The beginning of the 2024 Olympic Video games soccer match marks the start of the top of Brazil’s run of two consecutive titles within the males’s competitors.
The Selecao will, nevertheless, be proudly represented within the girls’s competitors, which begins a day later and incorporates a USA facet trying to win a record-extending fifth title.
Apart from three older gamers for every nation – together with the likes of Manchester Metropolis’s Julian Alvarez for Argentina and Paris St-Germain’s Achraf Hakimi for Morocco – the 18-player squads should comprise gamers aged below 23.
Right here’s comply with the entire motion, which heads to spectacular stadiums such because the Stade de Marseille and Stade de Lyon.
2️⃣ days to go! #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/NcdRHqBbKM
— New Zealand Soccer 🇳🇿 (@NZ_Football) July 22, 2024
The lads’s version begins on July 24 and finishes with the gold medal match on August 9 at PSG’s Parc des Princes dwelling.
The ladies’s match runs from July 25 till August 10, when the decider may also be performed on the Parc des Princes.
Essentially the most complete protection of the Olympics within the UK will probably be on Discovery+ and Eurosport, which can present greater than 3,800 hours of reside motion in complete from 7am to 10.30pm BST every day.
Their protection, which is on the market through TV and an app, is a part of a Warner Brothers Discovery deal in 2015 for the European TV rights which was reportedly value 1.3 billion euros.
Some viewers might want to purchase a subscription with the intention to tune in. Full particulars can be found on the Discovery+ web site.
BBC Sport may also cowl the overwhelming majority of occasions by a community TV channel and a second broadcast stream all through the Video games.
Followers can comply with the Olympics on BBC One, BBC Two, the BBC Sport web site and the BBC iPlayer app. Full particulars can be found on the BBC Sport web site.
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3️⃣ DAYS#OlyMNT | @Visa pic.twitter.com/0AQymG0O54— U.S. Soccer YNT (@USYNT) July 21, 2024
Males’s competitors
Hosts France are the favourites for the lads’s title, led by World Cup, Euro and Uefa Champions League winner Thierry Henry and captained by Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette.
Spain took silver on the Tokyo 2020 Video games and might name upon two Euro 2024 winners in Fermin Lopez and Alex Baena, whereas Alvarez is certainly one of 4 Argentina gamers concerned to have received the 2022 Fifa World Cup, alongside Nicolas Otamendi, Geronimo Rulli and Thiago Almada.
The quartet will probably be managed by two-time Olympic champion Javier Mascherano, who might turn out to be the primary man to win the Olympic males’s soccer match as a participant and coach, having executed so on the pitch on 2004 and 2008.
Morocco have by no means received an Olympic medal in soccer however reached the semi-finals of the final World Cup and are competing for the eighth time with the assistance of star identify Hakimi, having certified by successful the 2023 Beneath-23 Africa Cup of Nations.
Group A: France, USA, Guinea, New Zealand
Group B: Argentina, Morocco, Iraq, Ukraine
Group C: Uzbekistan, Spain, Egypt, Dominican Republic
Group D: Japan, Paraguay, Mali, Israel
Girls’s competitors
Whereas the USA males’s crew will begin as fifth-favourites for the title after they launch their marketing campaign in opposition to France, the USWNT are being tipped to achieve the ultimate for the primary time in three tournaments below former Chelsea supervisor Emma Hayes.
Spain are arguably stronger contenders, arriving for his or her first look within the girls’s competitors as world champions. Ballon d’Or Feminin winner Aitana Bonmati is sort of sure to be La Roja’s inspiration.
📌 Hoy trabajamos en el Stade L’Euraudiere.#JugarLucharYGanar I #UnSueñoCompartido pic.twitter.com/TauuNOu9Fx
— Selección Española Femenina de Fútbol (@SEFutbolFem) July 23, 2024
At 34, eight-time Champions League winner Wendie Renard will probably be key on the again for France in supervisor Herve Renard’s swansong, and 38-year-old all-time Brazil high scorer Marta will probably be aiming to increase her personal file by changing into the primary footballer to attain in six successive Olympic Video games.
Defending champions Canada are thought-about darkish horses alongside Colombia, with the likes of Japan, Australia and 2016 champions Germany among the many likelier candidates to triumph.
Group A: France, Colombia, Canada, New Zealand
Group B: USA, Zambia, Germany, Australia
Group C: Spain, Japan, Nigeria, Brazil
Group A schedule (all kick-off instances BST)
Wednesday, July 24
Guinea vs New Zealand – 4pm (Good)
France vs USA – 8pm (Marseille)
Saturday, July 27
New Zealand vs USA – 6pm (Marseille)
France vs Guinea – 8pm (Good)
Tuesday, July 30
New Zealand vs France – 6pm (Marseille)
USA vs Guinea – 6pm (Saint-Etienne)
Group B schedule
Wednesday, July 24
Argentina vs Morocco – 2pm (Saint-Etienne)
Iraq vs Ukraine – 6pm (Lyon)
Saturday, July 27
Argentina vs Iraq – 2pm (Lyon)
Ukraine vs Morocco – 4pm (Saint-Etienne)
Tuesday, July 30
Ukraine vs Argentina – 4pm (Lyon)
Morocco vs Iraq – 4pm (Good)
Group C schedule
Wednesday, July 24
Uzbekistan vs Spain – 2pm (Paris)
Egypt vs Dominican Republic – 4pm (Nantes)
The USA 🇺🇸 is dominating with 4 wins on the Olympics! pic.twitter.com/h8SxGHdBbN
— Soccerdonna (@soccerdonna) July 23, 2024
Saturday, July 27
Dominican Republic vs Spain – 2pm (Bordeaux)
Uzbekistan vs Egypt – 4pm (Nantes)
Tuesday, July 30
Dominican Republic vs Uzbekistan – 2pm (Paris)
Spain vs Egypt – 2pm (Bordeaux)
Group D schedule
Wednesday, July 24
Japan vs Paraguay – 6pm (Bordeaux)
Mali vs Israel – 8pm (Paris)
Saturday, July 27
Israel vs Paraguay – 6pm (Paris)
Japan vs Mali – 8pm (Bordeaux)
Simply two days to go till we face Ukraine in our #Paris2024 opener! ⌛#Iraq #LionsOfMesopotamia pic.twitter.com/dnXcmXauhD
— Iraq Nationwide Workforce (@IraqNT_EN) July 22, 2024
Tuesday, July 30
Paraguay vs Mali – 8pm (Paris)
Israel vs Japan – 8pm (Nantes)
Friday, August 2
QF 2: Group B winner vs Group A runner-up – 2pm (Paris)
QF 3: Group D winner vs Group C runner-up – 4pm (Lyon)
QF 4: Group C winner vs Group D runner up – 6pm (Marseille)
QF 1: Group A winner vs Group B runner-up – 8pm (Bordeaux)
Monday, August 5
Winner QF 1 vs Winner QF 3 – 5pm (Marseille)
Winner QF 2 vs Winner QF 4 – 8pm (Lyon)
Bronze medal match – males’s
Thursday, August 8 – 4pm (Nantes)
Friday, August 9 – 5pm (Paris)
Group A schedule (all kick-off instances BST)
Thursday, July 25
Canada vs New Zealand – 4pm (Saint-Etienne)
France vs Colombia – 8pm (Lyon)
Sunday, July 28
New Zealand vs Colombia – 4pm (Lyon)
France vs Canada – 8pm (Saint-Etienne)
Wednesday, July 31
New Zealand vs France – 8pm (Lyon)
Colombia vs Canada – 8pm (Good)
Group B schedule
Thursday, July 25
Germany vs Australia – 6pm (Marseille)
USA vs Zambia – 8pm (Good)
Gearing up for Germany ⚙️
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📺💻📱: Channel 9 & Stan Sport#Matildas #TilitsDone #Paris2024 #AllezAUS pic.twitter.com/xTmjtCUT6h— Matildas (@TheMatildas) July 23, 2024
Sunday, July 28
Australia vs Zambia – 6pm (Good)
USA vs Germany – 8pm (Marseille)
Wednesday, July 31
Zambia vs Germany – 6pm (Saint-Etienne)
Australia vs USA – 6pm (Marseille)
Group C schedule
Thursday, July 25
Spain vs Japan – 4pm (Nantes)
Nigeria vs Brazil – 6pm (Bordeaux)
Sunday, July 28
Brazil vs Japan – 4pm (Paris)
Spain vs Nigeria – 6pm (Nantes)
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— Equipe de France ⭐⭐ (@equipedefrance) July 22, 2024
Wednesday, July 31
Japan vs Nigeria – 4pm (Nantes)
Brazil vs Spain – 4pm (Bordeaux)
Saturday, August 3
QF 2: Group B winner vs Group C runner-up – 2pm (Paris)
QF 3: Group C winner vs third place Group A/B – 4pm (Lyon)
QF 4: Group A runner-up vs Group B runner-up – 6pm (Marseille)
QF 1: Group A winner vs third place Group B/C – 8pm (Nantes)
Tuesday, August 6
Winner QF 2 vs Winner QF 4 – 5pm (Lyon)
Winner QF 1 vs Winner QF 3 – 8pm (Marseille)
Bronze medal match – girls’s
Friday, August 9 – 2pm (Lyon)
Saturday, August 10 – 4pm (Paris)
