# Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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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.
| Means of qualification | Date(s) | Venue(s) | Berth(s) | Qualified |
| Host nation | — | — | 1 | France |
| 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship | 18 June – 3 July 2022 | Honduras | 2 | United States Dominican Republic |
| 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship | 21 June – 8 July 2023 | Georgia Romania | 3 | Spain Israel Ukraine |
| 2023 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations | 24 June – 8 July 2023 | Morocco | 3 | Morocco Egypt Mali |
| 2023 OFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament | 27 August – 9 September 2023 | New Zealand | 1 | New Zealand |
| 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament | 20 January – 11 February 2024 | Venezuela | 2 | Paraguay Argentina |
| 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup | 15 April – 3 May 2024 | Qatar | 3 | Japan Uzbekistan Iraq |
| AFC–CAF play-off | 9 May 2024 | France | 1 | Guinea |
| Total | | | 16 | |
* 1 2 Dates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments); various qualification stages may precede these matches.

## 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 |
| MarseilleDécines-CharpieuParisBordeauxSaint-ÉtienneNiceNantes | MarseilleDécines-CharpieuParisBordeauxSaint-ÉtienneNiceNantes | Bordeaux |
| MarseilleDécines-CharpieuParisBordeauxSaint-ÉtienneNiceNantes | MarseilleDécines-CharpieuParisBordeauxSaint-ÉtienneNiceNantes | Stade de Bordeaux |
| MarseilleDécines-CharpieuParisBordeauxSaint-ÉtienneNiceNantes | MarseilleDécines-CharpieuParisBordeauxSaint-ÉtienneNiceNantes | 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) |
| AFC | Ilgiz Tantashev (Uzbekistan) | Timur Gaynullin (Uzbekistan) Andrey Tsapenko (Uzbekistan) |
| CAF | Dahane Beida (Mauritania) | Liban Abdoulrazack Ahmed (Djibouti) Elvis Noupue (Cameroon) |
| CAF | Mahmood Ali Ismail (Sudan) | Jerson Emiliano dos Santos (Angola) Stephen Yiembe (Kenya) |
| CONCACAF | Drew Fischer (Canada) | Lyes Arfa (Canada) Micheal Barwegen (Canada) |
| CONCACAF | Saíd Martínez (Honduras) | Walter López (Honduras) Christian Ramírez (Honduras) |
| CONMEBOL | Yael Falcón (Argentina) | Facundo Rodríguez (Argentina) Maximiliano Del Yesso (Argentina) |
| CONMEBOL | 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) |
| UEFA | Espen Eskås (Norway) | Isaak Bashevkin (Norway) Jan Erik Engan (Norway) |
| UEFA | Glenn Nyberg (Sweden) | Mahbod Beigi (Sweden) Andreas Söderkvist (Sweden) |
Support officials :
| Confederation | Referee |
| AFC | Veronika Bernatskaia (Kyrgyzstan) |
| CAF | Shamirah Nabadda (Uganda) |
| CONCACAF | Odette Hamilton (Jamaica) |
| CONMEBOL | Anahí Fernández (Uruguay) |
| UEFA | Frida Klarlund (Denmark) |
| UEFA | Jelena Cvetković (Serbia) |
Video assistant referees :
| Confederation | Video assistant referee |
| Male officials ||
| AFC | Khamis Al-Marri (Qatar) |
| AFC | Sivakorn Pu-udom (Thailand) |
| CAF | Lahlou Benbraham (Algeria) |
| CAF | Mahmoud Ashour (Egypt) |
| CONCACAF | Daneon Parchment (Jamaica) |
| CONCACAF | Guillermo Pacheco (Mexico) |
| CONMEBOL | Héctor Paletta (Argentina) |
| CONMEBOL | Rodrigo Carvajal (Chile) |
| CONMEBOL | Leodán González (Uruguay) |
| UEFA | Ivan Bebek (Croatia) |
| UEFA | David Coote (Great Britain) |
| UEFA | Jérôme Brisard (France) |
| UEFA | Paolo Valeri (Italy) |
| UEFA | Rob Dieperink (Netherlands) |
| UEFA | Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania) |
| UEFA | Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain) |
| Female officials ||
| AFC | Kate Jacewicz (Australia) |
| CONCACAF | Tatiana Guzmán (Nicaragua) |
| CONMEBOL | Daiane Muniz [pt] (Brazil) |
| CONMEBOL | Edina Alves Batista (Brazil) |
| UEFA | Katalin Kulcsár (Hungary) |

## 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.
| Pot | Team | Confederation | 2004 | 2004 | 2008 | 2008 | 2012 | 2012 | 2016 | 2016 | 2020 | BP | Total points |
| Pot | Team | Confederation | Pts | 20% | Pts | 40% | Pts | 60% | Pts | 80% | Pts 100% | BP | Total points |
| 1 | France (H) | UEFA | Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1 | Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1 | Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1 | Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1 | Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1 | Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1 | Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1 | Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1 | Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1 | Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1 | Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1 |
| 1 | Japan (AFC 1, results of Japan) | AFC | 3 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 3.2 | 10 | | 19.8 |
| 1 | Uzbekistan (AFC 2, results of South Korea) | AFC | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1.6 | 9 | 5.4 | 7 | 5.6 | 6 | | 19.6 |
| 1 | Argentina | CONMEBOL | 18 | 3.6 | 18 | 7.2 | DNQ | DNQ | 4 | 3.2 | 4 | | 18 |
| 2 | Spain | UEFA | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 1 | 0.6 | DNQ | DNQ | 11 | +5 | 16.6 |
| 2 | New Zealand | OFC | DNQ | DNQ | 1 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.6 | DNQ | DNQ | 5 | +5 | 11 |
| 2 | Paraguay | CONMEBOL | 12 | 2.4 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | +5 | 7.4 |
| 2 | Morocco | CAF | 4 | 0.8 | DNQ | DNQ | 2 | 1.2 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | +5 | 7 |
| 3 | United States | CONCACAF | DNQ | DNQ | 4 | 1.6 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | +5 | 6.6 |
| 3 | Egypt | CAF | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 4 | 2.4 | DNQ | DNQ | 4 | | 6.4 |
| 3 | Iraq (AFC 3, results of Australia) | AFC | OFC | OFC | 1 | 0.4 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 3 | | 3.4 |
| 3 | Mali | CAF | 5 | 1 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | | 1 |
| 4 | Dominican Republic | CONCACAF | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | | 0 |
| 4 | Israel | UEFA | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | | 0 |
| 4 | Ukraine | UEFA | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | | 0 |
| 4 | Guinea | CAF | AFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4 | AFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4 | AFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4 | AFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4 | AFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4 | AFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4 | AFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4 | AFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4 | AFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4 | AFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4 | AFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4 | AFC-CAF play-off winners, automatically assigned to Pot 4 |
Notes
* 1 2 3 As the three teams qualified through the AFC U-23 Asian Cup were to be known only after the draw, placeholders were allocated according to the ranking of the AFC teams in the 2020 Men's Olympic Football Tournament, i.e. the results of Japan, South Korea, and Australia in the previous 5 Men's Olympic Football Tournament were taken into account. The placeholders were named “AFC 1”, “AFC 2” and “AFC 3”.
* ↑ 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.
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 :
| Pos | Team |
| A1 | France |
| A2 | United States |
| A3 | Guinea |
| A4 | New Zealand |
Group B :
| Pos | Team |
| B1 | Argentina |
| B2 | Morocco |
| B3 | Iraq |
| B4 | Ukraine |
Group C :
| Pos | Team |
| C1 | Uzbekistan |
| C2 | Spain |
| C3 | Egypt |
| C4 | Dominican Republic |
Group D :
| Pos | Team |
| D1 | Japan |
| D2 | Paraguay |
| D3 | Mali |
| D4 | Israel |
Notes
* 1 2 3 4 The identity of these teams was not known at the time of the draw.

## 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): Yellow card: −1 point;Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;Direct red card: −4 points;Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
* Drawing of lots.

### Group A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | France (H) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | United States | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | New Zealand | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 3 | |
| 4 | Guinea | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Morocco | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Argentina | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Ukraine | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 3 | |
| 4 | Iraq | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 3 | |
* 1 2 Head-to-head points: Morocco 3, Argentina 0.

### Group C

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Egypt | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Spain | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Dominican Republic | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 2 | |
| 4 | Uzbekistan | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 1 | |

### Group D

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Japan | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Paraguay | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | −2 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Mali | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 1 | |
| 4 | Israel | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 1 | |

## 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 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| 2 August – Bordeaux | 2 August – Bordeaux | | | |
| France | 1 | | | |
| France | 1 | 5 August – Décines-Charpieu | 5 August – Décines-Charpieu | | |
| Argentina | 0 | 5 August – Décines-Charpieu | 5 August – Décines-Charpieu | |
| Argentina | 0 | France (a.e.t.) | 3 | |
| 2 August – Marseille | 2 August – Marseille | | France (a.e.t.) | 3 | |
| 2 August – Marseille | 2 August – Marseille | Egypt | 1 | |
| Egypt (p) | 1 (5) | Egypt | 1 | |
| Egypt (p) | 1 (5) | | | | 9 August – Paris | 9 August – Paris |
| Paraguay | 1 (4) | | | | 9 August – Paris | 9 August – Paris |
| Paraguay | 1 (4) | | | | France | 3 |
| 2 August – Paris | 2 August – Paris | | | | | France | 3 |
| 2 August – Paris | 2 August – Paris | | | | Spain (a.e.t.) | 5 |
| Morocco | 4 | | | | Spain (a.e.t.) | 5 |
| Morocco | 4 | 5 August – Marseille | 5 August – Marseille | | | |
| United States | 0 | 5 August – Marseille | 5 August – Marseille | | | |
| United States | 0 | Morocco | 1 | | | |
| 2 August – Décines-Charpieu | 2 August – Décines-Charpieu | | Morocco | 1 | | | |
| 2 August – Décines-Charpieu | 2 August – Décines-Charpieu | Spain | 2 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Japan | 0 | Spain | 2 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Japan | 0 | | | | 8 August – Nantes | 8 August – Nantes |
| Spain | 3 | | | | 8 August – Nantes | 8 August – Nantes |
| Spain | 3 | | | | Egypt | 0 |
| | | | | | Morocco | 6 |

### Gold medal match
## Statistics
### Goalscorers

There were 96 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 3 goals per match.
8 goals
* Soufiane Rahimi
6 goals
* Fermín López
5 goals
* Jean-Philippe Mateta
3 goals
* Ibrahim Adel
* Marcelo Fernández
2 goals
* Thiago Almada
* Michael Olise
* Aymen Hussein
* Shōta Fujio
* Shunsuke Mito
* Rihito Yamamoto
* Abde Ezzalzouli
* Achraf Hakimi
* Álex Baena
* Sergio Camello
* Djordje Mihailovic
* Kevin Paredes
1 goal
* Claudio Echeverri
* Ezequiel Fernández
* Luciano Gondou
* Giuliano Simeone
* Ángel Montes de Oca
* Rafael Núñez
* Ahmed Koka
* Mahmoud Saber
* Maghnes Akliouche
* Loïc Badé
* Désiré Doué
* Arnaud Kalimuendo
* Alexandre Lacazette
* Enzo Millot
* Kiliann Sildillia
* Amadou Diawara
* Ali Jasim
* Omri Gandelman
* Oscar Gloukh
* Mao Hosoya
* Cheickna Doumbia
* Ilias Akhomach
* Bilal El Khannouss
* El Mehdi Maouhoub
* Akram Nakach
* Amir Richardson
* Matthew Garbett
* Jesse Randall
* Ben Waine
* Fabián Balbuena
* Julio Enciso
* Diego Gómez
* Sergio Gómez
* Miguel Gutiérrez
* Samu Omorodion
* Marc Pubill
* Abel Ruiz
* Juanlu Sánchez
* Ihor Krasnopir
* Dmytro Kryskiv
* Valentyn Rubchynskyi
* Paxten Aaronson
* Gianluca Busio
* Walker Zimmerman
* Alisher Odilov
* Eldor Shomurodov
1 own goal
* Hamidou Diallo (against Israel)
Source: FIFA

## Final ranking

As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final result |
| | Spain | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 8 | +8 | 15 | Gold medal |
| | France (H) | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 6 | +8 | 15 | Silver medal |
| | Morocco | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 5 | +12 | 12 | Bronze medal |
| 4 | Egypt | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | −6 | 8 | Fourth place |
| 5 | Japan | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 9 | Eliminated in quarter-finals |
| 6 | Paraguay | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 7 | Eliminated in quarter-finals |
| 7 | Argentina | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 6 | Eliminated in quarter-finals |
| 8 | United States | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 6 | Eliminated in quarter-finals |
| 9 | Ukraine | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 3 | Eliminated in group stage |
| 10 | Iraq | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 3 | Eliminated in group stage |
| 11 | New Zealand | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 3 | Eliminated in group stage |
| 12 | Dominican Republic | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 2 | Eliminated in group stage |
| 13 | Uzbekistan | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 1 | Eliminated in group stage |
| 14 | Mali | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 1 | Eliminated in group stage |
| 15 | Israel | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 1 | Eliminated in group stage |
| 16 | Guinea | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 | Eliminated in group stage |