The men's Olympic qualifying tournament schedule is as follows:

September 6, 2024 Paris Olympic Games men's football program Asian qualifying tournament and 2024 Qatar U23 Asian Cup qualifying tournament will be formally started. China's men's national Olympic team will be located in the Barracuda Bay Stadium in Dalian, the first match with the strongest team in the same group, the United Arab Emirates.

Following the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China's men's national Olympic team has been absent from the final stage of three consecutive Olympic Games, and the task of impacting the 2024 Paris Olympics falls on the shoulders of a new generation of Chinese U23 players.

According to the rules, the top of the 11 groups and the second-best of the four groups with the best results in the Asian qualifiers will play host Qatar in the final stage of the tournament, which will be played in April next year. That means China's national Olympic team will have to take advantage of their home field and try to top the group if they want to take the initiative of qualifying into their own hands.

In the previous group draw, China's national Olympic team had relatively good luck, sharing Group G with the United Arab Emirates, India and the Maldives. In addition, China has also secured the hosting rights for Group G, so all the matches in Group G of the Asian qualifying round for the Olympics will be held in Dalian, which is undoubtedly a big plus for the Chinese national Olympic team.

According to the schedule, China's national Olympic team will face the strongest team in the group, the United Arab Emirates, in its first match on Sept. 6. A win in this match will undoubtedly be a solid step toward winning the first place in the group. Next, the Olympic team will face India on September 9th and Malaysia on September 12th.

Because of the age limit for the Olympics, all the players in the current Chinese national Olympic team were born in 2001 and later. The team is coached by former international soccer player Cheng Yaodong, and after a June training tour of Europe, the team has largely focused on flight training.

In mid-June, the team played two warm-up matches against the Uzbekistan national Olympic team at the national team training base in Xianghe, and organized two short training sessions in late July and mid-August. on Aug. 19, the national Olympic team held its last pre-tournament assembly in Dalian to prepare for the Olympic pre-tournament.

According to the preparation plan, the national Olympic team arranged two warm-up matches before the match with the United Arab Emirates. On Tuesday night, they played the first of the two warm-up matches against the visiting Turkmenistan national Olympic team at the Barracuda Bay Stadium outfield in Dalian, losing 0:2 due to two mistakes in the backline.