Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament


The men's football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics was to be held from 23 July to 8 August 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the games have been postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021. However, their official name remains 2020 Summer Olympics with the rescheduled 2021 dates have yet to be announced. It will be the 27th edition of the men's Olympic football tournament. Together with the women's competition, the 2020 Summer Olympics football tournament will be held in six cities in Japan, including Olympic host city Tokyo. The final will be hosted at the International Stadium in Yokohama. Teams participating in the men's competition are restricted to under-24 players with a maximum of three overage players allowed. The men's tournament is typically restricted to under-23 players, though following the postponement of the Olympics by a year, FIFA decided to maintain the restriction of players born on or after 1 January 1997.
Brazil are the defending champions.

Competition schedule

The match schedule of the men's tournament as of 5 December 2018.
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Qualification

In addition to host nation Japan, 15 men's national teams will qualify from six separate continental confederations. The Organising Committee for FIFA Competitions ratified the distribution of spots at their meeting on 14 September 2017.

Venues

The tournament will be held in six venues across six cities:
The men's tournament is an international tournament with restrictions on age: players must be born on or after 1 January 1997, with three overage players allowed for each squad in the final tournament. Each team has to submit a squad of 18 players, two of whom must be goalkeepers. Each team can also name a list of four alternate players, who can replace any player in the squad in case of injury during the tournament.

Draw

The 16 teams will be drawn into four groups of four teams. The hosts Japan are automatically seeded into Pot 1 and assigned to position A1, while the remaining teams are seeded into their respective pots based on their results in the last five Olympics, with bonus points awarded to confederation champions. No group can contain more than one team from each confederation.

Group stage

The competing countries will be divided into four groups of four teams, denoted as groups A, B, C and D. Teams in each group will play one another in a round-robin basis, with the top two teams of each group advancing to the [|quarter-finals].
All times are local, JST.

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in the group stage is determined as follows:
  1. Points obtained in all group matches ;
  2. Goal difference in all group matches;
  3. Number of goals scored in all group matches;
  4. Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
  5. Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
  6. Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
  7. Fair play points in all group matches :
  8. Drawing of lots.

    Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.

Bracket

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Goalscorers