Colombia Olympic football team

Colombia

Nickname(s)	Los Cafeteros (The Coffee growers)
Association	Federación Colombiana de Fútbol (FCF)
Confederation	CONMEBOL (South America)
Head coach	Vacant
Captain	Teófilo Gutiérrez
FIFA code	COL
First colours Second colours
First international
Guatemala 2–1 Colombia  (Guatemala City, Guatemala; 26 February 1950)
Biggest win
Colombia 7–1 Dominican Republic  (Cali, Colombia; 3 August 1971)  Colombia 6–0 Bahamas  (Cali, Colombia; 31 July 1971)
Biggest defeat
Brazil 9–0 Colombia  (Londrina, Brazil; 30 January 2000)
Olympic Games
Appearances	5 (first in 1968)
Best result	Seventh place (2016)
Medal record Bolivarian Games 1951 Caracas Team 1961 Barranquilla Team 1973 Panama City Team 1981 Barquisimeto Team South American Games Pan American Games 1971 Colombia Team 1995 Mar del Plata Team Central American and Caribbean Games 1954 Mexico City Team 1970 Panama City Team

The Colombia Olympic football team represents Colombia at the Summer Olympic Games and in international under-23 football competitions and is overseen by the Colombian Football Federation.

The team played its first match in 1950. From that year to 1992 the team played as a Colombia national amateur football team. Since 1992, the team played as Colombia national under-23 football team until 2004, when the qualification for the Olympic Games was changed to South American Youth Football Championship for under-20 teams (before this, the qualification tournament was CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament). The team was inactive since 2004, however with the qualification to the 2016 Summer Olympics qualification play-off the team was resurrected.

Honours[]

• CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament:
  • Runners-up: 1968, , 1980, 1992
  • Fourth place: 1964, 1976, , 1996
• Bolivarian Games
  • Champions: 1951 Caracas
  • Runners-up: 1961 Barranquilla, 1973 Panama City, 1981 Barquisimeto
• Central American and Caribbean Games
  • Third place: 1954 Mexico City, 1970 Panama City
• Pan American Games
  • Runners-up: 1971 Colombia
  • Third place: 1995 Mar del Plata
  • Fourth place: 2003 Santo Domingo
• South American Games
  • Runners-up:

Competitive record[]

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

**Gold background colour indicates that the tournament was won.

***Red border colour indicates tournament was held on home soil.

  Champions    Runners-up    Third Place    Fourth Place  

Olympic Games[]

Olympic Games record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1900	Did not participate
1904
1908
1912
1920
1924
1928
1936
1948
1952	Did not enter
1956
1960	Did not qualify
1964
1968	First stage	10th	3	1	0	2	4	5
1972	First stage	11th	3	1	0	2	5	12
1976	Did not qualify
1980	First stage	11th	3	1	1	1	2	4
1984	Did not qualify
1988
1992	First stage	14th	3	0	1	2	4	9
1996	Did not qualify
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016	Quarter-finals	7th	4	1	2	1	6	6
2020	Did not qualify
Total	Quarter-finals	5/26	16	4	4	8	21	36

CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament[]

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
	First stage	10th	2	1	0	1	3	7
1964	Fourth place	4th	6	1	2	3	6	10
1968	Runners-up	2nd	6	4	1	1	10	7
	Runners-up	2nd	7	2	5	0	7	4
1976	Fourth place	4th	5	1	2	2	5	9
1980	Runners-up	2nd	6	3	1	2	10	5
1984	First stage	5th	2	0	0	2	1	5
1988	Fourth place	4th	7	4	1	2	7	4
1992	Runners-up	2nd	7	4	2	1	14	3
1996	Fourth place	4th	4	0	2	2	6	11
2000	First stage	6th	4	2	1	1	10	13
2004	Playoffs	6th	5	2	0	3	7	9
2020	Fourth place	4th	7	2	2	3	10	9
Total	Runners-up	13/13	68	26	19	23	96	96

Pan American Games[]

Pan American Games record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1951	Did not participate
1955
1959
1963
1967	Preliminary round	8th	3	0	0	3	2	13
1971	Silver medal	2nd	8	5	2	1	21	7
1975	Did not participate
1979
1983
1987	Preliminary round	11th	3	0	1	2	1	4
1991	Did not participate
1995	Bronze medal	3rd	6	4	0	2	13	5
1999	Did not participate
2003	Fourth place	4th	5	2	0	2	6	7
2007	Preliminary round	7th	3	1	1	1	1	1
2011	Did not participate
2015
2019
Total	Silver medal	6/18	31	13	6	11	47	39

Schedule and results[]

  Win   Draw   Loss

2020[]

Team[]

Current squad[]

The following 23 players were called up for the 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament

Caps and goals updated as 17 November 2019.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK		(1997-07-15) 15 July 1997 (age 24)	3	0	Independiente Medellín
12	1GK		(2000-05-18) 18 May 2000 (age 21)	1	0	Santa Fe
22	1GK	Sebastian Guerra	(2001-01-08) 8 January 2001 (age 21)	0	0	Atlético Nacional
2	2DF	Eddie Segura	(1997-02-02) 2 February 1997 (age 24)	0	0	Los Angeles
3	2DF	Andres Reyes	(1999-09-08) 8 September 1999 (age 22)	3	0	New York Red Bulls
4	2DF	Willer Ditta	(1997-01-23) 23 January 1997 (age 24)	2	0	Atlético Junior
13	2DF	Alvaro Angulo	(1997-03-06) 6 March 1997 (age 24)	1	0	Rionegro Águilas
14	2DF	Anderson Arroyo	(1999-09-27) 27 September 1999 (age 22)	0	0	Mladá Boleslav
16	2DF	Edwin Herrera	(1999-09-02) 2 September 1999 (age 22)	2	0	Santa Fe
17	2DF	Gabriel Fuentes	(1997-02-09) 9 February 1997 (age 24)	2	0	Atlético Junior
23	2DF	Carlos Terán	(2000-09-24) 24 September 2000 (age 21)	2	0	Chicago Fire
5	3MF	Kevin Balanta INJ	(1997-04-28) 28 April 1997 (age 24)	3	0	Tijuana
6	3MF	Andrés Balanta	(2000-01-18) 18 January 2000 (age 22)	2	0	Deportivo Cali
7	3MF	Iván Angulo	(1999-03-22) 22 March 1999 (age 22)	4	0	Palmeiras
8	3MF	Jorge Carrascal	(1998-05-25) 25 May 1998 (age 23)	4	0	River Plate
10	3MF	Nicolás Benedetti	(1997-04-25) 25 April 1997 (age 24)	2	0	América
15	3MF	Jaime Alvarado	(1999-07-26) 26 July 1999 (age 22)	3	0	Hércules
20	3MF	Eduard Atuesta	(1997-06-18) 18 June 1997 (age 24)	3	0	Los Angeles
9	4FW	Ricardo Márquez	(1997-11-09) 9 November 1997 (age 24)	3	0	Unión Magdalena
11	4FW	Mender Garcia	(1998-10-28) 28 October 1998 (age 23)	0	0	Once Caldas
18	4FW	Edwuin Cetré	(1998-01-01) 1 January 1998 (age 24)	1	0	Atlético Junior
19	4FW	Luis Sandoval	(1999-06-01) 1 June 1999 (age 22)	3	2	Atlético Junior
21	4FW	Johan Carbonero	(1999-07-20) 20 July 1999 (age 22)	0	0	Once Caldas

Notes

Recent call-ups[]

The following players have been recently called up in the last 12 months.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up

Coaching staff[]

As of 20 May 2015

Manager	Vacant
Assistant manager
Physical trainer	John Moncada
Goalkeeping coach	Eulin Carabali
Medic	Cesar Ruiz
Assistant	Grigori Méndez
Physiotherapist	Omar Castro

See also[]

• Colombia national football team
• Colombia national futsal team
• Colombia national under-20 football team
• Colombia national under-17 football team
• Colombia national under-15 football team

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