Group B of the men's football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics was played from 22 to 28 July 2021 in Kashima's Kashima Stadium, Sapporo's Sapporo Dome and Yokohama's International Stadium Yokohama.[1] The group consistsed of Honduras, New Zealand, Romania and South Korea.[2] The top two teams, South Korea and New Zealand, advanced to the knockout stage.[3]
Draw position | Team | Pot | Confederation | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | Olympic appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance | ||||
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B1 | style=white-space:nowrap | 3 | 2019 OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament champions | 5 October 2019 | data-sort-value="3" | 3rd | data-sort-value="14" | 14th place (2008) | ||||
B2 | style=white-space:nowrap | 1 | 2020 AFC U-23 Championship champions | 26 January 2020 | data-sort-value="11" | 11th | data-sort-value="3" | Bronze medalists (2012) | ||||
B3 | style=white-space:nowrap | 2 | 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship runners-up | 30 March 2021 | data-sort-value="5" | 5th | data-sort-value="4" | Fourth place (2016) | ||||
B4 | style=white-space:nowrap | 4 | 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship semi-finalists | 27 June 2019 | data-sort-value="4" | 4th | data-sort-value="5" | Fifth place (1964) |
In the quarter-finals,
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Fair play points would have been used as a tiebreaker if the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:[3]
Only one of the above deductions is applied to a player in a single match.
Team | Match 1 | Match 2 | Match 3 | Points | ||||||||||
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1 | 1 | −2 | ||||||||||||
1 | 2 | 3 | –6 | |||||||||||
3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | –9 | ||||||||||
2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | –11 |