The
women'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 held from 3 to 19 August 2016. It was the 6th edition of the
women's Olympic football tournament
Football at the Summer Olympics, referred to as the Olympic Football Tournament, has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition sport, except 1896 (the inaugural Games) and 1932 (in an attempt to promote the new FIFA Wo ...
. Together with the men's competition, the
2016 Summer Olympics football tournament was held in six cities in
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
, including Olympic host city
Rio de Janeiro
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, which hosted the final at the
Maracanã Stadium
Maracanã Stadium ( pt, Estádio do Maracanã, standard Brazilian Portuguese: , local pronunciation: ), officially named Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho (), is an association football stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The stadium is part o ...
. 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
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's trial to allow a
fourth substitute to be made during
extra time
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.
2012 gold medalists the
United States
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, were eliminated in a loss against
Sweden
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in a penalty shoot-out in the quarter-finals. This marked the first time that the United States has not progressed to the semi-finals in 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.
Canada won bronze after beating host Brazil with the same scoreline in the bronze medal game.
Competition schedule
The match schedule of the women's tournament was unveiled on 10 November 2015.
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.
*Dates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments), various qualification stages may precede matches at these specific venues.
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England
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finished in the top three among UEFA teams in the World Cup, however England is not an IOC member and talks for them to compete as
Great Britain
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broke down.
*Nations making their Olympic tournament debut
Venues
The tournament was held in seven venues across six cities:
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Mineirão
Mineirão (), officially Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto (''Governor Magalhães Pinto Stadium'') is the largest football stadium in the state of Minas Gerais. It was established in 1965, and it is located in Belo Horizonte.
It served as a ...
,
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol ...
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Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha
Arena BRB Mané Garrincha, formerly Estádio Nacional de Brasília Mané Garrincha, also known as ''Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha'', ''Estádio Nacional de Brasília'', ''Arena Mané Garrincha'' or simply ''Mané Garrincha'', is a football ...
,
Brasília
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*
Arena da Amazônia
Arena da Amazônia (''Amazon Arena'') is a football stadium in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, located on the former site of the Vivaldão stadium. The stadium has an all-seater capacity of 44,300 and was constructed from 2010 to 2014 as part of Brazil ...
,
Manaus
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*
Estádio Olímpico João Havelange,
Rio de Janeiro
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*
Maracanã,
Rio de Janeiro
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Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova
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,
Salvador
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*
Arena Corinthians
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,
São Paulo
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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.
Match officials
On 2 May 2016,
FIFA
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released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympics.
Notes
Draw
The draw for the tournament was held on 14 April 2016, 10:30
BRT
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* Block register territory, a method for dispatching trains
* British Rail Telecommunications
* Brookhaven Rail Terminal
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(
UTC−3), at the
Maracanã Stadium
Maracanã Stadium ( pt, Estádio do Maracanã, standard Brazilian Portuguese: , local pronunciation: ), officially named Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho (), is an association football stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The stadium is part o ...
,
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...
. The 12 teams in the women's tournament were drawn into three groups of four teams. The teams were seeded into four pots based on the
FIFA Ranking
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of March 2016 (in brackets in the table). The hosts Brazil were automatically assigned into position E1. No groups can contain more than one team from the same confederation.
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:
# points obtained in all group matches;
# goal difference in all group matches;
# 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:
#
points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
# goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned;
# number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
# 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
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Group F
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Group G
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Ranking of third-placed teams
Knockout stage
In the knockout stages, if a match is 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 ...
is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out
The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pe ...
to determine the winner.
On 18 March 2016, the FIFA Executive Committee
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agreed that the competition would be part of the International Football Association Board
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's trial to allow a fourth substitute to be made during extra time.
Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Statistics
Goalscorers
Assists
FIFA Fair Play Award
Sweden
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won the FIFA Fair Play Award, given to the team with the best record of fair play
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during the tournament. Every match in the tournament was taken into account, though only teams that reached the knockout stage were eligible to win the award.
Tournament ranking
See also
* Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
The men's football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held in Rio de Janeiro and five other cities in Brazil from 4 to 20 August 2016. It was the 26th edition of the Football at the Summer Olympics, men's Olympic football tournament. Tog ...
References
External links
Football – Women
Rio2016.com
Women's Olympic Football Tournament, Rio 2016
FIFA.com
FIFA Technical Report
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