Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
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Tournament details | |
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Host country | United States |
Dates | July 20 – August 3 |
Teams | 16 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 5 (in 5 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Third place | ![]() |
Fourth place | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 90 (2.81 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() ![]() (6 goals each) |
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Qualification | ||
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Tournament | ||
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The 1996 Men's Olympic Football Tournament, played as part of the 1996 Summer Olympics, was hosted in Birmingham, Alabama, Washington, D.C., Orlando, Florida, Miami, Florida and Athens, Georgia.[1][2][3][4] From 1992 onwards, male competitors should be under 23 years old and starting from this tournament, a maximum of three over-23 players are allowed per squad. The tournament featured 16 national teams from the six continental confederations. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four and each group played a round-robin tournament. 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 gold medal match at Sanford Stadium on August 3, 1996.[5]
Competition schedule
[edit]The match schedule of the tournament.[6]
G | Group stage | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
20 Sat | 21 Sun | 22 Mon | 23 Tue | 24 Wed | 25 Thu | 26 Fri | 27 Sat | 28 Sun | 29 Lun | 30 Tue | 31 Wed | 1 Thu | 2 Fri | 3 Sat |
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G | G | G | G | G | G | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | ½ | B | F |
Venues
[edit]Athens, Georgia | Birmingham, Alabama | Miami, Florida | ||||
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Sanford Stadium | Legion Field | Orange Bowl | ||||
Capacity: 86,100 | Capacity: 81,700 | Capacity: 74,476 | ||||
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Orlando, Florida | Washington, D.C. | |||||
Citrus Bowl | Robert F. Kennedy Stadium | |||||
Capacity: 65,000 | Capacity: 56,500 | |||||
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Qualification
[edit]The following 16 teams qualified for the 1996 Olympic men's football tournament:
Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified |
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Host nation | 1 | ![]() |
1996 CONCACAF Preliminary Competition | 1 | ![]() |
1996 AFC Preliminary Competition | 3 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
1996 CAF Preliminary Competition | 3 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
1996 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 | ![]() ![]() |
CONCACAF–OFC play-off | 1 | ![]() |
1996 UEFA European Under-21 Championship | 5 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Total | 16 |
Match officials
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Seeding
[edit]The draw for the tournament took place on 5 May 1996. The United States, Spain, Ghana and Brazil were seeded for the draw and placed into groups A–D, respectively. The remaining teams, excluding those from Europe, were drawn away from teams of the same region.
Pot 1: Host, Top-Seeded teams from Africa, Europe and South America | Pot 2: Asia, Non-top seeded team from South America | Pot 3: Non-top seeded teams from Europe | Pot 4: Non-top seeded teams from Africa and North America, Inter-continental playoff winner |
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1 1996 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament Champions, team not determined at time of draw.
2 CONCACAF–OFC play-off winner, team not determined at time of draw.
Squads
[edit]Group stage
[edit]Group A
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 5 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 5 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 1 |
Argentina ![]() | 1–1 | ![]() |
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Ortega ![]() |
Report | Nuno Gomes ![]() |
United States ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
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Kirovski ![]() Maisonneuve ![]() |
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United States ![]() | 1–1 | ![]() |
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Maisonneuve ![]() |
Report | Paulo Alves ![]() |
Group B
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 7 |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 7 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 |
Spain ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
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Óscar ![]() |
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Australia ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
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Tsekenis ![]() Viduka ![]() |
Report | Al-Khilaiwi ![]() |
Group C
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 5 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 |
South Korea ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
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Yoon Jong-hwan ![]() |
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Mexico ![]() | 0–0 | ![]() |
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Italy ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
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Branca ![]() |
Report | Lee Ki-hyung ![]() |
Group D
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 6 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 6 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 0 |
Knockout stage
[edit]Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | ||||||||
July 27 – Miami, FL | ||||||||||
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July 30 – Athens, GA | ||||||||||
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July 27 – Birmingham, AL | ||||||||||
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August 3 – Athens, GA | ||||||||||
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July 28 – Birmingham, AL | ||||||||||
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July 31 – Athens, GA | ||||||||||
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July 28 – Miami, FL | ||||||||||
![]() | 3 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
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August 2 – Athens, GA | ||||||||||
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Quarter-finals
[edit]Mexico ![]() | 0–2 | ![]() |
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Report | Okocha ![]() C. Babayaro ![]() |
Semi-finals
[edit]Nigeria ![]() | 4–3 (a.e.t./g.g.) | ![]() |
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Roberto Carlos ![]() Ikpeba ![]() Kanu ![]() ![]() |
Report | Flávio ![]() Bebeto ![]() |
Bronze medal match
[edit]Gold medal match
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Final ranking
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | ![]() |
6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 15 |
2 | ![]() |
6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | +7 | 11 |
3 | ![]() |
6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 8 | +8 | 12 |
4 | ![]() |
6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | −4 | 8 |
5 | ![]() |
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 7 |
6 | ![]() |
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | −2 | 7 |
7 | ![]() |
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 5 |
8 | ![]() |
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 4 |
9 | ![]() |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
10 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
11 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
12 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 |
13 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |
14 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 1 |
15 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 |
16 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 0 |
Goalscorers
[edit]With six goals, Hernán Crespo of Argentina and Bebeto of Brazil are the top scorers of the tournament. In total, 90 goals were scored by 55 different players, with four of them credited as own goals.
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Gustavo Adrián López
Diego Simeone
Peter Tsekenis
Mark Viduka
Juninho
Sylvain Legwinski
Robert Pirès
Antoine Sibierski
Felix Aboagye
Augustine Ahinful
Charles Akonnor
Ebenezer Hagan
Tamás Sándor
Teruyoshi Itō
Kenichi Uemura
José Manuel Abundis
Francisco Palencia
Daniel Amokachi
Emmanuel Amunike
Victor Ikpeba
Paulo Alves
José Calado
Capucho
Nuno Gomes
Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi
Fuad Anwar Amin
Lee Ki-hyung
Yoon Jong-hwan
Santi
Mohamed Mkacher
Jovan Kirovski
Claudio Reyna
- Own goals
Roberto Carlos (playing against Nigeria)
Afo Dodoo (playing against Brazil)
Tadahiro Akiba (playing against Nigeria)
Agustín Aranzábal (playing against Argentina)
References
[edit]- ^ "The inside story of Nigeria's Atlanta '96 gold medal – SuperSport – Football". SuperSport. July 25, 2012. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
- ^ Penner, Mike (August 1, 1996). "Defense Rests for a Stunned Brazil – Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
- ^ Penner, Mike (August 4, 1996). "Nigeria's Eagles Catch Argentina in Its Own Trap – Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
- ^ "Soccer : Results : Men's Competition Notebook". Usatoday30.usatoday.com. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
- ^ "Football at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved November 3, 2018.
- ^ "Soccer : Results : Men's Competition Notebook". Usatoday30.usatoday.com. Retrieved December 7, 2013.