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2008 Women's Olympic Football Tournament

Tournament details
Host country	China
Dates	6–21 August
Teams	12 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	United States (3rd title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	Germany
Fourth place	Japan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	66 (2.54 per match)
Attendance	740,014 (28,462 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Cristiane (5 goals)
Fair play award	China
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Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Qualification
	men	women
Tournament
	men	women
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The women's association football tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held in Beijing and four other cities in the People's Republic of China from 6 to 21 August. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to send their full women's national teams.

For these Games, the women competed in a 12-team tournament. Preliminary matches commenced on 6 August, two days before the Opening Ceremony of the Games. The teams were grouped into three pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams in each pool, as well as the best two third-place finishing teams, advanced to an eight-team single-elimination bracket.

The tournament was won by the United States, which beat Brazil 1–0 in the gold medal game. Carli Lloyd scored the game-winning goal in the 96th minute for the United States, which collected their third Olympic gold medal.

Qualifying

A National Olympic Committee may enter one women's team for the football competition.

Means of completion	Date of completion	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	–	–	1	China
AFC Preliminary Competition	February 2007 – August 2007	–	2	Japan  North Korea
CAF Preliminary Competition	October 2006 – March 2008	–	1	Nigeria
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition	October 2007 – April 2008	Ciudad Juárez	2	United States  Canada
2006 Sudamericano Femenino	10–26 November 2006	Mar del Plata	1	Argentina
OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying	25 August – 7 September 2007 8 March 2008	Apia Port Moresby	1	New Zealand
UEFA (2007 FIFA Women's World Cup)*	10–30 September 2007	China	2*	Germany  Norway
UEFA Playoff (Denmark vs Sweden)	8 November 2007 28 November 2007	Viborg Solna	1*	Sweden
CONMEBOL–CAF play-off	19 April 2008	Beijing	1	Brazil
TOTAL			12

• Note – The three best ranked European teams at the FIFA Women's World Cup qualified for the Olympics. However, the third best team England could not participate, because England competes at the Olympic Games as part of Great Britain, which does not compete in football. Therefore, the fourth European team would advance, requiring a play-off between Sweden and Denmark.

Venues

The tournament was held in five venues across five cities:

Beijing	Shanghai	Tianjin	BeijingQinhuangdaoShanghaiShenyangTianjinclass=notpageimage| Location of host cities of the tournament.
Beijing Workers' Stadium	Shanghai Stadium	Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium
Capacity: 70,161	Capacity: 80,000	Capacity: 60,000
Shenyang	Qinhuangdao
Shenyang Olympic Stadium	Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Centre Stadium
Capacity: 60,000	Capacity: 33,000

Seeding

Squads

The women's tournament is a full international tournament with no restrictions on age. Each nation must submit a squad of 18 players by 23 July 2008. A minimum of two goalkeepers (plus one optional alternate goalkeeper) must be included in the squad.

Match officials

Group stage

Group winners and runners-up, plus two best third place teams advanced to quarter final round. Groups are lettered sequentially from the last letter in the Men's Football tournament (which has Groups A through D).

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7	Qualified for the quarterfinals
2	Sweden	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1	6
3	Canada	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
4	Argentina	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

Argentina	1–2	Canada
Manicler 85'	Report	Chapman 27' Lang 72'

China	2–1	Sweden
Xu Yuan 6' Han Duan 72'	Report	Schelin 38'

Sweden	1–0	Argentina
Fischer 57'	Report

Canada	1–1	China
Sinclair 34'	Report	Xu Yuan 36'

China	2–0	Argentina
Quiñones 52' (o.g.) Gu Yasha 90'	Report

Sweden	2–1	Canada
Schelin 19', 51'	Report	Tancredi 63'

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7	Qualified for the quarterfinals
2	Germany	3	2	1	0	2	0	+2	7
3	North Korea	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1	3
4	Nigeria	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

Germany	0–0	Brazil
	Report

North Korea	1–0	Nigeria
Kim Kyong-hwa 27'	Report

Nigeria	0–1	Germany
	Report	Stegemann 65'

Brazil	2–1	North Korea
Daniela 14' Marta 23'	Report	Ri Kum-suk 90'

North Korea	0–1	Germany
	Report	Mittag 86'

Nigeria	1–3	Brazil
Nkwocha 19' (pen.)	Report	Cristiane 34', 35', 45+3'

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3	6	Qualified for the quarterfinals
2	Norway	3	2	0	1	4	5	−1	6
3	Japan	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	4
4	New Zealand	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1

Japan	2–2	New Zealand
Miyama 72' (pen.) Sawa 86'	Report	Yallop 37' Hearn 56' (pen.)

Norway	2–0	United States
Larsen Kaurin 2' Wiik 4'	Report

United States	1–0	Japan
Lloyd 27'	Report

New Zealand	0–1	Norway
	Report	Wiik 8'

Norway	1–5	Japan
Knutsen 27'	Report	Kinga 31' Følstad 51' (o.g.) Ohno 52' Sawa 71' Hara 83'

United States	4–0	New Zealand
O'Reilly 1' Rodriguez 43' Tarpley 56' Hucles 60'	Report

Ranking of third-placed teams

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Japan	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	4
Canada	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
North Korea	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1	3

Knockout stage

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold medal match

F1

Brazil

2

G2

Norway

1

F1

Brazil

4

F2

Germany

1

E2

Sweden

0

F2

Germany (a.e.t.)

2

F1

Brazil

0

G1

United States (a.e.t.)

1

E1

China

0

G3

Japan

2

G3

Japan

2

Bronze medal match

G1

United States

4

G1

United States (a.e.t.)

2

F2

Germany

2

E3

Canada

1

G3

Japan

0

Quarter-finals

United States	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Canada
Hucles 12' Kai 101'	Report	Sinclair 30'

Brazil	2–1	Norway
Daniela 43' Marta 57'	Report	Nordby 83' (pen.)

Sweden	0–2 (a.e.t.)	Germany
	Report	Garefrekes 104' Laudehr 115'

China	0–2	Japan
	Report	Sawa 15' Nagasato 80'

Semi-finals

Brazil	4–1	Germany
Formiga 43' Cristiane 49', 76' Marta 53'	Report	Prinz 10'

Japan	2–4	United States
Ohno 16' Arakawa 90+3'	Report	Hucles 41', 80' Chalupny 44' O'Reilly 70'

Bronze medal match

Germany	2–0	Japan
Bajramaj 68', 87'	Report

Gold medal match

Brazil	0–1 (a.e.t.)	United States
	Report	Lloyd 96'

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 66 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.54 goals per match.

5 goals

• Cristiane

4 goals

• Angela Hucles

3 goals

• Marta
• Homare Sawa
• Lotta Schelin

2 goals

• Daniela
• Christine Sinclair
• Xu Yuan
• Fatmire Bajramaj
• Shinobu Ohno
• Melissa Wiik
• Carli Lloyd
• Heather O'Reilly

1 goal

• Ludmila Manicler
• Formiga
• Candace Chapman
• Kara Lang
• Melissa Tancredi
• Gu Yasha
• Han Duan
• Kerstin Garefrekes
• Simone Laudehr
• Anja Mittag
• Birgit Prinz
• Kerstin Stegemann
• Eriko Arakawa
• Ayumi Hara
• Yukari Kinga
• Aya Miyama
• Yūki Nagasato
• Amber Hearn
• Kirsty Yallop
• Perpetua Nkwocha
• Kim Kyong-hwa
• Ri Kum-suk
• Guro Knutsen
• Leni Larsen Kaurin
• Siri Nordby
• Nilla Fischer
• Lori Chalupny
• Natasha Kai
• Amy Rodriguez
• Lindsay Tarpley

1 own goal

• Florencia Quiñones (against China PR)
• Gunhild Følstad (against Japan)

Source: FIFA

Assists

3 assists

• Aya Miyama

2 assists

• Cristiane
• Xu Yuan
• Shinobu Ohno
• Victoria Sandell Svensson
• Heather O'Reilly

1 assist

• Mariela Coronel
• Marta
• Maycon
• Rosana
• Kara Lang
• Clare Rustad
• Rhian Wilkinson
• Bi Yan
• Zhang Na
• Renate Lingor
• Anja Mittag
• Birgit Prinz
• Yukari Kinga
• Yūki Nagasato
• Ali Riley
• Ri Un-gyong
• Gunhild Følstad
• Leni Larsen Kaurin
• Ane Stangeland Horpestad
• Jessica Landström
• Therese Sjögran
• Shannon Boxx
• Rachel Buehler
• Lindsay Tarpley

Source: FIFA

FIFA Fair Play Award

China PR 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 reach the second stage of the competition are eligible for the Fair Play Award.

Pos	Team	Pts
1	China	956
2	Japan	939
3	United States	930
4	Germany	913
5	Sweden	913
6	Norway	903
7	Brazil	896
8	Canada	892

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	0	1	12	5	+7	15	Gold medal
2	F	Brazil	6	4	1	1	11	5	+6	13	Silver medal
3	F	Germany	6	4	1	1	7	4	+3	13	Bronze medal
4	G	Japan	6	2	1	3	11	10	+1	7	Fourth place
5	E	China (H)	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7	Eliminated in quarter-finals
6	E	Sweden	4	2	0	2	4	5	−1	6
7	G	Norway	4	2	0	2	5	7	−2	6
8	E	Canada	4	1	1	2	5	6	−1	4
9	F	North Korea	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1	3	Eliminated in group stage
10	G	New Zealand	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1
11	E	Argentina	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0
11	F	Nigeria	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

References

1. Homewood, Brian (22 August 2008). "U.S. retain gold against Brazil in women's soccer". In.reuters.com. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
2. Homewood, Brian (19 August 2008). "Brazil seek first major title in women's soccer". Reuters. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
3. "2008 Summer Olympics Soccer Results - Beijing, China - ESPN". www.espn.com. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
4. ^ "Report and Statistics – Men's and Women's Olympic Football Tournaments Beijing 2008" (PDF). FIFA. Zürich. 2008. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
5. "Women's Olympic Football Tournament Rio 2016: Statistical Kit" (PDF). FIFA. 14 July 2016. p. 28. Retrieved 6 February 2021.

External links

• Olympic Football Tournaments Beijing 2008 - Women, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Summary
• "Sports Competition Schedule". Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. 17 April 2006. Archived from the original on 10 August 2006. Retrieved 10 August 2006.
• "Athletics". olympic.org/uk. International Olympic Committee. 2006. Retrieved 10 August 2006.
• "Programme of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, Beijing 2008" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 August 2006. Retrieved 10 August 2006.
• FIFA Technical Report

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