The women's football tournament at the
2018 Asian Games
The 2018 Asian Games ( or ''Asian Games 2018''), officially known as the 18th Asian Games (), and also known as Jakarta-Palembang 2018 or Indonesia 2018, were a Asia, continental multi-sport event that was held from 18 August to 2 September 201 ...
was held from 16 to 31 August in
Palembang
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, Indonesia.
North Korea
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were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the quarter-finals. The
host team was eliminated in the group stage.
Competition schedule
Venues
The tournament was held in two venues in
Palembang
Palembang (, Palembang: ''Pelémbang'', Mandarin: 巨港 (Jùgǎng), Hokkien: 舊港 (Kū-káng), Jawi: ) is the capital city of the Indonesian province of South Sumatra. The city proper covers on both banks of the Musi River in the ea ...
, the
Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium and the
Bumi Sriwijaya Stadium.
Squads
Draw
The draw for the tournament was held on 5 July 2018. The teams were seeded into four pots based on their performances in the previous Asian Games in 2014. The hosts Indonesia were automatically assigned into position A1.
Group stage
The top two teams in each group, and the two third-placed teams among three groups advanced to the quarter-finals.UTC+7
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Tiebreakers
Teams in a group were ranked according to points
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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.Goal difference
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in all group matches;
#Highest number of goals scored in all group matches;
#Kicks from the penalty mark only if two (2) teams are involved and they are both on the field of play.
#Fewer points of yellow/red cards in all group matches (only one of these deductions shall be applied to a player in a single match):
#Drawing of lots
Third-placed teams from the three groups are ranked according to the following criteria, after the results against the fourth-placed teams of groups A and B are excluded in order to rank them with the same numbers of matches.Goal difference
Goal difference, goal differential or points difference is a form of tiebreaker used to rank sport teams which finish on equal points in a league competition. Either "goal difference" or "points difference" is used, depending on whether matches ar ...
in all group matches;
#Highest number of goals scored in all group matches;
#Fewer points of yellow/red cards in all group matches (only one of these deductions shall be applied to a player in a single match):
#Drawing of lots
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Ranking of third-placed teams
In order to ensure equality when comparing the third-placed teams of all groups, the results of the matches against the 4th-placed teams in Group A and Group B were ignored due to Group C having only three teams.
Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time
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and penalty shoot-out
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are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out
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(no extra time
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) is used to decide the winner if necessary.
Bracket
Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Statistics
Goalscorers
Final standing
See also
*Football at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's tournament
The men's football tournament at the 2018 Asian Games was held from 10 August to 1 September 2018. It was the 17th edition of the men's tournament. In this tournament, 25 teams played in the men's competition. South Korea were the gold medal ho ...
References
External links
Football at the 2018 Asian Games
Women
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