Tourney Name: | CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament |
Year: | 2000 |
Country: | United States |
Num Teams: | 6 |
Confederations: | 1 |
Venues: | 1 |
Cities: | 1 |
Count: | 1 |
Matches: | 15 |
Goals: | 24 |
Top Scorer: | Carlos Ruiz David Suazo Joaquín Beltrán Chris Albright Josh Wolff |
Prevseason: | 1996 |
Nextseason: | 2004 |
The 2000 CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament was the tenth edition of the CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial, international, age-restricted football tournament organized by CONCACAF to determine which men's under-23 national teams from the North, Central America and Caribbean region qualify for the Olympic football tournament. It was held in the United States, from 21 and 30 April 2000.
Honduras won the tournament with a 2–1 final win over the United States.[1] As the top two teams, Honduras and the United States qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Australia as CONCACAF representatives.[2]
See main article: 2000 CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament qualification. All 41 CONCACAF nations entered the competition, and with the hosts United States qualifying automatically, the other 40 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining five spots in the final tournament.
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Zone | Country | Method of qualification | Appearance1 | Last appearance | Previous best performance | width=10% | Previous Olympic appearances (last) |
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North America | (hosts) | Automatic | 6th | 1992 | |||
Third round – Group A winners | 4th | 1996 | Runners-up (1984, 1996) | ||||
(title holders) | Third round – Group B winners | 7th | 1996 | Winners (1964, 1972, 1976, 1988, 1996) | |||
Central America | Third round – Group A runners-up | 5th | 1988 | Winners (1968) | |||
Third round – Group B runners-up | 2nd | 1992 | |||||
Third round – Group C winners | 2nd | 1964 | Fourth place (1964) |
1 Only final tournament.
The matches were played in Hershey.[3]
Hershey | |
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Hersheypark Stadium | |
Capacity: 16,000 | |
See main article: 2000 CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament squads. Each team has to submit a list of 18-man (two players have to be goalkeepers).[4]
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The semi-final winners qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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The following two teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Team | Qualified on | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances in Summer Olympics1 |
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(1904, 1924, 1928, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1972, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996) | |||
(debut) |
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.