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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 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)Argentina Carlos Tevez
(8 goals)
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Qualification edit

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

Match officials edit

Africa
Asia
North and Central America
South America
Europe
Oceania

Seeding edit

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

Group stage edit

  • Teams highlighted in green went through to the knockout stage.

Group A edit

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]
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

Group B edit

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]
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 edit

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]
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

Group D edit

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]
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 Haidar   13' (o.g.)
Bosingwa   45'
Attendance: 5,689
Costa Rica  0–2  Iraq
Report H. Mohammed   67'
Karim   72'
Attendance: 12,150
Morocco  1–2  Portugal
Bouden   85' Report C. 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 edit

 
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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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

Gold medal match edit

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

Source for cards:[2]

Final ranking edit

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 edit

Goalscorers edit

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

References edit

  1. ^ "Football at the 2004 Athens Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Torneo Olímpico de Fútbol • 28 Aug 2004 • 04:00 • Olympic Stadium" (in Spanish). FIFA. Retrieved 26 December 2022.

External links edit

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