Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
The men's football tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held in Athens and four other cities in Greece from 11 August to 28 August. The tournament 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.[1]
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Greece |
Dates | 11–28 August |
Teams | 16 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 6 (in 5 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | |
Runners-up | |
Third place | |
Fourth place | |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 101 (3.16 per match) |
Attendance | 401,415 (12,544 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | (8 goals) |
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Qualification | ||
men | women | |
Tournament | ||
men | women | |
Squads | ||
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Qualification
The following 16 teams qualified for the 2004 Olympics football tournament.
Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified |
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Host nation | 1 | |
AFC Preliminary Competition | 3 | |
CAF Preliminary Competition | 4 | |
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition | 2 | |
2004 CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 | |
OFC Preliminary Competition | 1 | |
2004 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship | 3 | |
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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Group stage
- Teams highlighted in green went through to the knockout stage.
Group A
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 5 | Qualified for the quarterfinals | |
2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 5 | ||
3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | ||
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 1 |
South Korea | 2–2 | |
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Kim Dong-jin Vyntra |
Report | Taralidis Papadopoulos |
South Korea | 1–0 | |
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Kim Jung-woo |
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South Korea | 3–3 | |
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Cho Jae-jin Tamboura |
Report | N'Diaye |
Group B
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 6 | Qualified for the quarterfinals | |
2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | ||
3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||
4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 3 |
Group C
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | +9 | 9 | Qualified for the quarterfinals | |
2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 4 | ||
3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 4 | ||
4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 14 | −11 | 0 |
Argentina | 6–0 | |
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Delgado C. González Tevez Heinze Rosales |
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Group D
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 6 | Qualified for the quarterfinals | |
2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||
3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | ||
4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 3 |
Costa Rica | 0–0 | |
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Iraq | 4–2 | |
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E. Mohammed H. Mohammed Mahmoud Sadir |
Report | Jabar Bosingwa |
Costa Rica | 0–2 | |
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Report | H. Mohammed Karim |
Costa Rica | 4–2 | |
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Villalobos Meira Saborío Brenes |
Report | Almeida Ribeiro |
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | ||||||||
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21 August – Patras | ||||||||||
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21 August – Heraklion | ||||||||||
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24 August – Thessaloniki | ||||||||||
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21 August – Thessaloniki | ||||||||||
3 | Bronze medal match | |||||||||
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27 August – Thessaloniki | ||||||||||
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Quarter-finals
Iraq | 1–0 | |
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E. Mohammed |
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Argentina | 4–0 | |
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Delgado Tevez |
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Paraguay | 3–2 | |
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Bareiro Cardozo |
Report | Lee Chun-soo |
Semi-finals
Italy | 0–3 | |
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Report | Tevez Lucho González M. González |
Gold medal match
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Final ranking
Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | +17 | 18 | |
2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 12 | |
3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 10 | |
4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 9 | |
5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 5 | |
6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 5 | |
7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 | |
8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 4 | |
9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | ||
12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 4 | |
13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 3 | |
14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 3 | |
15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 1 | |
16 | 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.
References
- "Football at the 2004 Athens Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2018.