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Football at the Athens Olympics begins two days before the opening ceremony on the 11th of August and progresses almost to the end of the Olympics on the 28th August. Football competition will take place at a number of stadiums around Greece in the cities of Athens, Volos, Heraklio, Thessaloniki, Patras.
One Gold Medal is up for grabs for Men and another for Women. Click of the following links for all the latest Football Results and Medals - live as they happen:
- Men's Football
- Women's Football
Keep up to date with the latest Olympics Football/Soccer news at our Football News Archives.
This year's Men's competition is wide open with Cameroon (Sydney's Gold Medal winner) and Brazil not qualifying. Korea could be a chance.
In the Women's competition the US and China are tipped to compete with previous Gold Medal winner, Norway and could feature in the Medals.
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Group B
Paraguay
Japan
Ghana
Italy
Group C
Argentina
Serbia-Montenegro
Tunisia
Australia
Group D
Costa Rica
Morocco
Iraq
Portugal
Women's Olympic football tournament
Group A
Sweden
Japan
Nigeria
Group B
Germany
China
Mexico
Group C
Greece
USA
Brazil
Australia
None of the top four men's teams from 2000, including gold medalist Cameroon and the fourth-place U.S. team, qualified. Four-time world under-20 champion Argentina is left as the favorite in the 16-team field, although the Olympic tournament is tough to gauge because rules restrict teams to players under 23, with three exemptions. 2003 World Cup winner Germany and the United States are favorites in women's event; defending champion Norway failed to qualify. Women's tournament consists of 10 teams split unevenly into three groups. Greece, as the host nation, earned an automatic bid to both fields.
