Tourney Name: | CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament |
Year: | 2004 |
Country: | Mexico |
Dates: | 2–12 February |
Num Teams: | 8 |
Confederations: | 1 |
Venues: | 2 |
Cities: | 2 |
Count: | 5 |
Matches: | 16 |
Goals: | 53 |
Top Scorer: | Emil Martínez Bobby Convey Alecko Eskandarian |
Prevseason: | 2000 |
Nextseason: | 2008 |
The 2004 CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament was the eleventh edition of the CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial, international, age-restricted football tournament organised 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 Mexico, from 2 and 12 February 2004.[1]
Host nation, Mexico, won the title after a 1–0 win over Costa Rica in the final. As the top two teams, Mexico and Costa Rica both qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece as the CONCACAF representatives.[2]
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 | 8th | 2000 | Winners (1964, 1972, 1976, 1996) | 8 (1996) | |
Second round winners | 5th | 2000 | Runners-up (1984, 1996) | 3 (1984) | |||
Second round winners | 7th | 2000 | Winners (1988, 1992) | 13 (2000) | |||
Central America | Second round winners | 3rd | 2000 | Fourth place (1964) | 0 | ||
(title holders) | Second round winners | 3rd | 2000 | Winners (2000, 2008) | 1 (2000) | ||
Second round winners | 5th | 1996 | Winners (1980, 1984) | 2 (1984) | |||
Caribbean | Second round winners | 3rd | 1996 | Fourth place (1972, 1996) | 0 | ||
Second round winners | 4th | 1996 | Runners-up (1968) | 0 |
1 Only final tournament.
Two cities served as the venues for tournament.
Guadalajara | Zapopan | |
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Estadio Jalisco | Estadio Tres de Marzo | |
Capacity: 55,110 | Capacity: 18,779 | |
See main article: 2004 CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament squads.
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All match times listed are CDT (UTC−5), as listed by CONCACAF.
The semi-final winners qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics.----
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.
+ Best XI[3] | ||||||||
Goalkeeper | Defenders | Midfielders | Forwards | |||||
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valign=top | Adrián De Lemos | valign=top | Aarón Galindo Francisco Rodríguez Michael Umaña | valign=top | Bobby Convey Jose López López Diego Martínez Luis Ernesto Pérez | valign=top | Landon Donovan Rafael Márquez Lugo Emil Martínez |
The following two teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Team | Qualified on | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances in Summer Olympics1 |
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(1904, 1984) | |||
(1928, 1948, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1992, 1996) |
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.