Olympics - Intercontinental Play-offs

Olympic Games - Intercontinental play-offs (football intercontinental qualification play-offs for the Olympic tournament) - the decisive qualifying round used to allocate a half-berth between representatives of different confederations when the slot distribution provides an incomplete place. Regulations: the participants are national teams designated by continental qualifying competitions, most commonly the sides finishing in the position linked to a half-berth, the format is set by FIFA for each Olympic cycle and may be a single match at a neutral venue or a two-legged home-and-away tie, in a two-legged tie the winner is decided by aggregate goals and, if level, extra time of two 15-minute periods is played at the end of the second leg followed by a penalty shoot-out if still level, in a single match a draw after 90 minutes is resolved by extra time and then penalties, the preliminary competition is an under-23 competition with no overage players permitted, and the venue and operational details can be determined by FIFA, including staging a match at a neutral venue.