Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

2008 Women's Olympic
football tournament

Tournament details
Host country	China
Dates	6 August – 21 August
Teams	12 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	United States (3rd title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	Germany
Fourth place	Japan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	64 (2.46 per match)
Attendance	740,014 (28,462 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Cristiane (5 goals)

Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Tournament
men  women
Squads
men  women

The women's association football tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held in Beijing and four other cities in China from 6 August to 21 August. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to send their full women's national teams.

For these Games, the women competed in a 12-team tournament. Preliminary matches commenced on 6 August, two days before the Opening Ceremony of the Games. The teams were grouped into three pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams in each pool, as well as the best two third-place finishing teams, advanced to an eight-team single-elimination bracket.

The tournament was won by the United States, which beat Brazil 1–0 in the gold medal game. Carli Lloyd scored the game-winning goal in the 96th minute for the United States, which collected their third Olympic gold medal.^[1][2]

Qualifying

A National Olympic Committee may enter one women's team for the football competition.

Means of completion	Date of completion	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	–	–	1	China PR
AFC Preliminary Competition	February 2007 – August 2007	–	2	Japan  North Korea
CAF Preliminary Competition	October 2006 – March 2008	–	1	Nigeria
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition	October 2007 – April 2008	Ciudad Juárez	2	United States  Canada
2006 Sudamericano Femenino	November 10–26, 2006	Mar del Plata	1	Argentina
OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying	August 25 – September 7, 2007 March 8, 2008	Apia Port Moresby	1	New Zealand
UEFA (2007 FIFA Women's World Cup)*	September 10–30, 2007	China	2*	Germany  Norway
UEFA Playoff (Denmark vs Sweden)	November 8, 2007 November 28, 2007	Viborg Solna	1*	Sweden
CAF-CONMEBOL Playoff (Ghana vs Brazil)	April 19, 2008	Beijing	1	Brazil
TOTAL			12

• Note – The three best ranked European teams at the FIFA Women's World Cup qualified for the Olympics. However, the third best team England could not participate, because England competes at the Olympic Games as part of Great Britain, which does not compete in football. Therefore, the fourth European team would advance, requiring a play-off between Sweden and Denmark.

Seeding

Pot 1: Asia	Pot 2: Americas	Pot 3: Europe	Pot 3: Rest of the World
China PR (Hosts)  Japan  North Korea	Canada  Brazil  United States	Germany  Norway  Sweden	Argentina  Nigeria  New Zealand

Squads

The women's tournament is a full international tournament with no restrictions on age. Each nation must submit a squad of 18 players by 23 July 2008. A minimum of two goalkeepers (plus one optional alternate goalkeeper) must be included in the squad.

Match officials

Referee Assistants AFC Hong Eun-Ah Sarah Ho Jacqueline Leleu Pannipar Kamnueng Daw Kaw Ja Liu Hsiu-mei Liu Hongjuan Shamsuri Widiya Habibah Niu Huijun CONCACAF Shane de Silva Milena López Cindy Mohammed Dianne Ferreira-James Mayte Chávez Rita Muñoz Kari Seitz Marlene Duffy Veronica Perez

Referee Assistants CAF Deidre Mitchell Nomvula Masilela Tempa Ndah CONMEBOL Estela Álvarez Marlene Leyton María Rocco UEFA Christine Beck Inka Müller María Luisa Villa Gutiérrez Nicole Petignat Cristina Cini Karine Vives Solana Dagmar Damková Helen Caro Irina Mirt Katarzyna Nadolska Hege Steinlund Jenny Palmqvist

Group stage

Group winners and runner-ups, plus two best third place teams advanced to quarter final round. Groups are lettered sequentially from the last letter in the Men's Football tournament (which has Groups A through D).

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Group E

Qualified for the quarterfinals

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
China PR	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
Sweden	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1	6
Canada	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
Argentina	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

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Group F

Qualified for the quarterfinals

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
Germany	3	2	1	0	2	0	+2	7
North Korea	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1	3
Nigeria	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

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Group G

Qualified for the quarterfinals

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3	6
Norway	3	2	0	1	4	5	−1	6
Japan	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	4
New Zealand	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1

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Ranking of third-placed teams

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Japan	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	4
Canada	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
North Korea	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1	3

Knockout stage

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold medal match

F1

Brazil

2

G2

Norway

1

F1

Brazil

4

F2

Germany

1

E2

Sweden

0

F2

Germany

2

F1

Brazil

0

G1

United States

1

E1

China PR

0

G3

Japan

2

G3

Japan

2

Bronze medal match

G1

United States

4

G1

United States

2

F2

Germany

2

E3

Canada

1

G3

Japan

0

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Final ranking

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	United States (USA)	6	5	0	1	12	5	+7	15
2	Brazil (BRA)	6	4	1	1	11	5	+6	13
3	Germany (GER)	6	4	1	1	7	4	+3	13
4	Japan (JPN)	6	2	1	3	11	10	+1	7
5	China (CHN)	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7
6	Sweden (SWE)	4	2	0	2	4	5	–1	6
7	Norway (NOR)	4	2	0	2	5	7	–2	6
8	Canada (CAN)	4	1	1	2	5	6	−1	4
9	North Korea (PRK)	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1	3
10	New Zealand (NZL)	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1
11	Argentina (ARG)	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0
	Nigeria (NGR)	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

Statistics

Goalscorers

5 goals

• Cristiane

4 goals

• Angela Hucles

3 goals

Marta

Homare Sawa

Lotta Schelin

2 goals

Daniela Christine Sinclair Xu Yuan

Han Duan Fatmire Bajramaj Shinobu Ohno

Melissa Wiik Carli Lloyd Heather O'Reilly

1 goal

Ludmila Manicler Formiga Candace Chapman Kara Lang Melissa Tancredi Gu Yasha Kerstin Garefrekes Simone Laudehr Anja Mittag Birgit Prinz

Kerstin Stegemann Eriko Arakawa Ayumi Hara Yukari Kinga Aya Miyama Yūki Ōgimi Amber Hearn Kirsty Yallop Perpetua Nkwocha Kim Kyong-Hwa

Ri Kum-Suk Leni Larsen Kaurin Guro Knutsen Siri Nordby Nilla Fischer Lori Chalupny Natasha Kai Amy Rodriguez Lindsay Tarpley

Own goal

• Gunhild Følstad (playing against Japan)

References

External links

• Olympic Football Tournaments Beijing 2008 - Women, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Summary
• "Sports Competition Schedule". BOCOG. 2006-04-17. Retrieved 2006-08-10. 
• "Athletics". ( Sports). International Olympic Committee. 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-10. 
• "Programme of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, Beijing 2008" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-08-10. 
• FIFA Technical Report

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