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]

2004 Men's Olympic Football Tournament
Tournament details
Host countryGreece
Dates11 – 28 August
Teams16 (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 played32
Goals scored101 (3.16 per match)
Attendance401,415 (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 qualificationBerthsQualified
Host nation1 Greece
AFC Preliminary Competition3 Iraq
 Japan
 South Korea
CAF Preliminary Competition4 Ghana
 Mali
 Morocco
 Tunisia
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition2 Mexico (winner)
 Costa Rica (runner-up)
2004 CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament2 Argentina (winner)
 Paraguay (runner-up)
OFC Preliminary Competition1 Australia
2004 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship3 Italy (winner)
 Serbia and Montenegro (runner-up)
Portugal (third-place)
Total16

Match officials

Seeding
Pot 1: Europe Pot 2: Americas Pot 3: Africa Pot 4: Asia and Oceania

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:
South Korea 2–2 Greece
Kim Dong-jin  43'
Vyntra  64' (o.g.)		 Report Taralidis  78'
Papadopoulos  82' (pen.)
Attendance: 25,152
Mali 0–0 Mexico
Report
Attendance: 10,104
South Korea 1–0 Mexico
Kim Jung-woo  16' Report
Attendance: 14,026
Greece 0–2 Mali
Report Berthe  2'
N'Diaye  45'
Attendance: 17,123
South Korea 3–3 Mali
Cho Jae-jin  57', 59'
Tamboura  64' (o.g.)		 Report N'Diaye  7', 24', 55'
Attendance: 3,320
Referee: Éric Poulat (France)
Greece 2–3 Mexico
Taralidis  82' (pen.)
Stoltidis  90+3'		 Report Márquez  47'
Bravo  70', 86'
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:
Paraguay 4–3 Japan
Giménez  5'
Cardozo  26', 37'
Torres  62'		 Report Ono  22' (pen.), 53' (pen.)
Ōkubo  81'
Attendance: 5,381
Ghana 2–2 Italy
Pappoe  36'
Appiah  45+1'		 Report Pinzi  49'
Gilardino  83'
Attendance: 7,012
Paraguay 1–2 Ghana
Gamarra  76' Report Tiero  81'
Appiah  84'
Attendance: 1,119
Japan 2–3 Italy
Abe  21'
Takamatsu  90+1'		 Report De Rossi  3'
Gilardino  8', 36'
Attendance: 9,487
Paraguay 1–0 Italy
Bareiro  14' Report
Attendance: 24,160
Japan 1–0 Ghana
Ōkubo  37' Report
Attendance: 6,813

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:
Tunisia 1–1 Australia
Zitouni  69' Report Aloisi  45'
Attendance: 15,757
Argentina 6–0 Serbia and Montenegro
Delgado  11'
C. González  17'
Tevez  42', 43'
Heinze  74'
Rosales  77'		 Report
Attendance: 14,675
Serbia and Montenegro 1–5 Australia
Radonjić  72' Report Cahill  11'
Aloisi  45+1', 57'
Elrich  60', 86'
Attendance: 8,857
Argentina 2–0 Tunisia
Tevez  39'
Saviola  72'		 Report
Attendance: 5,112
Referee: Éric Poulat (France)
Argentina 1–0 Australia
D'Alessandro  9' Report
Attendance: 26,338
Serbia and Montenegro 2–3 Tunisia
Krasić  70'
Vukčević  87'		 Report Clayton  41'
Jedidi  83' (pen.)
Zitouni  89'
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:
Costa Rica 0–0 Morocco
Report
Attendance: 3,212
Iraq 4–2 Portugal
E. Mohammed  16'
H. Mohammed  29'
Mahmoud  56'
Sadir  90+3'		 Report Jabar  13' (o.g.)
Bosingwa  45'
Attendance: 5,689
Referee: Divine Evehe (Cameroon)
Costa Rica 0–2 Iraq
Report H. Mohammed  67'
Karim  72'
Attendance: 12,150
Referee: Charles Ariiotima (Tahiti)
Morocco 1–2 Portugal
Bouden  85' Report Ronaldo  40'
R. Costa  73'
Attendance: 7,581
Morocco 2–1 Iraq
Bouden  69' (pen.)
Aqqal  77'		 Report Sadir  63'
Attendance: 4,019
Costa Rica 4–2 Portugal
Villalobos  50'
Meira  68' (o.g.)
Saborío  71'
Brenes  90+1'		 Report Almeida  29'
Ribeiro  54'
Attendance: 11,218

Knockout stage
 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsGold medal match
 
          
 
21 August – Athens Karaiskakis
 
 
 Mali0
 
24 August – Athens Karaiskakis
 
 Italy1
 
 Italy0
 
21 August – Patras
 
 Argentina3
 
 Argentina4
 
28 August – Athens Olympic
 
 Costa Rica0
 
 Argentina1
 
21 August – Heraklion
 
 Paraguay0
 
 Iraq1
 
24 August – Thessaloniki
 
 Australia0
 
 Iraq1
 
21 August – Thessaloniki
 
 Paraguay3 Bronze medal match
 
 Paraguay3
 
27 August – Thessaloniki
 
 South Korea2
 
 Italy1
 
 
 Iraq0
 

Quarter-finals
Mali 0–1 (a.e.t.) Italy
Report Bovo  116'
Attendance: 27,543
Iraq 1–0 Australia
E. Mohammed  64' Report
Attendance: 10,023
Argentina 4–0 Costa Rica
Delgado  24'
Tevez  43', 82', 83'		 Report
Attendance: 9,929
Paraguay 3–2 South Korea
Bareiro  19', 71'
Cardozo  61'		 Report Lee Chun-soo  74', 79' (pen.)
Attendance: 4,080

Semi-finals
Italy 0–3 Argentina
Report Tevez  16'
Lucho González  69'
M. González  84'
Attendance: 30,910
Iraq 1–3 Paraguay
Farhan  83' Report Cardozo  17', 34'
Bareiro  68'
Attendance: 6,213
Referee: Éric Poulat (France)

Bronze medal match
Italy 1–0 Iraq
Gilardino  8' Report
Attendance: 5,203

Gold medal match
Argentina 1–0 Paraguay
Tevez  18' Report
Attendance: 41,116

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:

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.

8 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goals

References
  1. "Football at the 2004 Athens Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
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