Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
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 | Nigeria (1st title) |
Runners-up | Argentina |
Third place | Brazil |
Fourth place | Portugal |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 90 (2.81 per match) |
Top scorer(s) |
Bebeto Hernán Crespo (6 goals each) |
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. 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.
Competition schedule
The match schedule of the tournament.
G | Group stage | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | 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
Orlando | Birmingham | Miami | |||
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Citrus Bowl | Legion Field | Orange Bowl | |||
Capacity: 65,000 | Capacity: 81,700 | Capacity: 74,476 | |||
Athens | Washington, D.C. | ||||
Sanford Stadium | Robert F. Kennedy Stadium | ||||
Capacity: 86,100 | Capacity: 56,500 | ||||
Qualification
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 | United States |
1996 CONCACAF Preliminary Competition | 1 | Mexico (winner) |
1996 AFC Preliminary Competition | 3 |
South Korea (winner) Japan (runner-up) Saudi Arabia (third-place) |
1996 CAF Preliminary Competition | 3 |
Ghana Tunisia Nigeria |
1996 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 |
Brazil (winner) Argentina (runner-up) |
CONCACAF–OFC play-off | 1 | Australia |
1996 UEFA European Under-21 Championship | 5 |
Italy (winner) Spain (runner-up) France (third-place) Hungary (5th) Portugal (6th) |
Total | 16 |
Match officials
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Seeding
The draw for the tournament took place on 5 May 1996. United States, Spain, Ghana and Brazil were seeded for the draw and placed into groups A–D, respectively. The remaining teams, excluding Europe, were drawn from four pots away from teams from 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
Group stage
Group A
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Argentina | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 5 |
Portugal | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 5 |
United States | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Tunisia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 1 |
Argentina | 1–1 | Portugal |
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Ortega 45' | Report | Nuno Gomes 70' |
United States | 2–0 | Tunisia |
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Kirovski
38' Maisonneuve 90' |
Report |
United States | 1–1 | Portugal |
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Maisonneuve 75' | Report | Paulo Alves 33' |
Group B
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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France | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 7 |
Spain | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 7 |
Australia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |
Saudi Arabia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 |
Spain | 1–0 | Saudi Arabia |
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Óscar 80' | Report |
Australia | 2–1 | Saudi Arabia |
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Tsekenis
11' Viduka 63' |
Report | Al-Khilaiwi 37' |
Group C
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Mexico | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 5 |
Ghana | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
South Korea | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Italy | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 |
South Korea | 1–0 | Ghana |
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Yoon Jong-hwan 41' (pen.) | Report |
Mexico | 0–0 | South Korea |
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Report |
Ghana | 3–2 | Italy |
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Saba
15', 74' Ahinful 63' (pen.) |
Report | Branca 8', 44' (pen.) |
Italy | 2–1 | South Korea |
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Branca 24', 82' | Report | Lee Ki-hyung 62' |
Group D
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Brazil | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 6 |
Nigeria | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 6 |
Japan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
Hungary | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 0 |
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | ||||||||
July 27 – Miami | ||||||||||
Portugal (asdet) | 2 | |||||||||
July 30 – Athens | ||||||||||
France | 1 | |||||||||
Portugal | 0 | |||||||||
July 27 – Birmingham | ||||||||||
Argentina | 2 | |||||||||
Argentina | 4 | |||||||||
August 3 – Athens | ||||||||||
Spain | 0 | |||||||||
Argentina | 2 | |||||||||
July 28 – Birmingham | ||||||||||
Nigeria | 3 | |||||||||
Mexico | 0 | |||||||||
July 31 – Athens | ||||||||||
Nigeria | 2 | |||||||||
Nigeria (asdet) | 4 | |||||||||
July 28 – Miami | ||||||||||
Brazil | 3 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
Brazil | 4 | |||||||||
August 2 – Athens | ||||||||||
Ghana | 2 | |||||||||
Portugal | 0 | |||||||||
Brazil | 5 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
Mexico | 0–2 | Nigeria |
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Report |
Okocha
20' C. Babayaro 84' |
Semi-finals
Nigeria | 4–3 (asdet) | Brazil |
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Roberto Carlos
20' (o.g.) Ikpeba 78' Kanu 90', 94' |
Report |
Flávio
1', 38' Bebeto 28' |
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Nigeria | 3–2 | Argentina |
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Babayaro
28' Amokachi 74' Amunike 90' |
Report |
C. López
3' Crespo 50' (pen.) |
Nigeria
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Argentina
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Final ranking
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | Nigeria (NGR) | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 15 |
2 | Argentina (ARG) | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | +7 | 11 |
3 | Brazil (BRA) | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 8 | +8 | 12 |
4 | Portugal (POR) | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | −4 | 8 |
5 | France (FRA) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 7 |
6 | Spain (ESP) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | −2 | 7 |
7 | Mexico (MEX) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 5 |
8 | Ghana (GHA) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 4 |
9 | Japan (JPN) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
10 | United States (USA) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
11 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
12 | Italy (ITA) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 |
13 | Australia (AUS) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |
14 | Tunisia (TUN) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 1 |
15 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 |
16 | Hungary (HUN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 0 |
Goalscorers
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
- Diego Simeone
- Gustavo Adrián López
- Mark Viduka
- Peter Tsekenis
- Juninho Paulista
- Antoine Sibierski
- Robert Pires
- Sylvain Legwinski
- Augustine Ahinful
- Charles Akonnor
- Ebenezer Hagan
- Felix Aboagye
- Tamás Sándor
- Kenichi Uemura
- Teruyoshi Ito
- Francisco Palencia
- José Manuel Abundis
- Daniel Amokachi
- Emmanuel Amunike
- Victor Ikpeba
- Nuno Capucho
- Nuno Gomes
- José Calado
- Paulo Alves
- Fuad Anwar Amin
- Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi
- Lee Ki-hyung
- Yoon Jong-hwan
- Santi
- Mohamed Mkacher
- Claudio Reyna
- Jovan Kirovski
- Own goals
- Roberto Carlos (playing against Nigeria)
- Afo Dodoo (playing against Brazil)
- Tadahiro Akiba (playing against Nigeria)
- Agustín Aranzábal (playing against Argentina)