Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

The schedule was 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. ==Venues==

Each team had to submit a squad of eighteen 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 could 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. ;Notes ==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. 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 played 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 was determined as follows: • Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat); • Goal difference in all group matches; • Number of goals scored in all group matches; • Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question; • Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question; • Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question; • Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match): • Drawing of lots. Group A ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- Group C ---- ---- Group D ---- ---- ==Knockout stage==

In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner. Bracket Quarter-finals ---- ---- ---- Semi-finals ---- Bronze medal match Gold medal match ==Statistics==