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Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

The women's football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held from 3 to 19 August 2016.[1] It was the 6th edition of the women's Olympic football tournament. Together with the men's competition, the 2016 Summer Olympics football tournament was held in six cities in Brazil, including Olympic host city Rio de Janeiro, which hosted the final at the Maracanã Stadium.[2] There were no player age restrictions for teams participating in the women's competition.

In March 2016, it was agreed that the competition would be part of IFAB's trial to allow a fourth substitute to be made during extra time.[3] The United States, gold medalists for the previous three Games, were eliminated by a penalty shoot-out defeat against Sweden in the quarter-finals. This marked the first time that the United States did not progress to the semi-finals of a major international tournament. For the first time since the introduction of the women's tournament in 1996, three matches in the knockout stage were decided by a penalty shoot-out (two quarter-finals and one semi-final).

Germany won their first gold medal by defeating Sweden 2–1 in the final.[4][5]Canada won bronze after beating host Brazil with the same scoreline in the bronze medal game.[6]

Competition schedule

The match schedule of the women's tournament was unveiled on 10 November 2015.[7][8]

Qualification

In addition to host nation Brazil, 11 women's national teams qualified from six separate continental confederations. FIFA ratified the distribution of spots at the Executive Committee meeting in March 2014.[9]

Venues

The tournament was held in seven venues across six cities:

Squads

The women's tournament was a full international tournament with no restrictions on age. Each team had to submit a squad of 18 players, two of whom must be goalkeepers. Each team might also have a list of four alternate players, who would replace any player in the squad in case of injury during the tournament.[18]

Match officials

On 2 May 2016, FIFA released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympics.[19]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Cui Yongmei (China PR) replaced Allyson Flynn (Australia) as assistant referee for the Germany v Canada group stage match.

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held on 14 April 2016, 10:30 BRT (UTC−3), at the Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro.[20] The 12 teams in the women's tournament were drawn into three groups of four teams.[21] The teams were seeded into four pots based on the FIFA Ranking of March 2016 (in brackets in the table).[22] The hosts Brazil were automatically assigned into position E1. No groups can contain more than one team from the same confederation.[23]

Group stage

The top two teams of each group and the two best third-placed teams advanced to the quarter-finals. The rankings of teams in each group were determined as follows:[18]

  1. points obtained in all group matches;
  2. goal difference in all group matches;
  3. number of goals scored in all group matches;

If two or more teams were equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings were determined as follows:

  2. points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  3. goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  4. number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  5. drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.

The groups were denoted as groups E, F and G to avoid confusion with the groups of the men's tournament which used designations A–D.

Group E

China vs Sweden
Source: Rio2016 & FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Estádio Olímpico João Havelange, Rio de Janeiro
Attendance: 13,439[24]
Referee: Teodora Albon (Romania)
Estádio Olímpico João Havelange, Rio de Janeiro
Attendance: 27,618[25]
Referee: Carol Chenard (Canada)
Estádio Olímpico João Havelange, Rio de Janeiro
Attendance: 25,000[26]
Referee: Esther Staubli (Switzerland)
Estádio Olímpico João Havelange, Rio de Janeiro
Attendance: 43,384[27]
Referee: Lucila Venegas (Mexico)
Arena da Amazônia, Manaus
Attendance: 38,415[28]
Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)
Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, Brasília
Attendance: 7,648[29]
Referee: Olga Miranda (Paraguay)

Group F

Canada vs Australia
Source: Rio2016 & FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Arena Corinthians, São Paulo
Attendance: 20,521[30]
Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)
Arena Corinthians, São Paulo
Attendance: 20,521[31]
Referee: Rita Gani (Malaysia)
Arena Corinthians, São Paulo
Attendance: 30,295[32]
Referee: Olga Miranda (Paraguay)
Arena Corinthians, São Paulo
Attendance: 37,475[33]
Referee: Anna-Marie Keighley (New Zealand)
Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador
Attendance: 5,115[34]
Referee: Esther Staubli (Switzerland)
Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, Brasília
Attendance: 8,227[35]
Referee: Ri Hyang-ok (North Korea)

Group G

Source: Rio2016 & FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Mineirão, Belo Horizonte
Attendance: 10,059[36]
Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)
Mineirão, Belo Horizonte
Attendance: 6,847[37]
Referee: Ri Hyang-ok (North Korea)
Mineirão, Belo Horizonte
Attendance: 11,782[38]
Referee: Claudia Umpierrez (Uruguay)
Mineirão, Belo Horizonte
Attendance: 8,505[39]
Referee: Gladys Lengwe (Zambia)
Arena da Amazônia, Manaus
Attendance: 30,557[40]
Referee: Teodora Albon (Romania)
Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador
Attendance: 7,350[41]
Referee: Lucila Venegas (Mexico)

Ranking of third-placed teams

Source: Rio2016
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Lots drawn by FIFA

Knockout stage

In the knockout stages, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.[18]

On 18 March 2016, the FIFA Executive Committee agreed that the competition would be part of the International Football Association Board's trial to allow a fourth substitute to be made during extra time.[3]

Quarter-finals

Brazil vs Australia
Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, Brasília
Attendance: 13,892[42]
Referee: Anna-Marie Keighley (New Zealand)
Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador
Attendance: 9,642[43]
Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)
Arena Corinthians, São Paulo
Attendance: 38,688[44]
Referee: Claudia Umpierrez (Uruguay)
Mineirão, Belo Horizonte
Attendance: 52,660[45]
Referee: Carol Chenard (Canada)

Semi-finals

Brazil vs Sweden
Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
Attendance: 70,454[46]
Referee: Lucila Venegas (Mexico)
Germany vs Canada
Mineirão, Belo Horizonte
Attendance: 5,641[47]
Referee: Ri Hyang-ok (North Korea)

Bronze medal match

Arena Corinthians, São Paulo
Attendance: 39,718[48]
Referee: Teodora Albon (Romania)

Gold medal match

Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
Attendance: 52,432[49]
Referee: Carol Chenard (Canada)

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 66 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.54 goals per match.

5 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Source: FIFA[50]

Assists

2 assists

1 assist

Source: FIFA[50]

FIFA Fair Play Award

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 reach the second stage of the competition are eligible for the Fair Play Trophy.[50]

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[50]
(H) Hosts

See also

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