Football 5-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

This article is about the 2016 Summer Paralympics event for blind and partially sighted athletes. For the event at those Games for athletes with cerebral palsy and similar impairments, see Football 7-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Football 5-a-side
at the Paralympic Games
VenueOlympic Tennis Centre
Dates9–17 September 2016
Competitors96 (8 teams)
The Paralympic symbol.

Football 5-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics[1] will be held in Rio at the Olympic Tennis Centre, from 9 to 17 September. Football 5-a-side is played by athletes with visual impairment, with a ball with a noise making device inside.[2]

For these games, the men will compete in an 8-team tournament. Brazil are hosts, reigning three time paralypic champions, and the favorites since they won both in Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012; they are also the defending world and PanAmerican champions.[3]

Classification

The International Paralympic Committee recognizes three classifications for the purposes of this event, all involving various degrees of limited sight, ranging from total lack of sight to the ability to make out shapes at short distances - B1, B2 and B3. However, the event is made fair and open to all abilities within the broader classification by the use of eyemasks by all players.

Qualification

Eight teams will contest the competition, which is for male athletes only.

An NPC can enter a single squad, consisting of eight players, plus 2 sighted goalkeepers - goalkeepers are not included in the athlete quota of 64; both goalkeepers however, in line with Paralympic practice on able bodied guides and competitors' in other events, are eligible for medals.[4]

Football 5-a-side at 2016 Summer Paralympics - Qualification
Means of qualification Date Venue Berths[5]Qualified
Host nation   1  Brazil (BRA)
2014 IBSA World Blind Football Championship[6] 13–25 November 2014 Tokyo,  Japan 1  Argentina (ARG)
2014 Asian Championiship[7] 30 August-8 September 2015 Tokyo,  Japan 3  Iran (IRI)
 China (CHN)
2015 IBSA Football 5-a-side European Championships[8] 22–29 August 2015 Hereford,  United Kingdom 2  Turkey (TUR)
 Russia (RUS)
2015 Parapan American Games 8-15 August 2015Toronto,  Canada 1  Mexico (MEX)
2015 IBSA Football 5-a-side African Championships 16–25 October 2015 Douala,  Cameroon 1  Morocco (MAR)
Total 8

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.rio2016.com/football-5-a-side
  2. ↑ "Football 5-a-side", The official site of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, accessed 21 February 2012.
  3. ↑ http://www.paralympic.org/news/football-5-side-12-facts-london-2012
  4. ↑ IBSA announces update qualification process for 'football 5', Paralympics.org
  5. ↑ Football 5-a-Side Qualification Criteria – FT, International Paralympic Committee (IPC), February 2011.
  6. ↑ IBSA World Blind Football Championships
  7. ↑
  8. ↑ IBSA European Championship

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