The men's football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 24 July to 9 August 2024. It was the 28th edition of the men's Olympic football tournament. Together with the women's competition, the 2024 Summer Olympics football tournament was held at seven stadiums in seven cities in France. Teams participating in the men's competition were restricted to under-23 players (born on or after 1 January 2001) with a maximum of three overage players allowed.
Brazil were the two-time defending champions, having won in 2016 and 2020, but did not qualify for this tournament.
Spain won their second gold medal and first since 1992, defeating hosts France 5–3 after extra time in the final, held at Parc des Princes in Paris.
Schedule The schedule was as follows.
Wed 24 Thu 25 Fri 26 Sat 27 Sun 28 Mon 29 Tue 30 Wed 31 Thu 1 Fri 2 Sat 3 Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 GS GS GS QF SF B F
Qualification
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.
Venues
Marseille Décines-Charpieu(Lyon Area) Paris Stade de Marseille Stade de Lyon Parc des Princes Capacity: 67,394 Capacity: 59,186 Capacity: 47,929 Bordeaux Stade de Bordeaux Capacity: 42,115 Saint-Étienne Nice Nantes Stade Geoffroy-Guichard Stade de Nice Stade de la Beaujoire Capacity: 41,965 Capacity: 36,178 Capacity: 35,322
Squads
Each team had to submit a squad of eighteen 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 could replace any player in the squad in case of injury during the tournament.
Match officials
On 3 April 2024, FIFA released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympics.
+ Match officials Confederation Referee Assistant referees AFC Adel Al-Naqbi (United Arab Emirates) Ahmed Al-Rashadi (United Arab Emirates)Sabet Obaid Suroor Al-Ali (United Arab Emirates) Ilgiz Tantashev (Uzbekistan) Timur Gaynullin (Uzbekistan)Andrey Tsapenko (Uzbekistan) CAF Dahane Beida (Mauritania) Liban Abdoulrazack Ahmed (Djibouti)Elvis Noupue (Cameroon) Mahmood Ismail (Sudan) Jerson Emiliano dos Santos (Angola)Stephen Yiembe (Kenya) CONCACAF Drew Fischer (Canada) Lyes Arfa (Canada)Micheal Barwegen (Canada) Saíd Martínez (Honduras) Walter López (Honduras)Christian Ramírez (Honduras) CONMEBOL Yael Falcón (Argentina) Facundo Rodríguez (Argentina)Maximiliano Del Yesso (Argentina) Ramon Abatti (Brazil) Rafael Alves (Brazil)Guillerme Camilo (Brazil) OFC Campbell-Kirk Kawana-Waugh (New Zealand) Isaac Trevis (New Zealand)Bernard Mutukera (Solomon Islands) UEFA François Letexier (France) Cyril Mugnier (France)Mehdi Rahmouni (France) Espen Eskås (Norway) Isaak Bashevkin (Norway)Jan Erik Engan (Norway) Glenn Nyberg (Sweden) Mahbod Beigi (Sweden)Andreas Söderkvist (Sweden)
+ Support officials Confederation Referee AFCVeronika Bernatskaia (Kyrgyzstan)CAFShamirah Nabadda (Uganda)CONCACAFOdette Hamilton (Jamaica)CONMEBOLAnahí Fernández (Uruguay) UEFAFrida Klarlund (Denmark)Jelena Cvetković (Serbia)
+ Video assistant referees Confederation Video assistant referee Male officials AFCKhamis Al-Marri (Qatar)Sivakorn Pu-udom (Thailand) CAFLahlou Benbraham (Algeria)Mahmoud Ashour (Egypt) CONCACAFDaneon Parchment (Jamaica)Guillermo Pacheco (Mexico) CONMEBOLHéctor Paletta (Argentina)Rodrigo Carvajal (Chile)Leodán González (Uruguay) UEFAIvan Bebek (Croatia)David Coote (Great Britain)Jérôme Brisard (France)Paolo Valeri (Italy)Rob Dieperink (Netherlands)Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain) Female officialsAFCKate Jacewicz (Australia)CONCACAFTatiana Guzmán (Nicaragua)CONMEBOLDaiane Muniz (Brazil) UEFAKatalin Kulcsár (Hungary)
Notes
Draw The draw for the groups was held on 20 March 2024, 20:00 CET (UTC+1), at the Pulse building in Saint-Denis, France. The sixteen teams were drawn into four groups of four teams each. The hosts France were automatically seeded into Pot 1 and placed into the first position of Group A, while the remaining teams were seeded into their respective pots based on their results in the last five Men's Olympic Football Tournament (with more recent tournaments weighted more heavily), as follows:
2004 Men's Olympic Football Tournament: 20% value of total points; 2008 Men's Olympic Football Tournament: 40% value of total points; 2012 Men's Olympic Football Tournament: 60% value of total points; 2016 Men's Olympic Football Tournament: 80% value of total points; 2020 Men's Olympic Football Tournament: 100% value of total points.
Furthermore, five bonus points were added to each of the six continental champions from the qualifying tournaments.
PotTeamConfederation20042008201220162020Totalpoints20%40%60%80% 100%1 (H)UEFAHost nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1 AFC30.60010643.210 19.8 AFC5141.695.475.6619.6CONMEBOL183.6187.243.24182UEFA10.611+516.6OFC10.410.65+511CONMEBOL122.4+57.4CAF40.821.2+573CONCACAF41.6+56.6CAF42.44 6.4 AFCcolspan=2 10.433.4CAF5114CONCACAF 0UEFA0UEFA0CAFAFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4 Notes
The draw started with teams from Pot 1 being drawn first and placed in the first position of their groups (hosts France automatically assigned to A1). Then the teams from Pot 2 were drawn, followed by Pot 3 and Pot 4, with each team also being drawn to one of the positions within their group. No group could contain more than one team from each confederation. The ceremony was hosted by the local presenter Fabien Leveque and conducted by FIFA's Director of Tournaments Jaime Yarza and Chief Women's Football Officer Sarai Bareman, with the former Argentine footballer Javier Saviola and French track and field legend athlete Marie-José Pérec as draw assistants.
The draw resulted in the following groups:
+ Group A TeamA1 A2 A3 A4 + Group B TeamB1 B2 B3 B4 + Group C TeamC1 C2 C3 C4 + Group D TeamD1 D2 D3 D4 Notes
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 played one another in a round-robin basis, with the top two teams of each group advancing to the quarter-finals.
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).
Tiebreakers The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:
Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat); Goal difference in all group matches; Number of goals scored in all group matches; Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question; Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question; Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question; Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match): Drawing of lots.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Statistics Goalscorers
Final ranking
See also Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
References
External links
Olympic Football Tournament Paris 2024, FIFA.com