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Qualifiers

AFC

Round 1: home & away, 22 lowest ranked teams, winners advance to next round. Dates: 23 February and 9 March 2011;
Round 2: home & away 24 teams (11 winners + 13 highest ranked teams), winners advance to next round. Dates: 19 and 23 June 2011;
Round 3: 3 Groups of 4 teams, home & away. Winner of each Group qualifies for the OFTs London 2012. Dates: 21 September 2011 – 14 March 2012.

Play-off: the 2nd best teams of Round 3 will play one centralised round-robin tournament. 1 group of 3 teams. Dates: 25-29 March 2012. The winner will contest the play-off match with CAF.

      CAF

      Preliminary Round: Home & away, 14 teams, winners advance to next round. Dates: 8-10 October and 17-19 December 2010;
      First Round: Home & away, 32 teams (7 winners + 25 higher ranked teams), winners advance to next round: Dates: 25-27 March and 08-10 April 2011;
      Second Round: Home & away, 16 teams, winners advance to next round. Dates: 3-5 June and 17-19 June 2011;
      Final Tournament: Hosted by Morocco. Two groups with 4 teams, dates set as 26 November to 10 December 2011. The top three teams will represent CAF at the Olympic Football Tournament London 2012.
      Play-off: The fourth-placed team will contest the play-off match with the Asian team.

      Gabon beat Senegal in the opening semi-final on 6 December to become the first African team to qualify.
      Morocco became the second team to qualify after defeating Egypt in a semi-final on 7 December.
      Egypt became the third and final team to qualify, following a 2-0 win over Senegal in the third-placed play-off.
      Senegal will now play-off against the fourth-placed Asian team.
      • Egypt (EGY)
      • Gabon (GAB)
      • Morocco (MAR)

        UEFA

        By virtue of reaching the final of the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, Spain and Switzerland have qualified for London 2012. The third and final European place went to Belarus who defeated fellow defeated semi-finalists Czech Republic 1-0 in a play-off in Aalborg.

        • Belarus (BLR)
        • Spain (ESP)
        • Switzerland (SUI)

          CONCACAF

          The qualification tournament will be played in the USA from 22 March to 2 April 2012. The 8 participating teams will be divided into two groups of 4, with the group winners playing the runner-up from the other group in the semi-final stage. The two teams that reach the final will qualify for the men's Olympic Football Tournament in London.

              OFC

              The OFC Men’s Olympic Football Tournament Qualifier will take place in Lautoka, Fiji, from 12 – 27 March 2012, with the following teams participating: American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu. The winner of this tournament will qualify for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

                  CONMEBOL

                  Brazil and Uruguay, the two finalists at the CONMEBOL U-20 tournament in Peru, held from 16 January-12 February 2011, qualified directly for the Men's Olympic Football Tournament London 2012.
                  • Brazil (BRA)
                  • Uruguay (URU)

                    Host Country

                    GREAT BRITAIN, as the host country, qualifies automatically.
                    • Great Britain (GBR)