As with the other archery events, the men's team was a recurve archery event, held under the World Archery-approved 70-meter distance and rules.

The combined scores from the ranking round were used to seed the teams into a single-elimination bracket, with the top 4 teams receiving a bye into the second round (quarterfinals).

Each match consisted of four sets of 6 arrows, two per archer.

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

The ranking round records were broken during the 2012 competition by the South Korean team.