Argentina Women's National Football Team / Olympic Games

Argentina
República Argentina

OS record goal scorer :	Ludmila Manicler (1)
OS record player:	13 players (3 each)
Rank :	19th
Balance sheet
3 OS games 0 wins 0 draws 3 defeats 1: 5 goals
statistics
First OS game Argentina 1: 2 Canada Tianjin ( CHN ); August 6, 2008
Biggest OS defeat Argentina 0: 2 PR China Qinhuangdao ( CHN ); August 12, 2008
successes
Olympic games:
Participation in the finals	1 ( first : 2008 )
Best results	Preliminary round ( 2008 )
(As of April 2018 )

The article provides a detailed account of the Argentine national soccer team for women at the Summer Olympics . The Argentines took part in the women's tournament once and have not yet been able to build on the successes of the men, whose Olympic team has won gold medals twice.

The national team at the Olympic Games

Overview

Olympic Games in	Participation until ...	opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
Atlanta 1996	not qualified				Since Argentina did not qualify for the 1995 World Cup, the team could not qualify for the Olympic Games.
Sydney 2000	not qualified				Since Argentina did not qualify for the 1999 World Cup, the team could not qualify for the Olympic Games.
Athens 2004	not qualified				At the 2003 South American Championship , he missed qualifying as runner-up
Beijing 2008	Preliminary round	Canada , Sweden , PR China	-	José Carlos Borello	Retired as the last group
London 2012	not qualified				At the South American Championships 2010 , he missed qualifying as fourth
Rio de Janeiro 2016	not qualified				At the 2014 South American Championship , he failed to qualify as fourth
Tokyo 2020	not qualified				At the 2018 South American Championship , he missed qualifying as third

The tournaments

Olympia 1996 in Atlanta

For the first women's Olympic soccer tournament, in addition to hosts USA, only the other seven best teams from the 1995 World Cup and Brazil qualified for the English women who were not eligible to start. Since Argentina was second in the South American Championship in 1995 not qualified for the World Cup, the team could not qualify for the Olympic Games.

Olympia 2000 in Sydney

In addition to the host, only the seven best teams from the 1999 World Cup were qualified for the second Olympic tournament . Since Argentina could not use the home advantage at the South American Championship in 1998 , the team was again not qualified for the World Cup and could therefore not qualify for the Olympic Games again.

Olympia 2004 in Athens

Buenos Aires had also applied for the 2004 games , but was eliminated in the first round in the decisive vote. Therefore, the Argentine team had to qualify for the third Olympic women's soccer tournament via the 2003 South American Women's Soccer Championship, which was considered a direct qualification. But Argentina only finished second behind the Brazilians. This meant that they were qualified for a World Cup for the first time, as South America now had two starting positions, but only the South American champion was qualified for the Olympic Games.

2008 Olympics in Beijing

For the tournament in Beijing , the 2006 South American Women's Soccer Championship was the qualifying tournament and the South American champions qualified for Beijing. Since Argentina surprisingly won the last game against Brazil 2-0 in the final round, Argentina qualified directly. Brazil was able to qualify through a playoff game against the second in the Africa qualification, the team from Ghana.

At the start of the tournament, the team lost 2-1 to Canada, with Ludmila Manicler scoring the first Olympic goal for the Argentines. The South Americans also drew themselves out of the affair in the 1-0 defeat against Sweden. With a 0-2 win against China in front of more than 50,000 spectators (31,492 according to the official report) - probably the highest number of spectators at a game by the Argentines - they then lost the last game, with Florencia Quiñones making an own goal and the final decision only in the 90th minute by Gu Yasha , the youngest scorer to date, fell. As a group bottom, the Argentines were eliminated. After all, they had conceded significantly fewer goals than at the World Cup a year earlier , where they had conceded 18 goals.

Olympia 2012 in London

As four years before, the South American Football Championship was again a qualifying tournament and this time the South Americans were entitled to two direct starting places. But this time Argentina couldn't win a game in the final round and only finished fourth. The decisive factor was a 0: 1 in the last game against Colombia, which qualified as runner-up for the first time for the Olympic Games.

Olympia 2016 in Rio de Janeiro

For the tournament in Rio de Janeiro that was South American Championship of 2014 the crucial hurdle. Argentina defeated Brazil 2-0 in the preliminary round, but again no game was won in the final round, so again only fourth place jumped out.

Olympia 2020 in Tokyo

For the tournament in Tokyo was South American Championship of 2018 the crucial hurdle. Argentina survived the preliminary round, but only one game was won in the final round and third place was taken, which was not enough for qualification.

statistics

Record against the Olympic champions at the Olympic Games

• Norway : 0 games
• USA : 0 games
• Germany : 0 games

Games

Argentina has played three games in the Olympic Games so far - all of which have been lost.

The Argentines played once against the hosts, never against the eventual Olympic champion or defending champion. Only one game was the first so far against the respective opponent.

Argentina have played against teams from three other confederations so far, but so far against no champions and so far have not met the reigning world champions.

Most of the games were played by 13 players who were used in the previous three games. The only goal to date has been scored by Ludmila Manicler .

No.	date	Result	opponent	venue	AH/*	occasion	comment
1	08/06/2008	1: 2	Canada *	Tianjin ( CHN )	*	Group game
2	08/09/2008	0: 1	Sweden	Tianjin ( CHN )	*	Group game	First game against Sweden
3	08/12/2008	0: 2	People's Republic of China	Qinhuangdao ( CHN )	*	Group game

Records

The Argentine team suffered their biggest defeat at the Olympic Games against only one country:

•  Sweden 0-1 preliminary round 2002 - only game against Sweden

Web links

• Women's Olympic Football Tournament - Statistical Kit - Statistics, Facts & Figures 1996 - 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: "Host ends group stage as front runner"