Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification
Twelve teams are scheduled to compete in the women's football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics. In addition to France, the host nation, 11 women's national teams will qualify from six separate continental confederations.
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Table
On 24 February 2022, the FIFA Council approved the slot allocation for the 2024 Summer Olympics. In addition to the automatic qualification of the host nation France, each confederation will be given two slots, with the exception of the OFC which is given one slot.[1]
Means of qualification | Dates1 | Venue(s)1 | Berth(s) | Qualified |
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Host nation | — | — | 1 | ![]() |
2022 CONCACAF Championship | 4–18 July 2022 | ![]() |
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2022 Copa América | 8–30 July 2022 | ![]() |
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CONCACAF play-off | September 2023 | ![]() ![]() |
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2024 UEFA Women's Nations League Finals | 21–28 February 2024 | TBC | 2 | |
2024 AFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament | 24–28 February 2024 | TBC | 2 | |
OFC qualifying | 5 February – 10 March 2024 | TBC | 1 | |
2024 CAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament | 1–9 April 2024 | TBC | 2 | |
Total | 12 |
- ^1 Dates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments); various qualification stages may precede these matches.
CONCACAF
The 2022 CONCACAF W Championship was used as the first round of Olympic qualification. The winners of the tournament qualified directly to the Olympic tournament, while the teams finishing second and third will contest a play-off for the other qualification place.[2]
Qualification round
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Source: CONCACAF |
Source: CONCACAF |
Source: CONCACAF | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group D | Group E | Group F | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source: CONCACAF |
Source: CONCACAF |
Source: CONCACAF |
Final tournament
Group stage
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Source: CONCACAF |
Knockout stage
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
14 July – San Nicolás de los Garza | ||||||
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18 July – Guadalupe | ||||||
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14 July – San Nicolás de los Garza | ||||||
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Third place match | ||||||
18 July – Guadalupe | ||||||
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CONMEBOL
The finalists of the 2022 Copa América Femenina earned Olympic qualification places.[4]
Group stage
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Source: CONMEBOL |
Knockout stage
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
25 July – Bucaramanga | ||||||
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30 July – Bucaramanga | ||||||
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26 July – Bucaramanga | ||||||
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UEFA
League A of the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League will determine the European nations for the Summer Olympics, with the top two eligible teams of the 2024 UEFA Women's Nations League Finals (not including France) qualifying for the Olympics.[5]
Group round
Group A1 | Group A2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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First match(es) will be played on 22 September 2023. Source: UEFA |
First match(es) will be played on 22 September 2023. Source: UEFA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group A3 | Group A4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First match(es) will be played on 22 September 2023. Source: UEFA |
First match(es) will be played on 22 September 2023. Source: UEFA |
AFC
Of the 47 national federations in the AFC, 31 entered teams into the competition.
- First Round – The top five teams based on the FIFA Women's World Rankings of 9 December 2022 – North Korea, Japan, Australia, China, and South Korea – were given byes to the second round. The remaining 26 teams were drawn into seven groups with the winners of each group advancing to the second round.[6]
- Second Round – Twelve teams in the second round will be drawn into three groups of four teams, with the winners of each group and the best-ranked runners-up advancing to the third round.[6]
- Third Round – Four teams will be drawn into two home-and-away ties with the winners of each tie advancing to the 2024 Summer Olympics.[6]
The following teams qualified for the second round:
Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
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- Numbers in parentheses indicate the position in the FIFA Women's World Ranking published on 24 March 2023.
OFC
The format has yet to be announced.
CAF
CAF qualification will consist of four rounds of home-and-away matches between July 2023 and April 2024 to determine the two teams which will qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics. As of May 2023, CAF indicated that 25 nations would take part in qualifying.[7]
Notes
- North Korea had not played a match since March 2019 and were removed from the March 2023 rankings. FIFA Women's World Ranking Procedures, p. 4 "Teams that are inactive during the last 48 months are not listed"
References
- "Olympic Football Tournaments Paris 2024 – information on preliminary competitions" (PDF). FIFA Circular Letter. No. 1792. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 11 April 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
- "CONCACAF to launch revamped W Championship and new W Gold Cup". CONCACAF. 19 August 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
- "Women's international match calendar 2020–2023: Fixed dates for international "A" matches" (PDF). FIFA. March 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
- "Ajuste en el reglamento de la CONMEBOL Copa América Femenina – Colombia 2022" [Adjustment in the regulations of the CONMEBOL Copa América Femenina – Colombia 2022] (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 28 June 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
- "How will the new UEFA women's national team competition system work?". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 3 November 2022. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- "Stage set for Women's Olympic Football Tournament Paris 2024 Asian Qualifiers Round 1 draw". the-afc.com. 9 January 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
- "CAF® Women's Football Calendar 2023 – 2024" (PDF). CAF. Retrieved 6 May 2023.