The qualification for women's football tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

The following qualification tournaments were held to determine the participating nations.FIFA report, page 132.

Qualified teams The following teams qualified for the final tournament. Confederation (Region)BerthsQualified TeamsHost nation (automatically qualified)1UEFA (Europe)2 CONMEBOL (South America)1 CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean)2CAF (Africa)1 AFC (Asia)2 OFC (Oceania)1

AFC

All matches were held in Japan.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Semifinals

Third-place match

Final

Awards Best Player AwardTop GoalscorerFair Play AwardTeng Wei ()Ri Kum-suk (, 8 goals)

CAF

CONCACAF

Mexico and the United States earned Olympic qualification places by winning their semi-final matches.

Preliminary round

Caribbean Zone Series A

Series B

Series C

North/Central American Zone Series DSeries E Following the matches in Series E Guatemala were suspended from international football allowing Panama to advance in their place.

Group stage Eight teams participated in the group stage. The top two teams from each group advanced to the semi-finals.

Group AGroup B

Knockout stage The winners of the semi-finals qualified for the Olympics.

CONMEBOL CONMEBOL did not hold the qualifying competition for the one spot but nominated , the winners of 2003 South American Women's Football Championship and 2003 Pan American Games, as the South American representative. Brazil also achieved the best performance among CONMEBOL teams at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, having advanced to the quarter-finals, while the confederation's only other team, Argentina, were eliminated in the group stage.

OFC

All matches were held in Fiji.

UEFA

Due to scheduling issues, UEFA did not hold a separate qualifying competition; UEFA instead announced that the top two UEFA teams in 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup were to qualify for the Olympics. As a result, the World Cup winners and the runners-up qualified for the Olympics (together with the hosts ).

References

General references Olympic Football Tournaments Athens 2004, FIFA, retrieved on 31 March 2018.