See also: Algeria at the Olympics. Algeria have appeared in the finals of the Summer Olympics Football Tournament on two occasions in 1980 with the Algeria first team and in 2016 with Algeria U23 after opening olympic football tournament to U23 national teams since 1992.They have once qualified for the knockout rounds, reaching the quarter-finals in 1980 before losing to Yugoslavia.
| Olympic Games | Olympic Games Qualifications | ||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Result | Position | Squad | Result | |||||||||||||
 1908 –  1960 | Part of France | – | Part of France | ||||||||||||||
 1964 | Did not enter | – | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||
 1968 | Did not qualify | – | 1968 OG Afr.Q | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | ||||||||
| 1972 | – | 1972 OG Afr.Q | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
 1976 | – | 1976 OG Afr.Q | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
| 1980 | Quarter-finals | 8th | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Squad | 1980 OG Afr.Q | 4 | 5* | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2 | |
 1984 | Did not qualify | – | 1984 OG Afr.Q | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | ||||||||
 1988 | – | 1988 OG Afr.Q | 4 | 4* | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | |||||||||
| 1992 | – | 1992 OG Afr.Q | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1996 | – | 1996 OG Afr.Q | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
 2000 | – | 2000 OG Afr.Q | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||
| 2004 | – | 2004 OG Afr.Q | 7 | 4* | 0 | 4 | 10 | 11 | |||||||||
 2008 | – | 2008 OG Afr.Q | 4 | 2* | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||
| 2012 | – | 2011 CAF U-23 Champ. | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 7 | |||||||||
 2016 | Group stage | 14th | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | Squad | 2015 Afcon U-23 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 3 | |
| 2020 | Did not qualify | – | 2019 Afcon U-23 qualif. | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||
 2024 | – | 2023 Afcon U-23 qualif. | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| 2028 | To be determined | – | To be determined | ||||||||||||||
| Total | Quarter-finals | 2/26 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | - | 14/18 | 54 | 25 | 13 | 21 | 66 | 62 | |