Football 7-a-side at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Football 7-a-side
at the XIII Paralympic Games
VenueOlympic Green Hockey Field
Dates8–16 September 2008
Competitors8 teams
Medalists
   Ukraine
   Russia
   Iran

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.

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 qualified team in the world championship)2006 European CPISRA Football 7-a-side Championship1 Ukraine (UKR)
2006 FESPIC Games 1 Iran (IRI)
2007 Para-Pan America Games1 Brazil (BRA)
2007 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World ChampionshipTop 4 in the team not qualified4 Russia (RUS)
 Netherlands (NED)
 Great Britain (GBR) 1
 Ireland (IRL)2
Host NationAuto-qualification if take part in either 2007 World Championship or 2006/07 Zonal Championship1 China (CHN)
Total8
  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.

Group stage

Group A

Team Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
 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

2008-09-10
15:45
Brazil  8 – 0 China

2008-09-12
9:00
Russia  3 – 0 Brazil

Group B

Team Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
 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

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

2008-09-10
11:15
Ukraine  7 – 0 Ireland

2008-09-12
13:30
Iran  0 – 4 Ukraine

Knockout stage

Classification round

5th–8th place semi-finals

2008-09-14
11:30
China  1 – 4 Ireland

7th–8th place match

2008-09-16
9:00
Great Britain  10 – 2 China
Dimbylow  1'
Barker  18', 41', 54', 61'
Robertson  20'
Gordon  28'
G. Paterson  31+'
Ellis  39'
J. Paterson  48' 		(Report) Fan  40', 60'
Olympic Green Hockey Field A
Attendance: 4235
Referee: Fang Aijun (China)

5th–6th place match

2008-09-16
11:30
Netherlands  4 – 2 Ireland
Voogd  5'
van de Ven  24'
Lokhoff  31+', 38' 		(Report) O'Riordan  7'
Messett  11'  16'
Olympic Green Hockey Field A
Attendance: 7142
Referee: Kou Yadong (China)

Medal round

Semifinal

2008-09-14
14:00
Brazil  0 – 6 Ukraine

2008-09-14
16:30
Russia  5 – 0 Iran

Bronze medal match

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

Gold medal match

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

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

References

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