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 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]

2004 Men's Olympic Football Tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Greece
Dates	11–28 August
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 5 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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Qualification

The following 16 teams qualified for the 2004 Olympics football tournament.

Means of qualification	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	1	Greece
2004 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship	3	Italy (winner)  Serbia and Montenegro (runner-up) Portugal (third-place)
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
Total	16

Venues

• Olympic Stadium, Athens
• Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
• Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion
• Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras
• Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki
• Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos

Athens	Athens Piraeus Heraklion Patras Thessaloniki Volos Location of the host cities of the men's football tournament of the 2004 Summer Olympics.		Patras
Olympic Stadium			Pampeloponnisiako Stadium
Capacity: 71,030			Capacity: 23,558
Piraeus			Thessaloniki
Karaiskakis Stadium			Kaftanzoglio Stadium
Capacity: 33,334			Capacity: 27,770
Heraklion			Volos
Pankritio Stadium			Panthessaliko Stadium
Capacity: 26,240			Capacity: 22,700

Match officials

Africa

• Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt)
• Divine Evehe (Cameroon)

Asia

• Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh (Malaysia)

North and Central America

• Benito Archundia (Mexico)
• Carlos Batres (Guatemala)

South America

• Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)
• Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)
• Carlos Torres (Paraguay)

Europe

• Massimo De Santis (Italy)
• Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)
• Éric Poulat (France)
• Kyros Vassaras (Greece)

Oceania

• Charles Ariiotima (Tahiti)

Seeding

The draw for the tournament took place on 9 June 2004. Argentina, Greece, Japan and Morocco were seeded for the draw and placed into groups A–D, respectively. The remaining teams were drawn from four pots with teams from the same region kept apart.

Pot 1: Host, Top-Seeded teams from Africa, Americas and Asia	Pot 2: Non-top seeded teams from Asia and Oceania	Pot 3: Non-top seeded teams from Americas	Pot 4: Non-top seeded teams from Africa	Pot 5: Non-top seeded teams from Europe
Greece (assigned to A1)  Japan (assigned to Group B)  Argentina (assigned to Group C)  Morocco (assigned to Group D)	Iraq  South Korea  Australia	Costa Rica  Mexico  Paraguay	Ghana  Mali  Tunisia	Italy  Serbia and Montenegro  Portugal

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
1	Mali	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2	5	Qualified for the quarterfinals
2	South Korea	3	1	2	0	6	5	+1	5
3	Mexico	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
4	Greece	3	0	1	2	4	7	−3	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

11 August 2004

20:30

South Korea	2–2	Greece
Kim Dong-jin 43' Vyntra 64' (o.g.)	Report	Taralidis 78' Papadopoulos 82' (pen.)

Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 25,152

Referee: Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)

11 August 2004

20:30

Mali	0–0	Mexico
	Report

Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos

Attendance: 10,104

Referee: Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh (Malaysia)

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14 August 2004

20:30

South Korea	1–0	Mexico
Kim Jung-woo 16'	Report

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 14,026

Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)

14 August 2004

20:30

Greece	0–2	Mali
	Report	Berthe 2' N'Diaye 45'

Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 17,123

Referee: Carlos Torres (Paraguay)

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17 August 2004

20:30

South Korea	3–3	Mali
Cho Jae-jin 57', 59' Tamboura 64' (o.g.)	Report	N'Diaye 7', 24', 55'

Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 3,320

Referee: Éric Poulat (France)

17 August 2004

20:30

Greece	2–3	Mexico
Taralidis 82' (pen.) Stoltidis 90+3'	Report	Márquez 47' Bravo 70', 86'

Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos

Attendance: 21,597

Referee: Divine Evehe (Cameroon)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Paraguay	3	2	0	1	6	5	+1	6	Qualified for the quarterfinals
2	Italy	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
3	Ghana	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
4	Japan	3	1	0	2	6	7	−1	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

12 August 2004

20:30

Paraguay	4–3	Japan
Giménez 5' Cardozo 26', 37' Torres 62'	Report	Ono 22' (pen.), 53' (pen.) Ōkubo 81'

Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 5,318

Referee: Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt)

12 August 2004

20:30

Ghana	2–2	Italy
Pappoe 36' Appiah 45+1'	Report	Pinzi 49' Gilardino 83'

Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos

Attendance: 7,012

Referee: Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)

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15 August 2004

20:30

Paraguay	1–2	Ghana
Gamarra 76'		Tiero 81' Appiah 84'

Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 1,119

Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)

15 August 2004

20:30

Japan	2–3	Italy
Abe 21' Takamatsu 90+1'	Report	De Rossi 3' Gilardino 8', 36'

Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos

Attendance: 9,487

Referee: Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)

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18 August 2004

20:30

Paraguay	1–0	Italy
Bareiro 14'	Report

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 24,160

Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)

18 August 2004

20:30

Japan	1–0	Ghana
Ōkubo 37'	Report

Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos

Attendance: 6,813

Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Greece)

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina	3	3	0	0	9	0	+9	9	Qualified for the quarterfinals
2	Australia	3	1	1	1	6	3	+3	4
3	Tunisia	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1	4
4	Serbia and Montenegro	3	0	0	3	3	14	−11	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

11 August 2004

20:30

Tunisia	1–1	Australia
Zitouni 69'	Report	Aloisi 45'

Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion

Attendance: 15,757

Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Greece)

11 August 2004

20:30

Argentina	6–0	Serbia and Montenegro
Delgado 11' C. González 17' Tevez 42', 43' Heinze 74' Rosales 77'	Report

Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras

Attendance: 14,657

Referee: Carlos Batres (Guatemala)

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14 August 2004

20:30

Serbia and Montenegro	1–5	Australia
Radonjić 72'	Report	Cahill 11' Aloisi 45+1', 57' Elrich 60', 86'

Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion

Attendance: 8,857

Referee: Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh (Malaysia)

14 August 2004

20:30

Argentina	2–0	Tunisia
Tevez 39' Saviola 72'	Report

Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras

Attendance: 5,112

Referee: Éric Poulat (France)

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17 August 2004

20:30

Argentina	1–0	Australia
D'Alessandro 9'	Report

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 26,338

Referee: Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt)

17 August 2004

20:30

Serbia and Montenegro	2–3	Tunisia
Krasić 70' Vukčević 87'	Report	Clayton 41' Jedidi 83' (pen.) Zitouni 89'

Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras

Attendance: 7,214

Referee: Charles Ariiotima (Tahiti)

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iraq	3	2	0	1	7	4	+3	6	Qualified for the quarterfinals
2	Costa Rica	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
3	Morocco	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
4	Portugal	3	1	0	2	6	9	−3	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

12 August 2004

20:30

Costa Rica	0–0	Morocco
	Report

Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion

Attendance: 3,212

Referee: Massimo De Santis (Italy)

12 August 2004

20:30

Iraq	4–2	Portugal
E. Mohammed 16' H. Mohammed 29' Mahmoud 56' Sadir 90+3'	Report	Haidar 13' (o.g.) Bosingwa 45'

Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras

Attendance: 5,689

Referee: Divine Evehe (Cameroon)

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15 August 2004

20:30

Costa Rica	0–2	Iraq
	Report	H. Mohammed 67' Karim 72'

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 12,150

Referee: Charles Ariiotima (Tahiti)

15 August 2004

20:30

Morocco	1–2	Portugal
Bouden 85'	Report	C. Ronaldo 40' R. Costa 73'

Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion

Attendance: 7,581

Referee: Carlos Batres (Guatemala)

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18 August 2004

20:30

Morocco	2–1	Iraq
Bouden 69' (pen.) Aqqal 77'	Report	Sadir 63'

Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras

Attendance: 4,019

Referee: Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)

18 August 2004

20:30

Costa Rica	4–2	Portugal
Villalobos 50' Meira 68' (o.g.) Saborío 71' Brenes 90+1'	Report	Almeida 29' Ribeiro 54'

Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion

Attendance: 11,218

Referee: Carlos Torres (Paraguay)

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	21 August – Athens (Karaiskakis)
	Mali	0
					24 August – Athens (Karaiskakis)
	Italy (a.e.t.)	1
					Italy	0
	21 August – Patras
					Argentina	3
	Argentina	4
									28 August – Athens (Olympic)
	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

21 August 2004

18:00

Mali	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Italy
	Report	Bovo 116'

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 27,543

Referee: Carlos Torres (Paraguay)

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21 August 2004

18:00

Iraq	1–0	Australia
E. Mohammed 64'	Report

Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion

Attendance: 10,023

Referee: Carlos Batres (Guatemala)

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21 August 2004

21:00

Argentina	4–0	Costa Rica
Delgado 24' Tevez 43', 82', 83'	Report

Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras

Attendance: 9,292

Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Greece)

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21 August 2004

21:00

Paraguay	3–2	South Korea
Bareiro 19', 71' Cardozo 61'	Report	Lee Chun-soo 74', 79' (pen.)

Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 4,080

Referee: Massimo De Santis (Italy)

Semi-finals

24 August 2004

18:00

Italy	0–3	Argentina
	Report	Tevez 16' Lucho González 69' M. González 84'

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 30,910

Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)

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24 August 2004

21:00

Iraq	1–3	Paraguay
Farhan 83'	Report	Cardozo 17', 34' Bareiro 68'

Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 6,213

Referee: Éric Poulat (France)

Bronze medal match

27 August 2004

20:30

Italy	1–0	Iraq
Gilardino 8'	Report

Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 5,203

Referee: Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)

Gold medal match

28 August 2004

10:00

Argentina	1–0	Paraguay
Tevez 18'	Report

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 41,116

Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Greece)

Source for cards:^[2]

Team details

Argentina Paraguay GK 18 Germán Lux DF 4 Fabricio Coloccini DF 2 Roberto Ayala (c) DF 6 Gabriel Heinze MF 16 Luis O. González MF 5 Javier Mascherano MF 11 Kily González  48' MF 15 Andrés D'Alessandro MF 12 Mauro Rosales FW 10 Carlos Tevez FW 8 César Delgado  76' Substitutes: DF 14 Clemente Rodríguez  76' Manager: Marcelo Bielsa GK 18 Diego Barreto DF 2 Emilio Martínez  66' DF 3 Julio Manzur  37' DF 4 Carlos Gamarra (c)  30' DF 6 Celso Esquivel  45'  76' MF 8 Edgar Barreto  72' MF 11 Aureliano Torres  72' MF 10 Diego Figueredo  65' MF 13 Julio Enciso  63' FW 7 Pablo Giménez FW 9 Fredy Bareiro Substitutes: MF 16 Osvaldo Díaz  63' FW 15 Ernesto Cristaldo  72' FW 14 Julio V. González  76'  87' Manager: Carlos Jara Saguier

Final ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
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
11	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

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

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.

Carlos Tevez, key player and top scorer (8 goals)

8 goals

• Carlos Tevez

5 goals

• José Cardozo

4 goals

• Alberto Gilardino
• Tenema N'Diaye
• Fredy Bareiro

3 goals

• John Aloisi

2 goals

• César Delgado
• Ahmad Elrich
• Stephen Appiah
• Giannis Taralidis
• Emad Mohammed
• Hawar Mulla Mohammed
• Salih Sadir
• Yoshito Ōkubo
• Shinji Ono
• Omar Bravo
• Bouabid Bouden
• Cho Jae-jin
• Lee Chun-soo
• Ali Zitouni

1 goal

• Andrés D'Alessandro
• Gabriel Heinze
• Kily González
• Lucho González
• Mariano González
• Mauro Rosales
• Javier Saviola
• Tim Cahill
• Pablo Brenes
• Álvaro Saborío
• José Villalobos
• Emmanuel Pappoe
• William Tiero
• Dimitrios Papadopoulos
• Ieroklis Stoltidis
• Razzaq Farhan
• Mahdi Karim
• Younis Mahmoud
• Cesare Bovo
• Daniele De Rossi
• Giampiero Pinzi
• Yūki Abe
• Daiki Takamatsu
• Mamadi Berthe
• Rafael Márquez Lugo
• Salaheddine Aqqal
• Carlos Gamarra
• Pablo Giménez
• Aureliano Torres
• Hugo Almeida
• José Bosingwa
• Ricardo Costa
• Jorge Ribeiro
• Cristiano Ronaldo
• Miloš Krasić
• Srđan Radonjić
• Simon Vukčević
• Kim Dong-jin
• Kim Jung-woo
• José Clayton
• Mohamed Jedidi

Own goals

• Loukas Vyntra (playing against South Korea)
• Adama Tamboura (playing against South Korea)
• Haidar Jabar (playing against Portugal)
• Fernando Meira (playing against Costa Rica)