CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship

The CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship was a quadrennial, international, age-restricted 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. The competition format had varied since its inception, from 1996 to the final edition in 2020 it had been hosted in a single country.

On 16 September 2021, CONCACAF announced that the representatives at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games will qualify through the 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship. The two finalists at the Concacaf U20 tournament will qualify for the Olympics in 2024.

Past tournaments

Note: The Olympic football teams are represented by under-23 teams, since 1992.

Year	Host	Champions	2nd place	3rd place	4th place
Olympic teams (represented by amateur teams)
1964 Details	Mexico	Mexico	Suriname	United States	Panama
1968 Details	No fixed host	No outright winner (El Salvador and Guatemala were final round winners)		No outright third-placed team (Costa Rica and Trinidad and Tobago were final round losers)
1972 Details	No fixed host	Mexico	United States	Guatemala	Jamaica
1976 Details	No fixed host	Mexico	Guatemala	Cuba	—
1980 Details	No fixed host	Costa Rica	United States	Suriname	—
1984 Details	No fixed host	Costa Rica	Canada	Cuba	—
1988 Details	No fixed host	No outright winner (Mexico and United States were final round winners)	No outright runners-up (Guatemala and Trinidad and Tobago were final round runners-up)	No outright third-placed team (El Salvador and Guyana were final round third-placed)	—
Olympic teams (represented by under-23 teams)
1992 Details	No host	United States	Mexico	Canada	Honduras
1996 Details	Canada	Mexico	Canada	Costa Rica	Jamaica
2000 Details	United States	Honduras	United States	Mexico	Guatemala
2004 Details	Mexico	Mexico	Costa Rica	Honduras	United States
2008 Details	United States	Honduras	United States	Canada	Guatemala
2012 Details	United States	Mexico	Honduras	El Salvador	Canada
2015 Details	United States	Mexico	Honduras	United States	Canada
2020 Details	Mexico	Mexico	Honduras	United States	Canada

Top goalscorers by year

1964

• Carl Gentile (4 goals)
• Aaron Padilla (4 goals)

1968

• Juan Ramon Martinez (3 goals)

1972

• Leonard Cuellar (4 goals)
• Mike Seeray (4 goals)

1976

• Hugo Sanchez (4 goals)

1980

• Don Ebert (3 goals)
• Javier Jimenez (3 goals)

1984

• Mike Sweeney (2 goals)

1988

• Brent Goulet (6 goals)

1992

• Steve Snow (8 goals)

1996

• Ronald Gomez (6 goals)

2000

• Chris Albright (2 goals)
• Josh Wolff (2 goals)
• Joaquin Beltran (2 goals)
• Carlos Ruiz (2 goals)
• David Suazo (2 goals)

2004

• Alecko Eskandarian
• Bobby Convey
• Emil Martinez

2008

• Freddy Adu (4 goals)

2012

• Marco Fabian (5 goals)
• Alan Pulido (5 goals)

2015

• Alberth Elis (4 goals)
• Jerome Kiesewetter (4 goals)

2020

• Sebastián Córdova (4 goals)

Overall top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Country	Year(s)	U-23 Goals
1	Steve Snow	USA	1992	8
2	Brent Goulet	USA	1988	6
2	Ronald Gomez	Costa Rica	1996	6
4	Freddy Adu	USA	2008–2012	5
4	Marco Fabián	Mexico	2012	5
4	Alan Pulido	Mexico	2012	5
7	Carl Gentile	USA	1964	4
7	Aaron Padilla	Mexico	1964	4
7	Leonard Cuellar	Mexico	1972	4
7	Mike Seeray	USA	1972	4
7	Hugo Sanchez	Mexico	1976	4
7	Alecko Eskandarian	USA	2004	4
7	Bobby Convey	USA	2004	4
7	Emil Martínez	Honduras	2004	4
7	Joe Corona	USA	2012	4
7	Anthony Lozano	Honduras	2012–2015	4
7	Erick Torres	Mexico	2012–2015	4
7	Alberth Elis	Honduras	2015	4
7	Jerome Kiesewetter	USA	2015	4
7	Sebastián Córdova	Mexico	2020	4

Winners by country

Country	Titles	Runners-up
Mexico	8 (1964, 1972, 1976, 1996, 2004, 2012, 2015, 2020)	1 (1992)
United States	2 (1988*, 1992)	4 (1972, 1980, 2000, 2008)
Honduras	2 (2000, 2008)	3 (2012, 2015, 2020)
Costa Rica	2 (1980, 1984)	1 (2004)
Guatemala	1 (1968*)	3 (1972, 1976, 1988)
El Salvador	1 (1968*)
Argentina	1 (1960)
Canada		2 (1984, 1996)
Suriname		1 (1964)
Peru		1 (1960)

^* Final round winners (no outright winner)

Olympic qualification by nation

As of 2024

Rank	Nation	OQ	Years qualified
1	United States	15	1904, 1924, 1928, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1972, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2024
2	Mexico	12	1928, 1948, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2012, 2016, 2020
3	Honduras	5	2000, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020
4	Canada	3	1904, 1976, 1984
4	Costa Rica	3	1980, 1984, 2004
4	Guatemala	3	1968, 1976, 1988
7	Cuba	2	1976, 1980
8	El Salvador	1	1968
8	Dominican Republic	1	2024
8	Curaçao	1	1952

Curaçao have been expelled by IOC, but participant record is recognized by FIFA.

External links

• CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying (archived 15 February 2015)