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.

Brazil were the two-time defending champions, having won in 2016 and 2020, but did not qualify for this tournament.

Spain won their second gold medal and first since 1992, defeating hosts France 5–3 after extra time in the final, held at Parc des Princes in Paris.

Schedule

The schedule was as follows.

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.

Venues

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

Match officials

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

Draw

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.

Notes

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.

The draw resulted in the following groups:

Notes

Group stage

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

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

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

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Statistics

Goalscorers

Final ranking

See also

* Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

References

Notes

External links

*
Olympic Football Tournament Paris 2024
FIFA.com

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