| Tourney Name: | Men's Olympic Football Tournament |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Size: | 150px |
| Country: | Greece |
| Dates: | 11–28 August |
| Num Teams: | 16 |
| Confederations: | 6 |
| Venues: | 6 |
| Cities: | 5 |
| Count: | 1 |
| Matches: | 32 |
| Goals: | 101 |
| Attendance: | 401415 |
| Top Scorer: |  Carlos Tevez(8 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2000 |
| Nextseason: | 2008 |
The men's football tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held in Athens and four other cities in Greece from 11 to 28 August. The tournament featured 16 men's national teams from the six continental confederations. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four, in which each team would play each of the others once. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the final at Athens' Olympic Stadium on 28 August 2004.[1]
The following 16 teams qualified for the 2004 Olympics football tournament.
| Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host nation | 1 | ||
| 3 | (winner) (runner-up) Portugal (third-place) | ||
| 3 | |||
| 4 | |||
| 2 | (winner) (runner-up) | ||
| 2 | (winner) (runner-up) | ||
| 1 | |||
| Total | 16 |
| Athens | Patras | |
|---|---|---|
| Olympic Stadium | Pampeloponnisiako Stadium | |
| Capacity: 71,030 | Capacity: 23,558 | |
| Piraeus | Thessaloniki | |
| Karaiskakis Stadium | Kaftanzoglio Stadium | |
| Capacity: 33,334 | Capacity: 27,770 | |
| Heraklion | Volos | |
| Pankritio Stadium | Panthessaliko Stadium | |
| Capacity: 26,240 | Capacity: 22,700 | |
The draw for the tournament took place on 9 June 2004. Argentina, Greece, Japan and Morocco were seeded for the draw and placed into groups A–D, respectively. The remaining teams were drawn from four pots with teams from the same region kept apart.
| width=20% | Pot 1: Host, Top-Seeded teams from Africa, Americas and Asia | width=20% | Pot 2: Non-top seeded teams from Asia and Oceania | width=20% | Pot 3: Non-top seeded teams from Americas | width=20% | Pot 4: Non-top seeded teams from Africa | width=20% | Pot 5: Non-top seeded teams from Europe |
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Source for cards:[2]
With eight goals, Carlos Tevez of Argentina is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 101 goals were scored by 65 different players, with four of them credited as own goals.
César Delgado
Ahmad Elrich
Stephen Appiah
Emad Mohammed Hawar Mulla Mohammed Salih Sadir
Yoshito Ōkubo Shinji Ono
Omar Bravo
Bouabid Bouden
Cho Jae-jin Lee Chun-soo
Ali Zitouni Andrés D'Alessandro Gabriel Heinze Kily González Lucho González Mariano González Mauro Rosales Javier Saviola Tim Cahill Emmanuel Pappoe William Tiero Razzaq Farhan Mahdi Karim Younis Mahmoud
Cesare Bovo Daniele De Rossi Giampiero Pinzi Yūki Abe Daiki Takamatsu
Mamadi Berthe Rafael Márquez Lugo Salaheddine Aqqal Kim Dong-jin Kim Jung-woo José Clayton Mohamed Jedidi Adama Tamboura (playing against South Korea) Haidar Jabar (playing against Portugal)