This is a list of all-time overage players (also known as wild card players in some countries) in Olympic football since the 1996 tournament.
Since the 1992 tournament, male squads have been required to consist of players under 23 years old; since 1996, a maximum of three players over the age of 23 have been allowed per squad.
Overage players rules in Olympic football have influenced other competitions like Asian Games football, Pan American Games football, and African Games football.
Africa (CAF) Algeria Overage players of Algeria national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Abdelghani Demmou (DF) Sofiane Bendebka (MF) Baghdad Bounedjah (FW)
Cameroon Overage players of Cameroon national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Serge Mimpo (DF) Patrick M'Boma (FW)did not select Antonio Ghomsi (DF) Gustave Bebbe (FW)did not select
Egypt Overage players of Egypt national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Ahmed Fathy (DF) Mohamed Aboutrika (MF) Emad Moteab (FW) Mohamed El Shenawy (GK) Ahmed Hegazi (DF) Mahmoud Hamdy (DF) Mohamed Elneny (MF) Zizo (MF)did not select
Gabon Overage players of Gabon national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Didier Ovono (GK) Bruno Ecuele Manga (DF)did not select
Ghana Overage players of Ghana national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Joe Addo (DF)did not select Baffour Gyan (FW)did not select
Guinea Overage players of Guinea national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Amadou Diawara (MF) Naby Keïta (MF) Abdoulaye Touré (MF)
Ivory Coast Overage players of Ivory Coast national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 did not select Eric Bailly (DF) Franck Kessié (MF) Max Gradel (FW)
Mali Overage players of Mali national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Fousseiny Tangara (GK)did not select Salam Jiddou (MF) Demba Diallo (FW)did not select
Morocco Overage players of Morocco national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 El Houssaine Ouchla (DF) Adel Chbouki (MF) Salaheddine Bassir (FW) Nadir Lamyaghri (GK) Otmane El Assas (MF) Bouchaib El Moubarki (FW) Houssine Kharja (MF) Nordin Amrabat (FW)did not select Munir Mohamedi (GK) Achraf Hakimi (DF) Soufiane Rahimi (FW)
Nigeria Overage players of Nigeria national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Uche Okechukwu (DF) Emmanuel Amunike (MF) Daniel Amokachi (FW) Godwin Okpara (DF) Garba Lawal (MF)did not select Peter Odemwingie (FW)did not select Daniel Akpeyi (GK) Mikel John Obi (MF)did not select
Senegal Overage players of Senegal national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Papa Gueye (DF) Mohamed Diamé (MF)did not select
South Africa Overage players of South Africa national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Brian Baloyi (GK) Dumisa Ngobe (MF)did not select Itumeleng Khune (GK) Eric Mathoho (DF)did not select Ronwen Williams (GK)did not select
Tunisia Overage players of Tunisia national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Chokri El Ouaer (GK)did not select Khaled Fadhel (GK) José Clayton (DF) Mohamed Jedidi (MF)
Asia (AFC) Australia Overage players of Australia men's national under-23 soccer team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Steve Horvat (MF) Aurelio Vidmar (FW) did not select Stan Lazaridis (MF) Josip Skoko (MF) Mark Viduka (FW) Craig Moore (DF) Tim Cahill (MF) John Aloisi (FW) Jade North (DF) David Carney (MF) Archie Thompson (FW) Mitchell Duke (FW) did not select
China Overage players of China national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Li Weifeng (DF) Zheng Zhi (MF) Han Peng (FW)
Iraq Overage players of Iraq national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Haidar Abdul-Jabar (DF) Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail (MF) Razzaq Farhan (FW) Ahmed Ibrahim (DF) Saad Abdul-Amir (MF) Hammadi Ahmed (FW) Saad Natiq (DF) Ibrahim Bayesh (MF) Aymen Hussein (FW)
Japan Overage players of Japan national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 did not select Seigo Narazaki (GK) Ryuzo Morioka (DF) Atsuhiro Miura (MF) Hitoshi Sogahata (GK) Shinji Ono (MF)did not select did not select Maya Yoshida (DF) Yūhei Tokunaga (DF)did not select Hiroki Fujiharu (DF) Tsukasa Shiotani (DF) Shinzo Koroki (FW) Maya Yoshida (DF) Hiroki Sakai (DF) Wataru Endo (MF) did not select
Kuwait Overage players of Kuwait national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Jamal Mubarak (DF) Abdullah Wabran (DF) Esam Sakeen (MF)
Saudi Arabia Overage players of Saudi Arabia national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi (DF) Fuad Anwar (MF) Hamzah Idris Falatah (FW) Yasser Al-Shahrani (DF) Salman Al-Faraj (MF) Salem Al-Dawsari (MF)
South Korea Overage players of South Korea national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Lee Lim-saeng (DF)Lee Kyung-chun(DF) Ha Seok-ju (MF) Hwang Sun-hong (FW) Kang Chul (DF) Kim Sang-sik (DF) Kim Do-hoon (FW) Yoo Sang-chul (MF) Chung Kyung-ho (FW)did not select Kim Dong-jin (DF) Kim Jung-woo (MF)did not select Jung Sung-ryong (GK) Kim Chang-soo (DF) Park Chu-young (FW) Jang Hyun-soo (DF) Suk Hyun-jun (FW) Son Heung-min (FW) Park Ji-soo (DF) Kwon Chang-hoon (MF) Hwang Ui-jo (FW)
United Arab Emirates Overage players of United Arab Emirates national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Ali Khasif (GK) Ismail Al Hammadi (MF) Ismail Matar (FW)
Uzbekistan Overage players of Uzbekistan national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Husniddin Aliqulov (DF) Eldor Shomurodov (FW) Oston Urunov (FW)
Europe (UEFA) Belarus Overage players of Belarus national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Renan Bressan (MF) Stanislaw Drahun (MF) Sergei Kornilenko (FW)
Belgium Overage players of Belgium national under-21 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Sepp De Roover (DF) Maarten Martens (MF)did not select
Czech Republic Overage players of Czech Republic national under-21 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 did not select
Denmark Overage players of Denmark national under-21 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Edigeison Gomes (DF) Lasse Vibe (FW) Emil Larsen (FW)
France Overage players of France Olympic football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 did not select Téji Savanier (MF) Florian Thauvin (FW) André-Pierre Gignac (FW) Loïc Badé (DF) Alexandre Lacazette (FW) Jean-Philippe Mateta (FW)
Great Britain Overage players of Great Britain Olympic football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Micah Richards (DF) Ryan Giggs (MF) Craig Bellamy (FW)
Greece Overage players of Greece national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Konstantinos Nebegleras (MF)Miltiadis Sapanis (MF)Ieroklis Stoltidis (MF)
Germany Overage players of Germany Olympic football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Sven Bender (MF) Lars Bender (MF) Nils Petersen (FW) Maximilian Arnold (MF) Max Kruse (FW)did not select
Hungary Overage players of Hungary national under-21 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 did not select
Israel Overage players of Israel Olympic football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Sean Goldberg (DF) Omri Gandelman (MF)did not select
Italy Overage players of Italy national under-21 football team TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Gianluca Pagliuca (GK) Massimo Crippa (MF) Marco Branca (FW) did not select Matteo Ferrari (DF) Andrea Pirlo (MF)did not select Tommaso Rocchi (FW)did not select
Netherlands Overage players of Netherlands national under-21 football team TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Kew Jaliens (DF) Gerald Sibon (FW) Roy Makaay (FW)
Portugal Overage players of Portugal Olympic football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Rui Bento (DF) Paulo Alves (FW) Capucho (FW) Nuno Frechaut (DF) Fernando Meira (DF) Luís Boa Morte (FW) André Martins (MF) Sérgio Oliveira (MF) Salvador Agra (FW)
Romania Overage players of Romania national under-21 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Florin Ștefan (DF)did not select
Serbia Overage players of Serbia national under-21 football team TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 did not select Vladimir Stojković (GK) Aleksandar Živković (MF) Miljan Mrdaković (FW)
Slovakia Overage players of Slovakia national under-21 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Martin Lipčák (GK) Radoslav Kráľ (DF) Michal Pančík (MF)
Spain Overage players of Spain national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 did not select did not select Juan Mata (MF) Javi Martínez (MF) Adrián López (FW) Mikel Merino (MF) Dani Ceballos (MF) Marco Asensio (FW) Juan Miranda (DF) Sergio Gómez (FW) Abel Ruiz (FW)
Sweden Overage players of Sweden national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Alexander Milošević (DF) Abdul Khalili (MF) Astrit Ajdarević (MF)
Switzerland Overage players of Switzerland national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Diego Benaglio (GK) Timm Klose (DF) Xavier Hochstrasser (MF)
Ukraine Overage players of Ukraine national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Maksym Talovyerov (DF) Dmytro Kryskiv (MF)did not select
North America, Central America and Caribbean (CONCACAF) Costa Rica Overage players of Costa Rica national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Whayne Wilson (FW)did not select
Dominican Republic Overage players of Dominican Republic national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Luiyi de Lucas (DF) Heinz Mörschel (MF)did not select
Honduras Overage players of Honduras national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 did not select Samuel Caballero (DF) Emil Martínez (MF) Carlos Pavón (FW) Maynor Figueroa (DF) Roger Espinoza (MF) Jerry Bengtson (FW) Johnny Palacios (DF) Romell Quioto (FW)did not select Brayan Moya (MF) Jorge Benguché (FW)did not select
Mexico Overage players of Mexico national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Jorge Campos (GK) Claudio Suárez (DF) Luis García (MF) Israel López (MF) Antônio Naelson "Sinha" (MF) Omar Bravo (FW) José Jesús Corona (GK) Carlos Salcido (DF) Oribe Peralta (FW) Alfredo Talavera (GK) Jorge Torres Nilo (DF) Oribe Peralta (FW) Guillermo Ochoa (GK) Luis Romo (MF) Henry Martín (FW)
United States Overage players of United States men's national under-23 soccer team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Kasey Keller (GK) Alexi Lalas (DF)did not select Brad Friedel (GK) Jeff Agoos (DF) Frankie Hejduk (MF) Brad Guzan (GK) Michael Parkhurst (DF) Brian McBride (FW) Miles Robinson (DF) Walker Zimmerman (DF) Djordje Mihailovic (MF)
Oceania (OFC) Fiji Overage players of Fiji national under-23 football team TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Simione Tamanisau (GK) Alvin Singh (DF) Roy Krishna (FW)
New Zealand Overage players of New Zealand men's national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 Ryan Nelsen (DF) Simon Elliott (MF) Chris Killen (FW) Ryan Nelsen (DF) Michael McGlinchey (MF) Shane Smeltz (FW) Winston Reid (DF) Michael Boxall (DF) Chris Wood (FW) Michael Boxall (DF) Joe Bell (MF) Sarpreet Singh (MF)
South America (CONMEBOL) Argentina Overage players of Argentina national under-23 football team
TournamentPlayer 1Player 2Player 3 José Chamot (DF) Roberto Sensini (DF) Diego Simeone (MF) Roberto Ayala (DF) Gabriel Heinze (DF) Kily González (MF) Nicolás Pareja (DF) Javier Mascherano (MF) Juan Román Riquelme (MF) Gerónimo Rulli (GK) Víctor Cuesta (DF)did not select Jeremías Ledesma (GK)did not select Gerónimo Rulli (GK) Nicolás Otamendi (DF) Julián Álvarez (FW)
Brazil