Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

A total of 16 teams compete in the men's football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics. In addition to the host nation France, 15 men's national under-23 teams qualified from the tournaments of the six continental confederations.

Table

On 24 February 2022, the FIFA Council approved the slot allocation for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The host nation France earned automatic qualification to the tournament. For the remaining 15 slots, the AFC and CAF each received 3 automatic slots with a 4th nation from each confederation being granted a spot against each other, UEFA received 3 slots, CONCACAF and CONMEBOL received 2 slots each, and the OFC received 1 slot.^[1]

Means of qualification	Date(s)[a]	Venue(s)[a]	Berth(s)	Qualified
Host nation	—	—	1	France
2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship	18 June – 3 July 2022	Honduras	2	United States  Dominican Republic
2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship	21 June – 8 July 2023	Georgia Romania	3	Spain Israel Ukraine
2023 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations	24 June – 8 July 2023	Morocco	3	Morocco  Egypt  Mali
2023 OFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament	27 August – 9 September 2023	New Zealand	1	New Zealand
2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	20 January – 11 February 2024	Venezuela	2	Paraguay  Argentina
2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup	15 April – 3 May 2024	Qatar	3	Japan  Uzbekistan  Iraq
AFC–CAF play-off	9 May 2024	France	1	Guinea
Total			16

Notes

1. Dates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments); various qualification stages may precede these matches.

2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship

Main article: 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship

The semi-final winners qualified.^[2]

Knockout stage

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

25 June – Tegucigalpa

United States

5

28 June – San Pedro Sula (Morazán)

Nicaragua

0

United States

2

25 June – San Pedro Sula (Y. Rosenthal)

Costa Rica

0

Costa Rica

4

1 July – San Pedro Sula (Morazán)

Trinidad and Tobago

1

United States

3

25 June – Tegucigalpa

Honduras

0

Cuba

0

28 June – San Pedro Sula (Morazán)

Panama

1

Panama

1

25 June – San Pedro Sula (Y. Rosenthal)

Honduras

2

Honduras

4

3 July – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico M.)

Curaçao

1

United States

6

26 June – Tegucigalpa

Dominican Republic

0

El Salvador

4

29 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico M.)

Dominican Republic

5

Dominican Republic

1

26 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico M.)

Jamaica

0

Haiti

1

1 July – San Pedro Sula (Morazán)

Jamaica

2

Dominican Republic (p)

2 (4)

26 June – Tegucigalpa

Guatemala

2 (2)

Guatemala (p)

1 (4)

29 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico M.)

Canada

1 (3)

Guatemala (p)

1 (2)

26 June – San Pedro Sula (Olímpico M.)

Mexico

1 (1)

Mexico

6

Puerto Rico

0

2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Main article: 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

The top three eligible teams (not including England and Olympic hosts France) qualified.^[3]
England would have qualified as winners of the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. However, an English team cannot participate in Olympic qualification for Great Britain due to there being no agreements between the associations of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.^[4]

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	1 July – Boris Paichadze Stadium
	Georgia	0 (3)
					5 July – Adjarabet Arena
	Israel (p)	0 (4)
					Israel	0
	2 July – Ramaz Shengelia Stadium
					England	3
	England	1
									8 July – Adjarabet Arena
	Portugal	0
									England	1
	1 July – Stadionul Rapid-Giulești
									Spain	0
	Spain (a.e.t.)	2
					5 July – Stadionul Steaua
	Switzerland	1
					Spain	5
	2 July – Cluj Arena
					Ukraine	1
	France	1
	Ukraine	3

2023 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations

Main article: 2023 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations

The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the knockout stage. The winners of the semi-finals and the third-place match qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics.^[5] The loser of the third-place match advanced to the AFC–CAF play-off match.

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	4 July – Rabat
	Morocco (p)	2 (4)
					8 July – Rabat
	Mali	2 (3)
					Morocco (a.e.t.)	2
	4 July – Tangier
					Egypt	1
	Egypt	1
	Guinea	0
					Third-place match
					7 July – Tangier
					Mali (p)	0 (4)
					Guinea	0 (3)

2023 OFC Men's Olympic qualifying tournament

Main article: 2023 OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

New Zealand qualified after defeating Fiji in the final.^[6]

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	6 September – Auckland
	New Zealand	8
					9 September – Auckland
	Vanuatu	0
					New Zealand	9
	6 September – Auckland
					Fiji	0
	Solomon Islands	0
	Fiji	3

2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament

Main article: 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament

Teams were drawn into two groups of five teams each and played a single round-robin stage. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to a final single round-robin stage, with the top two teams qualifying for the Olympics.^[7] All ten nations entered the competition.^[8]

Group stage

Group A	Group B
Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1  Brazil 4 9 2  Venezuela (H) 4 8 3  Ecuador 4 7 4  Bolivia 4 4 5  Colombia 4 0 Source: CONMEBOL (H) Hosts	Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1  Argentina 4 8 2  Paraguay 4 7 3  Chile 4 6 4  Uruguay 4 4 5  Peru 4 3 Source: CONMEBOL

Final stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	Pts
1	Paraguay (C)	3	7
2	Argentina	3	5
3	Brazil	3	3
4	Venezuela (H)	3	1

Source: CONMEBOL
(C) Champions;
(H) Hosts

2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup

Main article: 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup

Fifteen teams joined the hosts Qatar to play in four groups of single-leg league format matches. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the knockout stage, and the winners of the semi-final matches and the third-place match qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The loser of the third-place match advanced to the AFC–CAF play-off match.

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	25 April – Al Rayyan (JBHS)
	Qatar	2
					29 April – Al Rayyan (JBHS)
	Japan (a.e.t.)	4
					Japan	2
	26 April – Al Wakrah
					Iraq	0
	Iraq	1
									3 May – Al Rayyan (JBHS)
	Vietnam	0
									Japan	1
	25 April – Doha
									Uzbekistan	0
	South Korea	2 (10)
					29 April – Doha
	Indonesia (p)	2 (11)
					Indonesia	0
	26 April – Al Rayyan (KIS)
					Uzbekistan	2			Third place play-off
	Uzbekistan	2
									2 May – Doha
	Saudi Arabia	0
									Iraq (a.e.t.)	2
									Indonesia	1

AFC–CAF play-off

This section shows the match contested between the 4th-placed teams of the qualification tournaments of Asia and Africa, as both confederations had three and one-half spots at the 2024 Olympic Football Tournament in Paris. The play-off was the 4th-placed team from Africa, Guinea, versus the 4th-placed team from Asia, Indonesia. The match was won by Guinea, and thus Indonesia failed to enter the tournament for the first time since the 1956 Summer Olympics.

9 May 2024 (2024-05-09)

15:00 UTC+2

Indonesia	0–1	Guinea
	Report	Moriba 29' (pen.)

INF Clairefontaine, Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, France

Referee: François Letexier (France)

Guinea advanced to group A of the Olympic men's football tournament.