Beach volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
The men's beach volleyball event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, was held at the Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre located at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex.
Medalists
Pool play
The 24 competing teams were split equally into six pools of four, and each team played each of the other teams in their pool a best of three set match.The teams in each pool were ranked first through fourth based on the number of matches won, W. In the event of a two-way tie, the winning team in the head-to-head match finished ahead. In a three-team tie, the total number of points each team won and lost during all matches involving only the three tied teams were added up, and the bottom-ranked team of the three was decided by the points for to points against ratio; the other two teams were then ranked according to the outcome of the head-to-head match. The top two teams from each pool and the four best third placed teams, set ratio SF/SA; and third progressed through to the round of sixteen.
Two points were awarded for each match win and one point was given for each loss.
In individual matches, all winners are shown in bold.
In group tables advancing teams are highlighted.
Pool A
August 15August 17
August 19
Pool B
August 15August 17
August 19
Pool C
August 15August 17
August 19
Pool D
August 14August 16
August 18
Pool E
August 14August 16
August 18
Pool F
The Greek pair of Pavlos Beligratis and Athanasios Michalopoulos had to withdraw from their final group game after Beligratis incurred an injury, this gave their opponents Mariano Baracetti and Martín Conde a 21–0, 21–0 straight sets victory.| Team | P: | W: | L: | SF: | SA: | PF: | PA: | Pts: |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 133 | 70 | 6 | |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 130 | 134 | 5 | |
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 124 | 126 | 4 | |
| 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 85 | 144 | 2 |
August 14
August 16
August 18
Playoffs
Round of 16
20 August21 August
Quarter-Finals
August 22Semi-Finals
August 23Bronze medal match
August 25This was Switzerland's first medal in beach volleyball.
Gold Medal match
August 25This was Brazil's first gold medal in men's beach volleyball.
Final ranking
| RANK | ATHLETE NAMES | COUNTRY | SEED |
| Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos | 1 | ||
| Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera | 15 | ||
| Patrick Heuscher and Stefan Kobel | 5 | ||
| 4. | Julien Prosser and Mark Williams | 17 | |
| 5. | Martin Laciga and Paul Laciga | 3 | |
| 5. | Christoph Dieckmann and Andreas Scheuerpflug | 11 | |
| 5. | Dax Holdren and Stein Metzger | 12 | |
| 5. | John Child and Mark Heese | 20 | |
| 9. | Márcio Araújo and Benjamin Insfran | 2 | |
| 9. | Markus Dieckmann and Jonas Reckermann | 4 | |
| 9. | Mariano Baracetti and Martín Conde | 7 | |
| 9. | Vegard Høidalen and Jørre Kjemperud | 9 | |
| 9. | Andrew Schacht and Joshua Slack | 13 | |
| 9. | Björn Berg and Simon Dahl | 16 | |
| 9. | João Brenha and Miguel Maia | 18 | |
| 9. | Colin Pocock and Gershon Rorich | 19 | |
| 17. | Nikolas Berger and Florian Gosch | 10 | |
| 17. | Francisco Álvarez and Juan Rossell | 14 | |
| 19. | Pavlos Beligratis and Athanasios Michalopoulos | 6 | |
| 19. | Dain Blanton and Jeff Nygaard | 8 | |
| 19. | Ramon Hernández and Raúl Papaleo | 21 | |
| 19. | Peter Gartmayer and Robert Nowotny | 22 | |
| 19. | Stéphane Canet and Mathieu Hamel | 23 | |
| 19. | Iver Horrem and Bjørn Maaseide | 24 |