2024 Olympic football tournaments - Paris

[Tazmania]

As we probably know, next year's European under 21 championship - the final qualifying playoffs for which will be held next month - will decide the four UEFA teams which will join France at the 2024 men's tournament while Concacaf used its 2022 under 20 championship to qualify its two teams (USA and Dominican Republic)

Last week CAF made the qualifying draw for its 2023 under 23 championship in Morocco. To my suprise and disappointment, only 39 countries (including Morocco) have entered from CAF's 54 members. With a place at the Olympics at stake in addition to the continental title, I find it astonishing that more than a quarter of the confederation's membership should not enter. I think it indicates that the short-to-medium term future of NT football in Africa is not promising.

[Dragonite]

Are you sure that UEFA has 4 spots excluding host France?

Last time that the host was European in 2012, UEFA had three spots excluding Great Britain (Spain, Switzerland and Belarus).

[Witkop1983]

Looks like France takes one of the 4 UEFA spots (and one of the 3 in the womens tournament)

[Dragonite]

Last week CAF made the qualifying draw for its 2023 under 23 championship in Morocco. To my suprise and disappointment, only 39 countries (including Morocco) have entered from CAF's 54 members. With a place at the Olympics at stake in addition to the continental title, I find it astonishing that more than a quarter of the confederation's membership should not enter. I think it indicates that the short-to-medium term future of NT football in Africa is not promising.

In Africa unfortunately that's common. Several nations focus all their resources in the senior national team, and they don't compete in under-23, under-20 and under-17. They also don't compete in international club competitions.

It's not the "short-to-medium term" that is harmed, it's the long term.

With inexistent clubs and inexistent youth national teams, they'll never grow.

[amenina]

The following are the slot allocation for Paris 2024 Olympic football tournaments and the teams that have qualified so far:

Men's tournament (16 teams)
AFC (Asia) - 3.5 teams
CAF (Africa) - 3.5 teams
CONCACAF (North America) - 2 teams: Dominican Republic, USA
CONMEBOL (South America) - 2 teams
OFC (Oceania) - 1 team
UEFA (Europe) - 4 teams: France

Women's tournament (12 teams)
AFC (Asia) - 2 teams
CAF (Africa) - 2 teams
CONCACAF (North America) - 2 teams: USA
CONMEBOL (South America) - 2 teams: Brazil, Colombia
OFC (Oceania) - 1 team
UEFA (Europe) - 3 teams: France

[Tazmania]

Thanks for the qualification correction and replies.

Still feeling disappointed about the situation in Africa.

[amenina]

Updates on Olympic qualification outside of Europe:

Africa: The u23 qualifying round 1 was completed during the international window. Here are the results:

https://int.soccerway.com/international ... nd/r71932/

Asia: Qatar will host the 2024 u23 Asian Cup.

https://www.the-afc.com/en/about_afc/co ... %A2_1.html

[amenina]

Africa: The u23 qualifying round 1 was completed during the international window. Here are the results:

https://int.soccerway.com/international ... nd/r71932/

Africa u23 qualifying round 2 was played over the last two weekends. Here are the results:

https://int.soccerway.com/international ... nd/r71933/

The final round of qualifying will be played next March. The ties are:
Niger vs Sudan
Nigeria vs Guinea
Egypt vs Zambia
South Africa vs Congo
DR Congo vs Ghana
Senegal be Mali
Gabon vs Cameroon

The seven winners will qualify for the final tournament to join the hosts Morocco.

[amenina]

Women's Nations League to be introduced for first time in 2023

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63498292

A Women's Nations League will take place for the first time next year.

European football's governing body Uefa announced the new competition will begin in Autumn 2023 in the lead up to the 2025 Women's European Championship.

The Women's Nations League will see countries placed into leagues of three or four teams based on ranking, with promotion and relegation between three tiers and the winners of the four top-tier groups contesting the Nations League finals.

The competition will link into qualification for both the 2025 European Championship and the 2027 World Cup, with a country's Nations League rank determining a team's starting league position in the qualifiers.

The European qualifiers, which begin in Spring 2024, will determine qualification for the European Championships and a team's starting league position in the following Nations League campaign.

Every four years, the Nations League finals will also determine which three European sides qualify for the Olympics.

For 2024, Olympic hosts France will be joined by the two Nations League finalists - or third-placed team if France reach the final.

[Lorric]

I really like how they found a way to make that third place match very important, arguably more important than the final itself. Though unless France are in that final, it won't be the first time.

Also, this is much fairer and more accurate than doing it by way of the World Cup.

[amenina]

I really like how they found a way to make that third place match very important, arguably more important than the final itself. Though unless France are in that final, it won't be the first time.

Also, this is much fairer and more accurate than doing it by way of the World Cup.

Yes, last time France missed out on the Olympics because they lost to USA in the quarter-finals, while the other three European teams qualified after beating other European teams in the quarter-finals.

So with the new system, European teams will qualify based on direct matches between each other.

[Tazmania]

Incidentally, FIFA is lobbying the IOC to expand the women's tournament to 16 teams for the 2028 Games in LA.

[amenina]

Incidentally, FIFA is lobbying the IOC to expand the women's tournament to 16 teams for the 2028 Games in LA.

If the tournament is expanded to 16 teams, I would propose the following distribution of spots:
Hosts
World Cup winners (or runners-up if hosts win World Cup)
3 teams from Europe
2 teams each from Africa, Asia, North America, South America
1 team from Oceania
2 teams from playoffs, played by 8 teams (1 team from each confederation, plus 2 best teams from FIFA Rankings, maximum 1 team per confederation)

[amenina]

FIFA website for Paris 2024: https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/tourna ... /paris2024

Schedule: https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/28cbbb045 ... hedule.pdf

Fixtures by venue: https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/79f9816b9 ... edules.pdf

[amenina]

Stage set for Women’s Olympic Football Tournament Paris 2024 Asian Qualifiers Round 1 draw

https://www.the-afc.com/en/national/wom ... _draw.html

Kuala Lumpur: The race to represent Asia at the 2024 Paris Olympics will kick off with the official draw ceremony of the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament 2024 Asian Qualifiers Round 1 at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) House on January 12, 2023 at 3pm.

Since the inaugural edition, Asia’s best performances have come from China PR’s silver in 1996 followed by Japan repeating the feat in 2012. The 2024 edition of the contest will see Asian teams strive for a podium-finish for the third time.

Vying for the two coveted Asian slots of the prestigious tournament, Round 1 of the Qualifiers will see 26 teams, divided into five groups of four and two groups of three, compete in a one-round league format in a centralised venue from April 3 to 11, 2023.

The winners of each group in this round will then advance to Round 2 where they will be joined by the five highest seeded teams - DPR Korea, Japan, Australia, China PR, and Korea Republic.

The seeds for the Round 1 draw are based on the latest FIFA Women’s World Ranking released on December 9, 2022, while the participants who do not feature in the ranking table are listed as non-ranked teams.

Four teams from Round 2 - three group winners and the best-ranked runners-up - then face off in Round 3 where they play two pairs of home and away matches with the two eventual winners qualifying for the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament in Paris in 2024.

Based on their respective rankings, the 26 teams will have their names drawn from four seeding pots, as below:

Pot 1 (teams ranked 6-12): Vietnam, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Philippines, India.
Pot 2 (13-19): Islamic Republic of Iran, Jordan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Nepal, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia
Pot 3 (20-26): Palestine, Singapore, Turkmenistan, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste.
Pot 4 (27-30 + 1 non-ranked team): Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Bhutan, Afghanistan.

Watch the draw live: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nioieM8kDLE