Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
Tournament details | |
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Host country | United Kingdom |
Dates |
25 July – 9 August 2012 (15 days) |
Teams | 12 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 6 (in 6 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | United States (4th title) |
Runners-up | Japan |
Third place | Canada |
Fourth place | France |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 26 |
Goals scored | 70 (2.69 per match) |
Attendance | 661,016 (25,424 per match) |
Top scorer(s) |
Christine Sinclair (6 goals) |
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The women's football tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics was held in London and five other cities in the United Kingdom from 25 July to 9 August. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to enter their women's teams in regional qualifying competitions, from which 11 teams, plus the hosts Great Britain reached the final tournament. There are no age restrictions for the players participating in the tournament. It is the first major FIFA affiliated women's tournament to be staged within the United Kingdom, and marked the first time a team representing Great Britain took part in the women's tournament.
Qualifying
Each National Olympic Committee may enter one women's team in the football tournament.
Means of qualification | Date of completion | Venue1 | Berths | Qualified |
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Host nation | 2005 | none | 1 | Great Britain |
AFC Preliminary Competition | 11 September 2011 | China[1] | 2 | Japan North Korea |
CAF Preliminary Competition | 22 October 2011[2] | multiple | 2 | South Africa Cameroon |
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition | 29 January 2012 | Canada[3] | 2 | United States Canada |
CONMEBOL Preliminary Competition | 21 November 2010 | Ecuador | 2 | Brazil Colombia |
OFC Preliminary Competition | 4 April 2012 | multiple | 1 | New Zealand |
Best UEFA teams in 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup | 17 July 2011 | Germany | 2 | Sweden France |
TOTAL | 12 |
- ^1 Locations are those of final tournaments, various qualification stages may precede matches at these specific venues.
Draw
The draw for the tournament took place on 24 April 2012.[4] Great Britain, Japan and the United States were seeded for the draw and placed into groups E–G, respectively.[5] The remaining teams were drawn from four pots.[6]
Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
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Squads
The women's tournament is a full international tournament with no restrictions on age. Each nation must submit a squad of 18 players.
Match officials
On 19 April 2012, FIFA released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympics.[7]
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Preliminary round
Group winners and runners-up and the two best third-ranked teams advanced to the quarter-finals (also see Tie breakers).
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).
Group E
Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
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Great Britain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | +5 | 9 |
Brazil | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 6 |
New Zealand | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Cameroon | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 11 | −10 | 0 |
Green indicates qualified for the quarter-finals |
25 July 2012 18:45 |
Cameroon | 0–5 | Brazil |
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Report | Francielle 7' Costa 10' Marta 73' (pen.), 88' Cristiane 78' |
31 July 2012 19:45 |
New Zealand | 3–1 | Cameroon |
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Smith 43' Sonkeng 49' (o.g.) Gregorius 62' |
Report | Onguene 75' |
Group F
Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
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Sweden | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 5 |
Japan | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 5 |
Canada | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 |
South Africa | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | −6 | 1 |
Green indicates qualified for the quarter-finals |
Group G
Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
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United States | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 9 |
France | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6 |
North Korea | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 3 |
Colombia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 |
Green indicates qualified for the quarter-finals |
25 July 2012 17:00 |
United States | 4–2 | France |
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Wambach 19' Morgan 32', 66' Lloyd 56' |
Report | Thiney 12' Delie 14' |
† Game delayed by one hour due to North Korean protest after accidental use of South Korean flag for North Korea.[26]
Ranking of third-placed teams
Team | Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
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Canada | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 |
New Zealand | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
North Korea | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 3 |
Green indicates qualified for the quarter-finals |
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | |||||||||||
E1 | Great Britain | 0 | |||||||||||
F3 | Canada | 2 | |||||||||||
F3 | Canada | 3 | |||||||||||
G1 | United States (aet) | 4 | |||||||||||
G1 | United States | 2 | |||||||||||
E3 | New Zealand | 0 | |||||||||||
G1 | United States | 2 | |||||||||||
F2 | Japan | 1 | |||||||||||
F1 | Sweden | 1 | |||||||||||
G2 | France | 2 | |||||||||||
G2 | France | 1 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||||
F2 | Japan | 2 | |||||||||||
E2 | Brazil | 0 | F3 | Canada | 1 | ||||||||
F2 | Japan | 2 | G2 | France | 0 |
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
6 August 2012 19:45 |
Canada | 3–4 (a.e.t.) | United States |
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Sinclair 22', 67', 73' | Report | Rapinoe 54' (cnr.), 70' Wambach 80' (pen.) Morgan 120+3' |
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Final ranking
Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | United States (USA) | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 6 | +10 | 18 |
2 | Japan (JPN) | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 11 |
3 | Canada (CAN) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | +4 | 10 |
4 | France (FRA) | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 9 |
5 | Great Britain (GBR) | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 9 |
6 | Brazil (BRA) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 6 |
7 | Sweden (SWE) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 5 |
8 | New Zealand (NZL) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 3 |
9 | North Korea (PRK) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 3 |
10 | South Africa (RSA) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | −6 | 1 |
11 | Colombia (COL) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 |
12 | Cameroon (CMR) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 11 | −10 | 0 |
Statistics
Goalscorers
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Own goals
- Ysis Sonkeng (playing against New Zealand)
Discipline
- Red cards
- Match bans
- Lady Andrade was banned two matches for violent conduct in punching Abby Wambach.[35]
Controversies
North Korea – South Korea flag confusion
In the first day of the Olympic events on 25 July, the match between DPR Korea and Colombia was delayed by a little over an hour because the flag of South Korea was mistakenly displayed on the electronic scoreboard in Hampden Park. The North Korean team walked off the pitch in protest at seeing the South Korean flag displayed by their names and refused to warm-up whilst the flag was being displayed. They also objected to the South Korean flag being displayed above the stadium, even though the flags of all the competing countries were being displayed. The game then commenced after a delay and rectification of the error.[36]
Andy Mitchell, venue media manager for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), read out a LOCOG statement shortly afterwards:[37][38]
"Today ahead of the Women’s football match at Hampden Park, the South Korean flag was shown on a big screen video package instead of the North Korean flag. Clearly that is a mistake, we will apologise to the team and the National Olympic Committee and steps will be taken to ensure this does not happen again".
LOCOG's statement had to be reissued because it failed to use the nations' official titles, "Republic of Korea" and "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".[39]
British Prime Minister David Cameron added that it was an "honest mistake" and efforts would be undertaken to ensure such a mishap does not recur. However, North Korean manager Sin Ui-gun expressed reservations about whether the incident was a mistake of intention and said: "We were angry because our players were introduced as if they were from South Korea, which may affect us greatly as you may know. Our team was not going to participate unless the problem was solved perfectly and fortunately some time later, the broadcasting was corrected and shown again live so we made up our mind to participate and go on with the match. If this matter cannot be solved, we thought going on was nonsense. Winning the game cannot compensate for that thing".[40]
Semi-final: Canada vs United States
During the semifinal match between Canada and United States, a controversial delay of game call was made against the Canadian goalkeeper, Erin McLeod, when she held the ball longer than the allowed six seconds. This violation is rarely called in international play, and is only intended to be used during instances of clear and deliberate time-wasting.[41] As a result, the American side was awarded a rare indirect free-kick in the box, in the eightieth minute, with Canada leading the match 3–2. On the ensuing play, another controversial handball call was made against the Canadian side, awarding the American team a penalty kick, which Abby Wambach converted to tie the game at 3–3. The Americans went on to win the match in extra time, advancing to the gold medal match.[42][43] After the match, Canada forward Christine Sinclair stated, "the ref decided the result before the game started". FIFA responded by saying it was considering disciplinary action against Sinclair, but that any disciplinary action would be postponed until after the end of the tournament.[44] Sinclair was eventually suspended for four games for her conduct.[45] The referee for the match, Christina Pedersen, was not chosen to officiate for the bronze or gold medal, nor any major international competition since then.[46]
Final: United States vs Japan
During the final match between the United States and Japan, referee Bibiana Steinhaus (of Germany) brushed off Japanese appeals against a handball in the penalty area made by Tobin Heath. Replays showed a clear handball, and in post-match interviews, even Carli Lloyd, Heath's fellow player who scored two goals during the match, admitted that the United States were very lucky to go unpenalised: "It was a clear handball, it hit her arm".[47] German newspaper Die Welt also picked up this issue.[48]
Coincidentally, Steinhaus was also in charge when the same two nations met in the final of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Frankfurt, won by Japan on penalties.
See also
References
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- ↑ "Fixture change in Africa". FIFA. 19 August 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
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