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Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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Host country
  
United States

Venue(s)
  
5 (in 5 host cities)

Runners-up
  
Argentina

Dates
  
20 July – 3 August

Champions
  
Nigeria

Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Teams
  
16 (from 6 confederations)

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 1996 onwards, male competitors must be under 23 years old, with three over-23 players allowed per squad. The tournament features 16 men's national teams from the six continental confederations. The 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four and each group plays 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.

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Qualification

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

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match

Goalscorers

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

6 goals
  • Hernán Crespo
  • Bebeto
  • 5 goals
  • Ronaldo
  • 4 goals
  • Marco Branca
  • 3 goals
  • Flávio Conceição
  • Florian Maurice
  • Nwankwo Kanu
  • 2 goals
    1 goal
    Own goals
  • Roberto Carlos (playing against Nigeria)
  • Afo Duodu (playing against Brazil)
  • Agustín Aranzábal (playing against Argentina)
  • References

    Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament Wikipedia