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2004 Women's Olympic Football Tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Greece
Dates	11–26 August
Teams	10 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	United States (2nd title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	Germany
Fourth place	Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Goals scored	55 (2.75 per match)
Attendance	208,637 (10,432 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Cristiane Birgit Prinz (5 goals each)
Fair play award	Japan  Sweden
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Women's Olympic Football tournament was held for the third time at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The tournament featured 10 women's national teams from six continental confederations. The 10 teams were drawn into two groups of three and one group of four and each group played a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top teams from each group advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at Karaiskakis Stadium on 26 August 2004.

Qualification

Several qualification tournaments were held to determine the participating nations.

Venues

The tournament was held in five venues across five cities:

• Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens
• Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion
• Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras
• Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki
• Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos

Seeding

Originally, the tournament was planned to form two groups of five teams in the group stage, then play a knockout stage by four teams (two top teams in each group). The format is later changed: the tournament is to form three groups of three or four teams in the group stage, then play a knockout stage by eight teams (two top teams in each group and two best third-placed teams from three groups).

Squads

Match officials

Group stage

Competing countries were divided into three groups: two containing three teams (groups E and F) and one containing four teams (group G). Teams in each group played one another in a round-robin. The top two teams of each group advanced to the knockout stage, along with the third-placed team from the four-team group (group G) and the better-ranked third-placed team from the three-team groups (groups E and F).

Key:

• Teams highlighted in green went through to the knockout stages.

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	2	1	0	1	2	2	0	3	Qualified for the quarterfinals
2	Nigeria	2	1	0	1	2	2	0	3
3	Japan	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	3

Sweden	0–1	Japan
	Report	Arakawa 24'

Japan	0–1	Nigeria
	Report	Okolo 55'

Sweden	2–1	Nigeria
Marklund 68' Moström 73'	Report	Akide 25'

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	2	2	0	0	10	0	+10	6	Qualified for the quarterfinals
2	Mexico	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	1
3	China	2	0	1	1	1	9	−8	1

Germany	8–0	China
Prinz 13', 21', 73', 88' Wunderlich 65' Lingor 76' (pen.) Pohlers 82' Müller 90'	Report

China	1–1	Mexico
Ji Ting 34'	Report	Domínguez 11'

Germany	2–0	Mexico
Wimbersky 20' Prinz 79'	Report

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	7	Qualified for the quarterfinals
2	Brazil	3	2	0	1	8	2	+6	6
3	Australia	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
4	Greece	3	0	0	3	0	11	−11	0

Greece	0–3	United States
	Report	Boxx 14' Wambach 30' Hamm 82'

Brazil	1–0	Australia
Marta 36'	Report

Greece	0–1	Australia
	Report	Garriock 27'

United States	2–0	Brazil
Hamm 58' (pen.) Wambach 77'	Report

Greece	0–7	Brazil
	Report	Pretinha 21' Cristiane 46', 55', 77' Grazielle 49' Marta 70' Daniela 72'

United States	1–1	Australia
Lilly 19'	Report	Peters 82'

Ranking of third-placed teams from groups of three

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Japan	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	3
China	2	0	1	1	1	9	−8	1

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	20 August – Patras
	Germany	2
					23 August – Heraklio
	Nigeria	1
					Germany	1
	20 August – Thessaloniki
					United States (a.e.t.)	2
	United States	2
									26 August – Athens
	Japan	1
									United States (a.e.t.)	2
	20 August – Heraklio
									Brazil	1
	Mexico	0
					23 August – Patras
	Brazil	5
					Sweden	0
	20 August – Volos
					Brazil	1			Bronze medal match
	Sweden	2
									26 August – Athens
	Australia	1
									Germany	1
									Sweden	0

Quarter-finals

Germany	2–1	Nigeria
Jones 76' Pohlers 81'	Report	Akide 49'

United States	2–1	Japan
Lilly 43' Wambach 59'	Report	Yamamoto 48'

Mexico	0–5	Brazil
	Report	Cristiane 25', 49' Formiga 29', 54' Marta 60'

Sweden	2–1	Australia
Ljungberg 25' Larsson 30'	Report	De Vanna 48'

Semi-finals

United States	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Germany
Lilly 33' O'Reilly 99'	Report	Bachor 90+2'

Sweden	0–1	Brazil
	Report	Pretinha 64'

Bronze medal match

Germany	1–0	Sweden
Lingor 17'	Report

Gold medal match

United States	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Brazil
Tarpley 39' Wambach 112'	Report	Pretinha 73'

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 55 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 2.75 goals per match. Cristiane of Brazil and Birgit Prinz of Germany finished as the top scorers of the tournament, with each scoring five goals.

5 goals

• Cristiane
• Birgit Prinz

4 goals

• Abby Wambach

3 goals

• Marta
• Pretinha
• Kristine Lilly

2 goals

• Formiga
• Renate Lingor
• Conny Pohlers
• Mercy Akide
• Mia Hamm

1 goal

• Lisa De Vanna
• Heather Garriock
• Joanne Peters
• Daniela
• Grazielle
• Ji Ting
• Isabell Bachor
• Steffi Jones
• Martina Müller
• Petra Wimbersky
• Pia Wunderlich
• Eriko Arakawa
• Emi Yamamoto
• Maribel Domínguez
• Vera Okolo
• Sara Larsson
• Hanna Ljungberg
• Hanna Marklund
• Malin Moström
• Shannon Boxx
• Heather O'Reilly
• Lindsay Tarpley

Source: FIFA

Assists

3 assists

• Renate Lingor
• Kerstin Stegemann
• Perpetua Nkwocha

2 assists

• Formiga
• Grazielle
• Marta
• Pretinha
• Rosana
• Martina Müller
• Conny Pohlers
• Victoria Svensson
• Mia Hamm

1 assist

• Heather Garriock
• Sarah Walsh
• Cristiane
• Daniela
• Maycon
• Qu Feifei
• Sonja Fuss
• Birgit Prinz
• Pia Wunderlich
• Mio Otani
• Kristin Bengtsson
• Malin Moström
• Shannon Boxx
• Julie Foudy
• Kristine Lilly
• Kate Markgraf
• Abby Wambach

Source: FIFA

FIFA Fair Play Award

Japan and Sweden won the FIFA Fair Play Award, given to the team with the best record of fair play during the tournament. Every match in the final competition is taken into account but only teams that played at least three matches are eligible for the Fair Play Award.

Pos	Team	Pts
1	Japan	857
	Sweden	857
3	Australia	843
4	China	815
5	Germany	811
6	Nigeria	781
7	Brazil	772
8	United States	762
9	Greece	752
10	Mexico	686

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	1	0	12	4	+8	16	Gold medal
2	G	Brazil	6	4	0	2	15	4	+11	12	Silver medal
3	F	Germany	5	4	0	1	14	3	+11	12	Bronze medal
4	E	Sweden	5	2	0	3	4	5	−1	6	Fourth place
5	G	Australia	4	1	1	2	3	4	−1	4	Eliminated in quarter-finals
6	E	Nigeria	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	3
7	E	Japan	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1	3
8	F	Mexico	3	0	1	2	1	8	−7	1
9	F	China	2	0	1	1	1	9	−8	1	Eliminated in group stage
10	G	Greece (H)	3	0	0	3	0	11	−11	0

Notes

1. Palmqvist was replaced by Dianne Ferreira-James (Guyana) after 90 minutes due to dehydration.

References

1. "SI.com – Wambach gives U.S. veterans golden parting gift in extra time – Thursday August 26, 2004 7:26PM". Sportsillustrated.cnn.com. 26 August 2004. Archived from the original on 19 January 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
2. "SI.com – Writers – Michael Silver: Fitting farewell for U.S. soccer's Fab Five – Friday August 27, 2004 2:55PM". Sportsillustrated.cnn.com. 27 August 2004. Archived from the original on 19 January 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
3. ^ Report and Statistics – Olympic Football Tournaments Athens 2004 (PDF). Zürich. 2004. Retrieved 5 February 2021. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
4. "Regulations of the Olympic Football Tournaments Games of the XXVIIIth Olympiad Athens 2004" (PDF). FIFA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 July 2004. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
5. "Olympic Football Tournaments: FIFA Emergency Committee approves venue and kick-off time for men's Final as well as format for women's competition". FIFA. 28 July 2003. Archived from the original on 20 April 2004. Retrieved 3 February 2017.

External links

• Olympic Football Tournaments Athens 2004 – Women, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Summary
• Okestream
• FIFA Technical Report

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