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1996 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament

Tournament details
Canada
10–19 May
6 (from 1 confederation)
1 (in 1 host city)
Mexico (4th title)
Canada
15
48 (3.2 per match)
Rónald Gómez (4 goals)
← 1992 2000 →

The 1996 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament was the ninth edition of the CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial, international, age-restricted association football tournament organized by CONCACAF to determine which men's under-23 national teams from the North, Central America and Caribbean region qualify for the Olympic football tournament. It was held in Canada, from 10 and 19 May 1996.

It was the first time in which teams that qualified for the Olympics were permitted to supplement their rosters with three players not restricted by age in its 18-man final list.

Mexico, as winners qualified for the 1996 Summer Olympics together with the United States who automatically qualified as hosts. Second-placed Canada later lost to Australia in the CONCACAF–OFC play-off and failed to qualify for the Olympics for the third consecutive time.

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Zone	Country	Method of qualification	Appearance1	Last appearance	Previous best performance	Previous Olympic appearances(last)
North America	Canada (hosts)	Automatic	3rd	1992	Runners-up (1984)	1
Mexico	First round winner	6th	1992	Winners (1964, 1972, 1976)	7
Central America	Costa Rica	First round winner	4th	1984	Winners (1980, 1984)	2
El Salvador	First round winner	3rd	1988	Winners (1968)	1
Caribbean	Jamaica	First round winner	2nd	1972	Fourth place (1972)	0
Trinidad and Tobago	First round winner	3rd	1988	Runners-up (1968)	0

1 Only final tournament.

The matches were played in Edmonton.

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Commonwealth Stadium	Clarke Stadium
Capacity: 60,081	Capacity: 20,000

There were 48 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 3.2 goals per match.

6 goals

4 goals

3 goals

The following two teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 1996 Summer Olympics, including the United States which qualified as hosts.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in Summer Olympics1
United States	18 September 1990	11 (1904, 1924, 1928, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1972, 1984, 1988, 1992)
Mexico	17 May 1996	7 (1928, 1948, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1992)

1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

RSSSF.com – Games of the XXVI. Olympiad | Football Qualifying Tournament

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