Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Greece |
Dates | 11 August – 28 August |
Teams | 16 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 6 (in 6 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Argentina (1st title) |
Runners-up | Paraguay |
Third place | Italy |
Fourth place | Iraq |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 101 (3.16 per match) |
Attendance | 401,415 (12,544 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Carlos Tevez (8 goals) |
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The men's football tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics featured 16 men's national teams from the six continental confederations. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four, in which each team would play each of the others once. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the final at Athens' Olympic Stadium on 28 August 2004.
Qualification
The following 16 teams qualified for the 2004 Olympics football tournament.
Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified |
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Host nation | 1 | Greece |
AFC Preliminary Competition | 3 | Iraq Japan South Korea |
CAF Preliminary Competition | 4 | Ghana Mali Morocco Tunisia |
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition | 2 | Mexico (winner) Costa Rica (runner-up) |
2004 CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 | Argentina (winner) Paraguay (runner-up) |
OFC Preliminary Competition | 1 | Australia |
2004 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship | 3 | Italy (winner) Serbia and Montenegro (runner-up) Portugal (third-place) |
Total | 16 |
Match officials
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Seeding
Pot 1: Europe | Pot 2: Americas | Pot 3: Africa | Pot 4: Asia and Oceania |
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Final tournament
Key:
- Teams highlighted in green went through to the knockout stage.
First round
Group A
Template:2004 Summer Olympics men's football group A standings
South Korea | 2–2 | Greece |
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Kim D.J. 43' Vyntra 64' (o.g.) |
Report | Taralidis 78' Papadopoulos 82' (pen.) |
South Korea | 1–0 | Mexico |
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Kim J.W. 16' | Report |
Group B
Template:2004 Summer Olympics men's football group B standings
Group C
Template:2004 Summer Olympics men's football group C standings
Argentina | 6–0 | Serbia and Montenegro |
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Delgado 11' C. González 17' Tevez 42', 43' Heinze 74' Rosales 77' |
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Argentina | 1–0 | Australia |
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D'Alessandro 9' | Report |
Serbia and Montenegro | 2–3 | Tunisia |
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Krasić 70' Vukčević 87' |
Report | Clayton 41' Jedidi 83' (pen.) Zitouni 89' |
Group D
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Costa Rica | 0–0 | Morocco |
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Iraq | 4–2 | Portugal |
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E. Mohammed 16' H. Mohammed 29' Y. Mahmoud 56' Sader 90+3' |
Report | Jabar 13' (o.g.) Bosingwa 45' |
Costa Rica | 0–2 | Iraq |
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Report | H. Mohammed 67' Karim 72' |
Costa Rica | 4–2 | Portugal |
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Villalobos 50' Meira 68' (o.g.) Saborío 71' Brenes 90+1' |
Report | Almeida 29' Ribeiro 54' |
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
21 August – Piraeus | ||||||||||
Mali | 0 | |||||||||
24 August – Piraeus | ||||||||||
Italy | 1 | |||||||||
Italy | 0 | |||||||||
21 August – Patras | ||||||||||
Argentina | 3 | |||||||||
Argentina | 4 | |||||||||
28 August – Athens | ||||||||||
Costa Rica | 0 | |||||||||
Argentina | 1 | |||||||||
21 August – Heraklion | ||||||||||
Paraguay | 0 | |||||||||
Iraq | 1 | |||||||||
24 August – Thessaloniki | ||||||||||
Australia | 0 | |||||||||
Iraq | 1 | |||||||||
21 August – Thessaloniki | ||||||||||
Paraguay | 3 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
Paraguay | 3 | |||||||||
27 August – Thessaloniki | ||||||||||
South Korea | 2 | |||||||||
Italy | 1 | |||||||||
Iraq | 0 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
Iraq | 1–0 | Australia |
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E. Mohammed 64' | Report |
Argentina | 4–0 | Costa Rica |
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Delgado 24' Tevez 43', 82', 83' |
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Semi-finals
Italy | 0–3 | Argentina |
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Report | Tevez 16' Lucho González 69' M. González 84' |
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
Final ranking
Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | Argentina (ARG) | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | +17 | 18 |
2 | Paraguay (PAR) | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 12 |
3 | Italy (ITA) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 10 |
4 | Iraq (IRQ) | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 9 |
5 | Mali (MLI) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 5 |
6 | South Korea (KOR) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 5 |
7 | Australia (AUS) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 |
8 | Costa Rica (CRC) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 4 |
9 | Ghana (GHA) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
10 | Morocco (MAR) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
Mexico (MEX) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
12 | Tunisia (TUN) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 4 |
13 | Japan (JPN) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 3 |
14 | Portugal (POR) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 3 |
15 | Greece (GRE) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 1 |
16 | Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 14 | −11 | 0 |
Statistics
Goalscorers
With eight goals, Carlos Tevez of Argentina is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 101 goals were scored by 65 different players, with four of them credited as own goals.
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