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Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Women's Olympic Football tournament was held for the third time at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[1][2] The tournament featured 10 women's national teams from six continental confederations. The 10 teams were drawn into two groups of three and one group of four and each group played a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top teams from each group advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at Karaiskakis Stadium on 26 August 2004.

Qualification

Several qualification tournaments were held to determine the participating nations.[3]

Venues

The tournament was held in five venues across five cities:

Seeding

Originally, the tournament was planned to form two groups of five teams in the group stage, then play a knockout stage by four teams (two top teams in each group).[4]The format is later changed: the tournament is to form three groups of three or four teams in the group stage, then play a knockout stage by eight teams (two top teams in each group and two best third-placed teams from three groups).[5]

Squads

Match officials

Group stage

Competing countries were divided into three groups: two containing three teams (groups E and F) and one containing four teams (group G). Teams in each group played one another in a round-robin. The top two teams of each group advanced to the knockout stage, along with the third-placed team from the four-team group (group G) and the better-ranked third-placed team from the three-team groups (groups E and F).

Key:

Group E

Source: [citation needed]
Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos
Attendance: 10.104
Referee: Gaye (Senegal)
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 14.126
Referee: Ferreira-James (Guyana)
Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos
Attendance: 21.597
Referee: de Oliveira (Brazil)

Group F

Source: [citation needed]
Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras
Attendance: 14.657
Referee: Seitz (United States)
Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras
Attendance: 5.112
Referee: Ionescu (Romania)
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 26.338
Referee: Szokolai (Australia)

Group G

Source: [citation needed]
Pankritio Stadium, Heraklio
Attendance: 15.757
Referee: Palmqvist (Sweden)
Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki
Attendance: 25.152
Referee: Damková (Czech Republic)
Pankritio Stadium, Heraklio
Attendance: 8.857
Referee: D'Coth (India)
Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki
Attendance: 17.123
Referee: Damkova (Czech Republic)
Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras
Attendance: 7.214
Referee: Frai (Germany)
Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki
Attendance: 3.320
Referee: Ionescu (Romania)

Ranking of third-placed teams from groups of three

Source: [citation needed]

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras
Attendance: 2.531
Referee: D'Coth (India)
Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki
Attendance: 1.418
Referee: de Oliveira (Brazil)
Pankritio Stadium, Heraklio
Attendance: 3.012
Referee: Gaye (Senegal)
Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos
Attendance: 4.811
Referee: Damková (Czech Republic)

Semi-finals

Pankritio Stadium, Heraklio
Attendance: 5.165
Referee: Szokolai (Australia)
Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras
Attendance: 1.511
Referee: Ferreira-James (Guyana)

Bronze medal match

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 10,416
Referee: Kari Seitz (United States)

Gold medal match

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 10,416
Referee: Jenny Palmqvist (Sweden)[note 1]

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 55 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 2.75 goals per match. Cristiane of Brazil and Birgit Prinz of Germany finished as the top scorers of the tournament, with each scoring five goals.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Source: FIFA[3]

Assists

3 assists

2 assists

1 assist

Source: FIFA[3]

FIFA Fair Play Award

Japan and Sweden won the FIFA Fair Play Award, given to the team with the best record of fair play during the tournament. Every match in the final competition is taken into account but only teams that played at least three matches are eligible for the Fair Play Award.[3]

Tournament ranking

Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Source: FIFA[3]
(H) Hosts

Notes

  1. ^ Palmqvist was replaced by Dianne Ferreira-James (Guyana) after 90 minutes due to dehydration.

References

  1. ^ "SI.com – Wambach gives U.S. veterans golden parting gift in extra time – Thursday August 26, 2004 7:26PM". Sportsillustrated.cnn.com. 26 August 2004. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  2. ^ "SI.com – Writers – Michael Silver: Fitting farewell for U.S. soccer's Fab Five – Friday August 27, 2004 2:55PM". Sportsillustrated.cnn.com. 27 August 2004. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  3. ^ a b c d e Report and Statistics – Olympic Football Tournaments Athens 2004 (PDF). Zürich. 2004. Retrieved 5 February 2021. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ "Regulations of the Olympic Football Tournaments Games of the XXVIIIth Olympiad Athens 2004" (PDF). FIFA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 July 2004. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Olympic Football Tournaments: FIFA Emergency Committee approves venue and kick-off time for men's Final as well as format for women's competition". FIFA. 28 July 2003. Archived from the original on 20 April 2004. Retrieved 3 February 2017.

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