# Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

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The women's football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 25 July to 10 August 2024. It was the eighth edition of the women's Olympic football tournament. Together with the men's competition, the 2024 Summer Olympics football tournament was held at seven stadiums in seven cities in France.
The United States won a record-extending fifth gold medal, and their first since 2012, defeating Brazil 1–0 in the final, held at Parc des Princes in Paris.

## Schedule

The schedule was as follows.
| Thu 25 | Fri 26 | Sat 27 | Sun 28 | Mon 29 | Tue 30 | Wed 31 | Thu 1 | Fri 2 | Sat 3 | Sun 4 | Mon 5 | Tue 6 | Wed 7 | Thu 8 | Fri 9 | Sat 10 |
| GS | | | GS | | | GS | | | QF | | | SF | | | B | F |

## Qualification

In addition to host nation France, eleven women's national teams qualified from six separate continental confederations. The Organising Committee for FIFA Competitions ratified the distribution of spots at their meeting on 24 February 2022.
| Means of qualification | Dates | Venue(s) | Berth(s) | Qualified |
| Host nation | — | — | 1 | France |
| 2022 CONCACAF W Championship | 4–18 July 2022 | Mexico | 1 | United States |
| 2022 Copa América Femenina | 8–30 July 2022 | Colombia | 2 | Brazil Colombia |
| CONCACAF play-off | 22–26 September 2023 | Jamaica Canada | 1 | Canada |
| 2024 OFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament | 7–19 February 2024 | Samoa | 1 | New Zealand |
| 2024 UEFA Women's Nations League Finals | 23–28 February 2024 | Multiple | 2 | Spain Germany |
| 2024 AFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament | 24–28 February 2024 | Multiple | 2 | Australia Japan |
| 2024 CAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament | 5–9 April 2024 | Multiple | 2 | Nigeria Zambia |
| Total | | | 12 | |
* 1 2 Dates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments); various qualification stages may precede these matches.
Sweden, runners-up of the 2016 and 2020 Olympic tournaments, failed to qualify for the 2024 tournament after being eliminated in the group stage of the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League.

## Venues

| Marseille | Décines-Charpieu (Lyon Area) | Paris |
| Stade de Marseille | Stade de Lyon | Parc des Princes |
| Capacity: 67,394 | Capacity: 59,186 | Capacity: 47,929 |
| MarseilleDécines-CharpieuParisBordeauxSaint-ÉtienneNiceNantes | MarseilleDécines-CharpieuParisBordeauxSaint-ÉtienneNiceNantes | Bordeaux |
| MarseilleDécines-CharpieuParisBordeauxSaint-ÉtienneNiceNantes | MarseilleDécines-CharpieuParisBordeauxSaint-ÉtienneNiceNantes | Stade de Bordeaux |
| MarseilleDécines-CharpieuParisBordeauxSaint-ÉtienneNiceNantes | MarseilleDécines-CharpieuParisBordeauxSaint-ÉtienneNiceNantes | Capacity: 42,115 |
| Saint-Étienne | Nice | Nantes |
| Stade Geoffroy-Guichard | Stade de Nice | Stade de la Beaujoire |
| Capacity: 41,965 | Capacity: 36,178 | Capacity: 35,322 |

## Squads

The women's tournament was a full international tournament with no restrictions on age. Each team had to submit a squad of 18 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers. Each team could also name a list of four alternate players, who could replace any player in the squad in case of injury during the tournament.

## Match officials

On 3 April 2024, FIFA released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympic Games.
Match officials :
| Confederation | Referee | Assistant referees |
| AFC | Yoshimi Yamashita (Japan) | Makoto Bozono (Japan) Naomi Teshirogi (Japan) |
| AFC | Kim Yu-jeong (South Korea) | Joanna Charaktis (Australia) Park Mi-suk (South Korea) |
| CAF | Bouchra Karboubi (Morocco) | Fatiha Jermoumi (Morocco) Diana Chikotesha (Zambia) |
| CONCACAF | Katia García (Mexico) | Karen Díaz (Mexico) Sandra Ramírez (Mexico) |
| CONCACAF | Tori Penso (United States) | Brooke Mayo (United States) Kathryn Nesbitt (United States) |
| CONMEBOL | Edina Alves Batista (Brazil) | Neuza Back (Brazil) Fabrini Bevilaqua (Brazil) |
| CONMEBOL | Emikar Calderas (Venezuela) | Mary Blanco (Colombia) Migdalia Rodríguez (Venezuela) |
| UEFA | Rebecca Welch (Great Britain) | Emily Carney (Great Britain) Franca Overtoom (Netherlands) |
| UEFA | Tess Olofsson (Sweden) | Francesca Di Monte (Italy) Almira Spahić (Sweden) |
Support officials :
| Confederation | Referee |
| AFC | Veronika Bernatskaia (Kyrgyzstan) |
| CAF | Shamirah Nabadda (Uganda) |
| CONCACAF | Odette Hamilton (Jamaica) |
| CONMEBOL | Anahí Fernández (Uruguay) |
| UEFA | Frida Klarlund (Denmark) |
| UEFA | Jelena Cvetković (Serbia) |
Video assistant referees :
| Confederation | Video assistant referee |
| Male officials ||
| AFC | Khamis Al-Marri (Qatar) |
| AFC | Sivakorn Pu-udom (Thailand) |
| CAF | Lahlou Benbraham (Algeria) |
| CAF | Mahmoud Ashour (Egypt) |
| CONCACAF | Daneon Parchment (Jamaica) |
| CONCACAF | Guillermo Pacheco (Mexico) |
| CONMEBOL | Héctor Paletta (Argentina) |
| CONMEBOL | Rodrigo Carvajal (Chile) |
| CONMEBOL | Leodán González (Uruguay) |
| UEFA | Ivan Bebek (Croatia) |
| UEFA | David Coote (Great Britain) |
| UEFA | Jérôme Brisard (France) |
| UEFA | Paolo Valeri (Italy) |
| UEFA | Rob Dieperink (Netherlands) |
| UEFA | Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania) |
| UEFA | Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain) |
| Female officials ||
| AFC | Kate Jacewicz (Australia) |
| CONCACAF | Tatiana Guzmán (Nicaragua) |
| CONMEBOL | Daiane Muniz (Brazil) |
| UEFA | Katalin Kulcsár (Hungary) |

## Draw

The draw for the tournament was held on 20 March 2024, 20:00 CET (UTC+1), at the Pulse building in Saint-Denis, France.
The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four teams. The hosts France were automatically seeded into Pot 1 and assigned to position A1 while the remaining teams were seeded into their respective pots based on the FIFA Women's World Ranking released on 15 March 2024 (shown in parentheses below). No group could contain more than one team from each confederation.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
| France (3) (assigned to A1)  Spain (1)  United States (4) | Germany (5)  Japan (7)  Canada (9) | Brazil (10)  Australia (12)  Colombia (23) | New Zealand (28)  Nigeria (36)  Zambia (65) |
Notes
* ↑ Teams from CAF were in the qualifying phase and were not known at the time of the draw, they were drawn originally as CAF 1 and CAF 2.

## Group stage

The competing countries were divided into three groups of four teams, denoted as groups A, B, and C. Teams in each group played one another in a round-robin basis, with the top two teams of each group and the two best third-placed teams advancing to the quarter-finals.
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

### Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:
* Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat);
* Goal difference in all group matches;
* Number of goals scored in all group matches;
* Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
* Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
* Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
* Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match): Yellow card: −1 point;Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;Direct red card: −4 points;Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
* Drawing of lots.

### Group A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | France (H) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Canada | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Colombia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 4 | New Zealand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 | |
* ↑ On 27 July 2024, Canada was penalized 6 points by FIFA for their coaching staff's involvement in illegal drone spying at an official training venue. The decision was upheld by CAS on 31 July.

### Group B

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | United States | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | +7 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Germany | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Australia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 10 | −3 | 3 | |
| 4 | Zambia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 13 | −7 | 0 | |

### Group C

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Spain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Japan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Brazil | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 4 | Nigeria | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0 | |

### Ranking of third-placed teams

| Pos | Grp | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | A | Colombia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | C | Brazil | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | B | Australia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 10 | −3 | 3 | |

## Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of regulation time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each), and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.

### Bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| 3 August – Nantes | 3 August – Nantes | | | |
| France | 0 | | | |
| France | 0 | 6 August – Marseille | 6 August – Marseille | | |
| Brazil | 1 | 6 August – Marseille | 6 August – Marseille | |
| Brazil | 1 | Brazil | 4 | |
| 3 August – Décines-Charpieu | 3 August – Décines-Charpieu | | Brazil | 4 | |
| 3 August – Décines-Charpieu | 3 August – Décines-Charpieu | Spain | 2 | |
| Spain (p) | 2 (4) | Spain | 2 | |
| Spain (p) | 2 (4) | | | | 10 August – Paris | 10 August – Paris |
| Colombia | 2 (2) | | | | 10 August – Paris | 10 August – Paris |
| Colombia | 2 (2) | | | | Brazil | 0 |
| 3 August – Paris | 3 August – Paris | | | | | Brazil | 0 |
| 3 August – Paris | 3 August – Paris | | | | United States | 1 |
| United States (a.e.t.) | 1 | | | | United States | 1 |
| United States (a.e.t.) | 1 | 6 August – Décines-Charpieu | 6 August – Décines-Charpieu | | | |
| Japan | 0 | 6 August – Décines-Charpieu | 6 August – Décines-Charpieu | | | |
| Japan | 0 | United States (a.e.t.) | 1 | | | |
| 3 August – Marseille | 3 August – Marseille | | United States (a.e.t.) | 1 | | | |
| 3 August – Marseille | 3 August – Marseille | Germany | 0 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Canada | 0 (2) | Germany | 0 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Canada | 0 (2) | | | | 9 August – Décines-Charpieu | 9 August – Décines-Charpieu |
| Germany (p) | 0 (4) | | | | 9 August – Décines-Charpieu | 9 August – Décines-Charpieu |
| Germany (p) | 0 (4) | | | | Spain | 0 |
| | | | | | Germany | 1 |

### Gold medal match
## Statistics
### Goalscorers

There were 76 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.92 goals per match.
5 goals
* Marie-Antoinette Katoto
4 goals
* Mallory Swanson
* Barbra Banda
3 goals
* Lea Schüller
* Trinity Rodman
* Sophia Smith
2 goals
* Steph Catley
* Alanna Kennedy
* Gabi Portilho
* Vanessa Gilles
* Leicy Santos
* Giulia Gwinn
* Alexia Putellas
* Racheal Kundananji
1 goal
* Michelle Heyman
* Hayley Raso
* Adriana
* Gabi Nunes
* Jheniffer
* Kerolin
* Jessie Fleming
* Cloé Lacasse
* Evelyne Viens
* Manuela Paví
* Mayra Ramírez
* Marcela Restrepo
* Catalina Usme
* Kenza Dali
* Jule Brand
* Klara Bühl
* Marina Hegering
* Elisa Senß
* Aoba Fujino
* Maika Hamano
* Hikaru Kitagawa
* Saki Kumagai
* Mina Tanaka
* Momoko Tanikawa
* Mackenzie Barry
* Kate Taylor
* Jennifer Echegini
* Aitana Bonmatí
* Mariona Caldentey
* Athenea del Castillo
* Jenni Hermoso
* Salma Paralluelo
* Irene Paredes
* Korbin Albert
* Lynn Williams
1 own goal
* Duda Sampaio (against Spain)
* Irene Paredes (against Brazil)
* Ngambo Musole (against Australia)
Source: IOC

## Final ranking

As 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 | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final result |
| | United States | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 18 | Gold medal |
| | Brazil | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 9 | Silver medal |
| | Germany | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 10 | Bronze medal |
| 4 | Spain | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 10 | Fourth place |
| 5 | Japan | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 6 | Eliminated in quarter-finals |
| 6 | France (H) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | Eliminated in quarter-finals |
| 7 | Canada | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 4 | Eliminated in quarter-finals |
| 8 | Colombia | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | Eliminated in quarter-finals |
| 9 | Australia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 10 | −3 | 3 | Eliminated in group stage |
| 10 | New Zealand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 | Eliminated in group stage |
| 11 | Nigeria | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0 | Eliminated in group stage |
| 12 | Zambia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 13 | −7 | 0 | Eliminated in group stage |
* ↑ On 27 July 2024, Canada were penalized 6 points by FIFA for their coaching staff's involvement in illegal drone spying at an official training venue. The decision was upheld by CAS on 31 July.