Goalball at the 2024 Summer Paralympics

Both men's and women's tournaments used to qualify ten teams each for the 2020 Summer Paralympics.^[3] On 19 November 2021, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced that during the 2024 Summer Paralympics, all the team sports would only have eight participating teams for both men and women.^[4] This reduced the round-robin games of two events from 40 to 24 games.^[5]

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host country allocation	—N/a	—N/a	1	France
2022 Goalball World Championships[6]	5 – 17 December 2022	Matosinhos	2	Brazil  China
IBSA World Games[7]	18–27 August 2023	Birmingham	1	Japan
IBSA Asia-Pacific Championships[8]	10–19 November 2023	Hangzhou	1	Iran[9]
2023 Parapan American Games[10]	17 – 23 November 2023	Santiago	1	United States
IBSA European Championships[11]	6–17 December 2023	Podgorica	1	Ukraine
IBSA Africa Championships[12]	8–15 December 2023	Cairo	1	Egypt
Total			8

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host country allocation	—N/a	—N/a	1	France
2022 Goalball World Championships[6]	5 – 17 December 2022	Matosinhos	2	South Korea  Turkey
IBSA World Games[7]	18–27 August 2023	Birmingham	2	China  Brazil
IBSA Asia-Pacific Championships	10–19 November 2023	Hangzhou	1	Japan[9]
2023 Parapan American Games[10]	17 – 23 November 2023	Santiago	1	Canada
IBSA European Championships[11]	6–17 December 2023	Podgorica	1	Israel
Total			8

The eight men's teams were divided into two equal groups for a single round robin group stage. The top four teams of each group advanced to the quarter finals. All matches in the second stage were knock-out format.

Group A: Brazil, Iran, USA, France.

Group B: China, Ukraine, Egypt, Japan.^[13]

The eight women's teams were divided into two equal groups for a single round robin group stage. The top four teams of each group advanced to the quarter finals. All matches in the second stage were knock-out format.

Group C: Türkiye, Israel, China, Brazil.

Group D: South Korea, Canada, France, Japan.^[13]