The first edition of the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
International football competition
The 2004 CONCACAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament was the first edition of the CONCACAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial international football tournament organised by CONCACAF to determine which women's national teams from the North, Central American and Caribbean region qualify for the Olympic football tournament. The tournament was held in Costa Rica from 25 February to 5 March 2004.
The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Mexico from 2 to 12 February 2004, but was later moved to Costa Rica.
The top two teams qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Greece as the CONCACAF representatives. The United States won the final 3–2 against Mexico, with both teams qualifying for the Olympics.
Qualification.
Canada, Costa Rica and the United States automatically qualified for the final tournament. The remaining five berths were allocated to the five group winners of the qualification tournament.
Qualified teams.
The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament. Mexico, the original hosts of the tournament, originally qualified automatically. However, after the tournament venue was changed, new hosts Costa Rica instead qualified automatically, while Mexico took Costa Rica's place in the qualifying competition.
Venues.
The matches were held at the Estadio Nacional, San José and the Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero, Heredia.
Group stage.
The top two teams from each group advanced to the semi-finals.
All times are local, CST ().
Tiebreakers.
The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:
Group A.
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Group B.
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Knockout stage.
Bracket.
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Semi-finals.
The semi-final winners qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Best XI.
The following players were included in CONCACAF's "Best XI" of the tournament.
Qualified teams for Summer Olympics.
The following two teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympic women's football tournament.
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. "Italic" indicates hosts for that year.
References.
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