Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

The men's football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics will be held from 24 July to 9 August 2024. It will be the 28th edition of the men's Olympic football tournament. Together with the women's competition, the 2024 Summer Olympics football tournament will be held at seven stadiums in seven cities in France. The final will be held at Parc des Princes in Paris. Teams participating in the men's competition will be restricted to under-23 players (born on or after 1 January 2001) with a maximum of three overage players allowed.

Schedule
The schedule is as follows.

Qualification
In addition to host nation France, fifteen men's national teams qualified from six separate continental confederations. The Organising Committee for FIFA Competitions ratified the distribution of spots at their meeting on 24 February 2022.

Squads
Each team had to submit a squad of 18 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers with at least fifteen born on or after 1 January 2001, and three who could be older dispensation players. Additionally, each team could also have a list of four alternate players, who might replace any player in the squad in case of injury during the tournament.

Match officials
On 3 April 2024, FIFA released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympics.

Draw
The draw for the groups was held on 20 March 2024, 20:00 CET (UTC+1), at the Pulse building in Saint-Denis, France. The sixteen teams were drawn into four groups of four teams each. The hosts France were automatically seeded into Pot 1 and placed into the first position of Group A, while the remaining teams were seeded into their respective pots based on their results in the last five Men’s Olympic Football Tournament (with more recent tournaments weighted more heavily), as follows:


 * 2004 Men’s Olympic Football Tournament: 20% value of total points;
 * 2008 Men’s Olympic Football Tournament: 40% value of total points;
 * 2012 Men’s Olympic Football Tournament: 60% value of total points;
 * 2016 Men’s Olympic Football Tournament: 80% value of total points;
 * 2020 Men’s Olympic Football Tournament: 100% value of total points.

Furthermore, five bonus points were added to each of the six continental champions from the qualifying tournaments.

Notes

The draw started with teams from pot one being drawn first and placed in the first position of their groups (hosts France automatically assigned to A1). Then were drawn the teams from pot 2, followed by pot 3 and pot 4, with each team also being drawn to one of the positions within their group, No group could contain more than one team from each confederation. The ceremony was hosted by the local presenter Fabien Leveque and conducted by FIFA's Director of Tournaments Jaime Yarza and Chief Women's Football Officer Sarai Bareman, with the former Argentine footballer Javier Saviola and French track and field legend athlete Marie-José Pérec as draw assistants.

The draw resulted in the following groups:

Notes

Group stage
The competing countries were divided into four groups of four teams, denoted as groups A, B, C and D. Teams in each group play one another in a round-robin basis, with the top two teams of each group advancing to the quarter-finals.

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Tiebreakers
The ranking of teams in the group stage will be determined as follows:


 * 1) Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat);
 * 2) Goal difference in all group matches;
 * 3) Number of goals scored in all group matches;
 * 4) Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
 * 5) Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
 * 6) Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
 * 7) Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):
 * 8) Drawing of lots.

Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.