The Colombia national under-23 football team represents Colombia at the Summer Olympic Games and in international under-23 football competitions and is overseen by the Colombian Football Federation.
The team played its first match in 1950. From that year to 1992 the team played as a Colombia national amateur football team. Since 1992, the team played as Colombia national under-23 football team until 2004, when the qualification for the Olympic Games was changed to South American Youth Football Championship for under-20 teams (before this, the qualification tournament was CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament). The team was inactive since 2004, however with the qualification to the 2016 Summer Olympics qualification play-off the team was resurrected.
Competitive record *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks. **Gold background colour indicates that the tournament was won. ***Red border colour indicates tournament was held on home soil.
Champions Runners-up Third Place Fourth Place
Olympic Games Olympic Games recordYearRoundPosition 1900did not participate 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1936 1948 1952did not enter 1956 1960did not qualify 1964 1968First stage10th310245 1972First stage11th3102512 1976did not qualify 1980First stage11th311124 1984did not qualify 1988 1992First stage14th301249 1996did not qualify 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016Quarter-finals7th412166 2020did not qualify 2024TotalQuarter-finals5/26164482136
CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament YearRoundPosition 1960First stage10th210137 1964Fourth place4th6123610 1968Runners-up2nd6411107 1972Runners-up2nd725074 1976Fourth place4th512259 1980Runners-up2nd6312105 1984First stage5th200215 1988Fourth place4th741274 1992Runners-up2nd7421143 1996Fourth place4th4022611 2000First stage6th42111013 2004Playoffs6th520379 2020Fourth place4th7223109 2024First stage10th400408TotalRunners-up14/147226192796100
Pan American Games Pan American Games recordYearRoundPosition 1951did not participate 1955 1959 1963 1967 Preliminary round 8th 3 0 0 3 2 13 1971 Silver medal2nd8521217 1975did not participate 1979 1983 1987 Preliminary round 11th 3 0 1 2 1 4 1991did not participate 1995 Bronze medal3rd6402135 1999did not participate 2003 Fourth place4th521267 2007 Preliminary round 7th 3 1 1 1 1 1 2011did not participate 2015 2019 2023 Sixth place 6th 4 1 1 2 2 4TotalSilver medal7/1932136134641
Schedule and results
2026
Players Current squad The following players were called up for the 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament. On 11 January, forwards Kener Valencia and Edwin Mosquera were ruled out due to injuries and were replaced by Nelson Quiñones and Alejandro García, respectively.
Caps and goals updated as 18 January 2024.
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Honours
Pan American Games: Silver Medalists (1): 1971 Bronze Medalists (1): 1995 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament: Runners-up (4): 1968, 1971, 1980, 1992 Fourth place (4): 1964, 1976, 1987, 2020 Central American and Caribbean Games Gold Medalists (3): 1946, 2006, 2018 Silver Medalists (1): 2014 Bronze Medalists (3): 1938, 1954, 1970 South American Games: Gold Medalists (3): 1994, 2010, 2014 Silver Medalists (1): 1986 Bronze Medalists (2): 1990, 2018 Bolivarian Games Gold Medalists (5): 1951, 1997, 2005, 2013, 2017 Silver Medalists (6): 1961, 1973, 1981, 1985, 1993, 2001
Friendlies
Torneo de las Americas: Winners: 1994
See also Colombia national football team Colombia national futsal team Colombia national under-20 football team Colombia national under-17 football team Colombia national under-15 football team
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