Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification
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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 | N/a | N/a | 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
- 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
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 (Francisco M.) | ||||||||||||||
 Nicaragua | 0 | |||||||||||||
| United States | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 25 June – San Pedro Sula (Yankel R.) | ||||||||||||||
 Costa Rica | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Costa Rica | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 1 July – San Pedro Sula (Francisco M.) | ||||||||||||||
 Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | |||||||||||||
| United States | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 25 June – Tegucigalpa | ||||||||||||||
| Honduras | 0 | |||||||||||||
 Cuba | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 28 June – San Pedro Sula (Francisco M.) | ||||||||||||||
 Panama | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Panama | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 25 June – San Pedro Sula (Yankel R.) | ||||||||||||||
| 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 (Francisco M.) | ||||||||||||||
| 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
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
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
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
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
Final stage
(C) Champions;
(H) Hosts
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.
Guinea advanced to group A of the Olympic men's football tournament.