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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) |
Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics | ||
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Qualification | ||
men | women | |
Tournament | ||
men | women | |
Squads | ||
men | women | |
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]
Qualification
The following 16 teams qualified for the 2004 Olympics football tournament.
Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified |
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Host nation | 1 | ![]() |
2004 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship | 3 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
AFC Preliminary Competition | 3 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
CAF Preliminary Competition | 4 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition | 2 | ![]() ![]() |
2004 CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 | ![]() ![]() |
OFC Preliminary Competition | 1 | ![]() |
Total | 16 |
Venues
- Olympic Stadium, Athens
- Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
- Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion
- Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras
- Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki
- Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos
Athens | Patras | ||
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Olympic Stadium | Pampeloponnisiako Stadium | ||
Capacity: 71,030 | Capacity: 23,558 | ||
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Piraeus | Thessaloniki | ||
Karaiskakis Stadium | Kaftanzoglio Stadium | ||
Capacity: 33,334 | Capacity: 27,770 | ||
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Heraklion | Volos | ||
Pankritio Stadium | Panthessaliko Stadium | ||
Capacity: 26,240 | Capacity: 22,700 | ||
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Match officials
- North and Central America
- South America
- Europe
- Oceania
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 |
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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 ![]() |
Report |
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 |