2004 CONCACAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament

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 [Football at the 2004 Football at the Summer Olympics|Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|2004 Summer Football at the Summer Olympics|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.

Team	Zone	Method of qualification	Previous Olympics
	NAFU	Automatic	0
	UNCAF	Automatic	0
	CFU	Group 3 winner	0
	CFU	Group 2 winner	0
	NAFU	Group 4 winner	0
	UNCAF	Group 5 runner-up	0
	CFU	Group 1 winner	0
	NAFU	Automatic	2

Venues

The matches were held at the Estadio Nacional, San José and the Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero, Heredia.

	San José	Heredia
	Estadio Nacional	Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero
	Capacity: 25,000	Capacity: 8,700

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:

Points obtained in all group matches ;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Number of goals scored in all group matches;
Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
Play-off on neutral ground.

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals

The semi-final winners qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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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.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in Summer Olympics^[\|1]
		0
		2