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2000 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament

North American football tournament

Field	Value
tourney_name	CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament
year	2000
image	2000 CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament.png
size
country	United States
dates	21–30 April
num_teams	6
confederations	1
venues	1
cities	1
champion_other
count	1
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
matches	15
goals	24
top_scorer	Carlos Ruiz
David Suazo
MEX Joaquín Beltrán
Chris Albright
Josh Wolff
(2 goals each)
prevseason	1996
nextseason	2004

David Suazo MEX Joaquín Beltrán Chris Albright Josh Wolff (2 goals each) The 2000 CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament was the tenth edition of the CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial, international, age-restricted 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 the United States, from 21 and 30 April 2000.

Honduras won the tournament with a 2–1 final win over the United States. As the top two teams, Honduras and the United States qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Australia as CONCACAF representatives.

Qualification

Main article: 2000 CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament qualification

All 41 CONCACAF nations entered the competition, and with the hosts United States qualifying automatically, the other 40 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining five spots in the final tournament.

First round: A total of 12 teams played home-and-away over two legs in six ties. The six winners advanced to the second round.
Second round: A total of 14 teams played home-and-away over two legs in seven ties. The seven winners advanced to the third round.
Third round: A total of 11 teams were divided into two groups of four (Group A and B) and one group of three (Group C). In each group, teams played against each other once in a single round-robin format, for a total of three matches per team in Group A and B; two for Group C. The top two teams in Group A and B; and winner of Group C of each of the six groups advance to the final round.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Zone	Country	Method of qualification	Appearance1	Last appearance	Previous best performance
(last)
North America	(hosts)	Automatic	6th	1992
	Third round – Group A winners	4th	1996	Runners-up (1984, 1996)

(title holders)	Third round – Group B winners	7th	1996	Winners (1964, 1972, 1976, 1988, 1996)
Central America		Third round – Group A runners-up	5th	1988	Winners (1968)
	Third round – Group B runners-up	2nd	1992
	Third round – Group C winners	2nd	1964	Fourth place (1964)

:1 Only final tournament.

Venue

The matches were played in Hershey.

Hershey
Hersheypark Stadium
Capacity: 16,000
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Squads

Main article: 2000 CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament squads

Each team has to submit a list of 18-man (two players have to be goalkeepers).

Final round

Group D

Albright
Thorrington

Phillips
Ramírez

Group E

Ortega
Ruiz

Beltrán
García

Knockout stage

Bracket

|28 April – Hershey ||4||0 |28 April – Hershey | |0 (5)||0 (4) |30 April – Hershey ||1||2 |30 April – Hershey ||0||5

Semi-finals

The semi-final winners qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics.

O'Brien
Wolff
Donovan

D. Suazo
Pavón
M. Suazo
Izaguirre
Gutiérrez
Rodríguez
Márquez
Pérez
Collazo
Altamirano

Third place play-off

Final

Wolff
Suazo

Final ranking

As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

group stage

Qualified teams for Summer Olympics

The following two teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in Summer Olympics1
		(1904, 1924, 1928, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1972, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996)
		(debut)

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

References

(30 April 2000). "HONDURAS DEFEATS USA IN FINAL MATCH OF OLYMPIC QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT". CONCACAF.
(30 April 2000). "Honduras overtakes U.S. 2-1 in meaningless final". SoccerTimes.com.
(22 March 2000). "Galaxy Trio Among 25 in U.S. Pool". Los Angeles Times.
(7 April 2000). "Charles picks final 18 for qualifying tourney.". soccertimes.com.

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