Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

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Twelve teams competed in the women's football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In addition to host nation Brazil, 11 women's national teams qualified from six separate continental confederations.

Table[edit]

In addition to host nation Brazil, 11 women's national teams qualified from six separate continental confederations. FIFA ratified the distribution of spots at the Executive Committee meeting in March 2014.[1]

Means of qualification Dates4 Venue4 Berths Qualified
Host country 2 October 2009 Denmark Denmark 1  Brazil
2014 Copa América[2] 11–28 September 2014  Ecuador 1  Colombia
2015 FIFA World Cup[3]
(for UEFA eligible teams)5		 6 June – 5 July 2015  Canada 2  Germany
 France
2015 CAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament[4] 2–18 October 2015 Various (home and away) 2  South Africa
 Zimbabwe6
2016 OFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament[5] 23 January 2016  Papua New Guinea 1  New Zealand
2016 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship[6] 10–21 February 2016  United States 2  United States
 Canada
2016 AFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament[7] 29 February – 9 March 2016  Japan[8] 2  Australia
 China
2016 UEFA Olympic Qualifying Tournament[9] 2–9 March 2016  Netherlands 1  Sweden
Total 12
  • ^4 Dates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments), various qualification stages may precede matches at these specific venues.
  • ^5 England finished in the top three among UEFA teams in the World Cup, however England is not an IOC member and talks for them to compete as Great Britain broke down.
  • ^6 Nations making their Olympic tournament debut

AFC[edit]

Main article: 2016 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

Australia and China PR earned Olympic qualification places by finishing in the top two of the standings of the final round.

First round[edit]

Group A Group B Group C

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Myanmar (H) 2 6
2  India 2 3
3  Sri Lanka 2 0
4  Bahrain 0 0
Source: AFC
(H) Hosts

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Jordan (H) 3 9
2  Uzbekistan 3 6
3  Hong Kong 3 1
4  Palestine 3 1
Source: AFC
(H) Hosts

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Chinese Taipei (H) 2 6
2  Iran 2 3
3  Laos 2 0
Source: AFC
(H) Hosts

Second round[edit]

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Vietnam 4 9
2  Chinese Taipei 4 7
3  Thailand 4 7
4  Myanmar (H) 4 6
5  Jordan 4 0
Source: AFC
(H) Hosts

Final round[edit]

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Australia 5 13
2  China 5 11
3  Japan (H) 5 7
4  South Korea 5 5
5  North Korea 5 5
6  Vietnam 5 0
Source: AFC
(H) Hosts

CAF[edit]

Main article: 2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

South Africa and Zimbabwe earned Olympic qualification places by winning their fourth round ties.

First round[edit]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Guinea-Bissau  w/o  Liberia — —
Gabon  w/o  Libya — —

Second round[edit]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Liberia  w/o  Cameroon — —
Egypt  1–4  Ghana 1–1 0–3
Ivory Coast  w/o  Tunisia — —
Zambia  2–2 (a)  Zimbabwe 2–1 0–1
Gabon  2–8  South Africa 2–3 0–5
Botswana  2–2 (a)  Kenya 2–1 0–1
Nigeria  w/o  Mali — —
Congo  0–7  Equatorial Guinea 0–3 0–4

Third round[edit]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Cameroon  3–3 (a)  Ghana 1–1 2–2
Ivory Coast  w/o  Zimbabwe 3–0 (awd.) —
South Africa  2–0  Kenya 1–0 1–0
Nigeria  2–3  Equatorial Guinea 1–1 1–2 (a.e.t.)

Fourth round[edit]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Cameroon  2–2 (a)  Zimbabwe 2–1 0–1
South Africa  1–0  Equatorial Guinea 0–0 1–0

CONCACAF[edit]

Main article: 2016 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship

The United States and Canada earned Olympic qualification places by winning their semi-final matches.

Preliminary round[edit]

Main article: 2016 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification

Caribbean Zone[edit]

First round[edit]
Group 1 Group 2

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Puerto Rico (H) 3 9
2  Haiti 3 6
3  Grenada 3 3
4  Aruba 3 0
Source: CFU
(H) Hosts

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Trinidad and Tobago (H) 2 6
2  Saint Lucia 2 0
3  Antigua and Barbuda 0 0
3  Cayman Islands 0 0
Source: CFU
(H) Hosts
Group 3 Group 4

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Jamaica 2 6
2  Dominican Republic (H) 2 3
3  Dominica 2 0
4  Suriname 0 0
Source: CFU
(H) Hosts

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Guyana 2 4
2  Cuba 2 4
3  Saint Kitts and Nevis 2 0
Source: CFU
Final round[edit]
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
18 November – Couva
 
 
 Puerto Rico (a.e.t.)1
 
20 November – Couva
 
 Guyana0
 
 Puerto Rico0
 
18 November – Couva
 
 Trinidad and Tobago1
 
 Trinidad and Tobago (a.e.t.)2
 
 
 Jamaica1
 
Third place play-off
 
 
20 November – Couva
 
 
 Guyana2
 
 
 Jamaica1

Central American Zone[edit]

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Costa Rica 3 9
2  Guatemala 3 6
3  El Salvador 3 3
4  Nicaragua (H) 3 0
5  Honduras 0 0
Source: UNCAF
(H) Hosts

Group stage[edit]

Group A Group B

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  United States (H) 3 9
2  Costa Rica 3 6
3  Mexico 3 3
4  Puerto Rico 3 0
Source: CONCACAF
(H) Hosts

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Canada 3 9
2  Trinidad and Tobago 3 6
3  Guyana 3 3
4  Guatemala 3 0
Source: CONCACAF

Knockout stage[edit]

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
19 February – Houston
 
 
 Canada3
 
21 February – Houston
 
 Costa Rica1
 
 Canada0
 
19 February – Houston
 
 United States2
 
 United States5
 
 
 Trinidad and Tobago0
 

CONMEBOL[edit]

Main article: 2014 Copa América Femenina

Colombia earned an Olympic qualification place by finishing second in the Copa América Femenina. Brazil automatically qualified as the Olympic host.

First stage[edit]

Group A Group B

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Colombia 4 12
2  Ecuador (H) 4 6
3  Uruguay 4 6
4  Venezuela 4 4
5  Peru 4 1
Source: CONMEBOL
(H) Hosts

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Brazil 4 9
2  Argentina 4 9
3  Paraguay 4 6
4  Chile 4 6
5  Bolivia 4 0
Source: CONMEBOL

Final stage[edit]

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Brazil 3 7
2  Colombia 3 5
3  Ecuador (H) 3 3
4  Argentina 3 1
Source: CONMEBOL
(H) Hosts

OFC[edit]

Main article: 2016 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

New Zealand earned an Olympic qualification place by winning their second round tie.

First stage[edit]

Main article: Football at the 2015 Pacific Games – Women's tournament

Group stage[edit]

Group A Group B

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  New Caledonia 3 7
2  Samoa 3 7
3  Tonga 3 3
4  Solomon Islands 3 0
Source: OFC

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Papua New Guinea (H) 2 6
2  Cook Islands 2 1
3  Fiji 2 1
Source: OFC
(H) Hosts

Knockout stage[edit]

 
Semi-finalsGold medal match
 
      
 
13 July – Port Moresby
 
 
 New Caledonia5
 
16 July – Port Moresby
 
 Cook Islands1
 
 New Caledonia0
 
13 July – Port Moresby
 
 Papua New Guinea1
 
 Papua New Guinea3
 
 
 Samoa0
 
Bronze medal match
 
 
16 July – Port Moresby
 
 
 Cook Islands2
 
 
 Samoa0

Second stage[edit]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Papua New Guinea  1–7  New Zealand 1–7 Canc.

UEFA[edit]

Same as the qualification process for previous Olympics, UEFA used the FIFA Women's World Cup to determine which women's national teams from Europe qualify for the Olympic football tournament. The three teams from UEFA that progressed the furthest in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup played in Canada, other than ineligible England, would qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Brazil.[10][11] If teams in contention for the Olympic spots were eliminated in the same round, ties were not broken by their overall tournament record, and play-offs or a mini-tournament to decide the spots would be held provisionally in February/March 2016.[12]

England were ineligible for the Olympics as they were not an Olympic nation, although Great Britain did compete in 2012 as the host nation. The Football Association had originally declared on 2 March 2015 its intention to enter and run teams on behalf of the British Olympic Association at the 2016 Olympics should England qualify.[13] Following strong objections from the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish football associations, and a commitment from FIFA that they would not allow entry of a British team unless all four Home Nations agreed, the Football Association announced on 30 March 2015 that they would not seek entry into the Olympic tournament.[14]

After Norway were eliminated by England in the round of 16 on 22 June 2015, it was confirmed that two of the three spots would go to quarter-finalists France and Germany because there could not be more than three eligible European teams in the quarter-finals. Eventually no other eligible European team reached the quarter-finals, so the four European teams eliminated in the round of 16 (Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland) would compete in the UEFA play-off tournament to decide the last spot.[15]

Sweden earned UEFA's last Olympic qualification place by winning the qualifying tournament.

FIFA Women's World Cup[edit]

Main article: 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
UEFA teams qualified for 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
Team Final result in
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup 		Qualification for
2016 Summer Olympics
 England Third place Ineligible
 Germany Fourth place Qualified
 France Eliminated in quarter-finals
 Netherlands Eliminated in round of 16 Play-off tournament
 Norway
 Sweden
 Switzerland
 Spain Eliminated in group stage

Olympic qualifying tournament[edit]

Main article: 2016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Sweden 3 7
2  Netherlands (H) 3 4
3  Switzerland 3 3
4  Norway 3 3
Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts

References[edit]

  1. ^ "FIFA ratifies the distribution of seats corresponding to each confederation". CONMEBOL.com. 4 April 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Reglamento – Copa América Femenina 2014" (PDF) (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.
  3. ^ "Germany and Norway drawn together". UEFA.com. 6 December 2014.
  4. ^ "CAF Full Calendar". CAFonline.com. 28 February 2015. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  5. ^ "OFC Insider Issue 6". Oceania Football Confederation. 11 March 2015. p. 8.
  6. ^ "2016 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship Will be Played in Dallas and Houston". US Soccer. 12 August 2015.
  7. ^ "Groups drawn for First Round of Rio 2016 Women's Qualifiers". Asian Football Confederation. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  8. ^ "Football - Women's AFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  9. ^ "European contenders impress in Canada". UEFA.com. 18 June 2015.
  10. ^ "QUALIFICATION SYSTEM – GAMES OF THE XXXI OLYMPIAD – RIO 2016 – Football" (PDF). Rio 2016 Official Website. 23 April 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  11. ^ "Germany and Norway drawn together". UEFA.com. 6 December 2014.
  12. ^ "European contenders impress in Canada". UEFA.com. 18 June 2015.
  13. ^ "Football Association wants Great Britain sides at Rio Olympics". BBC Sport. 2 March 2015.
  14. ^ "Rio 2016: FA scraps plans for Great Britain football teams". BBC Sport. 30 March 2015.
  15. ^ "Germany, France qualify for Rio 2016". FIFA. 23 June 2015. Archived from the original on June 23, 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  16. ^ "Info on the Olympic Qualifying Tournament". KNVB. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
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