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2012 Men's Olympic Football Tournament

Tournament details
Host country	United Kingdom
Dates	26 July – 11 August
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Mexico (1st title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	South Korea
Fourth place	Japan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	76 (2.38 per match)
Attendance	1,525,134 (47,660 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Leandro Damião (6 goals)
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Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Qualification
	men	women
Tournament
	men	women
Squads
	men	women
v t e

The men's football tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics was held in London and five other cities in Great Britain from 26 July to 11 August. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to enter their men's U-23 teams in regional qualifying competitions, from which 15 teams, plus the hosts Great Britain, reached the final tournament. Men's teams were allowed to augment their squads with three players over the age of 23. It was the first men's Olympic football tournament to feature a team representing Great Britain since the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. The competition also marked Uruguay's men's football team's first Olympic appearance since 1928, when it won its second consecutive gold medal.

The gold medal was won by Mexico who defeated Brazil 2–1 in the final.

Schedule

The match schedule of the men's tournament.

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee may enter one men's team in the football tournament. The 2004 and 2008 Olympic gold-medallists Argentina failed to qualify, after finishing third in the South American qualifying tournament.

Means of qualification	Date of completion	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	2005	—	1	Great Britain
2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship	25 June 2011	Denmark	3	Spain   Switzerland  Belarus
AFC Preliminary Competition	29 March 2012	Various (home and away format)	3	Japan  South Korea  United Arab Emirates
2011 CAF U-23 Championship	10 December 2011	Morocco	3	Gabon  Morocco  Egypt
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition	2 April 2012	United States	2	Mexico  Honduras
2011 South American Youth Championship	12 February 2011	Peru	2	Brazil  Uruguay
OFC Preliminary Competition	25 March 2012	New Zealand	1	New Zealand
AFC–CAF play-off	23 April 2012	Great Britain	1	Senegal
Total			16

• ^1 Locations are those of final tournaments, various qualification stages may precede matches at these specific venues.

Venues

Six venues were used during the tournament with Wembley Stadium in London hosted the Final.

London	Trafford (Manchester)	Cardiff
Wembley Stadium	Old Trafford	Millennium Stadium
Capacity: 90,000	Capacity: 75,643	Capacity: 74,500
Newcastle	Glasgow	Coventry
St James' Park	Hampden Park	City of Coventry Stadium
Capacity: 52,354	Capacity: 51,866	Capacity: 32,609

Squads

For the men's tournament, each nation submitted a squad of 18 players, 15 of whom had to be born on or after 1 January 1989, and three of whom could be overage players. A minimum of two goalkeepers (plus one optional alternate goalkeeper) had to be included in the squad.

Match officials

On 19 April 2012, FIFA released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympics.

Draw

The draw for the tournament took place on 24 April 2012. Great Britain, Mexico, Brazil and Spain were seeded for the draw and placed into groups A–D, respectively. The remaining teams were drawn from four pots with teams from the same region kept apart.

Group stage

The competing countries were divided into four groups of four teams, denoted as groups A, B, C and D. Teams in each group will play one another in a round-robin basis, with the top two teams of each group advancing to the quarter-finals.

All times are local, British Summer Time (UTC+1).

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Great Britain (H)	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Senegal	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5
3	Uruguay	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
4	United Arab Emirates	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1

United Arab Emirates	1–2	Uruguay
Matar 23'	Report	Ramírez 42' Lodeiro 56'

Great Britain	1–1	Senegal
Bellamy 20'	Report	Konaté 82'

Senegal	2–0	Uruguay
Konaté 10', 37'	Report

Great Britain	3–1	United Arab Emirates
Giggs 16' Sinclair 73' Sturridge 76'	Report	Eisa 60'

Senegal	1–1	United Arab Emirates
Konaté 49'	Report	Matar 21'

Great Britain	1–0	Uruguay
Sturridge 45+1'	Report

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mexico	3	2	1	0	3	0	+3	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	South Korea	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	5
3	Gabon	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2	2
4	Switzerland	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1

Mexico	0–0	South Korea
	Report

Gabon	1–1	Switzerland
Aubameyang 45'	Report	Mehmedi 5' (pen.)

Mexico	2–0	Gabon
Dos Santos 63', 90+2' (pen.)	Report

South Korea	2–1	Switzerland
Park Chu-young 57' Kim Bo-kyung 64'	Report	Emeghara 60'

Mexico	1–0	Switzerland
Peralta 69'	Report

South Korea	0–0	Gabon
	Report

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	3	3	0	0	9	3	+6	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Egypt	3	1	1	1	6	5	+1	4
3	Belarus	3	1	0	2	3	6	−3	3
4	New Zealand	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

Belarus	1–0	New Zealand
Baha 45+1'	Report

Brazil	3–2	Egypt
Rafael 16' Damião 26' Neymar 30'	Report	Aboutrika 52' Salah 76'

Egypt	1–1	New Zealand
Salah 40'	Report	Wood 17'

Brazil	3–1	Belarus
Pato 15' Neymar 65' Oscar 90+3'	Report	Bressan 8'

Brazil	3–0	New Zealand
Danilo 23' Damião 29' Sandro 52'	Report

Egypt	3–1	Belarus
Salah 56' Mohsen 73' Aboutrika 79'	Report	Varankow 87'

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	3	2	1	0	2	0	+2	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Honduras	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
3	Morocco	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
4	Spain	3	0	1	2	0	2	−2	1

Honduras	2–2	Morocco
Bengtson 56', 65' (pen.)	Report	Barrada 39' Labyad 67'

Spain	0–1	Japan
	Report	Ōtsu 34'

Japan	1–0	Morocco
Nagai 84'	Report

Spain	0–1	Honduras
	Report	Bengtson 7'

Spain	0–0	Morocco
	Report

Japan	0–0	Honduras
	Report

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of fifteen minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	4 August – Cardiff
	Great Britain	1 (4)
					7 August – Manchester
	South Korea (p)	1 (5)
					South Korea	0
	4 August – Newcastle
					Brazil	3
	Brazil	3
									11 August – London
	Honduras	2
									Brazil	1
	4 August – London
									Mexico	2
	Mexico (a.e.t.)	4
					7 August – London
	Senegal	2
					Mexico	3
	4 August – Manchester
					Japan	1			Bronze medal match
	Japan	3
									10 August – Cardiff
	Egypt	0
									South Korea	2
									Japan	0

Quarter-finals

Japan	3–0	Egypt
Nagai 14' Yoshida 78' Ōtsu 83'	Report

Mexico	4–2 (a.e.t.)	Senegal
Enríquez 10' Aquino 62' Dos Santos 98' Herrera 109'	Report	Konaté 69' Baldé 76'

Brazil	3–2	Honduras
Damião 38', 60' Neymar 50' (pen.)	Report	Martínez 12' Espinoza 48'

Great Britain	1–1 (a.e.t.)	South Korea
Ramsey 36' (pen.)	Report	Ji Dong-won 29'
Penalties
Ramsey Cleverley Dawson Giggs Sturridge	4–5	Koo Ja-cheol Baek Sung-dong Hwang Seok-ho Park Jong-woo Ki Sung-yueng

Semi-finals

Mexico	3–1	Japan
Fabián 31' Peralta 65' Cortés 90+3'	Report	Ōtsu 12'

South Korea	0–3	Brazil
	Report	Rômulo 38' Damião 57', 64'

Bronze medal match

South Korea	2–0	Japan
Park Chu-young 38' Koo Ja-cheol 57'	Report

Gold medal match

Brazil	1–2	Mexico
Hulk 90+1'	Report 1 Report 2	Peralta 1', 75'

Statistics

Goalscorers

With six goals, Leandro Damião of Brazil was the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 76 goals were scored by 49 different players, none of them credited as own goals.

6 goals

• Leandro Damião

5 goals

• Moussa Konaté

4 goals

• Oribe Peralta

3 goals

• Neymar
• Mohamed Salah
• Jerry Bengtson
• Yūki Ōtsu
• Giovani dos Santos

2 goals

• Mohamed Aboutrika
• Daniel Sturridge
• Kensuke Nagai
• Park Chu-young
• Ismail Matar

1 goal

• Dzmitry Baha
• Renan Bressan
• Andrey Varankow
• Danilo
• Hulk
• Oscar
• Alexandre Pato
• Rafael
• Rômulo
• Sandro
• Marwan Mohsen
• Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
• Craig Bellamy
• Ryan Giggs
• Aaron Ramsey
• Scott Sinclair
• Roger Espinoza
• Mario Martínez
• Maya Yoshida
• Koo Ja-cheol
• Kim Bo-kyung
• Ji Dong-won
• Javier Aquino
• Javier Cortés
• Jorge Enríquez
• Marco Fabián
• Héctor Herrera
• Abdelaziz Barrada
• Zakaria Labyad
• Chris Wood
• Ibrahima Baldé
• Innocent Emeghara
• Admir Mehmedi
• Rashed Eisa
• Nicolás Lodeiro
• Gastón Ramírez

Discipline

Red cards

• Alex Sandro
• Henri Ndong
• Saad Samir
• Wilmer Crisanto
• Roger Espinoza
• Zakarya Bergdich
• Abdoulaye Ba
• Iñigo Martínez
• Oliver Buff

Final ranking

As 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	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
	Mexico	6	5	1	0	12	4	+8	16	Gold medal
	Brazil	6	5	0	1	16	7	+9	15	Silver medal
	South Korea	6	2	3	1	5	5	0	9	Bronze medal
4	Japan	6	3	1	2	6	5	+1	10	Fourth place
5	Great Britain	4	2	2	0	6	3	+3	8	Eliminated in quarter-finals
6	Senegal	4	1	2	1	6	6	0	5
7	Honduras	4	1	2	1	5	5	0	5
8	Egypt	4	1	1	2	6	8	−2	4
9	Uruguay	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3	Eliminated in group stage
10	Belarus	3	1	0	2	3	6	−3	3
11	Morocco	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
12	Gabon	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2	2
13	Switzerland	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1
14	Spain	3	0	1	2	0	2	−2	1
15	United Arab Emirates	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1
16	New Zealand	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

Controversies

Queues

For the first matchday at St James' Park, there were long queues at the box office, leading to fans missing some of the game. A spokesman for Ticketmaster said: "We saw extremely high numbers of spectators arriving at St James' Park to purchase football tickets on the day of the event. While Ticketmaster is contracted to manage the box offices at Olympic venues, the staff numbers at those venues are determined by LOCOG. We will continue to work closely with LOCOG to ensure that the box office staff levels are sufficient to meet the demands for ticket sales and collection". LOCOG described the situation as "totally and completely 100% unacceptable", and after changes were made in the process, the issue was reportedly avoided for the second round of matches.

During the matches held at the Wembley Stadium on 29 July, fans were subjected to long queues at the concession stands in the ground after Visa's card payment system crashed, leaving cash payment as the only alternative. The situation was compounded by the fact that, as Visa had been granted exclusive rights to the Olympics, other cards could not be accepted as payment, and the number of cash machines in the stadium had been reduced after 27 that worked on the LINK system had been removed to be replaced by eight that could only be used by Visa cards.

There were several problems relating to transport for events held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. There was severe congestion at Cardiff Central railway station when Great Britain played South Korea; and the bronze medal match also had rail disruption when a retaining wall collapsed onto the tracks.

Player sent home

Swiss footballer Michel Morganella was sent home by the Switzerland team following their 2–1 loss against South Korea after he sent a tweet that, according to the director of Swiss Olympic Committee Gian Gilli, "discriminated, insulted and violated the dignity of the South Korean football team and people".

Great Britain football teams

Following the criticism against Scottish female player Kim Little, for choosing not to sing the British national anthem "God Save the Queen" because of her national identity, other Scottish and Welsh players, Ryan Giggs, Craig Bellamy and Ifeoma Dieke, also attracted comment in the media for remaining silent. Giggs, the Great Britain men's captain, later said: "The problem is the British anthem is the same as the English anthem and if you're a Welshman or a Scotsman it's difficult".

LOCOG also apologised after an error in the official match programme for the first game mistakenly described Welsh player Joe Allen as being English.

Political statement made by Park Jong-woo

After South Korea defeated Japan in the bronze medal match at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 10 August, South Korean player Park Jong-woo walked around the field holding a banner with a political message written in Korean, "독도는 우리 땅!" (dokdo neun uri ttang, lit.: "Dokdo is our territory"). This incident occurred on the same night after South Korean President Lee Myung-bak had visited the islands which both South Korea and Japan claim as their territory. The IOC and FIFA reviewed the evidence, since FIFA statutes prohibit political statements being made by athletes at Olympic events. The IOC barred Park from the bronze medal ceremony and did not permit him to receive his medal. In addition, it asked FIFA to discipline Park, and stated that it may decide on further sanctions at a later date. IOC president Jacques Rogge told reporters: "We will take a possible decision of what will happen with the medal later". FIFA failed to reach a conclusion on the case at a meeting at its Zürich headquarters held on 5 October, and the disciplinary committee discussed the case again on the following week, then again failed to reach a verdict. After that, the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) announced that Park would receive his bronze medal. The case was heard again by the committee on 20 November, and FIFA finally decided and announced on 3 December to suspend Park for two matches after he was considered to have breached the FIFA Disciplinary Code and the Regulations of the Olympic Football Tournaments. FIFA also imposed a warning on the Korea Football Association and reminded it of its obligation to properly instruct its players on all the pertinent rules and applicable regulations before the start of any competition, in order to avoid such incidents in the future. The Korea Football Association was warned that should incidents of such nature occur again in the future, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee may impose harsher sanctions on the Korea Football Association.

See also

• Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

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External links

• Official website Archived 5 December 2012 at archive.today
• FIFA official website
• RSSSF Summary
• FIFA Technical Report

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