# 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament

The 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament (Spanish: Torneo Preolímpico Sudamericano, Portuguese: Torneio Pré-Olímpico Sul-Americano) was the 14th edition of the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial, international, age-restricted football tournament organised by the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) to determine which men's under-23 national teams from the South American region qualify for the Olympic football tournament. It was held in Venezuela from 20 January to 11 February 2024.
The top two teams qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics men's football tournament in France as the CONMEBOL representatives.

## Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.
| Team | Appearance | Previous best top-4 performance |
| Argentina (holders) | 11th | Winners (1960, 1964, 1980, 2004, 2020) |
| Bolivia | 8th | Third place (1987) |
| Brazil | 13th | Winners (1968, 1971, 1976, 1984, 1987, 1996, 2000) |
| Chile | 12th | Runners-up (1984, 2000) |
| Colombia | 13th | Runners-up (1968, 1971, 1980, 1992) |
| Ecuador | 10th | Fourth place (1984, 1992) |
| Paraguay | 9th | Winners (1992) |
| Peru | 12th | Runners-up (1960) |
| Uruguay | 11th | Runners-up (1976) |
| Venezuela (hosts) | 10th | Fourth place (1980, 1996) |

### Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2001 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team could register a maximum of 23 and a minimum of 19 players, including at least 3 goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 45 and 48).

## Venues

On 11 July 2022, CONMEBOL President Alejandro Domínguez announced that Venezuela would host the next CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament. Venezuela is hosting the tournament for the first time, becoming the ninth CONMEBOL nation to do so. On 14 October 2023, CONMEBOL announced Caracas, Valencia and Barquisimeto as the host cities. On 28 January 2024, Barquisimeto was withdrawn as host city because the playing field of the Estadio Metropolitano was not fit to host the games it had scheduled.
Estadio Brígido Iriarte in Caracas and Estadio Misael Delgado in Valencia will host the preliminary stage matches. The final stage matches, originally scheduled to be held at Estadio Metropolitano in Barquisimeto, were moved to Estadio Brígido Iriarte in Caracas.
| Caracas | Valencia | CaracasValenciaclass=notpageimage| Location of the host cities of the 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament. |
| Estadio Brígido Iriarte | Estadio Misael Delgado | CaracasValenciaclass=notpageimage| Location of the host cities of the 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament. |
| Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 10,400 | CaracasValenciaclass=notpageimage| Location of the host cities of the 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament. |

## Draw

The draw was held on 20 October 2023 at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay. Hosts Venezuela and defending champions Argentina were seeded into Group A and Group B, respectively, and assigned to position 1 in their group. The remaining eight teams were placed into four "pairing pots" based on their final ranking in the 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament (shown in brackets).
| Seeded | Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
| Venezuela (Hosts, assigned to A1) Argentina (Defending champions, assigned to B1) | Brazil (2) Uruguay (3) | Colombia (4) Chile (5) | Bolivia (6) Paraguay (7) | Peru (9) Ecuador (10) |
From each pot, the first team drawn was placed into Group A and the second team drawn was placed into Group B. In both groups, teams from pot 1 were allocated in position 2, teams from pot 2 in position 3, teams from pot 3 in position 4 and teams from pot 4 in position 5.
The draw resulted in the following groups:
Group A :
| Group A PosTeam A1 Venezuela A2 Brazil A3 Colombia A4 Bolivia A5 Ecuador | Group B PosTeam B1 Argentina B2 Uruguay B3 Chile B4 Paraguay B5 Peru |

## Match officials

On 14 December 2023, the CONMEBOL Referee Commission announced 11 referees and 22 assistant referees appointed for the tournament.

## Preliminary stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the final stage.
All match times are in VET (UTC−4), as listed by CONMEBOL.

### Tiebreakers

In the preliminary stage, the teams were ranked according to points earned (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order (Regulations Article 20):
* Head-to-head result between tied teams;
** Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
** Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
** Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
* Goal difference in all group matches;
* Goals scored in all group matches;
* Fewer red cards;
* Fewer yellow cards;
* Drawing of lots.

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Brazil | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 9 | Final stage |
| 2 | Venezuela (H) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 8 | Final stage |
| 3 | Ecuador | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 7 | |
| 4 | Bolivia | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 4 | |
| 5 | Colombia | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Argentina | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | +7 | 8 | Final stage |
| 2 | Paraguay | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 7 | Final stage |
| 3 | Chile | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 6 | |
| 4 | Uruguay | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 4 | |
| 5 | Peru | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 3 | |

## Final stage

The ranking of teams in the final stage is determined using the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage, with the exception of red and yellow card counts which carry over from the first stage (Regulations Article 21).
All match times are in VET (UTC−4), as listed by CONMEBOL.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Paraguay (C) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 7 | 2024 Summer Olympics |
| 2 | Argentina | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 5 | 2024 Summer Olympics |
| 3 | Brazil | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 | |
| 4 | Venezuela (H) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 1 | |

## Goalscorers

There were 74 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.85 goals per match.
5 goals
* Thiago Almada
* Diego Gómez
* Luciano Rodríguez
4 goals
* Luciano Gondou
3 goals
* José Miguel Briceño
* Yaimar Medina
* Jovanny Bolívar
2 goals
* Aaron Quirós
* Endrick
* Marcelo Fernández
* Kevin Kelsy
* Telasco Segovia
1 goal
* Santiago Castro
* Francisco González
* Federico Redondo
* Baltasar Rodríguez
* Pablo Solari
* Lucas Chávez
* Gabriel Villamíl
* Alexsander
* Marlon Gomes
* Guilherme Biro
* John Kennedy
* Maurício
* Gabriel Pirani
* Lucas Assadi
* Clemente Montes
* Gonzalo Tapia
* John Mercado
* Patrik Mercado
* Allen Obando
* Cristhoper Zambrano
* Ronaldo De Jesús
* Enso González
* Iván Leguizamón
* Alan Núñez
* Fabrizio Peralta
* Marcelo Pérez
* Franchesco Flores
* Matías Abaldo
* César Araújo
* Santiago Homenchenko
* Renzo Sánchez
* Matías Lacava
* Renné Rivas
1 own goal
* Leandro Brey (against Venezuela)
* Rikelme (against Venezuela)
* Carlos Vivas (against Argentina)

## Qualified teams for the 2024 Summer Olympics

The following two teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympic men's football tournament in France.
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in Summer Olympics |
| Argentina | 11 February 2024 | 9 (1928, 1960, 1964, 1988, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2016, 2020) |
| Paraguay | 11 February 2024 | 2 (1992, 2004) |
    $^1$ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.