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]
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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) |
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Qualification | ||
men | women | |
Tournament | ||
men | women | |
Squads | ||
men | women | |
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 | ||||||||
21 August – Athens Karaiskakis | ||||||||||
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24 August – Athens Karaiskakis | ||||||||||
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21 August – Patras | ||||||||||
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28 August – Athens Olympic | ||||||||||
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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
Pos | 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 |
11 | ![]() |
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.
- 8 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 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
Yuki 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)
References
- "Football at the 2004 Athens Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2018.