Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
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Dates | July 21 – August 1 |
Teams | 8 (from 4 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 5 (in 5 host cities) |
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Champions |
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Runners-up |
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Third place |
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Fourth place |
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Matches played | 16 |
Goals scored | 53 (3.31 per match) |
Attendance | 691,762 (43,235 per match) |
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The 1996 Summer Olympics—based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States—marked the first time that women would participate in the association football (soccer) tournament.[2][3] The tournament features 8 women's national teams from four continental confederations. The 8 teams are drawn into two groups of four and each group plays a round-robin tournament (which was held in Miami, Orlando, Birmingham and Washington, D.C.). At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage (which was held at Sanford Stadium), beginning with the semi-finals and culminating with the gold medal match on August 1, 1996.
Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics | ||
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Tournament | ||
men | women | |
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men | women | |
Competition schedule
G | Group stage | ½ | Semifinals | B | 3rd place play-off | F | Final |
Sun 21 | Mon 22 | Tue 23 | Wed 24 | Thu 25 | Fri 26 | Sat 27 | Sun 28 | Mon 29 | Tue 30 | Wed 31 | Thu 1 | |
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G | G | G | ½ | B | F |
Qualification
Since there was no time to hold a qualifying tournament, the eight best teams at the Women's World Cup in 1995 were automatically selected for the Olympic tournament (which meant no teams from Africa or Oceania could take part in this tournament). The only exception was the inclusion of Brazil in place of England (who, under the regulations of the International Olympic Committee are ineligible). The following eight teams qualified for the 1996 Olympics football tournament:
Venues
The tournament was held in five venues across five cities:
Squads
Match officials
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Preliminary round
Group E
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 7 | Semi-finals | |
2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 7 | ||
3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 | ||
4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | −9 | 0 |
United States | 3–0 | |
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Venturini Hamm Milbrett |
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Sweden | 0–2 | |
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Report (FIFA) | Shi Guihong Zhao Lihong |
United States | 2–1 | |
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Venturini MacMillan |
Report (FIFA) | Overbeck |
Denmark | 1–5 | |
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Madsen |
Report (FIFA) | Shi Guihong Liu Ailing Sun Qingmei Fan Yunjie |
Group F
Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |||||
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1. | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 7 | X | 2:2 | 3:2 | 4:0 | ||
2. | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 5 | 2:2 | X | 1:1 | 2:0 | ||
3. | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2:3 | 1:1 | X | 3:2 | ||
4. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 0 | 0:4 | 0:2 | 2:3 | X |
Norway vs Brazil
2 — 2 (final score after 90 minutes) |
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Germany vs Japan
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Brazil vs Japan
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Norway vs Japan
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Brazil vs Germany
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Knockout stage
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
July 28 – Athens, Georgia | ||||||
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August 1 – Athens | ||||||
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Semi finals
PR China vs Brazil
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Norway vs USA
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Bronze Medal match
Brazil vs Norway
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Gold Medal match
PR China vs USA
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FIFA Fair play award
Top scoring teams
- Norway 12 goals
- China PR 11 goals
- United States 9 goals
- Brazil 7 goals
Top qualifiers
- China PR – Norway – United States each 7 points
- Brazil 5 points
Goalscorers
With four goals, Pretinha of Brazil, Ann Kristin Aarønes and Linda Medalen of Norway are the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 53 goals were scored by 33 different players, with only two of them credited as own goals.
- 4 goals
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- Own goals
Yumi Tomei (playing against Germany) Carla Overbeck (playing against Sweden)
Final Ranking
Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 13 | |
2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 10 | |
3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 10 | |
4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | –1 | 5 | |
5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | |
6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | –1 | 3 | |
7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | –7 | 0 | |
8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | –9 | 0 |
References
- ↑ "U.S. Women's Soccer Team Wins Gold". WashingtonPost.com. 1996-08-02. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
- ↑ GEORGE VECSEYPublished: August 02, 1996 (1996-08-02). "Women's Soccer: 76,481 Fans, 1 U.S. Gold - New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
- ↑ Published: September 20, 1993 (1993-09-20). "Women Sports Get a Boost - New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-09-17.
- ↑ "USA - Denmark". FIFA. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ↑ "Sweden - China PR". FIFA. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ↑ "USA - Sweden". FIFA. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ↑ "Denmark - China PR". FIFA. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ↑ "USA - China PR". FIFA. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ↑ "Denmark - Sweden". FIFA. Retrieved 24 September 2017.