Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

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

2008 Women's Olympic Football Tournament
Tournament details
Host countryChina
Dates6–21 August
Teams12 (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 played26
Goals scored66 (2.54 per match)
Attendance740,014 (28,462 per match)
Top scorer(s) Cristiane (5 goals)
Fair play award China PR
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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
Main article: Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification
Countries of women's tournament

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

Means of completionDate of completionVenueBerthsQualified
Host nation––1 China PR
AFC Preliminary CompetitionFebruary 2007 – August 2007–2 Japan
 North Korea
CAF Preliminary CompetitionOctober 2006 – March 2008–1 Nigeria
CONCACAF Preliminary CompetitionOctober 2007 – April 2008 Ciudad Juárez2 United States
 Canada
2006 Sudamericano Femenino10–26 November 2006 Mar del Plata1 Argentina
OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying25 August – 7 September 2007
8 March 2008		 Apia
Port Moresby		1 New Zealand
UEFA (2007 FIFA Women's World Cup)*10–30 September 2007 China2* Germany
 Norway
UEFA Playoff (Denmark vs Sweden)8 November 2007
28 November 2007		 Viborg
Solna		1* Sweden
CAF-CONMEBOL Playoff (Ghana vs Brazil)19 April 2008 Beijing1 Brazil
TOTAL12
  • 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 4: Rest of the World

Squads
Main article: Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's team 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

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
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  China PR 3 2 1 0 5 2 +3 7 Qualified for the quarterfinals
2  Sweden 3 2 0 1 4 3 +1 6
3  Canada 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4
4  Argentina 3 0 0 3 1 5 −4 0
Source: [3]
Argentina 1–2 Canada
Manicler  85' Report Chapman  27'
Lang  72'
Attendance: 23,201
China PR 2–1 Sweden
Xu Yuan  6'
Han Duan  72'		 Report Schelin  38'
Attendance: 37,902
Sweden 1–0 Argentina
Fischer  57' Report
Attendance: 38,293
Referee: Dianne Ferreira-James (Guyana)
Canada 1–1 China PR
Sinclair  34' Report Xu Yuan  36'
Attendance: 52,600
China PR 2–0 Argentina
Quiñones  52' (o.g.)
Gu Yasha  90'		 Report
Attendance: 31,492
Sweden 2–1 Canada
Schelin  19', 51' Report Tancredi  63'
Beijing Workers' Stadium, Beijing
Attendance: 51,112

Group F
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Brazil 3 2 1 0 5 2 +3 7 Qualified for the quarterfinals
2  Germany 3 2 1 0 2 0 +2 7
3  North Korea 3 1 0 2 2 3 −1 3
4  Nigeria 3 0 0 3 1 5 −4 0
Source:
Germany 0–0 Brazil
Report
Attendance: 20,703
Referee: Kari Seitz (USA)
North Korea 1–0 Nigeria
Kim Kyong-hwa  27' Report
Attendance: 24,084
Nigeria 0–1 Germany
Report Stegemann  65'
Attendance: 19,266
Brazil 2–1 North Korea
Daniela  14'
Marta  23'		 Report Ri Kum-suk  90'
Attendance: 19,616
Referee: Niu Huijun (China)
North Korea 0–1 Germany
Report Mittag  86'
Attendance: 12,387
Referee: Dianne Ferreira-James (Guyana)
Nigeria 1–3 Brazil
Nkwocha  19' (pen.) Report Cristiane  34', 35', 45+3'
Beijing Workers' Stadium, Beijing
Attendance: 51,112

Group G
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  United States 3 2 0 1 5 2 +3 6 Qualified for the quarterfinals
2  Norway 3 2 0 1 4 5 −1 6
3  Japan 3 1 1 1 7 4 +3 4
4  New Zealand 3 0 1 2 2 7 −5 1
Source:
Japan 2–2 New Zealand
Miyama  72' (pen.)
Sawa  86'		 Report Yallop  37'
Hearn  56' (pen.)
Attendance: 10,270
Referee: Deidre Mitchell (South Africa)
Norway 2–0 United States
Larsen Kaurin  2'
Wiik  4'		 Report
Attendance: 17,673
United States 1–0 Japan
Lloyd  27' Report
Attendance: 16,912
New Zealand 0–1 Norway
Report Wiik  8'
Attendance: 7,285
Referee: Estela Alvarez (Argentina)
Norway 1–5 Japan
Knutsen  27' Report Kinga  31'
Følstad  51' (o.g.)
Ohno  52'
Sawa  71'
Hara  83'
Attendance: 16,872
United States 4–0 New Zealand
O'Reilly  1'
Rodriguez  43'
Tarpley  56'
Hucles  60'		 Report
Attendance: 12,453

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
Source:

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
United States 2–1 (a.e.t.) Canada
Hucles  12'
Kai  101'		 Report Sinclair  30'
Attendance: 26,129
Brazil 2–1 Norway
Daniela  43'
Marta  57'		 Report Nordby  83' (pen.)
Attendance: 26,174
Referee: Kari Seitz (USA)
Sweden 0–2 (a.e.t.) Germany
Report Garefrekes  104'
Laudehr  115'
Attendance: 17,209
China PR 0–2 Japan
Report Sawa  15'
Nagasato  80'
Attendance: 28,459

Semi-finals
Brazil 4–1 Germany
Formiga  43'
Cristiane  49', 76'
Marta  53'		 Report Prinz  10'
Attendance: 26,976
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

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

Gold medal match
Brazil 0–1 (a.e.t.) United States
Report Lloyd  96'
Workers Stadium, Beijing
Attendance: 51,612

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 66 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.54 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Source: FIFA[4]

Assists

3 assists

2 assists

1 assist

Source: FIFA[4]

FIFA Fair Play Award

China PR won the FIFA Fair Play Award, given to the team with the best record of fair play during the tournament. Every match in the tournament was taken into account, though only teams that reached the knockout stage were eligible to win the award.[4]

Pos Team Pts
1  China PR 956
2  Japan 939
3  United States 930
4  Germany 913
5  Sweden 913
6  Norway 903
7  Brazil 896
8  Canada 892

Tournament ranking

Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Final result
1 G  United States 6 5 0 1 12 5 +7 15 Gold medal
2 F  Brazil 6 4 1 1 11 5 +6 13 Silver medal
3 F  Germany 6 4 1 1 7 4 +3 13 Bronze medal
4 G  Japan 6 2 1 3 11 10 +1 7 Fourth place
5 E  China PR (H) 4 2 1 1 5 4 +1 7 Eliminated in
quarter-finals
6 E  Sweden 4 2 0 2 4 5 −1 6
7 G  Norway 4 2 0 2 5 7 −2 6
8 E  Canada 4 1 1 2 5 6 −1 4
9 F  North Korea 3 1 0 2 2 3 −1 3 Eliminated in
group stage
10 G  New Zealand 3 0 1 2 2 7 −5 1
11 E  Argentina 3 0 0 3 1 5 −4 0
11 F  Nigeria 3 0 0 3 1 5 −4 0
Source: FIFA[4][5]
(H) Host.

References
  1. Homewood, Brian (22 August 2008). "U.S. retain gold against Brazil in women's soccer | Reuters". In.reuters.com. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
  2. Homewood, Brian (19 August 2008). "Brazil seek first major title in women's soccer". Reuters. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
  3. "2008 Summer Olympics Soccer Results - Beijing, China - ESPN". www.espn.com. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  4. Report and Statistics – Men's and Women's Olympic Football Tournaments Beijing 2008 (PDF). FIFA. Zürich. 2008. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  5. "Women's Olympic Football Tournament Rio 2016: Statistical Kit" (PDF). FIFA. 14 July 2016. p. 28. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
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