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) Brazil Cristiane (5 goals)
Football at the
2008 Summer Olympics

Tournament
menwomen
Squads
menwomen

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 Mexico Ciudad Juárez 2  United States
 Canada
2006 Sudamericano Femenino November 10–26, 2006 Argentina Mar del Plata 1  Argentina
OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying August 25 – September 7, 2007
March 8, 2008
Samoa Apia
Papua New Guinea 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
Denmark Viborg
Sweden Solna
1*  Sweden
CAF-CONMEBOL Playoff (Ghana vs Brazil) April 19, 2008 China Beijing 1  Brazil
TOTAL 12

Seeding

Pot 1: Asia Pot 2: Americas Pot 3: Europe Pot 3: Rest of the World

Squads

Countries of women's tournament

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
South Korea Hong Eun-Ah Australia Sarah Ho
Australia Jacqueline Leleu
Thailand Pannipar Kamnueng Myanmar Daw Kaw Ja
Chinese Taipei Liu Hsiu-mei
China Liu Hongjuan Malaysia Shamsuri Widiya Habibah
China Niu Huijun
CONCACAF
Trinidad and Tobago Shane de Silva Costa Rica Milena López
Trinidad and Tobago Cindy Mohammed
Guyana Dianne Ferreira-James Mexico Mayte Chávez
Mexico Rita Muñoz
United States Kari Seitz United States Marlene Duffy
United States Veronica Perez

Referee Assistants
CAF
South Africa Deidre Mitchell South Africa Nomvula Masilela
Benin Tempa Ndah
CONMEBOL
Argentina Estela Álvarez Peru Marlene Leyton
Argentina María Rocco
UEFA
Germany Christine Beck Germany Inka Müller
Spain María Luisa Villa Gutiérrez
Switzerland Nicole Petignat Italy Cristina Cini
France Karine Vives Solana
Czech Republic Dagmar Damková Sweden Helen Caro
Romania Irina Mirt
Poland Katarzyna Nadolska
Norway Hege Steinlund
Sweden Jenny Palmqvist

Group stage

Group winners and runners-up, 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

6 August 2008
17:00

Argentina  1–2  Canada
Manicler  85' Report Chapman  27'
Lang  72'

6 August 2008
19:45

China PR  2–1  Sweden
Xu Yuan  6'
Han Duan  72'
Report Schelin  38'

9 August 2008
17:00

Sweden  1–0  Argentina
Fischer  57' Report
Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium, Tianjin
Attendance: 38,293
Referee: Dianne Ferreira-James (Guyana)

9 August 2008
19:45

Canada  1–1  China PR
Sinclair  34' Report Xu Yuan  36'

12 August 2008
19:45

China PR  2–0  Argentina
Han Duan  52'
Gu Yasha  90'
Report

12 August 2008
19:45

Sweden  2–1  Canada
Schelin  19', 51' Report Tancredi  63'

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

6 August 2008
17:00

Germany  0–0  Brazil
Report
Shenyang Olympic Stadium, Shenyang
Attendance: 20,703
Referee: Kari Seitz (USA)

6 August 2008
19:45

North Korea  1–0  Nigeria
Kim Kyong-hwa  27' Report

9 August 2008
17:00

Nigeria  0–1  Germany
Report Stegemann  65'

9 August 2008
19:45

Brazil  2–1  North Korea
Daniela  14'
Marta  23'
Report Ri Kum-suk  90'
Shenyang Olympic Stadium, Shenyang
Attendance: 19,616
Referee: Niu Huijun (China)

12 August 2008
17:00

North Korea  0–1  Germany
Report Mittag  86'
Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium, Tianjin
Attendance: 12,387
Referee: Dianne Ferreira-James (Guyana)

12 August 2008
17:00

Nigeria  1–3  Brazil
Nkwocha  19' (pen.) Report Cristiane  34', 35', 45+3'

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

6 August 2008
17:00

Japan  2–2  New Zealand
Miyama  72' (pen.)
Sawa  86'
Report Yallop  37'
Hearn  56' (pen.)
Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Qinhuangdao
Attendance: 10,270
Referee: Deidre Mitchell (South Africa)

6 August 2008
19:45

Norway  2–0  United States
Larsen Kaurin  2'
Wiik  4'
Report

9 August 2008
17:00

United States  1–0  Japan
Lloyd  27' Report

9 August 2008
19:45

New Zealand  0–1  Norway
Report Wiik  8'
Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Qinhuangdao
Attendance: 7,285
Referee: Estela Alvarez (Argentina)

12 August 2008
19:45

Norway  1–5  Japan
Knutsen  27' Report Kinga  31'
Følstad  51' (o.g.)
Ohno  52'
Sawa  71'
Hara  83'

12 August 2008
19:45

United States  4–0  New Zealand
O'Reilly  1'
Rodriguez  43'
Tarpley  56'
Hucles  60'
Report

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

15 August 2008
18:00

United States  2–1 (a.e.t.)  Canada
Hucles  12'
Kai  101'
Report Sinclair  30'
Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai
Attendance: 26,129
Referee: Jenny Palmqvist (Sweden)

15 August 2008
18:00

Brazil  2–1  Norway
Daniela  43'
Marta  57'
Report Nordby  83' (pen.)

15 August 2008
21:00

Sweden  0–2 (a.e.t.)  Germany
Report Garefrekes  104'
Laudehr  115'

15 August 2008
21:00

China PR  0–2  Japan
Report Sawa  15'
Nagasato  80'

Semi-finals

18 August 2008
18:00

Brazil  4–1  Germany
Formiga  43'
Cristiane  49', 76'
Marta  53'
Report Prinz  10'

18 August 2008
21:00

United States  4–2  Japan
Hucles  41', 80'
Chalupny  44'
O'Reilly  70'
Report Ohno  16'
Arakawa  90+3'
Workers Stadium, Beijing
Attendance: 50,937
Referee: Nicole Petignat (Switzerland)

Bronze medal match

21 August 2008
18:00

3rd Germany  2–0  Japan
Bajramaj  68', 87' Report
Workers Stadium, Beijing
Attendance: 49,285
Referee: Estela Álvarez (Argentina)

Gold medal match

21 August 2008
21:00

2nd Brazil  0–1 (a.e.t.)  United States 1st
Report Lloyd  96'

Final ranking

Rank Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  United States (USA) 6501125+715
2  Brazil (BRA) 6411115+613
3  Germany (GER) 641174+313
4  Japan (JPN) 62131110+17
5  China (CHN) 421154+17
6  Sweden (SWE) 420245–16
7  Norway (NOR) 420257–26
8  Canada (CAN) 411256−14
9  North Korea (PRK) 310223−13
10  New Zealand (NZL) 301227−51
11  Argentina (ARG) 300315−40
 Nigeria (NGR) 300315−40

Statistics

Goalscorers

5 goals
4 goals
3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goal

References

  1. Homewood, Brian (2008-08-22). "U.S. retain gold against Brazil in women's soccer | Reuters". In.reuters.com. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
  2. Homewood, Brian (2008-08-19). "Brazil seek first major title in women's soccer". Reuters. Retrieved 2012-09-15.

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