The
women's football tournament at the
2024 Summer Olympics
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was held from 25 July to 10 August 2024. It was the eighth edition of the
women's Olympic football tournament. Together with the men's competition, the
2024 Summer Olympics football tournament was held at seven stadiums in seven cities in France.
The
United States
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won a record-extending fifth gold medal, and their first since
2012
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, defeating
Brazil
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1–0 in the
final
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, held at
Parc des Princes
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in
Paris
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.
Schedule
The schedule was as follows.
Qualification
In addition to host nation France, eleven women's national teams qualified from six separate continental confederations. The Organising Committee for FIFA Competitions ratified the distribution of spots at their meeting on 24 February 2022.
Sweden
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, runners-up of the
2016
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and
2020
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Olympic tournaments, failed to qualify for the 2024 tournament after being eliminated in the group stage of the
2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League.
Venues
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 had to be goalkeepers. Each team could also name a list of four alternate players, who could replace any player in the squad in case of injury during the tournament.
Match officials
On 3 April 2024,
FIFA
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released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympic Games.
Draw
The draw for the tournament was held on 20 March 2024, 20:00
CET (
UTC+1
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**Brit ...
), at the Pulse building in
Saint-Denis, France.
The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four teams. The hosts
France
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were automatically seeded into Pot 1 and assigned to position A1 while the remaining teams were seeded into their respective pots based on the
FIFA Women's World Ranking released on 15 March 2024 (shown in parentheses below). No group could contain more than one team from each confederation.
Notes
Group stage
The competing countries were divided into three groups of four teams, denoted as groups A, B, and C. Teams in each group played one another in a
round-robin basis, with the top two teams of each group and the
two best third-placed teams advancing to the
quarter-finals.
All times are local,
CEST (
UTC+2).
Tiebreakers
The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:
#
Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat);
#
Goal difference in all group matches;
# Number of goals scored in all group matches;
# Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
# Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
# Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
# Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could 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
Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of regulation time,
extra time
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was played (two periods of 15 minutes each), and followed, if necessary, by a
penalty shoot-out
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to determine the winner.
Bracket
Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Statistics
Goalscorers
Final ranking
See also
*
Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
References
External links
*
Women's Olympic Football Tournament Paris 2024 FIFA.com
Match schedule FIFA.com
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*Women
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