| Event: | Men's volleyball |
| Games: | 2004 Summer |
| Venue: | Peace and Friendship Stadium |
| Date: | 15–29 August |
| Competitors: | 144 |
| Nations: | 12 |
| Gold: | (2nd title) |
| Prev: | 2000 |
| Next: | 2008 |
The men's tournament in volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics was the 11th edition of the event at the Summer Olympics, organized by the world's governing body, the FIVB in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Athens, Greece from 15 to 29 August 2004.[1]
| P | Preliminary round | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| Sun 15 | Mon 16 | Tue 17 | Wed 18 | Thu 19 | Fri 20 | Sat 21 | Sun 22 | Mon 23 | Tue 24 | Wed 25 | Thu 26 | Fri 27 | Sat 28 | Sun 29 | |||||
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| P | P | P | P | P | ¼ | ½ | B | F | |||||||||||
See main article: Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification.
| width=25% | Means of qualification! | width=27% | Date! | width=20% | Host! | width=6% | Vacancies! | width=22% | Qualified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host Country | 5 September 1997 | Lausanne | 1 | ||||||
| 2003 World Cup | 16–30 November 2003 | 3 | |||||||
| African Qualifier | 5–10 January 2004 |  Tunis | 1 | ||||||
| European Qualifier | 5–10 January 2004 | Leipzig | 1 | ||||||
| North American Qualifier | 4–10 January 2004 | Caguas | 1 | ||||||
| South American Qualifier | 9–11 January 2004 |  Caracas | 1 | ||||||
| 1st World Qualifier | 21–23 May 2004 | Matosinhos | 1 | ||||||
| 2nd World Qualifier | 22–30 May 2004 |  Tokyo | 1 | ||||||
| Asian Qualifier | 1 | ||||||||
| 3rd World Qualifier | 28–30 May 2004 |  Madrid | 1 | ||||||
| Total | 12 | ||||||||
* The Asian Qualifier was combined with the 2nd World Qualifier. The first place team of the tournament qualified as the 2nd World Qualifier winners, while the best Asian team except the 2nd World Qualifier winners qualified as the Asian Qualifier winners.
Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of January 2004. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts.
| width=50% | Pool A | width=50% | Pool B |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Hosts) | (1) | ||
| (3) | (2) | ||
| (4) | (5) | ||
| (8) | (6) | ||
| (9) | (12) | ||
| (22) | (21) |
See main article: Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters.
| All matches | |
|---|---|
| Piraeus, Athens, Greece | |
| Peace and Friendship Stadium | |
| Capacity: 10,520 | |
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| width=40 | Rank | width=180 | Team |
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| 4 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 9 | |||
| 11 | |||
| 12–man roster | |
| Giovane, André Heller, Maurício, Giba, André, Sérgio (L), Anderson, Nalbert (c), Gustavo, Rodrigão, Ricardinho, Dante | |
| Head coach | |
| Bernardinho |
