Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics

The association football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics were held from 3 to 20 August in Brazil.

The tournament were feature both the men's and women's teams. The men's teams can only have players who were born on or after 1 January 1993, and the women's teams have no age limit.

The tournament were played in six cities: Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Salvador, São Paulo, and Manaus.

### Men

The top 4 teams in the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualify, the winner of the 2015 Pacific Games qualifies, the top 2 teams in the 2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualify, the top 3 teams from the 2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualify, the top 3 teams from the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship qualify and the winner of the 2016 CONCACAF–CONMEBOL play-off qualifies.

### Women

The best two European teams from the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualify, the winner of the 2014 Copa América Femenina qualifies (which was Brazil but they already qualified for being hosts, so the runners-up qualified instead), the top 2 teams from the 2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament qualify, the winner of the 2016 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament qualifies, the top 2 teams from the 2016 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualify, the top 2 teams from the 2016 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament qualify and the winner of the 2016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament qualifies.

#### Group A

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|1|align=left||3|1|2|0|4|0|+4|**5**|rowspan=2|Quarter-finals||||||||||
|2|align=left||3|1|1|1|1|4|–3|**4**||||||||||||
|3|align=left||3|0|3|0|1|1|0|**3**|rowspan=2|||||||||||
|4|align=left||3|0|2|1|1|2|–1|**2**||||||||||||

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|4 August 2016|||||
|****|**0–0**|****|||
|****|**0–0**|****|||
|7 August 2016|||||
|****|**1–0**|****|||
|****|**0–0**|****|||
|10 August 2016|||||
|****|**0–4**|****|||
|****|**1–1**|****|||

#### Group B

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|1|align=left||3|2|0|1|6|6|0|**6**|rowspan=2|Quarter-finals||||||||||
|2|align=left||3|1|2|0|6|4|+2|**5**||||||||||||
|3|align=left||3|1|1|1|7|7|0|**4**|rowspan=2|||||||||||
|4|align=left||3|0|1|2|2|4|–2|**1**||||||||||||

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|4 August 2016|||||
|****|**2–2**|****|||
|****|**5–4**|****|||
|7 August 2016|||||
|****|**0–1**|****|||
|****|**2–2**|****|||
|10 August 2016|||||
|****|**1–0**|****|||
|****|**2–0**|****|||

#### Group C

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|1|align=left|Korea Republic|3|2|1|0|12|3|+9|**7**|rowspan=2|Quarter-finals||||||||||
|2|align=left||3|1|2|0|15|5|+10|**5**||||||||||||
|3|align=left||3|1|1|1|7|4|+3|**4**|rowspan=2|||||||||||
|4|align=left||3|0|0|3|1|23|–22|**0**||||||||||||

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|4 August 2016|||||
|****|**2–2**|****|||
|****|**0–8**|****|||
|7 August 2016|||||
|****|**1–5**|****|||
|****|**3–3**|****|||
|10 August 2016|||||
|****|**10–0**|****|||
|****|**1–0**|****|||

#### Group D

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|1|align=left||3|2|1|0|5|2|+3|**7**|rowspan=2|Quarter-finals||||||||||
|2|align=left||3|1|1|1|5|5|0|**4**||||||||||||
|4|align=left||3|1|1|1|3|4|–1|**4**|rowspan=2|||||||||||
|4|align=left||3|0|1|2|4|6|–2|**1**||||||||||||

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|4 August 2016|||||
|****|**3–2**|****|||
|****|**2–0**|****|||
|7 August 2016|||||
|****|**1–2**|****|||
|****|**2–1**|****|||
|10 August 2016|||||
|****|**1–1**|****|||
|****|**1–1**|****|||

#### Quarter-finals

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#### Group E

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|1|align=left||3|2|1|0|8|1|+7|**7**|rowspan=3|Quarter-finals||||||||||
|2|align=left||3|1|1|1|2|3|–1|**4**||||||||||||
|3|align=left||3|1|1|1|2|5|–3|**4**||||||||||||
|4|align=left||3|0|1|2|0|3|–3|**1**|rowspan=1|||||||||||

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|3 August 2016|||||
|****|**1–0**|****|||
|****|**3–0**|****|||
|6 August 2016|||||
|****|**0–2**|****|||
|****|**5–1**|****|||
|9 August 2016|||||
|****|**0–0**|****|||
|****|**0–0**|****|||

#### Group F

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|1|align=left||3|3|0|0|7|2|+5|**9**|rowspan=3|Quarter-finals||||||||||
|2|align=left|Germany|3|1|1|1|9|5|+4|**4**||||||||||||
|3|align=left||3|1|1|1|8|5|+3|**4**||||||||||||
|4|align=left||3|0|0|3|3|15|–12|**0**|rowspan=1|||||||||||

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|3 August 2016|||||
|**Canada **|**2–0**|****|||
|****|**1–6**|** Germany**|||
|6 August 2016|||||
|**Canada **|**3–1**|****|||
|**Germany **|**2–2**|****|||
|9 August 2016|||||
|**Germany **|**1–2**|****|||
|****|**6–1**|****|||

#### Group G

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|1|align=left||3|2|1|0|5|2|+3|**7**|rowspan=2|Quarter-finals||||||||||
|2|align=left||3|2|0|1|7|1|+6|**6**||||||||||||
|3|align=left||3|1|0|2|1|5|–4|**3**|rowspan=2|||||||||||
|4|align=left||3|0|1|2|2|7|–5|**1**||||||||||||

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|3 August 2016|||||
|****|**2–0**|****|||
|****|**4–0**|****|||
|6 August 2016|||||
|****|**1–0**|****|||
|****|**0–1**|****|||
|9 August 2016|||||
|****|**2–2**|****|||
|****|**0–3**|****|||

#### Best third-place teams

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|1|align=left||3|1|1|1|8|5|+3|**4**|rowspan=2|Quarter-finals||||||||||
|2|align=left||3|1|1|1|2|5|–3|**4**||||||||||||
|3|align=left||3|1|0|2|1|5|–4|**3**|rowspan=1|||||||||||

#### Quarter-finals

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### Medal table

|colspan=2|Total||2||2||2||6|
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|1||1|1|0|2|||||
|2||1|0|0|1|||||
|3||0|1|0|1|||||
|4||0|0|1|1|||||
||0|0|1|1||||||

### Men top goalscorers

- 6 goals
- Serge Gnabry
- Nils Petersen

- 4 goals

- Neymar
- Maximilian Meyer
- Erick Gutiérrez
- Oghenekaro Etebo
- Umar Sadiq

- 3 goals

- Gabriel Jesus
- Luan
- Teo Gutiérrez
- Anthony Lozano
- Kwon Chang-hoon
- Ryu Seung-woo
- Suk Hyun-jun
- Gonçalo Paciência

- 2 goals

- Sofiane Bendebka
- Gabriel
- Dorlan Pabón
- Matthias Ginter
- Davie Selke
- Alberth Elis
- Marcelo Pereira
- Takuma Asano
- Son Heung-min
- Aminu Umar

- 1 goal

- Mohamed Benkablia
- Baghdad Bounedjah
- Jonathan Calleri
- Ángel Correa
- Mauricio Martínez
- Marquinhos
- Robert Skov
- Roy Krishna
- Lukas Klostermann
- Philipp Max
- Romell Quioto
- Saad Abdul-Amir
- Shinzo Koroki
- Takumi Minamino
- Shoya Nakajima
- Musashi Suzuki
- Shinya Yajima
- Oribe Peralta
- Rodolfo Pizarro
- Carlos Salcedo
- John Obi Mikel
- Tobias Figueiredo
- Pité
- Hwang Hee-chan
- Gift Motupa
- Astrit Ajdarević
- Mikael Ishak

- Own goals
- Hiroki Fujiharu <small>(playing against Colombia)</small>

### Women top goalscorers

- 5 goals
- Melanie Behringer

- 3 goals

- Beatriz
- Janine Beckie
- Christine Sinclair
- Sara Däbritz

- 2 goals

- Michelle Heyman
- Cristiane
- Marta
- Melissa Tancredi
- Catalina Usme
- Louisa Cadamuro
- Eugenie Le Sommer
- Stina Blackstenius
- Carli Lloyd
- Alex Morgan

- 1 goal

- Lisa De Vanna
- Caitlin Foord
- Alanna Kennedy
- Samantha Kerr
- Clare Polkinghorne
- Kyah Simon
- Andressa Alves
- Mônica
- Deanne Rose
- Sophie Schmidt
- Gu Yasha
- Tan Ruyin
- Camille Abily
- Amel Majri
- Saskia Bartusiak
- Melanie Leupolz
- Dzsenifer Marozsán
- Alexandra Popp
- Amber Hearn
- Nilla Fischer
- Lotta Schelin
- Crystal Dunn
- Mallory Pugh
- Kudakwashe Basopo
- Mavis Chirandu
- Emmaculate Msipa

- 1 own goal

- Carolina Arias (playing against France)
- Linda Sembrant (playing against Germany)
- Eunice Chibanda (playing against Germany)

#### Men

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|1|align=left||6|3|3|0|13|1|+12|**12**||||||||||
|2|align=left||6|3|3|0|22|6|+16|**12**||||||||||
|3|align=left||6|4|0|2|11|10|+1|**12**||||||||||
|4|align=left||6|2|1|3|8|14|–6|**7**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in Quarter-finals**|||||||||||||||||||
|5|align=left|Korea Republic|4|2|1|1|12|4|+8|**7**||||||||||
|6|align=left||4|2|1|1|5|6|–1|**7**||||||||||
|7|align=left||4|1|2|1|6|6|0|**5**||||||||||
|8|align=left||4|1|1|2|1|6|–5|**4**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in Group stage**|||||||||||||||||||
|9|align=left||3|1|1|1|7|4|+3|**4**||||||||||
|10|align=left||3|1|1|1|7|7|0|**4**||||||||||
|11|align=left||3|1|1|1|3|4|–1|**4**||||||||||
|12|align=left||3|0|3|0|1|1|0|**3**||||||||||
|13|align=left||3|0|2|1|1|2|–1|**2**||||||||||
|14|align=left||3|0|1|2|4|6|–2|**1**||||||||||
|15|align=left||3|0|1|2|2|4|–2|**1**||||||||||
|16|align=left||3|0|0|3|1|23|–22|**0**||||||||||

#### Women

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|1|align=left|Germany|6|4|1|1|14|6|+8|**13**||||||||||
|2|align=left||6|1|3|2|4|8|–4|**6**||||||||||
|3|align=left||6|5|0|1|10|5|+5|**15**||||||||||
|4|align=left||6|2|3|1|9|3|+6|**9**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in Quarter-finals**|||||||||||||||||||
|5|align=left||4|2|2|0|6|3|+3|**8**||||||||||
|6|align=left||4|2|0|2|7|2|+5|**6**||||||||||
|7|align=left||4|1|2|1|8|5|+3|**5**||||||||||
|8|align=left||4|1|1|2|2|4|–2|**4**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in Group stage**|||||||||||||||||||
|9|align=left||3|1|0|2|1|5|–4|**3**||||||||||
|10|align=left||3|0|1|2|0|3|–3|**1**||||||||||
|11|align=left||3|0|1|2|2|7|–5|**1**||||||||||
|12|align=left||3|0|0|3|3|15|–12|**0**||||||||||

## Other websites

- Football , Rio2016.com
- Men's Olympic Football Tournament, Rio 2016 , FIFA.com
- Women's Olympic Football Tournament, Rio 2016 , FIFA.com

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: 2016 Men's Olympic Football Tournament
- **image**: Football in Bloomington, Indiana, 1996.jpg
- **size**: 250px
- **country**: Brazil
- **dates**: 4–20 August
- **num teams**: 16
- **confederations**: 6
- **venues**: 7
- **cities**: 6
- **count**: 1
- **matches**: 32
- **goals**: 104
- **attendance**: 1008426
- **top scorer**: Serge Gnabry
 Nils Petersen

- **prevseason**: Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, 2012
- **nextseason**: _Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, 2020_


## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: 2016 Women's Olympic Football Tournament
- **image**: FIFA Women's World Cup 2019 Final - Alex Morgan and Stefanie van der Gragt.jpg
- **size**: 250px
- **country**: Brazil
- **dates**: 3–19 August
- **num teams**: 12
- **confederations**: 6
- **venues**: 7
- **cities**: 6
- **champion other**: Germany women's national football team, Germany
- **count**: 1
- **second other**: Sweden women's national football team, Sweden
- **third other**: Canadian women's national soccer team, Canada
- **matches**: 26
- **goals**: 66
- **attendance**: 635885
- **top scorer**: Melanie Behringer
- **prevseason**: Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, 2012
- **nextseason**: Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, _2020_