This article is about the history of association football, also known as soccer, at the Olympics. For gridiron football, see American football at the Summer Olympics. For the Australian rules football demonstration, see Australian football at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Football at the Summer Olympics
IOC Discipline Code
FBL
Governing body
FIFA
Events
2 (men: 1; women: 1)
Games
1896
1900
1904
1908
1912
1920
1924
1928
1932
1936
1948
1952
1956
1960
1964
1968
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Medalists
Tournaments (men・women)
Football has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition sport, except 1896 (the inaugural Games) and 1932 (in an attempt to promote the new FIFA World Cup tournament). Women's football was added to the official program at the Atlanta 1996 Games.[1]
In order to avoid competition with the World Cup, FIFA have restricted participation of elite players in the men's tournament in various ways: currently, squads for the men's tournament are required to be composed of players under 23 years of age, with three permitted exceptions.[2][3]
By comparison, the women's football tournament is a full senior-level international tournament, second in prestige only to the FIFA Women's World Cup.[4][5]
^"Tokyo 2020 Football - Olympic Results by Discipline". Archived from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
^Hartman, Ike (23 July 2021). "Why Olympic Men's Soccer Has An Age Limit". The18. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
^Hanley, Liam (9 July 2021). "Explaining The New Age-Limit Rules For Olympic Men's Soccer". The18. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
^Goff, Steven (19 July 2021). "What to know about soccer at the Tokyo Olympics". Washington Post. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
^Creditor, Avi. "The USWNT and Sweden: A Frequent Tale on the Tournament Stage". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
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