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Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Field	Value
tourney_name	Men's Olympic Football Tournament
year	1996
image	Olympic rings without rims.svg
size	150
country	United States
dates	July 20 – August 3
num_teams	16
confederations	6
venues	5
cities	5
champion_other
count	1
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
matches	32
goals	90
top_scorer	BRA Bebeto
ARG Hernán Crespo
(6 goals each)
prevseason	1992
nextseason	2000

ARG Hernán Crespo (6 goals each) The 1996 Men's Olympic Football Tournament, played as part of the 1996 Summer Olympics, was hosted in Birmingham, Alabama, Washington, D.C., Orlando, Florida, Miami, Florida and Athens, Georgia. From 1992 onwards, male competitors should be under 23 years old and starting from this tournament, a maximum of three over-23 players are allowed per squad. The tournament featured 16 national teams from the six continental confederations. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four and each group played a round-robin tournament. 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 gold medal match at Sanford Stadium on August 3, 1996.

Competition schedule

The match schedule of the tournament.

20 Sat		21 Sun		22 Mon		23 Tue		24 Wed		25 Thu		26 Fri		27 Sat		28 Sun		29 Lun		30 Tue		31 Wed		1 Thu		2 Fri		3 Sat
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Venues

Athens, Georgia	Birmingham, Alabama	Miami, Florida	{{location map+	USA	float=center
Sanford Stadium	Legion Field	Orange Bowl
Capacity: 86,100	Capacity: 81,700	Capacity: 74,476
[[File:Sanford Stadium, Tennessee game 2016.jpg	160x160px]]	[[File:Legion Field Aerial 2015.PNG	145x145px]]	[[File:Orange Bowl.jpg	160x160px]]
Citrus Bowl	Robert F. Kennedy Stadium
Capacity: 65,000	Capacity: 56,500
[[File:Citrus Bowl aerial view.jpg	180x180px]]	[[File:RFK Stadium aerial photo, 1988.JPEG	182x182px]]

Qualification

The following 16 teams qualified for the 1996 Olympic men's football tournament:

Means of qualification	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	1
1996 CONCACAF Preliminary Competition	1	(winner)
1996 AFC Preliminary Competition	3	(winner)
(runner-up)
(third-place)
1996 CAF Preliminary Competition	3
1996 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	2	(winner)
(runner-up)
CONCACAF–OFC play-off	1
1996 UEFA European Under-21 Championship	5	(winner)
(runner-up)
(third-place)
(5th)
(6th)

Match officials

Confederation	Referee
Male officials
AFC	Omer Al Mehannah (Saudi Arabia)
Pirom Un-prasert (Thailand)
CAF	Gamal Al-Ghandour (Egypt)
Lucien Bouchardeau (Niger)
CONCACAF	Benito Archundia (Mexico)
Esfandiar Baharmast (United States)
CONMEBOL	Antônio Pereira (Brazil)
Roberto Ruscio (Argentina)
OFC	Eddie Lennie (Australia)
UEFA	Pierluigi Collina (Italy)
Hugh Dallas (Great Britain)
José María García-Aranda (Spain)

Confederation	Referee
Female officials
UEFA	Ingrid Jonsson (Sweden)

Confederation	Assistant referee
Male officials
AFC	Jeon Young-hyun (South Korea)
Mohamed Al-Musawi (Oman)
CAF	Dramane Dante (Mali)
Amir Osman Mohamed Hamid (Sudan)
CONCACAF	Peter Kelly (Trinidad and Tobago)
Luis Fernando Torres Zúñiga (Costa Rica)
CONMEBOL	Jorge Luis Arango (Colombia)
Carlos Velázquez (Uruguay)
OFC	Lencie Fred (Vanuatu)
UEFA	Yuri Dupanov (Belarus)
Heiner Neuenstein (Germany)
Akif Uğurdur (Turkey)
Female officials
CONCACAF	María del Socorro Rodríguez (Mexico)
UEFA	Gitte Holm (Denmark)
Nelly Viennot (France)

Seeding

The draw for the tournament took place on 5 May 1996. The United States, Spain, Ghana and Brazil were seeded for the draw and placed into groups A–D, respectively. The remaining teams, excluding those from Europe, were drawn away from teams of the same region.

Pot 1: Host, Top-Seeded teams from Africa, Europe and South America	Pot 2: Asia, Non-top seeded team from South America	Pot 3: Non-top seeded teams from Europe	Pot 4: Non-top seeded teams from Africa and North America, Inter-continental playoff winner

1 1996 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament Champions, team not determined at time of draw.

2 CONCACAF–OFC play-off winner, team not determined at time of draw.

Squads

Main article: Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

Group stage

Group A

15:00 19:30 Crespo Simeone

19:30 19:30 Maisonneuve

19:30 19:30

Group B

18:30 18:30 Maurice

19:00 19:00 Viduka

19:00 Santi 19:00 Sibierski

Group C

12:00 17:00

20:00 21:00 Ahinful

21:00 21:00

Group D

18:30 18:30

20:30 Juninho Bebeto 20:30 Okocha

21:00 21:00 Uemura Madar

Knockout stage

|July 27 – Miami, FL| (asdet)|2||1 |July 27 – Birmingham, AL||4||0 |July 28 – Birmingham, AL||0||2 |July 28 – Miami, FL||4||2 |July 30 – Athens, GA||0||2 |July 31 – Athens, GA| (asdet)|4||3 |August 3 – Athens, GA||2||3 |August 2 – Athens, GA||0||5

Quarter-finals

18:00 Calado 19:30 Aranzábal C. López

16:00 C. Babayaro 18:00 Ronaldo Bebeto Aboagye

Semi-finals

18:00

18:00 Ikpeba Kanu , Bebeto

Bronze medal match

18:00 Flávio Bebeto

Gold medal match

Amokachi Amunike Crespo

NED Jo Bonfrère

Daniel Passarella

Final ranking

Goalscorers

With six goals, Hernán Crespo of Argentina and Bebeto of Brazil are the top scorers of the tournament. In total, 90 goals were scored by 55 different players, with four of them credited as own goals. ;6 goals

ARG Hernán Crespo
BRA Bebeto ;5 goals
BRA Ronaldo ;4 goals
ITA Marco Branca ;3 goals
BRA Flávio Conceição
FRA Florian Maurice
NGA Nwankwo Kanu ;2 goals
ARG Claudio López
ARG Ariel Ortega
AUS Aurelio Vidmar
GHA Christian Saba
HUN Csaba Madar
JPN Masakiyo Maezono
NGA Celestine Babayaro
NGA Jay-Jay Okocha
POR Afonso Martins
SPA Óscar
SPA Raúl
USA Brian Maisonneuve ;1 goal
ARG Gustavo Adrián López
ARG Diego Simeone
AUS Peter Tsekenis
AUS Mark Viduka
BRA Juninho
FRA Sylvain Legwinski
FRA Robert Pirès
FRA Antoine Sibierski
GHA Felix Aboagye
GHA Augustine Ahinful
GHA Charles Akonnor
GHA Ebenezer Hagan
HUN Tamás Sándor
JPN Teruyoshi Itō
JPN Kenichi Uemura
MEX José Manuel Abundis
MEX Francisco Palencia
NGA Daniel Amokachi
NGA Emmanuel Amunike
NGA Victor Ikpeba
POR Paulo Alves
POR José Calado
POR Capucho
POR Nuno Gomes
SAU Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi
SAU Fuad Anwar Amin
KOR Lee Ki-hyung
KOR Yoon Jong-hwan
SPA Santi
TUN Mohamed Mkacher
USA Jovan Kirovski
USA Claudio Reyna ;Own goals
BRA Roberto Carlos (playing against Nigeria)
GHA Afo Dodoo (playing against Brazil)
JPN Tadahiro Akiba (playing against Nigeria)
SPA Agustín Aranzábal (playing against Argentina)

References

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Penner, Mike. (August 1, 1996). "Defense Rests for a Stunned Brazil – Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com.
Penner, Mike. (August 4, 1996). "Nigeria's Eagles Catch Argentina in Its Own Trap – Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com.
"Soccer : Results : Men's Competition Notebook". Usatoday30.usatoday.com.
"Football at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games". Sports Reference.
"Soccer : Results : Men's Competition Notebook". Usatoday30.usatoday.com.

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