Colombian Women's National Football Team / Olympic Games

Colombia
República de Colombia

OS record goal scorer :	Catalina Usme (2)
OS record player:	7 players (6 each)
Rank :	17th
Balance sheet
6 OS games 0 wins 1 draw 5 losses 2:13 goals
statistics
First OS game Colombia 1: 2 North Korea Glasgow ( GBR ); July 25, 2012
Biggest OS defeat Colombia 0: 4 France Belo Horizonte ( BRA ); 3rd August 2016
successes
Olympic games:
Participation in the finals	2 ( first : 2012 )
Best results	Preliminary round ( 2012 , 2016 )
(As of April 2018 )

The article provides a detailed account of the Colombian national soccer team for women at the Summer Olympics . The Colombians took part in the women's tournament twice, but have not yet won a game and only won a point and scored goals in their last game so far.

The national team at the Olympic Games

Overview

Olympic Games in	Participation until ...	opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
Atlanta 1996	not participated				Since Colombia had not participated in the 1995 South American Championships, which served as qualification for the 1995 World Cup, the team could not qualify for the Olympic Games.
Sydney 2000	not qualified				Since Colombia 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 Championships , he failed to qualify as third
Beijing 2008	not qualified				Since Colombia did not qualify for the 2007 World Cup, the team could not qualify for the Olympic Games.
London 2012	Preliminary round	France , North Korea , USA	-	Ricardo Rozo	Eliminated as the bottom of the group without a goal
Rio de Janeiro 2016	Preliminary round	France , New Zealand , USA	-	Fabian Taborda	Qualified runner-up at the 2014 South American Championship. Retired as the last group.
Tokyo 2020	not qualified				Colombia failed as fourth in the 2018 South American Women's Football Championship

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 Colombia had not participated in the South American Championship in 1995 and thus could not qualify for the 1995 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 . In 1998, Colombia took part in the 1998 South American Championship in Argentina , where it played a women's international match for the first time. After a win in their first international match against Venezuela , the team lost 1:12 against Brazil , but then won 5-1 against Chile , but a 1-2 against Peru missed the semi-finals. Thus, the team was not qualified for the World Cup and could therefore not qualify for the Olympic Games again.

Olympia 2004 in Athens

For the third Olympic women's football tournament, the South American teams had to qualify via the 2003 South American Women's Football Championship. Colombia prevailed against Venezuela (8: 0) and Ecuador (1: 1) in the preliminary round. After a 1-0 win against Peru in the final round, however, they lost to Argentina 2: 3 and Brazil 0:12, the Colombians' biggest international defeat. They only finished third behind Brazil and Argentina and were again not qualified for the World Cup and 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 Colombia could only win against Uruguay (1-0) in the preliminary round and draw against Ecuador . So they missed the final round and thus the qualification for the 2007 World Cup and the Olympic Games.

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. This time Colombia only lost to Brazil (1: 2) in the preliminary round, but won against Venezuela, Paraguay and Uruguay, with an 8-0 win against Uruguay, one of the two biggest victories of the Colombians. In the final round they only achieved a 1-1 draw against Chile and then lost to Brazil 5-0. By beating defending champions Argentina 1-0 in the last game, they surprisingly finished second and qualified for the 2011 World Cup and the Olympic Games for the first time .

At the start of the tournament, the team lost 2-0 to North Korea , with particular attention being drawn to the fact that the South Korean flag was accidentally shown on the video wall during the team presentation, whereupon the North Korean players left the pitch. Only after an apology from the Olympic organizers was the game able to start one hour late. They then lost 3-0 to defending champions USA, as they did at the World Cup a year earlier, and then 0-1 to France . This made them the second team after Greece to be eliminated without a goal.

Olympia 2016 in Rio de Janeiro

For the tournament in Rio de Janeiro that was South American Championship of 2014 the crucial hurdle. Colombia won all games in the preliminary round, but in the final round it was only enough to beat Argentina 0-0. With a subsequent 2-1 against Ecuador and a 0-0 against the Brazilians who had already qualified for the World Cup and as host for the Olympic Games, Colombia was second in the group again and qualified for the 2015 World Cup and the Olympic Games. In addition, Colombia was the only team to not have lost a game. As in 2012, opponents in Brazil were France and the USA as well as New Zealand , against which only friendlies had previously been played. The Colombians lost their first game against France 4-0, so the French were able to return the favor for the defeat in the group game at the 2015 World Cup. They only lost 1-0 to New Zealand, but had little chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals. In the last game against the USA, the Colombians scored their first goals at the Olympic Games through Catalina Usme and against the USA as well as their first ever point win at the Olympic Games and against the USA by 2-2.

Olympia 2020 in Tokyo

For the tournament in Tokyo was South American Championship of 2018 the crucial hurdle. Colombia won three games in the preliminary round and only gave up one point against hosts Chile. They also drew in the final round against Chile, but lost against Argentina and Brazil, so that only fourth place jumped out, which was not enough to qualify for the Olympic Games.

statistics

Record against the Olympic champions at the Olympic Games

• Germany : 0 games
• Norway : 0 games
• USA : 2 games - 1 draw, 1 loss, 2: 5 goals

Games

Colombia has played six games at the Olympic Games so far, the first five of which were lost and a point was only won in the last.

The Colombians never played against the hosts, but twice against the defending champion, who was able to defend the title once. It was only the first game against France; they had already played against North Korea and the USA at the 2011 World Cup .

Colombia has played against teams from four other confederations so far, but so far only against the North America and Oceania champions and met the reigning world champion once.

Most of the games were played by seven players who were used in the previous six games. The only goalscorer is record scorer Catalina Usme with two goals.

No.	date	Result	opponent	venue	AH/*	occasion	comment
1	July 25, 2012	0: 2	North Korea	Glasgow ( GBR )	*	Preliminary round
2	07/28/2012	0: 3	United States	Glasgow ( GBR )	*	Preliminary round
3	July 31, 2012	0: 1	France	Newcastle ( GBR )	*	Preliminary round	First game against France
4th	08/03/2016	0: 4	France	Belo Horizonte ( BRA )	*	Preliminary round
5	08/06/2016	0: 1	New Zealand	Belo Horizonte ( BRA )	*	Preliminary round
6th	08/09/2016	2: 2	USA *	Manaus ( BRA )	*	Preliminary round

Note: Teams marked in bold were continental champions at the time of the game, the team marked with "*" were world champions.

Records

These losses are the highest losses against these countries:

•  North Korea 0-2 (preliminary round 2012) - only defeat against North Korea
•  France 0: 4 (preliminary round 2016)
•  New Zealand 0: 1 (preliminary round 2016) - also a 0: 1 and a 1: 2 at the Matchworld Cup 2011 and 2012

Negative records

• Most consecutive defeats: Colombia and Nigeria (5 each)
• Most games in a row without scoring: South Africa and Colombia (2012-2016) 5 each

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ spiegel.de: Embarrassing confusion of South Korea's flag for North Korea's soccer women .