Jump to content

Football at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Zemarcelo (talk | contribs) at 13:51, 18 December 2017 (lk). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The qualification for football tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics, all players should be under 23 years old.

Qualified teams

The final tournament had 16 spots.

The following 16 teams qualified for the 1992 Olympic men's football tournament:

Means of qualification Berths Qualified
Host nation 1  Spain
AFC Preliminary Competition 3  Qatar
 South Korea
 Kuwait
CAF Preliminary Competition 3  Egypt
 Ghana
 Morocco
1992 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament 2  Mexico
 United States
1992 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament 2  Colombia
 Paraguay
1991 OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament 1  Australia
1992 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship 4  Italy
 Sweden
 Denmark
 Poland
Total 16

Qualifications

Europe

South America

North and Central America

Africa

Asia

Oceania

First six matches played in Australia, other six matches played in Fiji.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Australia 6 6 0 0 23 1 +22 12
 New Zealand 6 3 1 2 12 7 +5 7
 Fiji 6 1 2 3 3 15 -12 4
 Papua New Guinea 6 0 1 5 4 19 -15 1

Australia advanced to the International Play-off.

International Play-off

Australia 1–1 Netherlands

Netherlands 2–2 (a.e.t.) Australia

2–2 on aggregate. Australia qualify on away goal's rule.

References