Colombia national under-23 football team

Colombia Olympic
Nickname(s)	Los Cafeteros (The Coffee growers)
Association	Federación Colombiana de Fútbol (FCF)
Confederation	CONMEBOL (South America)
Head coach	Héctor Cárdenas
FIFA code	COL
First colours	Second colours
First international
	Guatemala 2–1 Colombia ; (Guatemala City, Guatemala; 26 February 1950)
Biggest win
	Colombia 7–1 Dominican Republic ; (Cali, Colombia; 3 August 1971); Colombia 6–0 Bahamas ; (Cali, Colombia; 31 July 1971)
Biggest defeat
	Brazil 9–0 Colombia ; (Londrina, Brazil; 30 January 2000)
Olympic Games
Appearances	5 (first in 1968)
Best result	Quarter-finals (2016)
Medal record
Bolivarian Games
South American Games
Pan American Games
Central American and Caribbean Games

The Colombia national under-23 football team represents Colombia at the Summer Olympic Games and in international under-23 football competitions and is overseen by the Colombian Football Federation.

The team played its first match in 1950. From that year to 1992 the team played as a Colombia national amateur football team. Since 1992, the team played as Colombia national under-23 football team until 2004, when the qualification for the Olympic Games was changed to South American Youth Football Championship for under-20 teams (before this, the qualification tournament was CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament). The team was inactive since 2004, however with the qualification to the 2016 Summer Olympics qualification play-off the team was resurrected.

Competitive record

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

**Gold background colour indicates that the tournament was won.

***Red border colour indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Champions Runners-up Third Place Fourth Place

Olympic Games

Olympic Games record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1900	did not participate
1904
1908
1912
1920
1924
1928
1936
1948
1952	did not enter
1956	did not enter
1960	did not qualify
1964	did not qualify
1968	First stage	10th	3	1	0	2	4	5
1972	First stage	11th	3	1	0	2	5	12
1976	did not qualify
1980	First stage	11th	3	1	1	1	2	4
1984	did not qualify
1988	did not qualify
1992	First stage	14th	3	0	1	2	4	9
1996	did not qualify
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016	Quarter-finals	7th	4	1	2	1	6	6
2020	did not qualify
2024	did not qualify
Total	Quarter-finals	5/26	16	4	4	8	21	36

CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1960	First stage	10th	2	1	0	1	3	7
1964	Fourth place	4th	6	1	2	3	6	10
1968	Runners-up	2nd	6	4	1	1	10	7
1972	Runners-up	2nd	7	2	5	0	7	4
1976	Fourth place	4th	5	1	2	2	5	9
1980	Runners-up	2nd	6	3	1	2	10	5
1984	First stage	5th	2	0	0	2	1	5
1988	Fourth place	4th	7	4	1	2	7	4
1992	Runners-up	2nd	7	4	2	1	14	3
1996	Fourth place	4th	4	0	2	2	6	11
2000	First stage	6th	4	2	1	1	10	13
2004	Playoffs	6th	5	2	0	3	7	9
2020	Fourth place	4th	7	2	2	3	10	9
2024	First stage	10th	4	0	0	4	0	8
Total	Runners-up	14/14	72	26	19	27	96	100

Pan American Games

Pan American Games record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1951	did not participate
1955
1959
1963
1967	Preliminary round	8th	3	0	0	3	2	13
1971	Silver medal	2nd	8	5	2	1	21	7
1975	did not participate
1979
1983
1987	Preliminary round	11th	3	0	1	2	1	4
1991	did not participate
1995	Bronze medal	3rd	6	4	0	2	13	5
1999	did not participate
2003	Fourth place	4th	5	2	1	2	6	7
2007	Preliminary round	7th	3	1	1	1	1	1
2011	did not participate
2015
2019
2023	Sixth place	6th	4	1	1	2	2	4
Total	Silver medal	7/19	32	13	6	13	46	41

Schedule and results

Win Draw Loss

2024

12 January Friendly	Colombia	5–0	Dominican Republic	Romelio Martínez Stadium, Barranquilla
	Ruiz 22' Tanton 47' Cortés 55', 73' Perea 83'	Report

20 January 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	Ecuador	3–0	Colombia	Estadio Brígido Iriarte, Caracas
	Medina 71', 88' Zambrano 86'	Report		Referee: Yael Falcón Pérez (Argentina)

26 January 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	Brazil	2–0	Colombia	Estadio Brígido Iriarte, Caracas
	Endrick 25' John Kennedy 83'	Report		Referee: Cristian Garay (Chile)

29 January 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	Colombia	0–1	Venezuela	Estadio Brígido Iriarte, Caracas
		Report	Bolívar 34'	Referee: Roberto Pérez (Peru)

1 February 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	Colombia	0–2	Bolivia	Estadio Misael Delgado, Valencia
		Report	Briceño 9', 29'	Referee: Derlis López (Paraguay)

Players

Current squad

The following players were called up for the 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament.^[1]^[2] On 11 January, forwards Kener Valencia and Edwin Mosquera were ruled out due to injuries and were replaced by Nelson Quiñones and Alejandro García, respectively.^[3]^[4]

Caps and goals updated as 18 January 2024.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Sebastián Guerra	(2001-01-08)8 January 2001 (aged 22)	Atlanta United FC
2	2DF	Cristian Devenish (captain)	(2001-01-25)25 January 2001 (aged 21)	Atlético Nacional
3	2DF	Juan David Mosquera	(2002-09-05)5 September 2002 (aged 20)	Portland Timbers
4	2DF	Fernando Álvarez	(2003-08-24)24 August 2003 (aged 19)	CF Montréal
5	3MF	Josen Escobar	(2004-12-12)12 December 2004 (aged 18)	América de Cali
6	3MF	Nelson Palacio	(2001-06-16)16 June 2001 (aged 21)	Real Salt Lake
7	3MF	Juan Castilla	(2004-07-27)27 July 2004 (aged 18)	Deportivo Cali
8	2DF	Brayan Ceballos	(2001-05-24)24 May 2001 (aged 21)	Atlético Junior
9	4FW	Óscar Perea	(2005-09-27)27 September 2005 (aged 17)	Atlético Nacional
10	3MF	Daniel Ruiz	(2001-07-30)30 July 2001 (aged 21)	Millonarios
11	4FW	Andrés Gómez	(2002-09-12)12 September 2002 (aged 20)	Real Salt Lake
12	1GK	Alejandro Rodríguez	(2001-01-12)12 January 2001 (aged 22)	Deportivo Cali
13	1GK	Luis Marquinez	(2003-04-10)10 April 2003 (aged 19)	Atlético Nacional
14	3MF	Yani Quintero	(2002-07-17)17 July 2002 (aged 20)	Deportes Quindío
15	3MF	Jimer Fory	(2002-05-24)24 May 2002 (aged 20)	Deportivo Pereira
16	2DF	Devan Tanton	(2004-01-03)3 January 2004 (aged 19)	Fulham
17	4FW	Alejandro García	(2001-02-28)28 February 2001 (aged 21)	Once Caldas
18	3MF	Jhojan Torres	(2003-01-12)12 January 2003 (aged 20)	Santa Fe
19	4FW	Carlos Cortés	(2001-09-17)17 September 2001 (aged 21)	Cortuluá
20	4FW	Óscar Cortés	(2003-12-03)3 December 2003 (aged 19)	Lens
21	4FW	Brahian Palacios	(2002-11-24)24 November 2002 (aged 20)	Atlético Nacional
22	4FW	Nelson Quiñones	(2002-08-20)20 August 2002 (aged 20)	Houston Dynamo FC
23	2DF	Samuel Velásquez	(2003-05-29)29 May 2003 (aged 19)	Atlético Nacional

Notes

Recent call-ups

The following players have been recently called up in the last 12 months.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up

Honours

Pan American Games:
- Silver Medalists (1): 1971
- Bronze Medalists (1): 1995
CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament:
- Runners-up (4): 1968, 1971, 1980, 1992
- Fourth place (4): 1964, 1976, 1987, 2020
Central American and Caribbean Games
- Gold Medalists (3): 1946, 2006, 2018
- Silver Medalists (1): 2014
- Bronze Medalists (3): 1938, 1954, 1970
South American Games:
- Gold Medalists (3): 1994, 2010, 2014
- Silver Medalists (1): 1986
- Bronze Medalists (2): 1990, 2018
Bolivarian Games
- Gold Medalists (5): 1951, 1997, 2005, 2013, 2017
- Silver Medalists (6): 1961, 1973, 1981, 1985, 1993, 2001

Friendlies

Torneo de las Americas^[5]:
- Winners: 1994

Notes

References

^ "Convocatoria de la Selección Colombia Masculina Sub 23 para el CONMEBOL Preolímpico 2024" [Call-up of the Colombia U23 Men's National Team for the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic 2024] (in Spanish). Colombian Football Federation. 5 January 2024.
^ Calderón, Juan (5 January 2024). "Selección Colombia Sub-23: esta es la convocatoria para el Torneo Preolímpico" [Colombia U23 National Team: this is the call-up list for the Pre-Olympic Tournament] (in Spanish). Caracol Radio.
^ "Modificación en la convocatoria de la Selección Colombia Sub 23" (in Spanish). Colombian Football Federation. 11 January 2024.
^ "Modificación en la convocatoria de la Selección Colombia Sub 23" (in Spanish). Colombian Football Federation. 11 January 2024.
^ "Torneo de las Americas U-23 Colombia 1994". RSSSF. Retrieved 11 February 2022.

[1] "Convocatoria de la Selección Colombia Masculina Sub 23 para el CONMEBOL Preolímpico 2024" [Call-up of the Colombia U23 Men's National Team for the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic 2024] (in Spanish). Colombian Football Federation. 5 January 2024.

[2] Calderón, Juan (5 January 2024). "Selección Colombia Sub-23: esta es la convocatoria para el Torneo Preolímpico" [Colombia U23 National Team: this is the call-up list for the Pre-Olympic Tournament] (in Spanish). Caracol Radio.

[3] "Modificación en la convocatoria de la Selección Colombia Sub 23" (in Spanish). Colombian Football Federation. 11 January 2024.

[4] "Modificación en la convocatoria de la Selección Colombia Sub 23" (in Spanish). Colombian Football Federation. 11 January 2024.

[5] "Torneo de las Americas U-23 Colombia 1994". RSSSF. Retrieved 11 February 2022.

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