The men's football tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held in Athens and four other cities in Greece 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 Athens Olympic Stadium on 28 August 2004.
Qualification The following 16 teams qualified for the 2004 Olympics football tournament.
Means of qualification Berths Qualified Host nation 1 2004 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship 3 (winner) (runner-up) Portugal (third-place) AFC Preliminary Competition 3 CAF Preliminary Competition 4 CONCACAF Preliminary Competition 2 (winner) (runner-up) 2004 CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament 2 (winner) (runner-up) OFC Preliminary Competition 1 Total 16
Venues Olympic Stadium, Athens Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos
AthensPatrasOlympic StadiumPampeloponnisiako StadiumCapacity: 71,030Capacity: 23,558PiraeusThessalonikiKaraiskakis StadiumKaftanzoglio StadiumCapacity: 33,334Capacity: 27,770HeraklionVolosPankritio StadiumPanthessaliko StadiumCapacity: 26,240Capacity: 22,700
Match officials
Africa Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt) Divine Evehe (Cameroon)
Asia Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh (Malaysia)
North and Central America Benito Archundia (Mexico) Carlos Batres (Guatemala)
South America Horacio Elizondo (Argentina) Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay) Carlos Torres (Paraguay)
Europe Massimo De Santis (Italy) Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark) Éric Poulat (France) Kyros Vassaras (Greece)
Oceania Charles Ariiotima (Tahiti)
Seeding The draw for the tournament took place on 9 June 2004. Argentina, Greece, Japan and Morocco were seeded for the draw and placed into groups A–D, respectively. The remaining teams were drawn from four pots with teams from the same region kept apart.
Pot 1: Host, Top-Seeded teams from Africa, Americas and AsiaPot 2: Non-top seeded teams from Asia and OceaniaPot 3: Non-top seeded teams from AmericasPot 4: Non-top seeded teams from AfricaPot 5: Non-top seeded teams from Europe (assigned to A1) (assigned to Group B) (assigned to Group C) (assigned to Group D)
Group stage Teams highlighted in green went through to the knockout stage. Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Source for cards: Team details GK 18 Germán LuxRB 4 Fabricio ColocciniCB 2 Roberto Ayala (c)CB 5 Javier MascheranoLB 6 Gabriel HeinzeCM 12 Mauro RosalesCM 16 Lucho GonzálezCM 11 Kily González AM 15 Andrés D'AlessandroCF 8 César Delgado CF 10 Carlos TevezSubstitutes:DF 14 Clemente Rodríguez Manager:Marcelo Bielsa
GK 18 Diego BarretoRB 2 Emilio Martínez CB 4 Carlos Gamarra (c) CB 3 Julio Manzur LB 6 Celso Esquivel CM 8 Edgar Barreto CM 13 Julio Enciso RW 9 Fredy BareiroAM 10 Diego Figueredo LW 11 Aureliano Torres CF 7 Pablo GiménezSubstitutes:MF 16 Osvaldo Díaz MF 15 Ernesto Cristaldo FW 14 Julio González Manager:Carlos Jara Saguier
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.
8 goals Carlos Tevez 5 goals José Cardozo 4 goals
Alberto Gilardino Tenema N'Diaye Fredy Bareiro
3 goals John Aloisi 2 goals
César Delgado Ahmad Elrich Stephen Appiah Giannis Taralidis Emad Mohammed Hawar Mulla Mohammed Salih Sadir Yoshito Ōkubo Shinji Ono Omar Bravo Bouabid Bouden Cho Jae-jin Lee Chun-soo Ali Zitouni
1 goal
Andrés D'Alessandro Gabriel Heinze Kily González Lucho González Mariano González Mauro Rosales Javier Saviola Tim Cahill Pablo Brenes Álvaro Saborío José Villalobos Emmanuel Pappoe William Tiero Dimitrios Papadopoulos Ieroklis Stoltidis Razzaq Farhan Mahdi Karim Younis Mahmoud Cesare Bovo Daniele De Rossi Giampiero Pinzi Yūki Abe Daiki Takamatsu Mamadi Berthe Rafael Márquez Lugo Salaheddine Aqqal Carlos Gamarra Pablo Giménez Aureliano Torres Hugo Almeida José Bosingwa Ricardo Costa Jorge Ribeiro Cristiano Ronaldo Miloš Krasić Srđan Radonjić Simon Vukčević Kim Dong-jin Kim Jung-woo José Clayton Mohamed Jedidi
Own goals
Loukas Vyntra (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 RSSSF Summary FIFA Technical Report