1996_CONCACAF_Pre-Olympic_Tournament

1996 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament
Tournament details
Host country	Canada
Dates	10–19 May
Teams	6 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Mexico (4th title)
Runners-up	Canada
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	48 (3.2 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Rónald Gómez (4 goals)
	← 1992 2000 →

1996 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament

Ninth CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament, held in Canada

The 1996 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament was the ninth edition of the CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial, international, age-restricted association 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. It was held in Canada, from 10 and 19 May 1996.

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It was the first time in which teams that qualified for the Olympics were permitted to supplement their rosters with three players not restricted by age in its 18-man final list.^[1]

Mexico, as winners qualified for the 1996 Summer Olympics together with the United States who automatically qualified as hosts. Second-placed Canada later lost to Australia in the CONCACAF–OFC play-off and failed to qualify for the Olympics for the third consecutive time.

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Zone	Country	Method of qualification	Appearance¹	Last appearance	Previous best performance	Previous Olympic appearances (last)
North America	Canada (hosts)	Automatic	3rd	1992	Runners-up (1984)	1
North America	Mexico	First round winner	6th	1992	Winners (1964, 1972, 1976)	7
Central America	Costa Rica	First round winner	4th	1984	Winners (1980, 1984)	2
Central America	El Salvador	First round winner	3rd	1988	Winners (1968)	1
Caribbean	Jamaica	First round winner	2nd	1972	Fourth place (1972)	0
Caribbean	Trinidad and Tobago	First round winner	3rd	1988	Runners-up (1968)	0

Edmonton			Edmonton
Commonwealth Stadium	Clarke Stadium
Capacity: 60,081	Capacity: 20,000

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mexico (C)	5	5	0	0	12	1	+11	15	Qualification to 1996 Summer Olympics
2	Canada (H)	5	2	2	1	7	3	+4	8	Advance to play-offs
3	Costa Rica	5	2	1	2	9	9	0	7
4	Jamaica	5	2	0	3	7	11	−4	6
5	Trinidad and Tobago	5	1	1	3	6	10	−4	4
6	El Salvador	5	1	0	4	7	14	−7	3

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in Summer Olympics¹
United States	18 September 1990	11 (1904, 1924, 1928, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1972, 1984, 1988, 1992)
Mexico	17 May 1996	7 (1928, 1948, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1992)

1996_CONCACAF_Pre-Olympic_Tournament

1996 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament

Qualification

Qualified teams

Venues

Squads

Final round

Statistics

Goalscorers

Qualified teams for Summer Olympics

References

External links

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