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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)
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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.

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.

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.

Qualification

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

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

Only final tournament.

Venues

The matches were played in Edmonton.

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

Squads

Final round

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

Canada	3–0	Jamaica
	Report

Mexico	3–0	El Salvador
	Report

Costa Rica	4–1	Trinidad and Tobago
	Report

El Salvador	3–1	Jamaica
	Report

Canada	0–0	Trinidad and Tobago

Mexico	4–0	Costa Rica

Jamaica	2–1	Costa Rica
	Report

Canada	4–2	El Salvador
	Report

Mexico	2–0	Trinidad and Tobago
	Report

Trinidad and Tobago	2–1	El Salvador
	Report

Canada	0–0	Costa Rica

Mexico	2–1	Jamaica
	Report

Jamaica	3–2	Trinidad and Tobago
	Report

Costa Rica	4–1	El Salvador
	Report

Canada	0–1	Mexico
	Report

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 48 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 3.2 goals per match.

6 goals

• Rónald Gómez

4 goals

• Cuauhtémoc Blanco
• Onandi Lowe

3 goals

• José Manuel Abundis
• Jesús Arellano

Qualified teams for Summer Olympics

The following two teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 1996 Summer Olympics, including the United States which qualified as hosts.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in Summer Olympics
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)

Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

1. "CONCACAF.com – Olympic Qualifying - Men - About". Archived from the original on 2015-09-05. Retrieved 2015-08-14.

External links

• RSSSF.com – Games of the XXVI. Olympiad | Football Qualifying Tournament

• International association football competitions hosted by Canada
• CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
• 1996 in CONCACAF football
• Football qualification for the 1996 Summer Olympics