Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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.

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

Venues

Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

<table><thead><tr><th>Marseille</th><th>Décines-Charpieu (Lyon Area)</th><th>Paris</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Stade de Marseille</td><td>Stade de Lyon</td><td>Parc des Princes</td></tr><tr><td>Capacity: 67,394</td><td>Capacity: 59,186</td><td>Capacity: 47,929</td></tr><tr><td>MarseilleDécines-CharpieuParisBordeauxSaint-ÉtienneNiceNantesclass=notpageimage| Location of the host cities of the men's football tournament of the 2024 Summer Olympics.</td><td>Bordeaux</td></tr><tr><td>Stade de Bordeaux</td></tr><tr><td>Capacity: 42,115</td></tr><tr><td>Saint-Étienne</td><td>Nice</td><td>Nantes</td></tr><tr><td>Stade Geoffroy-Guichard</td><td>Stade de Nice</td><td>Stade de la Beaujoire</td></tr><tr><td>Capacity: 41,965</td><td>Capacity: 36,178</td><td>Capacity: 35,322</td></tr></tbody></table>

Squads

Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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 could replace any player in the squad in case of injury during the tournament.

Match officials

Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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

Draw

Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

The draw for the groups was held on 20 March 2024, 20:00 CET (UTC+1), at the Pulse building in Saint-Denis, France. 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:

• 2004 Men's Olympic Football Tournament: 20% value of total points; • 2008 Men's Olympic Football Tournament: 40% value of total points; • 2012 Men's Olympic Football Tournament: 60% value of total points; • 2016 Men's Olympic Football Tournament: 80% value of total points; • 2020 Men's Olympic Football Tournament: 100% value of total points.

Furthermore, five bonus points were added to each of the six continental champions from the qualifying tournaments.

<table><thead><tr><th>Pot</th><th>Team</th><th>Confederation</th><th>2004</th><th>2008</th><th>2012</th><th>2016</th><th>2020</th><th>BP</th><th>Total points</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Pts</td><td>20%</td><td>Pts</td><td>40%</td><td>Pts</td><td>60%</td><td>Pts</td><td>80%</td><td>Pts 100%</td></tr><tr><td>1</td><td> France (H)</td><td>UEFA</td><td>Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1</td></tr><tr><td> Japan (AFC 1, results of Japan)</td><td>AFC</td><td>3</td><td>0.6</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>10</td><td>6</td><td>4</td><td>3.2</td><td>10</td><td></td><td>19.8</td></tr><tr><td> Uzbekistan (AFC 2, results of South Korea)</td><td>AFC</td><td>5</td><td>1</td><td>4</td><td>1.6</td><td>9</td><td>5.4</td><td>7</td><td>5.6</td><td>6</td><td>19.6</td></tr><tr><td> Argentina</td><td>CONMEBOL</td><td>18</td><td>3.6</td><td>18</td><td>7.2</td><td>DNQ</td><td>4</td><td>3.2</td><td>4</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td> Spain</td><td>UEFA</td><td>DNQ</td><td>1</td><td>0.6</td><td>DNQ</td><td>11</td><td>+5</td><td>16.6</td></tr><tr><td> New Zealand</td><td>OFC</td><td>DNQ</td><td>1</td><td>0.4</td><td>1</td><td>0.6</td><td>DNQ</td><td>5</td><td>+5</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td> Paraguay</td><td>CONMEBOL</td><td>12</td><td>2.4</td><td>DNQ</td><td>+5</td><td>7.4</td></tr><tr><td> Morocco</td><td>CAF</td><td>4</td><td>0.8</td><td>DNQ</td><td>2</td><td>1.2</td><td>DNQ</td><td>+5</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td> United States</td><td>CONCACAF</td><td>DNQ</td><td>4</td><td>1.6</td><td>DNQ</td><td>+5</td><td>6.6</td></tr><tr><td> Egypt</td><td>CAF</td><td>DNQ</td><td>4</td><td>2.4</td><td>DNQ</td><td>4</td><td></td><td>6.4</td></tr><tr><td> Iraq (AFC 3, results of Australia)</td><td>AFC</td><td>OFC</td><td>1</td><td>0.4</td><td>DNQ</td><td>3</td><td>3.4</td></tr><tr><td> Mali</td><td>CAF</td><td>5</td><td>1</td><td>DNQ</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td> Dominican Republic</td><td>CONCACAF</td><td>DNQ</td><td></td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td> Israel</td><td>UEFA</td><td>DNQ</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td> Ukraine</td><td>UEFA</td><td>DNQ</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td> Guinea</td><td>CAF</td><td>AFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4</td></tr></tbody></table>

The draw started with teams from Pot 1 being drawn first and placed in the first position of their groups (hosts France automatically assigned to A1). Then the teams from Pot 2 were drawn, 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. 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.

<table><thead><tr><th>Pos</th><th>Team</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>A1</td><td> France</td></tr><tr><td>A2</td><td> United States</td></tr><tr><td>A3</td><td> Guinea</td></tr><tr><td>A4</td><td> New Zealand</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table><thead><tr><th>Pos</th><th>Team</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>B1</td><td> Argentina</td></tr><tr><td>B2</td><td> Morocco</td></tr><tr><td>B3</td><td> Iraq</td></tr><tr><td>B4</td><td> Ukraine</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table><thead><tr><th>Pos</th><th>Team</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>C1</td><td> Uzbekistan</td></tr><tr><td>C2</td><td> Spain</td></tr><tr><td>C3</td><td> Egypt</td></tr><tr><td>C4</td><td> Dominican Republic</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table><thead><tr><th>Pos</th><th>Team</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>D1</td><td> Japan</td></tr><tr><td>D2</td><td> Paraguay</td></tr><tr><td>D3</td><td> Mali</td></tr><tr><td>D4</td><td> Israel</td></tr></tbody></table>

Group stage

Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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).

Tiebreakers

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

• Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat); • Goal difference in all group matches; • Number of goals scored in all group matches; • Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question; • Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question; • Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question; • Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match): • Drawing of lots.

Group A

<table><thead><tr><th>Pos</th><th>Team</th><th>Pld</th><th>W</th><th>D</th><th>L</th><th>GF</th><th>GA</th><th>GD</th><th>Pts</th><th>Qualification</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td> France (H)</td><td>3</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>7</td><td>0</td><td>+7</td><td>9</td><td>Advance to knockout stage</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td> United States</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>7</td><td>4</td><td>+3</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td> New Zealand</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>8</td><td>−5</td><td>3</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td> Guinea</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>6</td><td>−5</td><td>0</td></tr></tbody></table>

Group B

<table><thead><tr><th>Pos</th><th>Team</th><th>Pld</th><th>W</th><th>D</th><th>L</th><th>GF</th><th>GA</th><th>GD</th><th>Pts</th><th>Qualification</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td> Morocco</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>6</td><td>3</td><td>+3</td><td>6</td><td>Advance to knockout stage</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td> Argentina</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>6</td><td>3</td><td>+3</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td> Ukraine</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>5</td><td>−2</td><td>3</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td> Iraq</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>7</td><td>−4</td><td>3</td></tr></tbody></table>

Group C

<table><thead><tr><th>Pos</th><th>Team</th><th>Pld</th><th>W</th><th>D</th><th>L</th><th>GF</th><th>GA</th><th>GD</th><th>Pts</th><th>Qualification</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td> Egypt</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>+2</td><td>7</td><td>Advance to knockout stage</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td> Spain</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>6</td><td>4</td><td>+2</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td> Dominican Republic</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>4</td><td>−2</td><td>2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td> Uzbekistan</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>4</td><td>−2</td><td>1</td></tr></tbody></table>

Group D

<table><thead><tr><th>Pos</th><th>Team</th><th>Pld</th><th>W</th><th>D</th><th>L</th><th>GF</th><th>GA</th><th>GD</th><th>Pts</th><th>Qualification</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td> Japan</td><td>3</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>7</td><td>0</td><td>+7</td><td>9</td><td>Advance to knockout stage</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td> Paraguay</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>5</td><td>7</td><td>−2</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td> Mali</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>3</td><td>−2</td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td> Israel</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>6</td><td>−3</td><td>1</td></tr></tbody></table>

Knockout stage

Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.

Bracket

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

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 96 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 3 goals per match.

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.

<table><thead><tr><th>Pos</th><th>Team</th><th>Pld</th><th>W</th><th>D</th><th>L</th><th>GF</th><th>GA</th><th>GD</th><th>Pts</th><th>Final result</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td> Spain</td><td>6</td><td>5</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>16</td><td>8</td><td>+8</td><td>15</td><td>Gold medal</td></tr><tr><td></td><td> France (H)</td><td>6</td><td>5</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>14</td><td>6</td><td>+8</td><td>15</td><td>Silver medal</td></tr><tr><td></td><td> Morocco</td><td>6</td><td>4</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>17</td><td>5</td><td>+12</td><td>12</td><td>Bronze medal</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td> Egypt</td><td>6</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>5</td><td>11</td><td>−6</td><td>8</td><td>Fourth place</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td> Japan</td><td>4</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>7</td><td>3</td><td>+4</td><td>9</td><td>Eliminated in quarter-finals</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td> Paraguay</td><td>4</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>6</td><td>8</td><td>−2</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td> Argentina</td><td>4</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>6</td><td>4</td><td>+2</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td> United States</td><td>4</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>−1</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td> Ukraine</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>5</td><td>−2</td><td>3</td><td>Eliminated in group stage</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td> Iraq</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>7</td><td>−4</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>11</td><td> New Zealand</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>8</td><td>−5</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td> Dominican Republic</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>4</td><td>−2</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>13</td><td> Uzbekistan</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>4</td><td>−2</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>14</td><td> Mali</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>3</td><td>−2</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>15</td><td> Israel</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>6</td><td>−3</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>16</td><td> Guinea</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>6</td><td>−5</td><td>0</td></tr></tbody></table>