The 1996 Men's Olympic Football Tournament, played as part of the 1996 Summer Olympics, was hosted in Birmingham, Alabama, Washington, D.C., Orlando, Florida, Miami, Florida and Athens, Georgia. From 1992 onwards, male competitors should be under 23 years old and starting from this tournament, a maximum of three over-23 players are allowed per squad. The tournament featured 16 national teams from the six continental confederations. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four and each group played a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at Sanford Stadium on August 3, 1996. Competition schedule The match schedule of the tournament. Venues Qualification The following 16 teams qualified for the 1996 Olympic men's football tournament: Match officials Squads Group stage Group A Group B Group C Group D Knockout stage Quarter-finals Semi-finals Bronze medal match Gold medal match Final ranking Goalscorers With six goals, Hernán Crespo of Argentina and Bebeto of Brazil are the top scorers of the tournament. In total, 90 goals were scored by 55 different players, with four of them credited as own goals. 6 goals Hernán Crespo Bebeto 5 goals Ronaldinho 4 goals Marco Branca 3 goals Flávio Conceição Florian Maurice Nwankwo Kanu 2 goals Ariel Ortega Claudio López Aurelio Vidmar Christian Saba Csaba Madar Masakiyo Maezono Celestine Babayaro Jay-Jay Okocha Afonso Martins Óscar García Junyent Raúl González Brian Maisonneuve 1 goal Diego Simeone Gustavo Adrián López Mark Viduka Peter Tsekenis Juninho Paulista Antoine Sibierski Robert Pires Sylvain Legwinski Augustine Ahinful Charles Akonnor Ebenezer Hagan Felix Aboagye Tamás Sándor Kenichi Uemura Teruyoshi Ito Francisco Palencia José Manuel Abundis Daniel Amokachi Emmanuel Amunike Victor Ikpeba Nuno Capucho Nuno Gomes José Calado Paulo Alves Fuad Anwar Amin Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi Lee Ki-hyung Yoon Jong-hwan Santi Mohamed Mkacher Claudio Reyna Jovan Kirovski Own goals Roberto Carlos (playing against Nigeria) Afo Dodoo (playing against Brazil) Tadahiro Akiba (playing against Nigeria) Agustín Aranzábal (playing against Argentina) References External links Olympic Football Tournaments Atlanta 1996 – Men, FIFA.com RSSSF Summary FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4) Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics 1996 Summer Olympics events Sports in Athens, Georgia Men's events at the 1996 Summer Olympics