Football 7-a-side at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

7-a-side football at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held at the Olympic Green Hockey Field from September 8 to September 16. One event was contested, a men's team competition.

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Classfication

The sport of 7-a-side football is for people with cerebral palsy; athletes classified as CP5 through CP8 may take part. The classification system grades player by the extent of their disability, with lower numbers corresponding to more severe impairment. At least one CP5 or CP6 player, and no more than three CP8 players, may be on the field at a given time.

Qualification

Match Qualification Criteria Amount Nations
2006/2007 Zonal Qualify Tournament (Team qualify with this must reach top 10 in world championship, otherwise the slots will allocate to highest rank and not qualifed team in the world championship) 2006 European CPISRA Football 7-a-side Championship 1  Ukraine (UKR)
2006 FESPIC Games 1  Iran (IRI)
2007 Para-Pan America Games 1  Brazil (BRA)
2007 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championship Top 4 in the team not qualifed 4  Russia (RUS)
 Netherlands (NED)
 Great Britain (GBR) 1
 Ireland (IRL)2
Host Nation Auto-qualification if take part in either 2007 World Championship or 2006/07 Zonal Championship 1  China (CHN)
Total 8
  1. The slot was won by team Scotland but is allocated to the unified team of Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
  2. The rank of the united team of England and Wales is higher than Ireland, but only one team can represent Great Britain, so the Republic of Ireland qualified as following best non-qualified team.

Competition format

The eight teams were divided into two even groups for a single round robin group stage. The top two teams of each group qualified for the semifinal, while the lower two teams from each group competed for 5th through 8th places. Games consisted of two 30-minute halves. A victory ceremony was held just after the finish of the gold medal match, at 18:00 on September 16.

Results

Group stage

Group A

Team P W D L G GA GD Score
 Russia (RUS) 3 3 0 0 21 1 +20 9
 Brazil (BRA) 3 2 0 1 9 3 +6 6
 Netherlands (NED) 3 1 0 2 9 14 -5 3
 China (CHN) 3 0 0 3 1 22 -21 0
2008-09-08
9:00
 Russia  6 – 0 China Olympic Green Hockey Field
2008-09-08
11:15
 Brazil  1 – 0 Netherlands Olympic Green Hockey Field
2008-09-10
13:30
 Russia  12 – 1 Netherlands Olympic Green Hockey Field
2008-09-10
15:45
 Brazil  8 – 0 China Olympic Green Hockey Field
2008-09-12
9:00
 Russia  3 – 0 Brazil Olympic Green Hockey Field
2008-09-12
11:15
 Netherlands  8 – 1 China Olympic Green Hockey Field

Group B

Team P W D L G GA GD Score
 Ukraine (UKR) 3 3 0 0 19 1 +18 9
 Iran (IRI) 3 2 0 1 7 6 +1 6
 Ireland (IRL) 3 0 1 2 3 12 -9 1
 Great Britain (GBR) 3 0 1 2 2 12 -10 1
2008-09-08
13:30
 Iran  4 – 2 Ireland Olympic Green Hockey Field
2008-09-08
15:45
 Ukraine  8 – 1 Great Britain Olympic Green Hockey Field
Attendance: 5,141
Referee: KOU Yadong (China)
2008-09-10
9:00
 Iran  3 – 0 Great Britain Olympic Green Hockey Field
Attendance: 5,500
2008-09-10
11:15
 Ukraine  7 – 0 Ireland Olympic Green Hockey Field
Attendance: 6,763
2008-09-12
13:30
 Iran  0 – 4 Ukraine Olympic Green Hockey Field
2008-09-12
15:45
 Great Britain  1 – 1 Ireland Olympic Green Hockey Field

5th-8th classfication

2008-09-14
9:00
 Netherlands  4 – 2 Great Britain Olympic Green Hockey Field
2008-09-14
11:30
 China  1 – 4 Ireland Olympic Green Hockey Field
2008-09-16
9:00
 Great Britain  10 – 2 China Olympic Green Hockey Field A
Attendance: 4235
Referee: Fang Aijun (China)
Dimbylow  1'
Barker  18'
Robertson  20'
Gordon  28'
G. Paterson  31+'
Ellis  39'
Barker  41'
J. Paterson  48'
Barker  54'
Barker  61'		 (Report) Fan  40'
Fan  60'
2008-09-16
11:30
 Netherlands  4 – 2 Ireland Olympic Green Hockey Field A
Attendance: 7142
Referee: Kou Yadong (China)
Voogd  5'
van de Ven  24'
Lokhoff  31+'
Lokhoff  38'		 (Report) O'Riordan  7'
Messett  11'
Messett 16'

Semifinal

2008-09-14
14:00
 Brazil  0 – 6 Ukraine Olympic Green Hockey Field
2008-09-14
16:30
 Russia  5 – 0 Iran Olympic Green Hockey Field

Bronze medal match

2008-09-16
14:00
 Brazil  0 – 4 Iran Olympic Green Hockey Field A
Attendance: 11266
Referee: Jorge Eduardo Barbisan (Argentina)
(Report) Karimzadeh  5'
Karimzadeh  17'
Karimzadeh  21'
Karimzadeh 44'
Malekzadeh 47'
Mahini 54'
Akbari 61'
Akbari  64'

Final

2008-09-16
16:30
 Ukraine  2 – 1 (a.e.t.) Russia Olympic Green Hockey Field A
Attendance: 11267
Referee: Guido Gonzalez (Ecuador)
Antonyuk  69'
Antonyuk  71'		 (Report) Borisov 19'
Potekhin 24'
Kuvaev 31'
Murvanadze  74'

Medallists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team  Ukraine (UKR)

Volodymyr Antonyuk (captain)
Kostyantyn Symashko
Vitaliy Trushev
Serhiy Vakulenko
Taras Dutko
Anatolii Shevchyk
Oleksandr Devlysh
Ivan Shkvarlo
Andriy Tsukanov
Denys Ponomaryov
Mykola Mikhovych
Ihor Kosenko
Coach: Sergiy Ovcharenko

  Russia (RUS)

Ivan Potekhin (captain)
Alexander Lekov
Lasha Murvanadze
Pavel Borisov
Aleksey Tumakov
Alexey Chesmin
Andrey Kuvaev
Oleg Smirnov
Andrey Lozhechnikov
Georgy Nadzharyan
Mamuka Dzimistarishvili
Stanislav Kolykhalov
Coach: Avtandil Baramidze

  Iran (IRI)

Ardeshir Mahini (captain)
Esmaeil Malekzadeh
Bahman Ansari
Morteza Heidari
Ehsan Gholam-Hosseinpour
Moslem Akbari
Abdolreza Karimzadeh
Habibollah Heidari-Mehr
Gholamreza Najafi
Hadi Safari
Rasoul Atash-Afrouz
Coach: Alireza Raadi

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