CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament explained

Organiser:CONCACAF
Founded:2004
Region:North America, Central America and the Caribbean
Qualifier For:Summer Olympics
Current:2024 Olympic Qualifying
American:yes

The CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament was an international football (soccer) event in the North America, Central America and the Caribbean region, and was the qualification tournament for the Olympic Games.

Women's football tournaments in Olympics have been held since 1996, but the qualifying tournaments were held for the 2004 to 2020 Olympics,[1] with the two finalists qualify for the Olympic tournament.

For the 2024 Summer Olympics, the winner of the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship will qualify for the 2024 tournament, while the second and third-placed teams will advance to a CONCACAF Olympic play-off,[2] where the winner of the play-off will qualify for the Olympics.

Results

Flags indicate the hosts for the final rounds of the respective tournaments.
(Q) indicates qualification to Olympics.

FIFA Women's World Cup as Olympic Qualifying
OlympicsWorld CupWorld Cup participants from CONCACAF
1996 1995 (Q)

2000 1999 (Q)


CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament [3] [4]
OlympicsQualifyingFinalThird place match
WinnerScoreRunner-up3rd placeScore4th place
2004 2004 (Q)3–2 (Q)4–0
2008 2008 (Q)1–1
(6–5 pen.)
(Q)1–0
2012 2012 (Q)4–0 (Q) and
(no third place match)
2016 2016 (Q)2–0 (Q) and
(no third place match)
2020 2020 (Q)3–0 (Q) and
(no third place match)

References

  1. Web site: Olympic Football Tournaments Athens 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20091221213033/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/technicaldevp/50/04/42/oft_04_tr_ath_149.pdf. dead. December 21, 2009. 132. FIFA. 3 August 2019. The two previous events, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000, saw only the eight best teams from the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 1995 and 1999 compete. However, a FIFA decision encouraged the confederations to organise their own qualifying competitions, but while AFC, CAF, CONCACAF and OFC acted upon FIFA’s request, CONCACAF merely nominated Brazil as the South American representative and, as a result of scheduling problems in the current match calendar, the two top UEFA teams from the FIFA Women’s World Cup USA 2003 gained direct entry to Athens 2004..
  2. News: Concacaf to launch revamped W Championship and new W Gold Cup . . 19 August 2021 . 19 August 2021.
  3. Web site: Games of the XXVIII. Olympiad Football – Qualifying Tournament. RSSSF. 23 January 2012.
  4. Web site: Games of the XXIX. Olympiad Football – Qualifying Tournament. RSSSF. 23 January 2012.
  5. News: Concacaf to launch revamped W Championship and new W Gold Cup . . 19 August 2021 . 19 August 2021.

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