The men's football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics will be held from 24 July to 9 August 2024.[1] It will be the 28th edition of the men's Olympic football tournament. Together with the women's competition, the 2024 Summer Olympics football tournament will be held at seven stadiums in seven cities in France. The final will be held at Parc des Princes in Paris. Teams participating in the men's competition will be restricted to under-23 players (born on or after 1 January 2001) with a maximum of three overage players allowed.
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.[3]
^ abDates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments); various qualification stages may precede these matches.
Each team had to submit a squad of 18 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 might replace any player in the squad in case of injury during the tournament.[4]
Match officials
On 3 April 2024, FIFA released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympics.[5]
^As the AFC-CAF play-off was to be played after the draw, the placeholder was allocated to Pot 4 and would not be drawn into a group already containing an AFC or CAF team.[9]
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 play one another in a round-robin basis, with the top two teams of each group advancing to the quarter-finals.
In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.[4]