The men's football tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held in

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and four other cities in

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from 11 to 28 August. The tournament featured 16 men's national teams from the six continental confederations. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four, in which each team would play each of the others once. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the final at

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on 28 August 2004.

Qualification

The following 16 teams qualified for the 2004 Olympics football tournament.

Match officials

;Africa * Essam Abd El Fatah (

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) * Divine Evehe (

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) ;Asia *

Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh (born 17 November 1966) is a Malaysian retired football referee who currently resides in Parit Buntar. He has been refereeing in the Super League Malaysia since 1995. He has been a full international referee for FIFA sinc ...

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) ;North and Central America *

Benito Archundia Benito Armando Archundia Téllez (born March 21, 1966) is a Mexican former football referee. He is known in Mexico as Armando Archundia, but appears as Benito Archundia in FIFA records. He has been a professional referee since 1985 and has had his ...

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) * Carlos Batres ( Guatemala) ;South America *

Horacio Elizondo Horacio Marcelo Elizondo (born November 4, 1963 in Don Bosco, district of Quilmes) is an Argentine former international football referee best known for his officiation throughout the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Having achieved all his goals in refereeing ...

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Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

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Jorge Larrionda Jorge Luis Larrionda Pietrafesa (born 9 March 1968) is a retired FIFA football referee from Uruguay who has officiated at international matches since 1998. He officiated at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, where he took charge of four matches, including ...

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Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

) * Carlos Torres (

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

) ;Europe *

Massimo De Santis Massimo De Santis (born 8 April 1962) is an Italian former association football referee. De Santis was born in Tivoli, Lazio. In addition to being a former referee, he is also a former police constable. De Santis speaks Italian and English. His ...

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) * Éric Poulat (

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) ;Oceania * Charles Ariiotima (

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Seeding

Group stage

*Teams highlighted in green went through to the knockout stage.

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Final ranking

Statistics

Goalscorers

With eight goals, Carlos Tevez of Argentina is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 101 goals were scored by 65 different players, with four of them credited as own goals. Carlos Tevez with Argentina at the Boleyn Ground in November 2014

Carlos Tevez with Argentina at the Boleyn Ground in November 2014

;8 goals *

Carlos Tevez Carlos Alberto Tevez (; born 5 February 1984) is an Argentine professional football manager and former player. A quick, tenacious, powerful, hard-working and dynamic forward in his prime, Tevez was capable of playing as a striker, as a wing ...

;5 goals *

José Cardozo José Saturnino Cardozo Otazú (; born 19 March 1971) is a Paraguayan football manager and former professional footballer. He played as a striker and spent 10 years of his career playing for Toluca and is the club's all-time top goalscorer. H ...

;4 goals * Alberto Gilardino *

Tenema N'Diaye Tenema N'Diaye (born 13 February 1981) is a Malian former professional footballer who played as a striker. Club career N'Diaye was born in Bamako. In August 2010, he joined FC Metz Football Club de Metz, commonly referred to as FC Metz ...

* Fredy Bareiro ;3 goals *

John Aloisi John Aloisi () (born 5 February 1976) is an Australian former soccer player and current head coach of A-League club Western United. In a professional career that spanned 20 seasons, with league totals of 459 games and 127 goals, he was the firs ...

;2 goals *

César Delgado César Fabián Delgado Godoy (born 18 August 1981) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a winger. He also played as a central midfielder, making piercing forward runs through the center of the opposition's defence. His ...

* Ahmad Elrich * Stephen Appiah * Giannis Taralidis *

Emad Mohammed Emad Mohammed Ridha ( ar, عماد محمد رضا, born 24 July 1982) is a coach and former Iraqi football striker, currently managing Iraq U20. Club career On 25 June 2007, Emad renewed his contract with Sepahan for another season in a deal ...

Hawar Mulla Mohammed Hawar Mulla Mohammed Taher Zebari ( ku, هەوار مەلا محەمەد تاهر زێبارى; ar, هوار ملا محمد طاهر زيباري; born 1 June 1981) is an Iraqi former professional footballer. He played as a winger or wingb ...

* Salih Sadir * Yoshito Ōkubo * Shinji Ono * Omar Bravo *

Bouabid Bouden Bouabid Bouden (born 1 February 1982 in Rabat) is a Moroccan footballer. Bouden has played for Kawkab Marrakech, Odense Boldklub and French team RC Lens. He also played on loan for AS Beauvais Oise in Ligue 2. He was part of the Moroccan 2004 ...

Cho Jae-jin Cho Jae-jin (born 9 July 1981) is a former South Korean football player. Playing career Cho emerged as a national star when he played for South Korean under-23 team in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He scored two goals in a 3–3 draw with Mali ...

* Lee Chun-soo * Ali Zitouni ;1 goal * Andrés D'Alessandro *

Gabriel Heinze Gabriel Iván Heinze (; born 19 April 1978) is an Argentine football coach and former player who is currently the manager of Newell's Old Boys. As a player, he operated as a defender, either as a left-back or a centre-back. Nicknamed ''Gringo'' ...

Kily González Cristian Alberto 'Kily' González Peret (born 4 August 1974) is an Argentine football manager and former professional footballer who played mainly as a left winger, and is currently a head coach. He started his career with Rosario Central whi ...

* Lucho González * Mariano González * Mauro Rosales *

Javier Saviola Javier Pedro Saviola Fernández (; born 11 December 1981) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a forward. He represented both Barcelona and Real Madrid, also having notable spells with Benfica and Olympiacos, and was n ...

* Tim Cahill * Pablo Brenes *

Álvaro Saborío Álvaro Alberto Saborío Chacón (; born 25 March 1982) is a Costa Rican professional footballer, who plays as a forward and captains Costa Rican club San Carlos from the Primera División de Costa Rica. Saborío originally retired in 2017, b ...

* José Villalobos * Emmanuel Pappoe * William Tiero * Dimitrios Papadopoulos *

Ieroklis Stoltidis Ieroklis Stoltidis ( el, Ιεροκλής Στολτίδης; born 2 February 1975), also known as "Iéro", is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. He was known as a passionate, determined anchorman with men ...

* Razzaq Farhan *

Mahdi Karim Mahdi Karim Ajeel ( ar, مهدي كريم عجيل, born December 10, 1983 in Iraq) is a former Iraqi footballer. He last played as a winger for Al-Talaba in Iraq and the Iraq national football team. Player info Mahdi Kareem Ajeel's successfu ...

Younis Mahmoud Younis Mahmoud Khalaf ( ar, يونس محمود خلف; born 3 February 1983) is an Iraqi former professional footballer who played as a forward for the Iraq national football team and is currently the second vice-president of the Iraq Footbal ...

* Cesare Bovo *

Daniele De Rossi Daniele De Rossi (; born 24 July 1983) is a former Italian professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder and is currently manager of side SPAL. He is mostly known for his time playing with his hometown club Roma in Serie A, as ...

Giampiero Pinzi Giampiero Pinzi (; born 11 March 1981) is an Italian former professional Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career Lazio Pinzi began his career with S.S. Lazio, Lazio and was promoted in 1999 to the Serie A tea ...

* Yuki Abe * Daiki Takamatsu *

Mamadi Berthe Mamadi Berthe (born 17 January 1983) is a French retired footballer. Career Berthe was part of the Mali U-20 team who finish third in group stage of 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship. He was part of the Malian 2004 Olympic football team, who ...

* Rafael Márquez Lugo * Salaheddine Aqqal * Carlos Gamarra * Pablo Giménez *

Aureliano Torres Aureliano Torres Román (born 16 June 1982) is a Paraguayan former footballer who last played for 12 de Octubre in the Paraguayan División Intermedia. At club level, Torres achieved the 2002 Emperor's Cup in Japan, the Torneo Clausura of the ...

Hugo Almeida Hugo Miguel Pereira de Almeida (born 23 May 1984) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a centre-forward. After failing to establish himself at Porto, being loaned several times during his contract, he made a name for h ...

* José Bosingwa * Ricardo Costa *

Jorge Ribeiro Jorge Miguel de Oliveira Ribeiro (born 9 November 1981) is a Portuguese retired professional footballer. Mainly a left-back, he could also play as a wing-back or midfielder. He totalled 118 Primeira Liga games and 15 goals, for six clubs incl ...

Cristiano Ronaldo Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains the Portugal national team. He is currently a free agent. Widely regarded as one of the greatest p ...

* Miloš Krasić * Srđan Radonjić *

Simon Vukčević Simon Vukčević (Serbian Cyrillic: Симон Вукчевић, ; born 29 January 1986) is a Montenegrin former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. After starting his senior career at the age of 17 with Partizan, winning two na ...

* Kim Dong-jin *

Kim Jung-woo Kim Jung-woo (, born 9 May 1982) is a former South Korean footballer. Club career Kim was playing for military team Sangju Sangmu Phoenix to perform compulsory military service when participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and his low salar ...

* José Clayton * Mohamed Jedidi ;Own goals *

Loukas Vyntra Loukas Vyntra ( el, Λουκάς Βύντρα; born 5 February 1981) is a Greek former professional footballer. Mainly a central defender, he could also play as a right back, left back, or a defensive midfielder. Early life Vyntra was born Luk ...

(playing against South Korea) * Adama Tamboura (playing against South Korea) * Haidar Jabar (playing against Portugal) * Fernando Meira (playing against Costa Rica)

References

External links

Olympic Football Tournaments Athens 2004 – Men
FIFA.com

FIFA Technical Report
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