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All 16 Teams Qualified For The Tokyo Olympic Games Revealed

All 16 Teams Qualified For The Tokyo Olympic Games Revealed

With the final two teams that have secured qualification for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games having been confirmed, here are all the 16 teams that have qualified, including South Africa's U23 side. Have a look at who Amaglug-glug could face in Japan!

Click through the gallery above to see every men's football team that has qualified for this year's Olympics.

Honduras and Mexico secured their ticket this week after beating the USA and Canada in the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, respectively.

The two sides progressed to the final of that competition to ensure their place at the Tokyo Olympics, which will take place between 21 July and 7 August.

The draw for the Olympic men's and women's football tournaments will take place on 21 April at FIFA's headquarters, where South Africa's U23 side will find out which teams they will face in the group stage.

Amaglug-glug qualified after finishing third at the U23 Africa Cup of Nations in 2019, with Egypt and Ivory Coast being the other two representatives from CAF.

"I am extremely thrilled that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Football Tournament draws are finally upon us – an exciting milestone in our preparations to host Olympic football once more after Tokyo 1964, as well as to welcome the women's game to an Olympic Games in Japan for the first time," Mikako Kotani, Tokyo 2020 sports director, told FIFA's official website.

At the tournament, David Notoane's men could face representatives from the Europe, Asia, Oceania, CONCACAF and CONMEBOL regions, as well as hosts Japan – have a look through the gallery above to see all the teams that have qualified!

Amaglug-glug will hope to do better than their group-stage exit at the 2016 Olympics, where they made some early headlines when they held eventual winners and hosts Brazil to a goalless draw, but were only able to add one more point to their tally in the matches that followed.

Read: All 23 Teams Who've Already Qualified For AFCON Revealed

Sadly, Banyana Banyana missed out on qualifying for the women's tournament after being eliminated by Botswana in the second round of the 2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, which was won by Zambia, who will be Africa's only representative in Tokyo.

There are no age restrictions on women's teams, while men's teams are restricted to under-24 players (born on or after 1 January 1997) with a maximum of three overage players allowed.

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