Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics

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

^ ^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

The semi-final winners qualified.^[2]

Knockout stage

25 June – Tegucigalpa

United States

5

28 June – San Pedro Sula (Morazán)

Nicaragua

0

United States

2

25 June – San Pedro Sula (Rosenthal)

Costa Rica

0

Costa Rica

4

1 July – San Pedro Sula (Morazán)

Trinidad and Tobago

1

United States

3

25 June – Tegucigalpa

Honduras

0

Cuba

0

28 June – San Pedro Sula (Morazán)

Panama

1

Panama

1

25 June – San Pedro Sula (Rosenthal)

Honduras

2

Honduras

4

3 July – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico)

Curaçao

1

United States

6

26 June – Tegucigalpa

Dominican Republic

0

El Salvador

4

29 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico)

Dominican Republic

5

Dominican Republic

1

26 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico)

Jamaica

0

Haiti

1

1 July – San Pedro Sula (Morazán)

Jamaica

2

Dominican Republic (p)

2 (4)

26 June – Tegucigalpa

Guatemala

2 (2)

Guatemala (p)

1 (4)

29 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico)

Canada

1 (3)

Guatemala (p)

1 (2)

26 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico)

Mexico

1 (1)

Mexico

6

Puerto Rico

0

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-finals		Semi-finals		Final

1 July – Boris Paichadze Stadium

Georgia	0 (3)
		5 July – Adjarabet Arena
Israel (p)	0 (4)
		Israel	0
2 July – Ramaz Shengelia Stadium
		England	3
England	1
				8 July – Adjarabet Arena
Portugal	0
				England	1
1 July – Stadionul Rapid-Giulești
				Spain	0
Spain (a.e.t.)	2
		5 July – Stadionul Steaua
Switzerland	1
		Spain	5
2 July – Cluj Arena
		Ukraine	1
France	1

Ukraine	3

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-finals		Final

4 July – Rabat

Morocco (p)	2 (4)
		8 July – Rabat
Mali	2 (3)
		Morocco (a.e.t.)	2
4 July – Tangier
		Egypt	1
Egypt	1

Guinea	0
		Third-place match

		7 July – Tangier

		Mali (p)	0 (4)

		Guinea	0 (3)

2023 OFC Men's Olympic qualifying tournament

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

Knockout stage

Semi-finals		Final

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

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 v t e	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 v t e	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 v t e	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

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-finals		Semi-finals		Final

25 April – Al Rayyan (JBHS)

Qatar	2
		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.

9 May 2024

15:00 UTC+2

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

INF Clairefontaine, Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, France

Referee: François Letexier (France)

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

References

^ "Olympic Football Tournaments Paris 2024 – information on preliminary competitions" (PDF). FIFA Circular Letter. No. 1792. FIFA. 11 April 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
^ "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.
^ "2023 U21 EURO: Georgia and Romania". UEFA. 14 June 2022. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
^ "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.
^ "Teams raring to go in TotalEnergies U23 AFCON, Morocco 2023". CAFOnline.com. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
^ "Impressive New Zealand book their place at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics". OFC. 9 September 2023. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
^ "Los grupos para el CONMEBOL Preolímpico 2024" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. October 20, 2023.
^ "El Preolímpico Sudamericano ya tiene sede: Conmebol se lo asignó a Venezuela". El Universo (in Spanish). 12 July 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2023.

[Mtable-2] Dates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments); various qualification stages may precede these matches.

[1] "Olympic Football Tournaments Paris 2024 – information on preliminary competitions" (PDF). FIFA Circular Letter. No. 1792. FIFA. 11 April 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.

[3] "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.

[4] "2023 U21 EURO: Georgia and Romania". UEFA. 14 June 2022. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2022.

[5] "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.

[6] "Teams raring to go in TotalEnergies U23 AFCON, Morocco 2023". CAFOnline.com. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2023.

[7] "Impressive New Zealand book their place at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics". OFC. 9 September 2023. Retrieved 9 September 2023.

[8] "Los grupos para el CONMEBOL Preolímpico 2024" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. October 20, 2023.

[9] "El Preolímpico Sudamericano ya tiene sede: Conmebol se lo asignó a Venezuela". El Universo (in Spanish). 12 July 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2023.

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Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Table

2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship

Knockout stage

2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Knockout stage

2023 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations

Knockout stage

2023 OFC Men's Olympic qualifying tournament

Knockout stage

2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament

Group stage

Final stage

2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup

Knockout stage

AFC–CAF play-off

References