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2024 Football 5-a-side Paralympic tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Paris, France
Dates	1 – 7 September 2024
Teams	8 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)	Eiffel Tower Stadium
Final positions
Champions	France (1st title)
Runners-up	Argentina
Third place	Brazil
Fourth place	Colombia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	18
Goals scored	22 (1.22 per match)
Attendance	176,610 (9,812 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Nonato Villeroux (3 goals)
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Football 5-a-side, more commonly known as Blind football or Blind soccer, at the 2024 Summer Paralympics was held at the Eiffel Tower Stadium in Paris, France.

Qualifying

There are eight men's teams who compete in the competition. Each team must have a maximum of eight outfield players and two goalkeepers.

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host country allocation	—	—	1	France
2022 IBSA Blind Football European Championships	8–18 June 2022	Pescara	1	Turkey
2022 IBSA Blind Football African Championships	14–26 September 2022	Bouznika	1	Morocco
2022 IBSA Blind Football Asian-Oceanian Championships	11–18 November 2022	Kochi	1	China
2023 IBSA World Games	18–27 August 2023	Birmingham	3	Argentina  Colombia  Japan
2023 Parapan American Games	17–26 November 2023	Santiago	1	Brazil
Total			8

At the IBSA World Games, as China (runner-up) and Brazil (third place) qualified for the Paralympics through their regional qualifiers, their places were allocated to Colombia (fourth place) and Japan (fifth place).

Schedule

Squads

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	France Alessandro Bartolomucci Mickael Miguez Gael Riviere Hakim Arezki Martin Baron Khalifa Youmé Frédéric Villeroux Ahmed Tidiane Diakite Fabrice Morgado Benoit Chevreau de Montlehu	Argentina Darío Lencina Ángel Deldo Nahuel Heredia Froilan Padilla Jesus Merlos Matias Olivera Maximiliano Espinillo Osvaldo Fernández Mario Rios Germán Muleck	Brazil Luan Gonçalves Maicon Júnior Cássio Lopes Jonatan Borges da Silva Jeferson da Conceição Nonato Tiago da Silva Ricardo Alves Jardiel Soares Matheus Bumussa

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	3	2	1	0	6	0	+6	7	Semi-finals
2	France (H)	3	2	0	1	3	3	0	6
3	China	3	1	1	1	2	1	+1	4	Fifth place match
4	Turkey	3	0	0	3	0	7	−7	0	Seventh place match

Brazil	3–0	Turkey
Nonato 6' (pen.), 21' (pen.) Gonçalves 20'	Report

France	1–0	China
Youmé 19'	Report

Turkey	0–2	China
	Report	Zhu 20' Tang 24'

France	0–3	Brazil
	Report	Alves 14' Soares 15' (pen.) Nonato 27'

China	0–0	Brazil
	Report

Turkey	0–2	France
	Report	Villeroux 5' Baron 20'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Colombia	3	2	1	0	2	0	+2	7	Semi-finals
2	Argentina	3	1	2	0	1	0	+1	5
3	Morocco	3	1	1	1	1	1	0	4	Fifth place match
4	Japan	3	0	0	3	0	3	−3	0	Seventh place match

Japan	0–1	Colombia
	Report	Pérez 8'

Morocco	0–0	Argentina
	Report

Argentina	0–0	Colombia
	Report

Japan	0–1	Morocco
	Report	Sasaki 26' (o.g.)

Colombia	1–0	Morocco
Pérez 25'	Report

Argentina	1–0	Japan
Fernández 10'	Report

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	5 September
	Colombia	0
					7 September
	France	1
					France (p)	1 (3)
	5 September
					Argentina	1 (2)
	Brazil	0 (3)
	Argentina (p)	0 (4)
					Bronze medal match
					7 September
					Colombia	0
					Brazil	1

Seventh place match

Turkey	2–0	Japan
Şatay 22' Aslan 29'	Report

Fifth place match

China	1–0	Morocco
Liu 9'	Report

Semi-finals

Colombia	0–1	France
	Report	Villeroux 26'

Brazil	0–0	Argentina
	Report
Penalties
Maicon Lopes Nonato da Silva Soares Alves	3–4	Espinillo Rios Heredia Padilla Olivera Fernández

Bronze medal match

Colombia	0–1	Brazil
	Report	Jefinho 24'

Gold medal match

France	1–1	Argentina
Villeroux 12'	Report	Espinillo 12'
Penalties
Arezki Baron Villeroux	3–2	Espinillo Rios Heredia

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 22 goals scored in 18 matches, for an average of 1.22 goals per match.

3 goals

•  Nonato (BRA)
•  Frédéric Villeroux (FRA)

2 goals

•  Juan Pérez (COL)

1 goal

•  Maximiliano Espinillo (ARG)
•  Osvaldo Fernández (ARG)
•  Ricardo Alves (BRA)
•  Luan Gonçalves (BRA)
•  Jeferson da Conceição (BRA)
•  Jardiel Soares (BRA)
•  Liu Meng (CHN)
•  Tang Zhihua (CHN)
•  Zhu Ruiming (CHN)
•  Martin Baron (FRA)
•  Khalifa Youmé (FRA)
•  Emre Aslan (TUR)
•  Hasan Şatay (TUR)

1 own goal

•  Robertoizumi Sasaki (JPN) (against Morocco)

Source: Paralympics

Final rankings

Rank	Team
	France
	Argentina
	Brazil
4	Colombia
5	China
6	Morocco
7	Turkey
8	Japan

See also

• Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics

References

1. ^ "PARIS 2024 PARALYMPIC GAMES QUALIFICATION REGULATIONS" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. July 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
2. "Overview about football". IBSA. 12 June 2022.
3. "2022 IBSA Blind Football European Championships". IBSA. 12 June 2022.
4. "2022 IBSA Blind Football Asian Championships". IBSA. 12 June 2022. Archived from the original on 25 September 2022.
5. "2023 IBSA Blind Football World Championships". IBSA. 12 June 2022.

External links

• Results book

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