Olympics 2024 Men’s Football: Complete List of Teams, Groups, Schedule, Fixtures List, Venues - All You Need to Know

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The Olympics 2024 officially starts on July 26, but the football tournament starts on Wednesday (July 24).

The quadrennial event is set to be a major spectacle at the French capital and football is going to be a key part of the extravaganza.

The Olympic football tournament consists of 16 teams, and all the nations for the Men's Football tournament are now finalized. In a major shock, the Tokyo Olympics Gold medalists Brazil won't have a chance to defend their title as they haven't even qualified for the Paris Olympics.

Mexico, which won the bronze medal in Tokyo and clinched the gold medal at the London Olympics in 2012, didn't qualify for the prized event either. Last edition's beaten finalists and Silver medalists Spain will have an opportunity to better their record as they will be part of the tournament in Paris.

Paris Olympics 2024 Men's Football Tournament Qualified Teams

France is the automatic team as they are the hosts. Apart from them, three UEFA nations - Spain, Israel and Ukraine have qualified for the tournament. Africa does have three automatic berths and Morocco, Egypt and Mali are the teams who qualified for it, while Guinea has earned their spot after winning the AFC-CAF playoff.

Through the Concacaf U-20 Championship, the USA and the Dominican Republic will represent North & Central America. From South America, it will be Argentina and Paraguay who will be taking part in it.

New Zealand is the solitary Oceanian team, whereas Japan, Uzbekistan and Iraq complete the list of qualified nations for the Paris Olympics Men's Football extravaganza.

Olympics 2024 Football Venues

The matches will be played across 7 venues in France:

Stade de Marseille, Marseille (Capacity: 67,394)

Stade de Lyon, Lyon (Capacity: 59,186)

Parc des Princes, Paris (Capacity: 47,929)

Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (Capacity: 42,115)

Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Etienne (Capacity: 41,965)

Stade de Nice, Nice (Capacity: 36,178)

Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes (Capacity: 35,322)

Paris Olympics 2024: Men's Football Tournament Teams and Groups

Group A: France, USA, Guinea, New Zealand

Group B: Argentina, Morocco, Iraq, Ukraine

Group C: Uzbekistan, Spain, Egypt, Dominican Republic

Group D: Japan, Paraguay, Mali, Israel

Olympics 2024 Football Schedule

The matches will be played from July 24 and the Final is scheduled on August 9 at the Parc des Princes in Paris.

Olympics 2024 Men's Football Tournament Fixtures