US Olympic Info

Draws for Men’s and Women’s Tournaments to be Held in Paris at the Pulse Building, Headquarters for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games

CHICAGO (March 18, 2024) – 

The Women’s Olympic Tournament will feature 12 teams with those nations placed into four pots of three teams each, based on the FIFA/Coca-Cola Women’s World Rankings released on March 15.

The USWNT will be in Pot 1 with host France and 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup champion Spain. France will head Group A and be placed in A1, meaning the USA will be drawn into Group B or C, and placed at B1 or C1, respectively. The country drawn into B1 will play its first group match in Nice and its final two group matches in Marseille. The country drawn into C1 will play its first two group matches in Nantes and its third in Bordeaux. Two berths to the Women’s Olympic Soccer Tournament are still to be determined upon completion of qualifying in Africa. South Africa will face Nigeria and Morocco will face Zambia in home-and-home series to determine the final two berths to the Olympics. The two legs of those series’ will be played on April 5 and 9.

The USA is guaranteed to have Germany in its group as the USA cannot be drawn with Concacaf country Canada and Germany cannot be drawn with European countries France and Spain.

The Men’s Olympic Tournament will feature 16 teams with those nations placed into four pots of four teams each, on a ranking system created according to past sporting performance. The ranking system is based on the total number of points obtained in the last five editions of the Men’s Olympic Football Tournament (three points for a win, one point for a draw, no points for a loss) covering the 2020, 2016, 2012, 2008 and 2004 Olympics.

The U.S. Men’s Olympic Team is in Pot 3 with Egypt, a yet-to-qualify country from Asia and Mali. Four berths to the Men’s Olympic Soccer Tournament are still to be determined following the completion of April’s 16-team 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup in Qatar and a playoff between the fourth-place finisher in that tournament taking on the fourth-place finisher from Africa, Guinea.