Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

The following 16 teams qualified for the 2004 Olympics football tournament. ==Venues==

• Olympic Stadium, Athens • Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus • Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion • Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras • Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki • Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos ==Match officials==

;Africa • Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt) • Divine Evehe (Cameroon) ;Asia • Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh (Malaysia) ;North and Central America • Benito Archundia (Mexico) • Carlos Batres (Guatemala) ;South America • Horacio Elizondo (Argentina) • Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay) • Carlos Torres (Paraguay) ;Europe • Massimo De Santis (Italy) • Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark) • Éric Poulat (France) • Kyros Vassaras (Greece) ;Oceania • Charles Ariiotima (Tahiti) ==Seeding==

The draw for the tournament took place on 9 June 2004. Argentina, Greece, Japan and Morocco were seeded for the draw and placed into groups A–D, respectively. The remaining teams were drawn from four pots with teams from the same region kept apart. ==Group stage==

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Goalscorers With eight goals, Carlos Tevez of Argentina is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 101 goals were scored by 65 different players, with four of them credited as own goals. , key player and top scorer (8 goals) ;8 goals • Carlos Tevez ;5 goals • José Cardozo ;4 goals • Alberto Gilardino • Tenema N'Diaye • Fredy Bareiro ;3 goals • John Aloisi ;2 goals • César Delgado • Ahmad Elrich • Stephen Appiah • Giannis Taralidis • Emad Mohammed • Hawar Mulla Mohammed • Salih Sadir • Yoshito Ōkubo • Shinji Ono • Omar Bravo • Bouabid Bouden • Cho Jae-jin • Lee Chun-soo • Ali Zitouni ;1 goal • Andrés D'Alessandro • Gabriel Heinze • Kily González • Lucho González • Mariano González • Mauro Rosales • Javier Saviola • Tim Cahill • Pablo Brenes • Álvaro Saborío • José Villalobos • Emmanuel Pappoe • William Tiero • Dimitrios Papadopoulos • Ieroklis Stoltidis • Razzaq Farhan • Mahdi Karim • Younis Mahmoud • Cesare Bovo • Daniele De Rossi • Giampiero Pinzi • Yūki Abe • Daiki Takamatsu • Mamadi Berthe • Rafael Márquez Lugo • Salaheddine Aqqal • Carlos Gamarra • Pablo Giménez • Aureliano Torres • Hugo Almeida • José Bosingwa • Ricardo Costa • Jorge Ribeiro • Cristiano Ronaldo • Miloš Krasić • Srđan Radonjić • Simon Vukčević • Kim Dong-jin • Kim Jung-woo • José Clayton • Mohamed Jedidi ;Own goals • Loukas Vyntra (playing against South Korea) • Adama Tamboura (playing against South Korea) • Haidar Jabar (playing against Portugal) • Fernando Meira (playing against Costa Rica) ==References==