Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

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The qualification for women's football tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

The following qualification tournaments were held to determine the participating nations.^[1]

Qualified teams[]

The following teams have qualified for the final tournament.

Confederation (Region)	Berths	Qualified Teams
Host nation (automatically qualified)	1	Greece
UEFA (Europe)	2	Germany  Sweden
CONMEBOL (South America)	1	Brazil
CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean)	2	United States  Mexico
CAF (Africa)	1	Nigeria
AFC (Asia)	2	China PR  Japan
OFC (Oceania)	1	Australia

AFC[]

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All matches were held in Japan.

Group A[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	North Korea	3	3	0	0	22	0	+22	9
2	Chinese Taipei	3	2	0	1	8	6	+2	6
3	Hong Kong	3	1	0	2	3	12	−9	3
4	Singapore	3	0	0	3	0	15	−15	0

Group B[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	China PR	3	3	0	0	23	0	+23	9
2	South Korea	3	2	0	1	14	3	+11	6
3	Myanmar	3	1	0	2	2	18	−16	3
4	Guam	3	0	0	3	0	18	−18	0

Group C[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Japan	2	2	0	0	13	0	+13	6
2	Thailand	2	0	1	1	0	6	−6	1
3	Vietnam	2	0	1	1	0	7	−7	1

Semifinals[]

	Semi-finals				Final
	24 April
	North Korea	0
					26 April
	Japan	3
					Japan	0
	24 April
					China PR	1
	China PR	1
	South Korea	0
					Third place
					26 April
					North Korea	5
					South Korea	1

Third Place Match[]

Final[]

Awards[]

Best Player Award	Top Goalscorer	Fair Play Award
Teng Wei ( China PR)	Ri Kum-suk ( North Korea, 8 goals)	Japan

CAF[]

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	First round						Second round						Third round						Final round
	South Africa
	bye
							South Africa	13	13	26
							Namibia	0	1	1
	Namibia (w/o)
	Tanzania
													South Africa	6	2	8
													Angola	2	3	5
	Zimbabwe
	bye
							Zimbabwe	0	0	0
							Angola (a.e.t.)	0	1	1
	Angola (w/o)
	Cape Verde
																			South Africa	2	0	2
																			Nigeria	2	1	3
	Nigeria
	bye
							Nigeria (w/o)
							Kenya
	Kenya (w/o)
	Uganda
													Nigeria (p)	1	1	2 (3)
													Ghana	1	1	2 (2)
	Ghana
	bye
							Ghana	2	2	4
							DR Congo	0	1	1
	DR Congo (w/o)
	Equatorial Guinea

CONCACAF[]

Mexico and the United States earned Olympic qualification places by winning their semi-final matches.

Preliminary round[]

Caribbean Zone[]

Series A

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Suriname	2–6	Trinidad and Tobago	0–2	2–4

Series B

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Jamaica	4–0	Cayman Islands	3–0	1–0

Series C

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dominican Republic	2–10	Haiti	0–7	2–3

North/Central American Zone[]

Series D	Series E
Pos Team v t Pld Pts 1  Mexico 2 6 2  Honduras (H) 2 3 3  Nicaragua 2 0 Source: CONCACAF (H) Host	Pos Team v t Pld Pts 1  Guatemala (H) 2 4 2  Panama 2 4 3  Belize 2 0 Source: CONCACAF (H) Host

Group stage[]

Eight teams participated in the group stage. The top two teams from each group advanced to the semi-finals.

Group A	Group B
Pos Team v t Pld Pts 1  Canada 3 9 2  Costa Rica (H) 3 6 3  Panama 3 3 4  Jamaica 3 0 Source: CONCACAF (H) Host	Pos Team v t Pld Pts 1  United States 3 9 2  Mexico 3 6 3  Trinidad and Tobago 3 3 4  Haiti 3 0 Source: CONCACAF

Knockout stage[]

The winners of the semi-finals qualified for the Olympics.

	Semi-finals				Final
	3 March – San José
	Canada	1
					5 March – Heredia
	Mexico	2
					Mexico	2
	3 March – San José
					United States	3
	United States	4
	Costa Rica	0
					Third place play-off
					5 March – Heredia
					Canada	4
					Costa Rica	0

CONMEBOL[]

CONMEBOL did not hold the qualifying competition for the one spot but nominated  Brazil, the winners of 2003 South American Women's Football Championship and 2003 Pan American Games, as the South American representative.^[2] Brazil also achieved the best performance among CONMEBOL teams at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, having advanced to the quarter-finals, while the confederation's only other team, Argentina, were eliminated in the group stage.

OFC[]

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All matches were held in Fiji.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Australia	2	2	0	0	17	0	+17	6
2	Papua New Guinea	2	1	0	1	2	10	−8	3
3	Fiji	2	0	0	2	0	9	−9	0

UEFA[]

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Due to scheduling issues, UEFA did not hold a separate qualifying competition; UEFA instead announced that the top two UEFA teams in 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup were to qualify for the Olympics. As a result, the World Cup winners  Germany and the runners-up  Sweden qualified for the Olympics^[1] (together with the hosts  Greece).

References[]

General references

• Olympic Football Tournaments Athens 2004, FIFA, retrieved on 31 March 2018.