CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship
The CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship was a quadrennial, international, age-restricted football tournament organized by CONCACAF to determine which men's under-23 national teams from the North, Central America and Caribbean region qualify for the Olympic football tournament. The competition format had varied since its inception, from 1996 to the final edition in 2020 it had been hosted in a single country.
On 16 September 2021, CONCACAF announced that the representatives at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games will qualify through the 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship.[1] The two finalists at the Concacaf U20 tournament will qualify for the Olympics in 2024.
Past tournaments
Note: The Olympic football teams are represented by under-23 teams, since 1992.
Year | Host | Champions | 2nd place | 3rd place | 4th place |
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Olympic teams (represented by amateur teams) | |||||
1964 Details | Mexico | Mexico | Suriname | United States | Panama |
1968 Details | No fixed host | No outright winner ( El Salvador and Guatemala were final round winners) | No outright third-placed team ( Costa Rica and Trinidad and Tobago were final round losers) | ||
1972 Details | No fixed host | Mexico | United States | Guatemala | Jamaica |
1976 Details | No fixed host | Mexico | Guatemala | Cuba | — |
1980 Details | No fixed host | Costa Rica | United States | Suriname | — |
1984 Details | No fixed host | Costa Rica | Canada | Cuba | — |
1988 Details | No fixed host | No outright winner ( Mexico and United States were final round winners) | No outright runners-up ( Guatemala and Trinidad and Tobago were final round runners-up) | No outright third-placed team ( El Salvador and Guyana were final round third-placed) | — |
Olympic teams (represented by under-23 teams) | |||||
1992 Details | No host | United States | Mexico | Canada | Honduras |
1996 Details | Canada | Mexico | Canada | Costa Rica | Jamaica |
2000 Details | United States | Honduras | United States | Mexico | Guatemala |
2004 Details | Mexico | Mexico | Costa Rica | Honduras | United States |
2008 Details | United States | Honduras | United States | Canada | Guatemala |
2012 Details | United States | Mexico | Honduras | El Salvador | Canada |
2015 Details | United States | Mexico | Honduras | United States | Canada |
2020 Details | Mexico | Mexico | Honduras | United States | Canada |
Top goalscorers by year
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Overall top goalscorers
Rank | Player | Country | Year(s) | U-23 Goals |
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1 | Steve Snow | USA | 1992 | 8 |
2 | Brent Goulet | USA | 1988 | 6 |
2 | Ronald Gomez | Costa Rica | 1996 | 6 |
4 | Freddy Adu | USA | 2008–2012 | 5 |
4 | Marco Fabián | Mexico | 2012 | 5 |
4 | Alan Pulido | Mexico | 2012 | 5 |
7 | Carl Gentile | USA | 1964 | 4 |
7 | Aaron Padilla | Mexico | 1964 | 4 |
7 | Leonard Cuellar | Mexico | 1972 | 4 |
7 | Mike Seeray | USA | 1972 | 4 |
7 | Hugo Sanchez | Mexico | 1976 | 4 |
7 | Alecko Eskandarian | USA | 2004 | 4 |
7 | Bobby Convey | USA | 2004 | 4 |
7 | Emil Martínez | Honduras | 2004 | 4 |
7 | Joe Corona | USA | 2012 | 4 |
7 | Anthony Lozano | Honduras | 2012–2015 | 4 |
7 | Erick Torres | Mexico | 2012–2015 | 4 |
7 | Alberth Elis | Honduras | 2015 | 4 |
7 | Jerome Kiesewetter | USA | 2015 | 4 |
7 | Sebastián Córdova | Mexico | 2020 | 4 |
Winners by country
Country | Titles | Runners-up |
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Mexico | 8 (1964, 1972, 1976, 1996, 2004, 2012, 2015, 2020) | 1 (1992) |
United States | 2 (1988*, 1992) | 4 (1972, 1980, 2000, 2008) |
Honduras | 2 (2000, 2008) | 3 (2012, 2015, 2020) |
Costa Rica | 2 (1980, 1984) | 1 (2004) |
Guatemala | 1 (1968*) | 3 (1972, 1976, 1988) |
El Salvador | 1 (1968*) | |
Argentina | 1 (1960) | |
Canada | 2 (1984, 1996) | |
Suriname | 1 (1964) | |
Peru | 1 (1960) |
* Final round winners (no outright winner)
Olympic qualification by nation
- As of 2024
Rank | Nation | OQ | Years qualified |
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1 | United States | 15 | 1904, 1924, 1928, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1972, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2024 |
2 | Mexico | 12 | 1928, 1948, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2012, 2016, 2020 |
3 | Honduras | 5 | 2000, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 |
4 | Canada | 3 | 1904, 1976, 1984 |
4 | Costa Rica | 3 | 1980, 1984, 2004 |
4 | Guatemala | 3 | 1968, 1976, 1988 |
7 | Cuba | 2 | 1976, 1980 |
8 | El Salvador | 1 | 1968 |
8 | Dominican Republic | 1 | 2024 |
8 | Curaçao | 1 | 1952 |
Curaçao have been expelled by IOC, but participant record is recognized by FIFA.
References
- ^ "Concacaf Men's Under-20 Championship to qualify teams to 2023 FIFA U-20 Men's World Cup and 2024 Summer Olympic Games". CONCACAF. 16 September 2021.
External links
- CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying (archived 15 February 2015)
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