Talk:Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

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Note for the postpone of Vietnam - Afghanistan match in Hanoi on 7th February 2007. [the-AFC.com news] [AFP news]

Regulations

[See Article 23] for tie-breaking rules.

Tie-breakers in the AFC

The document assumes that head-to-head results are the first tie-breaker for the AFC qualification (that is why Australia is deemed qualified in the men's section and why Thailand is ahead of South Korea is its women's group.

But, is that the case? The latest posts on the AFC website [Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, DPR Korea and Iraq sail through] for example, suggest this is not so - and that goal difference is the tie-breaker. I do not know the true position, but GD was the tie-breaker in all cases for Athens (or, according to the FIFA regs it should have been).Jlsa 12:58, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Split

Is time to split i think, 41KB, if i read it, i will bored. Split to men and women qualification separately. --Aleen f1 17:07, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uefa

Why is england (or GBR) not qualified for the Olympics? They did make the semi-final in the European Under 21 championship.

Great Britain has never participated in Olympic football since each nation has a different association. Azuran 20:43, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Great Britain regularly competed in the Olympics - although the last time they made the finals was 1960 (their final match was a 3-2 win over Taiwan!). They stopped attempting to qualify after the 1972 Olympics once the distinction between professional and amateur in British football was completely eliminated.Jlsa 23:45, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - In football each respective country in the UK has their own representative, whereas the UK as a whole competes in the Olympics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.62.183.134 (talk) 19:10, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CONCACAF

The CONCAF section is taking a lot of space relative to other confederations, and we already have 2008 CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament with the same information. If no one has objections, I will just move the content over to the sub-article and leave a wikilink there. The semifinals are tomorrow (March 20) and the two finalists will qualify, so for the purpose of this article, that's all we need, I think. --Mosmof (talk) 16:03, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]