Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

2016 Women's Olympic Football Tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Brazil
Dates	3–19 August
Teams	12 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	7 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Germany (1st title)
Runners-up	Sweden
Third place	Canada
Fourth place	Brazil
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	66 (2.54 per match)
Attendance	635,885 (24,457 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Melanie Behringer (5 goals)
Fair play award	Sweden
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The women's football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held from 3 to 19 August 2016.^[1] It was the 6th edition of the women's Olympic football tournament. Together with the men's competition, the 2016 Summer Olympics football tournament was held in six cities in Brazil, including Olympic host city Rio de Janeiro, which hosted the final at the Maracanã Stadium.^[2] 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's trial to allow a fourth substitute to be made during extra time.^[3] The United States, gold medalists for the previous three Games, were eliminated by a penalty shoot-out defeat against Sweden in the quarter-finals. This marked the first time that the United States did not progress to the semi-finals of 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.^[4][5] Canada won bronze after beating host Brazil with the same scoreline in the bronze medal game.^[6]

The match schedule of the women's tournament was unveiled on 10 November 2015.^[7][8]

G

Group stage

¼

Quarter-finals

SF

Semi-finals

B

Bronze medal match

F

Gold medal match

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
G			G			G			¼				½			B	F

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]

Means of qualification	Dates4	Venue4	Berths	Qualified
Host country	2 October 2009	Denmark	1	Brazil
2014 Copa América[10]	11–28 September 2014	Ecuador	1	Colombia
2015 FIFA World Cup[11] (for UEFA eligible teams)5	6 June – 5 July 2015	Canada	2	Germany
				France
2015 CAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament[12]	2–18 October 2015	Various (home and away)	2	South Africa
				Zimbabwe6
2016 OFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament[13]	23 January 2016	Papua New Guinea	1	New Zealand
2016 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship[14]	10–21 February 2016	United States	2	United States
				Canada
2016 AFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament[15]	29 February – 9 March 2016	Japan[16]	2	Australia
				China
2016 UEFA Olympic Qualifying Tournament[17]	2–9 March 2016	Netherlands	1	Sweden
Total			12

The tournament was held in seven venues across six cities:

• Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte
• Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, Brasília
• Arena da Amazônia, Manaus
• Estádio Olímpico João Havelange, Rio de Janeiro
• Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
• Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador
• Arena Corinthians, São Paulo

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.^[18]

On 2 May 2016, FIFA released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympics.^[19]

Match officials

Confederation	Referee	Assistant referees
AFC	Rita Gani (Malaysia)	Cui Yongmei (China PR)[a] Naomi Teshirogi (Japan)
	Ri Hyang-ok (North Korea)	Allyson Flynn (Australia)[a] Hong Kum-nyo (North Korea)
CAF	Gladys Lengwe (Zambia)	Bernadettar Kwimbira (Malawi) Souad Oulhaj (Morocco)
CONCACAF	Carol Anne Chenard (Canada)	Marie-Josée Charbonneau (Canada) Suzanne Morisset (Canada)
	Lucila Venegas (Mexico)	Enedina Caudillo (Mexico) Mayte Chávez (Mexico)
CONMEBOL	Olga Miranda (Paraguay)	Mariana de Almeida (Argentina) Yoleida Lara (Venezuela)
	Claudia Umpiérrez (Uruguay)	Neuza Back (Brazil) Loreto Toloza (Chile)
OFC	Anna-Marie Keighley (New Zealand)	Sarah Jones (New Zealand) Lata Kaumatule (Tonga)
UEFA	Teodora Albon (Romania)	Petruța Iugulescu (Romania) Mária Súkeníková (Slovakia)
	Stéphanie Frappart (France)	Manuela Nicolosi (France) Yolanda Parga Rodríguez (Spain)
	Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)	Nataliya Rachynska (Ukraine) Sanja Rođak-Karšić (Croatia)
	Esther Staubli (Switzerland)	Chrysoula Kourompylia (Greece) Lucie Ratajová (Czech Republic)

Fourth officials

Confederation	Referee
CONCACAF	Melissa Borjas (Honduras)
CONMEBOL	María Carvajal (Chile)

Notes

The draw for the tournament was held on 14 April 2016, 10:30 BRT (UTC−3), at the Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro.^[20] The 12 teams in the women's tournament were drawn into three groups of four teams.^[21] The teams were seeded into four pots based on the FIFA Ranking of March 2016 (in brackets in the table).^[22] The hosts Brazil were automatically assigned into position E1. No groups can contain more than one team from the same confederation.^[23]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Brazil (8) (assigned to E1)  United States (1)  Germany (2)	France (3)  Australia (5)  Sweden (6)	Canada (10)  China (12)  New Zealand (16)	Colombia (24)  South Africa (54)  Zimbabwe (95)

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:^[18]

1. points obtained in all group matches;
2. goal difference in all group matches;
3. 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:

4. points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
5. goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned;
6. number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
7. 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.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil (H)	3	2	1	0	8	1	+7	7	Quarter-finals
2	China	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

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Pos	Team v t e	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

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Pos	Team v t e	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

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Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	F	Australia	3	1	1	1	8	5	+3	4	Knockout stage
2	E	Sweden	3	1	1	1	2	5	−3	4
3	G	New Zealand	3	1	0	2	1	5	−4	3

In the knockout stages, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.^[18]

On 18 March 2016, the FIFA Executive Committee agreed that the competition would be part of the International Football Association Board's trial to allow a fourth substitute to be made during extra time.^[3]

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

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There were 66 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.54 goals per match.

5 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Source: FIFA^[50]

2 assists

1 assist

Source: FIFA^[50]

Sweden won the FIFA Fair Play Award, given to the team with the best record of fair play during the tournament. Every match in the final competition is taken into account but only teams that reach the second stage of the competition are eligible for the Fair Play Trophy.^[50]

Pos	Team	Pts
1	Sweden	872
2	France	859
3	Germany	853
4	Brazil	846
5	United States	840
6	Australia	838
7	China	830
8	Canada	768

Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	F	Germany	6	4	1	1	14	6	+8	13	Gold medal
2	E	Sweden	6	1	3	2	4	8	−4	6	Silver medal
3	F	Canada	6	5	0	1	10	5	+5	15	Bronze medal
4	E	Brazil (H)	6	2	3	1	9	3	+6	9	Fourth place
5	G	United States	4	2	2	0	6	3	+3	8	Eliminated in quarter-finals
6	G	France	4	2	0	2	7	2	+5	6
7	F	Australia	4	1	2	1	8	5	+3	5
8	E	China	4	1	1	2	2	4	−2	4
9	G	New Zealand	3	1	0	2	1	5	−4	3	Eliminated in group stage
10	E	South Africa	3	0	1	2	0	3	−3	1
11	G	Colombia	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1
12	F	Zimbabwe	3	0	0	3	3	15	−12	0

• Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

• Football – Women, Rio2016.com
• Women's Olympic Football Tournament, Rio 2016, FIFA.com
• FIFA Technical Report