Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics

The association football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held from 3 to 20 August in Brazil.[1]

Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Tournament details
Host country	Brazil
Dates	3–20 August
Teams	16 (men) + 12 (women) (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	7 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Brazil (men)  Germany (women)
Runners-up	Germany (men)  Sweden (women)
Third place	Nigeria (men)  Canada (women)
Fourth place	Honduras (men)  Brazil (women)

In addition to the Olympic host city of Rio de Janeiro, matches were played in Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Salvador, São Paulo, and Manaus. All six cities hosted matches during the 2014 World Cup, with the Estádio Olímpico João Havelange in Rio the only Olympic venue not to have been a World Cup venue.[2][3]

Associations affiliated with FIFA might send teams to participate in the tournament. Men's teams were restricted to under-23 players (born on or after 1 January 1993) with a maximum of three overage players allowed, while there were no age restrictions on women's teams.[4] The Games made use of about 400 footballs.[5]

Competition schedule

The match schedule of the men's and women's tournament was unveiled on 10 November 2015.[6][7]

GS

Group stage

QF

Quarter-finals

SF

Semi-finals

B

Bronze medal match

F

Gold medal match

Date Event	Wed 3	Thu 4	Fri 5	Sat 6	Sun 7	Mon 8	Tue 9	Wed 10	Thu 11	Fri 12	Sat 13	Sun 14	Mon 15	Tue 16	Wed 17	Thu 18	Fri 19		Sat 20
Men		GS			GS			GS			QF				SF				B	F
Women	GS			GS			GS			QF				SF			B	F

Venues

Rio de Janeiro hosted preliminary matches at the Estádio Olímpico João Havelange and the women's and men's final at the Maracanã Stadium on 19 and 20 August. Apart from Rio de Janeiro the five other cities were: São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Salvador, and Manaus, which were all host cities during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.[2] The final choice of venues was announced by FIFA on 16 March 2015.[3]

Rio de Janeiro		Brasília	São Paulo
Maracanã	Estádio Olímpico	Estádio Mané Garrincha	Arena Corinthians
Capacity: 74,738[8][lower-alpha 1]	Capacity: 60,000[lower-alpha 2]	Capacity: 69,349[8][lower-alpha 1]	Capacity: 48,234[8][lower-alpha 3]
Belo Horizonte	Belo Horizonte Brasília São Paulo Rio de Janeiro Salvador Manaus
Mineirão
Capacity: 58,170[8][lower-alpha 1]
Salvador
Itaipava Arena
Capacity: 51,900[8][lower-alpha 3]
Manaus
Arena da Amazônia
Capacity: 40,549[8][lower-alpha 3]

1. Renovated for the 2014 World Cup
2. Renovated for the 2016 Olympics
3. New stadium for the 2014 World Cup

Training venues

Event stadium	Training venue #1	Training venue #2	Training venue #3	Training venue #4
Maracanã	CFZ Stadium	Vasco Barra Football Club	Juliano Moreira Sports Complex	N/A
Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha	Cave Stadium	Minas Brasília Tennis Club	Yacht Club of Brasília	Cruzeiro Stadium
Mineirão	Toca da Raposa 1	Toca da Raposa 2	Cidade do Galo	América F.C. Training Center
Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova	Parque Santiago Stadium	Pituaçu Stadium	Barradão Stadium	E.C. Bahia Training Center
Arena Corinthians	São Paulo F.C. Training Center	S.E. Palmeiras Training Center	C.A. Juventus Stadium	Nacional A.C. Stadium

Qualification

Men's qualification

In addition to host nation Brazil, 15 men's national teams qualified from six separate continental confederations. FIFA ratified the distribution of spots at the Executive Committee meeting in March 2014.[9]

Means of qualification	Dates^1	Venue^1	Berths	Qualified
Host country	2 October 2009	Denmark	1	Brazil
2015 South American Youth Championship[10]	14 January – 7 February 2015	Uruguay	1	Argentina
2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship[11]	17–30 June 2015	Czech Republic	4	Denmark
				Germany
				Portugal
				Sweden
2015 Pacific Games[12]	3–17 July 2015	Papua New Guinea	1	Fiji^2
2015 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship[13]	1–13 October 2015	United States	2	Honduras
				Mexico
2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations[14]	28 November – 12 December 2015	Senegal	3	Algeria
				Nigeria
				South Africa
2016 AFC U-23 Championship[15]	12–30 January 2016	Qatar	3	Iraq
				Japan
				South Korea
2016 CONCACAF–CONMEBOL play-off	25–29 March 2016	Various (home and away)^3	1	Colombia
Total			16

• ^1 Dates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments), various qualification stages may precede matches at these specific venues.
• ^2 Nations making their Olympic tournament debut
• ^3 One match each in Colombia and United States in a two-legged tie.

Women's 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.[9] Most continents use specific Olympic qualifying tournaments to allocate their spots, but two use slightly different procedures.

CONMEBOL used the Copa América to determine its Olympic entrant. Because the Olympic host, Brazil, won the Copa América, the runner-up (Colombia) qualified for the Olympics.

UEFA generally uses the World Cup to determine its Olympic entrants. The top 3 finishers at the World Cup, excluding England, qualified. When multiple European teams were eliminated in the same round and this results in a tie for an Olympic qualifying spot, an Olympic Qualifying Tournament was used to break the tie. For these Games, Germany and France both reached at least the quarterfinals and thus obtained qualification spots (England also did so, but was ineligible for Olympic play). The next best finish for European teams was a four-way tie among the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland, which each lost in the round of 16. Those four teams competed in a separate tournament to break that tie, won by Sweden.

Means of qualification	Dates^4	Venue^4	Berths	Qualified
Host country	2 October 2009	Denmark	1	Brazil
2014 Copa América[16]	11–28 September 2014	Ecuador	1	Colombia
2015 FIFA World Cup[17] (for UEFA eligible teams)^5	6 June – 5 July 2015	Canada	2	France
				Germany
2015 CAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament[14]	2–18 October 2015	Various (home and away)	2	South Africa
				Zimbabwe^6
2016 OFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament[12]	23 January 2016	Papua New Guinea	1	New Zealand
2016 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship[18]	10–21 February 2016	United States	2	Canada
				United States
2016 AFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament[19]	29 February – 9 March 2016	Japan[20]	2	Australia
				China PR
2016 UEFA Olympic Qualifying Tournament[21]	2–9 March 2016	Netherlands	1	Sweden
Total			12

• ^4 Dates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments), various qualification stages may precede matches at these specific venues.
• ^5 England 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 broke down.
• ^6 Nations making their Olympic tournament debut

Men's competition

2016 Summer Olympics livery near Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, Brasília, venue for several men's and women's competitions.

The competition consisted of two stages; a group stage followed by a knockout stage.

Group stage

Teams were divided into four groups of four countries, playing each team in their group once. Three points were awarded for a victory, one for a draw. The top two teams per group qualified for the quarterfinals.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil (H)	3	1	2	0	4	0	+4	5	Quarter-finals
2	Denmark	3	1	1	1	1	4	−3	4
3	Iraq	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	3
4	South Africa	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	2

Source: Rio2016 & FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Nigeria	3	2	0	1	6	6	0	6	Quarter-finals
2	Colombia	3	1	2	0	6	4	+2	5
3	Japan	3	1	1	1	7	7	0	4
4	Sweden	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1

Source: Rio2016 & FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	3	2	1	0	12	3	+9	7	Quarter-finals
2	Germany	3	1	2	0	15	5	+10	5
3	Mexico	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	4
4	Fiji	3	0	0	3	1	23	−22	0

Source: Rio2016 & FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7	Quarter-finals
2	Honduras	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
3	Argentina	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
4	Algeria	3	0	1	2	4	6	−2	1

Source: Rio2016 & FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	13 August – São Paulo
	Brazil	2
					17 August – Rio de Janeiro
	Colombia	0
					Brazil	6
	13 August – Belo Horizonte
					Honduras	0
	South Korea	0
									20 August – Rio de Janeiro
	Honduras	1
									Brazil (p)	1 (5)
	13 August – Salvador
									Germany	1 (4)
	Nigeria	2
					17 August – São Paulo
	Denmark	0
					Nigeria	0
	13 August – Brasília
					Germany	2			Bronze medal match
	Portugal	0
									20 August – Belo Horizonte
	Germany	4
									Honduras	2
									Nigeria	3

Women's competition

The competition consisted of two stages; a group stage followed by a knockout stage.

Group stage

Teams were divided into three groups of four countries, playing each team in their group once. Three points were awarded for a victory, one for a draw. The top two teams per group and best two third-placed teams qualified for the quarterfinals.

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil (H)	3	2	1	0	8	1	+7	7	Quarter-finals
2	China PR	3	1	1	1	2	3	−1	4
3	Sweden	3	1	1	1	2	5	−3	4
4	South Africa	3	0	1	2	0	3	−3	1

Source: Rio2016 & FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host.

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Canada	3	3	0	0	7	2	+5	9	Quarter-finals
2	Germany	3	1	1	1	9	5	+4	4
3	Australia	3	1	1	1	8	5	+3	4
4	Zimbabwe	3	0	0	3	3	15	−12	0

Source: Rio2016 & FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7	Quarter-finals
2	France	3	2	0	1	7	1	+6	6
3	New Zealand	3	1	0	2	1	5	−4	3
4	Colombia	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1

Source: Rio2016 & FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	12 August — Belo Horizonte
	Brazil (p)	0 (7)
					16 August — Rio de Janeiro (Mar.)
	Australia	0 (6)
					Brazil	0 (3)
	12 August — Brasília
					Sweden (p)	0 (4)
	United States	1 (3)
									19 August — Rio de Janeiro (Mar.)
	Sweden (p)	1 (4)
									Sweden	1
	12 August — São Paulo
									Germany	2
	Canada	1
					16 August — Belo Horizonte
	France	0
					Canada	0
	12 August — Salvador
					Germany	2			Bronze medal match
	China PR	0
									19 August — São Paulo
	Germany	1
									Brazil	1
									Canada	2

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	1	1	0	2
2	Brazil (BRA)*	1	0	0	1
3	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
4	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 nations)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Brazil (BRA) Weverton Zeca Rodrigo Caio Marquinhos Renato Augusto Douglas Santos Luan Rafinha Gabriel Neymar Gabriel Jesus Walace William Luan Garcia Rodrigo Dourado Thiago Maia Felipe Anderson Uilson	Germany (GER) Timo Horn Jeremy Toljan Lukas Klostermann Matthias Ginter Niklas Süle Sven Bender Max Meyer Lars Bender Davie Selke Leon Goretzka Julian Brandt Jannik Huth Philipp Max Robert Bauer Max Christiansen Grischa Prömel Serge Gnabry Nils Petersen Eric Oelschlägel	Nigeria (NGR) Daniel Akpeyi Muenfuh Sincere Kingsley Madu Shehu Abdullahi Saturday Erimuya William Troost-Ekong Aminu Umar Oghenekaro Etebo Imoh Ezekiel John Obi Mikel Junior Ajayi Popoola Saliu Umar Sadiq Azubuike Okechukwu Ndifreke Udo Stanley Amuzie Usman Mohammed Emmanuel Daniel
Women	Germany (GER) Almuth Schult Josephine Henning Saskia Bartusiak Leonie Maier Annike Krahn Simone Laudehr Melanie Behringer Lena Goeßling Alexandra Popp Dzsenifer Marozsán Anja Mittag Tabea Kemme Sara Däbritz Babett Peter Mandy Islacker Melanie Leupolz Isabel Kerschowski Laura Benkarth Svenja Huth	Sweden (SWE) Jonna Andersson Emilia Appelqvist Kosovare Asllani Emma Berglund Stina Blackstenius Hilda Carlén Lisa Dahlkvist Magdalena Ericsson Nilla Fischer Pauline Hammarlund Sofia Jakobsson Hedvig Lindahl Fridolina Rolfö Elin Rubensson Jessica Samuelsson Lotta Schelin Caroline Seger Linda Sembrant Olivia Schough	Canada (CAN) Stephanie Labbé Allysha Chapman Kadeisha Buchanan Shelina Zadorsky Rebecca Quinn Deanne Rose Rhian Wilkinson Diana Matheson Josée Bélanger Ashley Lawrence Desiree Scott Christine Sinclair Sophie Schmidt Melissa Tancredi Nichelle Prince Janine Beckie Jessie Fleming Sabrina D'Angelo

See also

• Football 5-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
• Football 7-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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External links

• "Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio2016.com)". Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 3 August 2016.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics
• Men's Olympic Football Tournament, Rio 2016, FIFA.com
• Women's Olympic Football Tournament, Rio 2016, FIFA.com
• Results Book – Football