The knockout stage of the
men's football tournament at the
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
was played from 13 to 20 August 2016. The top two teams from each group in the group stage qualified for the knockout stage.
All times are local,
BRT (
UTC−3).
Qualified teams
Bracket
In the knockout stages, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time,
extra time
Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played onl ...
was played (two periods of fifteen minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a
penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.
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.
Quarter-finals
Portugal vs Germany
Nigeria vs Denmark
South Korea vs Honduras
Brazil vs Colombia
Semi-finals
Brazil vs Honduras
Nigeria vs Germany
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
The final pitted host Brazil against defending world champions Germany, with both teams seeking their first Olympic title despite having won a combined nine World Cups. Both opposing coaches — Rogerio Micale for Brazil and Horst Hrubesch for Germany — downplayed the fact that the gold medal match was a rematch of the
2014 World Cup semi-final in Belo Horizonte, known in Brazil as the ''Mineirazo'' after Germany had won 7–1.
Brazil took the lead through a first-half free kick from Neymar, the senior team captain and one of the Brazilian players who had lost the gold medal match in the London 2012 Olympic tournament against Mexico at
Wembley
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. Opposing German captain
Max Meyer then equalised in the second half for Germany with a half-volley off a cross. Neither team was able to score again after 120 minutes, meaning the final went to penalties for the first time since 2000 when Cameroon had beaten Spain in a shootout in Sydney. Both teams scored on their first four penalties, with the breakthrough coming when
Weverton saved the German fifth penalty from substitute
Nils Petersen.
Neymar then converted Brazil's fifth penalty to seal Olympic gold for Brazil in football for the first time. Brazil's victory also meant that the team had won every major global tournament at least once (World Cup, Confederations Cup and Olympics) and was also the first host nation victory in an Olympic tournament since Spain won the Barcelona 1992 tournament.
References
External links
Football – Men Rio2016.com
FIFA.com
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knockout stage
A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...