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 Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Football pictogram for the 2016 Summer Olympics
Event details
Games	2016 Summer Olympics
Host country	Brazil
Dates	3–20 August 2016
Venues	7 (in 6 host cities)
Competitors	473 from 23 nations
Men's tournament
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Medalists Gold  Brazil Silver  Germany Bronze  Nigeria
Women's tournament
Teams	12 (from 6 confederations)
Medalists Gold  Germany Silver  Sweden Bronze  Canada
Editions
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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 de Janeiro 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
Estádio do Maracanã	Estádio Olímpico João Havelange	Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha	Arena Corinthians
Capacity: 74,738[8][a]	Capacity: 60,000[b]	Capacity: 69,349[8][a]	Capacity: 48,234[8][c]
Belo Horizonte	Belo Horizonte Brasília São Paulo Rio de Janeiro Salvador Manaus Location of the host cities of the football at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Estádio Mineirão
Capacity: 58,170[8][a]
Salvador
Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova
Capacity: 51,900[8][c]
Manaus
Arena da Amazônia
Capacity: 40,549[8][c]

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
Estádio do Maracanã	CFZ Stadium	Vasco Barra Football Club	Juliano Moreira Sports Complex	—
Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha	Cave Stadium	Minas Brasília Tennis Club	Yacht Club of Brasília	Cruzeiro Stadium
Estádio 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

Summary

Nation	Men's	Women's	Athletes
Argentina			22
Australia			22
Brazil			44
Canada			22
China			22
Colombia			44
Denmark			22
France			22
Fiji			22
Germany			44
Honduras			22
Iraq			22
Japan			22
South Korea			22
Mexico			22
Nigeria			22
New Zealand			22
Portugal			22
South Africa			22
Sweden			44
United States			22
Zimbabwe			22
Total: 22 NOCs	16	12	608

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	Dates1	Venue1	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	Sweden
				Portugal
				Denmark
				Germany
2015 Pacific Games[12]	3–17 July 2015	Papua New Guinea	1	Fiji2
2015 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship[13]	1–13 October 2015	United States	2	Mexico
				Honduras
2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations[14]	28 November – 12 December 2015	Senegal	3	Nigeria
				Algeria
				South Africa
2016 AFC U-23 Championship[15]	12–30 January 2016	Qatar	3	Japan
				South Korea
				Iraq
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

Main article: Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – 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 2014 Copa América Femenina as a qualifier for both the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup and the Olympic tournament and, as Brazil was on the Olympics host country condition,they automatically qualified for the tournament and therefore the South American spot was given to second place in the tournament,Colombia.

UEFA used the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup to determine its Olympic qualification.The top 3 european finishers at the World Cup, excluding England, qualified. When multiple European teams was eliminated on the same round,this results were a used as tie for the Olympic qualifying spots,and had the necessity to held an Olympic Qualifying Tournament to give the last spot. As Germany and France both reached at least the quarterfinals and thus obtained qualification spots (England also did so, but was ineligible for the Olympic Games). The next best finishes for the European teams were a four-way tie among 4 teams: Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland, eliminated in the round of 16. With this unproceded situation, a round robin tournament to decide who would take the last spot for the Olympic Games was held and was won by Sweden.

Means of qualification	Dates4	Venue4	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	Germany
				France
2015 CAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament[14]	2–18 October 2015	Various (home and away)	2	South Africa
				Zimbabwe6
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	United States
				Canada
2016 AFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament[19]	29 February – 9 March 2016	Japan[20]	2	Australia
				China
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 Visual Identity signs on Brasília's Monumental Axis, near Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, venue for 7 matches on men's tournament and 3 women's matches

Main article: Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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

Main article: Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Group A

Pos	Team v t e	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) Hosts

Group B

Main article: Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Group B

Pos	Team v t e	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

Main article: Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Group C

Pos	Team v t e	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

Main article: Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Group D

Pos	Team v t e	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

Main article: Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	13 August – São Paulo
	Brazil	2
					17 August – Rio de Janeiro (Maracanã)
	Colombia	0
					Brazil	6
	13 August – Belo Horizonte
					Honduras	0
	South Korea	0
									20 August – Rio de Janeiro (Maracanã)
	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

Main article: Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

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

Main article: Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament – Group E

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

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

Group F

Main article: Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament – Group F

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

Source: Rio2016 & FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group G

Main article: Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament – Group G

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

Source: Rio2016 & FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Knockout stage

Main article: Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament – Knockout stage

	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

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 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Brazil (BRA) Weverton Zeca Rodrigo Caio Marquinhos Renato Augusto Douglas Santos Luan Vieira Rafinha Gabriel Barbosa 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 Seth Sincere Kingsley Madu Shehu Abdullahi Saturday Erimuya William Troost-Ekong Aminu Umar Peter Etebo Imoh Ezekiel John Obi Mikel Junior Ajayi Saliu Popoola Umar Sadiq Azubuike Okechukwu Ndifreke Udo Stanley Amuzie Muhammed Usman Edu Emmanuel Daniel
Women details	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 Eriksson 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 Quinn[a] 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

Notes

1. Then known as Rebecca Quinn