The qualification for women's football tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The following qualification tournaments were held to determine the participating nations. FIFA report, page 132.

Qualified teams

The following teams have qualified for the final tournament.

AFC

All matches were held in Japan.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Semifinals

Third-place match

Final

Awards

CAF

CONCACAF

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

and the

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earned Olympic qualification places by winning their semi-final matches.

Preliminary round

Caribbean Zone

Series A Series B Series C

North/Central American Zone

Group stage

Eight teams participated in the group stage. The top two teams from each group advanced to the semi-finals.

Knockout stage

The winners of the semi-finals qualified for the Olympics.

CONMEBOL

CONMEBOL did not hold the qualifying competition for the one spot but nominated , the winners of

2003 South American Women's Football Championship The 2003 South American Women's Football Championship (''Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol Femenino 2003'') was the fourth staging of the South American Women's Football Championship and determined the CONMEBOL's qualifiers for the 2003 FIFA Wo ...

and

2003 Pan American Games The 2003 Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from August 1 to 17, 2003. The successful bid for the games was made in the mid-1990s, when Dominican Republic had one of the highest growth rates in Latin America. Al ...

, as the South American representative. Brazil also achieved the best performance among CONMEBOL teams at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, having advanced to the quarter-finals, while the confederation's only other team,

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 ...

, were eliminated in the group stage.

OFC

All matches were held in Fiji.

UEFA

Due to scheduling issues, UEFA did not hold a separate qualifying competition; UEFA instead announced that the top two UEFA teams in 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup were to qualify for the Olympics. As a result, the World Cup winners and the runners-up qualified for the Olympics (together with the hosts ).

References

General references
Olympic Football Tournaments Athens 2004
FIFA, retrieved on 31 March 2018. {{DEFAULTSORT:Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's qualification * Women's football at the 2004 Summer Olympics AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament