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.

 Qualified teams 

 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.


  (host)













 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.


  (host)










 Men's tournament 
 Group stage 
Group A

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4 August 20160–00–07 August 20161–00–010 August 20160–41–1

Group B

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4 August 20162–25–47 August 20160–12–210 August 20161–02–0

Group C

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsMoves on to the1 Korea Republic3210123+97Quarter-finals23120155+1053311174+3443003123–220

4 August 20162–20–87 August 20161–53–310 August 201610–01–0

Group D

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4 August 20163–22–07 August 20161–22–110 August 20161–11–1

 Knockout stage 

 Quarter-finals 

 Women's tournament 
 Group stage 
Group E

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3 August 20161–03–06 August 20160–25–19 August 20160–00–0

Group F

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3 August 2016Canada 2–01–6 Germany6 August 2016Canada 3–1Germany 2–29 August 2016Germany 1–26–1

Group G

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3 August 20162–04–06 August 20161–00–19 August 20162–20–3

Best third-place teams

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 Knockout stage 

 Quarter-finals 

Medal summary
Medal table
 1    1  1  0  2 2    1  0  0  1 3    0  1  0  14     0  0  1  1   0  0  1  1 Total  2  2  2  6

 Statistics 

 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 (playing against Colombia)

 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)

 Tournament rankings 
Men

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts16330131+121226330226+1612364021110+11246213814–67Eliminated in Quarter-finals5 Korea Republic4211124+876421156–177412166058411216–54Eliminated in Group stage9311174+34103111770411311134–14123030110313302112–1214301246–2115301224–21163003123–220

Women

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts1 Germany6411146+8132613248–4636501105+5154623193+69Eliminated in Quarter-finals5422063+386420272+567412185+358411224–24Eliminated in Group stage9310215–4310301203–3111301227–51123003315–120

 References 

 Other websites 

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

Category:2016 Summer Olympics
Category:2016 in association football
Category:Olympic football tournaments