The 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament (, ) was the 14th edition of the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial, international, age-restricted football tournament organised by the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) to determine which men's under-23 national teams from the South American region qualify for the Olympic football tournament. It was held in Venezuela from 20 January to 11 February 2024.

The top two teams qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics men's football tournament in France as the CONMEBOL representatives.

Teams All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.

TeamAppearance Previous best top-4 performance (holders)11th (1960, 1964, 1980, 2004, 2020)8th (1987)13th (1968, 1971, 1976, 1984, 1987, 1996, 2000)12th (1984, 2000)13th (1968, 1971, 1980, 1992)10th (1984, 1992)9th (1992)12th (1960)11th (1976) (hosts)10th (1980, 1996)

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2001 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team could register a maximum of 23 and a minimum of 19 players, including at least 3 goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 45 and 48).

Venues On 11 July 2022, CONMEBOL President Alejandro Domínguez announced that Venezuela would host the next CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament. Venezuela is hosting the tournament for the first time, becoming the ninth CONMEBOL nation to do so. On 14 October 2023, CONMEBOL announced Caracas, Valencia and Barquisimeto as the host cities. On 28 January 2024, Barquisimeto was withdrawn as host city because the playing field of the Estadio Metropolitano was not fit to host the games it had scheduled.

Estadio Brígido Iriarte in Caracas and Estadio Misael Delgado in Valencia will host the preliminary stage matches. The final stage matches, originally scheduled to be held at Estadio Metropolitano in Barquisimeto, were moved to Estadio Brígido Iriarte in Caracas.

CaracasValenciaEstadio Brígido IriarteEstadio Misael DelgadoCapacity: 10,000Capacity: 10,400

Draw The draw was held on 20 October 2023 at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay. Hosts Venezuela and defending champions Argentina were seeded into Group A and Group B, respectively, and assigned to position 1 in their group. The remaining eight teams were placed into four "pairing pots" based on their final ranking in the 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament (shown in brackets).

SeededPot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4 From each pot, the first team drawn was placed into Group A and the second team drawn was placed into Group B. In both groups, teams from pot 1 were allocated in position 2, teams from pot 2 in position 3, teams from pot 3 in position 4 and teams from pot 4 in position 5.

The draw resulted in the following groups:

+ Group ATeamA1A2A3A4A5+ Group BTeamB1B2B3B4B5

Match officials On 14 December 2023, the CONMEBOL Referee Commission announced 11 referees and 22 assistant referees appointed for the tournament.

Yael Falcón Pérez Assistants: Cristian Navarro and Facundo Rodríguez Gery Vargas Assistants: José Antelo, Edwar Saavedra and Carlos Tapia Flávio de Souza Assistants: Nailton Sousa and Luanderson De Lima Cristian Garay and Felipe González Assistants: Miguel Rocha and Juan Serrano Jhon Ospina Assistants: John León and Jhon Gallego

Augusto Aragón Assistants: Ricardo Baren and Andrés Tola Derlis López Assistants: Roberto Cañete and José Cuevas Roberto Pérez Assistants: Enrique Pinto and Stephen Atoche Gustavo Tejera Assistants: Carlos Barreiro, Andrés Nievas and Pablo Llarena Alexis Herrera Assistants: Lubin Torrealba and Alberto Ponte

Preliminary stage The top two teams of each group advance to the final stage.

All match times are in VET (UTC−4), as listed by CONMEBOL.

Tiebreakers In the preliminary stage, the teams were ranked according to points earned (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order (Regulations Article 20): Head-to-head result between tied teams; Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Fewer red cards; Fewer yellow cards; Drawing of lots.

Group A

Group B

Final stage The ranking of teams in the final stage is determined using the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage, with the exception of red and yellow card counts which carry over from the first stage (Regulations Article 21).

All match times are in VET (UTC−4), as listed by CONMEBOL.

Goalscorers

Qualified teams for the 2024 Summer Olympics The following two teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympic men's football tournament in France.

Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in Summer Olympics1 9 (1928, 1960, 1964, 1988, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2016, 2020) 2 (1992, 2004) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

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