Twelve teams are scheduled to compete in the

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Table

*Dates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments), various qualification stages may precede matches at these specific venues.

2018 Copa América

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 ...

earned an Olympic qualification place by winning the Copa América.

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advanced to the

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against

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, the second-place team from the CAF qualifying tournament.

Qualified teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.

First stage

Group A

Group B

Final stage

2018 OFC Nations Cup

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earned an Olympic qualification place by winning the Nations Cup.

Qualified teams

All 11 OFC member national teams entered the tournament. The top seven ranked teams advanced to the final automatically, with the remaining four competing in a qualification stage for the final place. Tahiti and New Caledonia, as French administrative divisions, were not eligible to compete at the Women's Olympic Football Tournament.

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Final stage

UEFA qualification through the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup

Nine teams from UEFA competed at the

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, with the three best-placed European teams earning an Olympic qualification place. Three UEFA teams reached the semi-finals of the World Cup, which earned an Olympic qualification place for

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(through

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's performance),

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and Sweden, with Sweden eliminating reigning Olympic champions

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. Great Britain qualified through England's performance in the World Cup (a procedure already successfully employed by

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in field hockey and rugby sevens), based on a format agreed by the four British football associations (

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, and

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also qualified for the World Cup but, under the agreement whereby the highest ranked home nation is nominated to compete for the purposes of Olympic qualification, their performance was not taken into account. Scotland players, along with Welsh and Northern Irish players, will be eligible for the Great Britain team in Tokyo.

Qualified UEFA teams

2020 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship

The

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and

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qualified for Olympic by winning the semi-finals of the Olympic Qualifying Championship.

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Final stage

2020 CAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament

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earned an Olympic qualification place by winning the qualifying tournament.

will advance to the

against

, the second-place team from the CONMEBOL qualifying tournament.

Bracket

2020 AFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament

Australia and China qualified for Olympic by winning the play-off round of the Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

Qualified teams

First round

; Group A ; Group B ; Group C ; Group D

Second round

; Group A ; Group B ; Group C

Third round

; Group A ; Group B

Play-off round

CAF–CONMEBOL play-off

The

, the African runners-up, and

, the South American runners-up, will compete in a home-and-away two-legged play-off for a spot in the Olympics.

Notes

References

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