2000 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament explained

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]

Qualification

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.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

ZoneCountryMethod of qualificationAppearance1Last appearancePrevious best performancewidth=10%Previous Olympic appearances
(last)
North America (hosts)Automatic 6th1992
Third round – Group A winners4th1996Runners-up (1984, 1996)

(title holders)
Third round – Group B winners7th1996Winners (1964, 1972, 1976, 1988, 1996)
Central AmericaThird round – Group A runners-up5th1988Winners (1968)
Third round – Group B runners-up2nd1992
Third round – Group C winners2nd1964Fourth place (1964)

1 Only final tournament.

Venue

The matches were played in Hershey.[3]

Hershey
Hersheypark Stadium
Capacity: 16,000

Squads

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]

Final round

Group D

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Group E

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Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals

The semi-final winners qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Final

Qualified teams for Summer Olympics

The following two teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics.

TeamQualified ondata-sort-type="number"Previous appearances in Summer Olympics1
(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.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: HONDURAS DEFEATS USA IN FINAL MATCH OF OLYMPIC QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT. CONCACAF. 30 April 2000. https://web.archive.org/web/20000619092031/http://concacaf.reol.net/press/article.phtml?id=press390cb5580cad9. 19 June 2000.
  2. Web site: Honduras overtakes U.S. 2-1 in meaningless final. SoccerTimes.com. 30 April 2000. https://web.archive.org/web/20130510200731/http://www.soccertimes.com/usteams/2000/games/apr30.htm. 10 May 2013.
  3. Web site: Galaxy Trio Among 25 in U.S. Pool. Los Angeles Times. 22 March 2000.
  4. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20130509211603/http://www.soccertimes.com/usteams/2000/apr07.htm . 9 May 2013 . Charles picks final 18 for qualifying tourney. . soccertimes.com . 7 April 2000 . 9 August 2021 .