2012 Summer Olympics / Football

Football at the 2012 Olympics
information
venue	London , Manchester , Glasgow , Newcastle , Cardiff , Coventry
Competition venue	Wembley Stadium , Old Trafford , Hampden Park , St. James' Park , Millennium Stadium , City of Coventry Stadium
Teams	28 (12 , 16 )
Nations	24
Athletes	467 (200 , 267 )
date	July 25 - August 11, 2012
decisions	2
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At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , two football competitions were held from July 25 to August 11 .

Twelve teams took part in the women's tournament, 16 teams in the men's tournament. The games were not only played in London, but also in various stadiums in Great Britain . The tournament was held in parallel for women and men.

The men's winner was Mexico , which won a medal for the first time, and was also a member of CONCACAF for the first time . Since the USA also defended its title among women, two members of a confederation became Olympic champions for the first time in men and women.

As since the 1996 tournament in Atlanta, only U-23 teams were admitted to the men , who could be reinforced with a maximum of three older athletes. This restriction did not apply to women. The FIFA taught this time for the duration of the Olympic tournament a secondment period one, so it does not come back to the dispute between clubs and FIFA to release obligation of the players. It was also positive for the clubs that this time the Olympic tournament ended before most European leagues began.

616 players were registered for the two tournaments; twelve teams for women and 16 for men with 18 players each. In addition, each team could name four players who could be used in the event of injuries. Brazil, Gabon, the United Arab Emirates and Belarus made use of this for men and Canada and North Korea for women.

The more than 1.5 million viewers at the 32 men's games mean a record for an Olympic football tournament.

Venues

The games were played in six different stadiums in Great Britain . The two big finals took place in London at Wembley Stadium , the women's small final in Coventry and the men's in Cardiff. Wembley Stadium was the largest stadium at the tournament with a capacity of 90,000.

In these tournaments, as in 1984 , 1992 and 1996, no game was played in the actual Olympic Stadium in London.

London (England)	Manchester (England)	London Manchester Cardiff Newcastle Glasgow Coventry Venues 2012	Glasgow (Scotland)
Wembley Stadium	Old Trafford		Hampden Park
Capacity: 90,000	Capacity: 76,200		Capacity: 52,500
4 preliminary round games 1 quarter finals 2 semifinals & both finals	6 preliminary round games 1 quarter-finals 2 semi-finals		7 preliminary round matches 1 quarter-finals
Newcastle (England)	Cardiff (Wales)		Coventry (England)
St. James' Park	Millennium Stadium		City of Coventry Stadium
Capacity: 52,390	Capacity: 74,500		Capacity: 32,600
7 preliminary round matches 2 quarter-finals	8 preliminary round games 2 quarter-finals, small final men		8 preliminary round games 1 quarter-finals, small final women

Mode of the finals

In the groups, the ranking was determined according to the following criteria:

1. Number of points from all group games;
2. Goal difference from all three games;
3. Number of goals scored;
4. Number of points from the direct encounters of the teams with the same points and goals;
5. Goal difference in the direct encounters of teams with equal points and goals;
6. Number of goals scored in direct encounters between teams with equal points and goals;
7. Drawing of lots by the FIFA Organizing Committee.

The two best group thirds also qualified at the women's tournament. Their order was determined by criteria 1, 2, 3 and 7, the 3rd and 7th criteria not being used.

From the quarter-finals onwards, if the score was tied, there was an extension of 15 minutes twice, after which there was still a tie and a penalty shoot-out decided.

Men's tournament

→ Main article : 2012 Men's Olympic Football Tournament

Olympic football tournament 2012
Men
Number of nations	16
Olympic champion	Mexico (1st title)
venue	London ( Coventry , Cardiff , Glasgow , Manchester , Newcastle )
Opening game	July 26, 2012
Endgame	August 11, 2012
Games	32
Gates	76  (⌀: 2.38 per game)
spectator	1,525,134  (⌀: 47,660 per game)
Top scorer	Leandro Damião (6 goals)
yellow cards	123  (⌀: 3.84 per game)
Yellow-red cards	5  (⌀: 0.16 per game)
Red cards	4  (⌀: 0.13 per game)

qualification

The three starting places of the Asian association AFC were played in different qualifying rounds from 2011 to 2012. Between February 23 and March 9, 2011, eleven teams qualified in a pre-qualification, which together with 13 seeded teams between June 19 and 23, 2011 determined the twelve participants of the last qualifying round in qualifying games. Between September 2011 and March 2012, these twelve teams played the three starting places for the Olympic tournament in three groups of four teams each. The group winners were qualified directly. South Korea was the first Asian team to qualify on February 22, 2012. On March 14th, Japan and, for the first time, the United Arab Emirates also qualified. The runners-up Oman, Syria and Uzbekistan played from March 25 to 29, 2012 as part of a “everyone against everyone” tournament. The winner Oman then played the playoff game against Senegal on April 23 at Coventry Stadium , but could not prevail.

For the African association CAF, 16 teams in different groups played the three participants in the 2012 Olympic tournament. The runners-up played the participant who was allowed to contest the play-off duel against the Asian representative. Egypt, Gabon and Morocco were able to qualify directly, Senegal played against Oman on April 23 for the last place on the grid and was able to qualify for the first time. It was also Gabon's first participation in the Olympic football tournament.

Two teams from the North and Central American association CONCACAF qualified. The eight-team qualifying tournament took place from March 22nd to April 2nd, 2012 in the United States . In addition to the pre-qualified teams from the USA, Canada and Mexico, Cuba and Trinidad & Tobago from the Caribbean as well as El Salvador, Honduras and Panama from Central America took part in this tournament. Mexico and Honduras were able to qualify.

UEFA's qualifying tournament was the U-21 European Football Championship from June 11 to 25, 2011 in Denmark . The best three teams qualified for the Olympic tournament. Since England did not reach the semi-finals, only Spain and Switzerland were directly qualified as finalists. The defeated semi-finalists Czech Republic and Belarus played - in a game for third place specially scheduled for the Olympic qualification - the last European Olympic starting place against each other. Initially, a game for third place was not planned. In this game, the Belarusian team qualified for the Olympic tournament for the first time .

Great Britain was automatically qualified as host and took part in the men's Olympic football tournament for the first time since 1960 , and for the first time ever in the women's tournament. It was initially unclear whether there would be British teams . England was hoping for a joint participation with Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland , but the other associations were rather reluctant as they feared for their independence. The four British football federations finally agreed that the English Football Association (FA) should be responsible for the composition of the teams and that this, as "Team GB", as automatically qualified, the host country (on behalf of the Olympic Committee of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) represented.

The one starting place of the oceanic association OFC was determined from March 16 to 25, 2012 at a tournament in Taupo ( New Zealand ). The U-23 teams from American Samoa, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (Group A), as well as New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Tonga (Group B) took part in the tournament. New Zealand beat Fiji 1-0 in the final and took part in the Olympic Games football tournament for the second time .

At the U-20 South American football championship from January 16 to February 12, 2011 in Peru , the two starting places of the South American association CONMEBOL were played. In the final round, the Uruguayan and Brazilian U-20 national teams prevailed and were the first men's teams to qualify for the Olympic tournament. For Uruguay it was the first participation since 1928 when the senior national team became Olympic champions.

The following teams were finally able to qualify for the Olympic football tournament:

4 from Europe	Great Britain (hosts)	Spain	Switzerland	Belarus
2 from South America	Brazil	Uruguay
2 from North and Central America	Honduras	Mexico
4 from Africa	Morocco	Gabon	Egypt	Senegal
3 from Asia	Japan	South Korea	UA Emirates
1 from Oceania	New Zealand

Group stage

The group draw took place on April 24, 2012. The qualified teams were divided into four pots each. In addition, some teams were set as group heads of groups A to D.

Lottery pots of the men's tournament:

Pot 1: Great Britain (A1), Belarus, Spain (D1) and Switzerland

Pot 2: Brazil (C1), Uruguay, Mexico (B1) and Honduras

Pot 3: Japan, South Korea, UAE and New Zealand

Pot 4: Egypt, Gabon, Morocco, Senegal

The men's tournament began the day before the actual opening of the Olympic Games. With the exception of the first two games in Group C, the first two game days of each group were held as double events. The third matchday took place in parallel in different stadiums, with some double events of games from different groups being carried out.

Group A

26 July 2012, 5:00 p.m., Manchester UA Emirates - Uruguay 1: 2 (1: 1) 26 July 2012, 8:00 p.m., Manchester Great Britain - Senegal 1: 1 (1: 0) 29 July 2012, 5:00 p.m., London Senegal - Uruguay 2: 0 (2: 0) 29 July 2012, 7:45 pm, London Great Britain - UA Emirates 3: 1 (1: 0) August 1, 2012, 7:45 p.m., Coventry Senegal - UA Emirates 1: 1 (0: 1) 1st August 2012, 7:45 pm, Cardiff Great Britain - Uruguay 1: 0 (0: 0)

rank country Gates Points 1  Great Britain 5: 2 7th 2  Senegal 4: 2 5 3  Uruguay 2: 4 3 4th  UA Emirates 3: 6 1

Group B

26 July 2012, 2:30 p.m., Newcastle Mexico - South Korea 0-0 26 July 2012, 5:15 pm, Newcastle Gabon - Switzerland 1: 1 (1: 1) July 29, 2012, 2:30 p.m., Coventry Mexico - Gabon 2: 0 (0: 0) July 29, 2012, 5:15 pm, Coventry South Korea - Switzerland 2: 1 (0: 0) August 1, 2012, 5:00 p.m., Cardiff Mexico - Switzerland 1: 0 (0: 0) August 1, 2012, 5:00 p.m., London South Korea - Gabon 0-0

rank country Gates Points 1  Mexico 3-0 7th 2  South Korea 2: 1 5 3  Gabon 1: 3 2 4th  Switzerland 2: 4 1

Group C

July 26, 2012, 7:45 pm, Cardiff Brazil - Egypt 3: 2 (3: 0) July 26, 2012, 7:45 p.m., Coventry Belarus - New Zealand 1: 0 (1: 0) 29 July 2012, 12:00 pm, Manchester Egypt - New Zealand 1: 1 (1: 1) 29 July 2012, 3 p.m., Manchester Brazil - Belarus 3: 1 (1: 1) 1st August 2012, 2:30 pm, Newcastle Brazil - New Zealand 3: 0 (2: 0) August 1, 2012, 2:30 p.m., Glasgow Egypt - Belarus 3: 1 (0: 0)

rank country Gates Points 1  Brazil 9: 3 9 2  Egypt 6: 5 4th 3  Belarus 3: 6 3 4th  New Zealand 1: 5 1

Group D

July 26, 2012, 12:00 pm, Glasgow Honduras - Morocco 2: 2 (0: 1) 26 July 2012, 2:45 p.m., Glasgow Spain - Japan 0: 1 (0: 1) 29 July 2012, 5:00 p.m., Newcastle Japan - Morocco 1: 0 (0: 0) 29 July 2012, 7:45 pm, Newcastle Spain - Honduras 0: 1 (0: 1) August 1, 2012, 5:00 p.m., Coventry Japan - Honduras 0-0 1st August 2012 at 5:00 p.m., Manchester Spain - Morocco 0-0

rank country Gates Points 1  Japan 2-0 7th 2  Honduras 3: 2 5 3  Morocco 2: 3 2 4th  Spain 0: 2 1

Quarter finals

4th August 2012 at 12:00 pm, Manchester
Japan	-	Egypt	3: 0 (1: 0)
4th August 2012, 2:30 p.m., London
Mexico	-	Senegal	4: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 1: 0)
4th August 2012, 5:00 p.m., Newcastle
Brazil	-	Honduras	3: 2 (1: 1)
4th August 2012, 7:30 pm, Cardiff
Great Britain	-	South Korea	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 1), 4: 5 i. E.

Semifinals

7 August 2012, 5:00 p.m., London
Mexico	-	Japan	3: 1 (1: 1)
7th August 2012, 7:45 pm, Manchester
South Korea	-	Brazil	0: 3 (0: 0)

Bronze game

10 August 2012, 7:45 pm, Cardiff
South Korea	-	Japan	2: 0 (1: 0)

final

Brazil - Mexico 1: 2 (0: 1)

Brazil		Mexico
	August 11, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in London , ( Wembley Stadium ) Result: 1: 2 (0: 1) Spectators: 86,162 Referee: Mark Clattenburg
	Gabriel - Rafael (85th Lucas ), Thiago Silva , Juan Jesus , Alex Sandro - Marcelo , Rômulo , Oscar , (32nd Hulk ), Sandro (71st Alexandre Pato ) - Neymar , Leandro Damião Trainer: Mano Menezes	Jesús Corona - Israel Jiménez (81st Néstor Vidrio ), Carlos Salcido , Hiram Mier , Dárvin Chávez - Héctor Herrera , Javier Aquino (57th Miguel Ponce ), Diego Reyes , Jorge Enríquez - Marco Fabián , Oribe Peralta (86th Raúl Jiménez ) Coach: Luis Fernando Tena
	1: 2 Hulk (90th + 1 ')	0: 1 Oribe Peralta (1st) 0: 2 Oribe Peralta (75th)
	Marcelo (42.)	Diego Reyes (46th), Israel Jiménez (58th), Néstor Vidrio (89th)

Medal ranks

rank	Medalist
Gold mexico	Javier Aquino , Néstor Araujo , Dárvin Chávez , Jesús Corona (TW), Javier Cortés , Jorge Enríquez , Héctor Herrera , Israel Jiménez , Raúl Jiménez , Hiram Mier , Marco Fabián , Oribe Peralta , Miguel Ángel Ponce , Diego Antonio Reyes , José Rodríguez ( TW) , Carlos Salcido , Giovani dos Santos , Néstor Vidrio Trainer: Luis Fernando Tena
Silver brazil	Leandro Damião , Danilo , Gabriel (TW), Ganso , Hulk , Juan Jesus , Lucas Moura , Marcelo , Neto (TW), Neymar , Oscar , Alexandre Pato , Rafael , Rômulo , Alex Sandro , Sandro , Thiago Silva , Bruno Uvini , trainers : Mano Menezes
Bronze South Korea	Baek Sung-dong , Hwang Seok-ho , Ji Dong-won , Jung Sung-ryong (TW), Jung Woo-young , Ki Sung-yong , Kim Bo-kyung , Kim Chang-soo , Kim Hyun-sung , Kim Kee -hee , Kim Young-gwon , Koo Ja-cheol , Lee Bum-young (TW), Nam Tae-hee , Oh Jae-suk , Park Jong-woo , Park Chu-young , Yun Suk-young Trainer: Hong Myung- bo

Italic: Not used.

List of goalscorers

rank player Gates 1 Leandro Damião 6th 2 Moussa Konaté 5 3 Oribe Peralta 4th 4th Giovani dos Santos 3 Neymar 3 Mohamed Salah Ghaly 3 Jerry Bengtson 3 Yūki Ōtsu 3 9 Mohamed Abo Treka 2 Park Chu-young 2 Ismaeil Matar 2 Daniel Sturridge 2 Kensuke Nagai 2 14th Oscar 1 Rashed Eisa 1 Renan Bressan 1 Róger Espinoza 1 Abdelaziz Barrada 1 Dsmitry Baga 1 Zakaria Labyad 1 Hulk 1 Craig Bellamy 1 Jorge Enríquez 1 Koo Ja-cheol 1 Javier Cortés 1

rank player Gates 14th Andrei Varankou 1 Marwan Mohsen 1 Alexandre Pato 1 Nicolás Lodeiro 1 Danilo 1 Ibrahima Baldé 1 Ryan Giggs 1 Scott Sinclair 1 Héctor Herrera 1 Gastón Ramírez 1 Innocent Emeghara 1 Chris Wood 1 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 1 Admir Mehmedi 1 Ji Dong-won 1 Aaron Ramsey 1 Mario Martínez 1 Kim Bo-kyung 1 Sandro 1 Rômulo 1 Javier Aquino 1 Marco Fabián 1 Rafael 1 Maya Yoshida 1

Note: Sorting with the same number of goals according to the number of assists and time played.

Trivia

• Since the British anthem God Save the Queen was played for the British team , which is also played in the games of the England national team, the Welshman Ryan Giggs asked the fans before the last round game against Uruguay in Cardiff (Wales) to a whistle concert during the anthem to stop.
• The 2-0 draw against Senegal was Uruguay's first defeat at an Olympic football tournament. For Senegal, who participated for the first time, it was the first victory.
• Ryan Giggs became the oldest goalscorer in tournament history with his goal to make it 1-0 in the game against the United Arab Emirates at 38 years and 243 days. The record was previously held by the 37-year-old Egyptian Hussein Hegazi , who scored a goal in a 3-0 win against Hungary on May 29, 1924.
• Giovani dos Santos is the first substitute to score two goals after being substituted on.
• The Swiss Michel Morganella was excluded from the Swiss delegation after the game against South Korea because he had insulted players from South Korea via Twitter .
• For the first time there was no European team in the semi-finals, but two Asian teams.
• Japan is the third country after Brazil (1996 and 2008) and the United States (2000), which brought both the women's and men's teams to the semi-finals in the same year.
• Mexico became the first Central American team to reach the final and win the gold medal.
• For the first time, two Asian teams were in the small final for third place.
• With Mexico and South Korea, Group B provided two medal winners.
• Oribe Peralta scored the fastest goal in the 29th second of the final to make it 1-0 for Mexico. It is also the fastest goal in a final match organized by FIFA .

Women's tournament

Olympic football tournament 2012
Women
Number of nations	12
Olympic champion	United States (4th title)
venue	London ( Coventry , Cardiff , Glasgow , Manchester , Newcastle )
Opening game	July 25, 2012
Endgame	August 9, 2012
Games	26th
Gates	71  (⌀: 2.73 per game)
spectator	660,986  (⌀: 25,423 per game)
Top scorer	Christine Sinclair (6 goals)
yellow cards	43  (⌀: 1.65 per game)
Yellow-red cards	1  (⌀: 0.04 per game)
Red cards	0

qualification

The two starting places due to the Asian association AFC were played in a round-robin tournament between the six teams Australia , China , Japan , South Korea , North Korea and Thailand from September 1st to 11th, 2011 in China. Japan and North Korea were able to prevail. This main round was preceded by two pre-qualification rounds, which were held in March and June 2011 respectively. For the second pre-qualification round, which was held in Jordan , Iran , Jordan , Uzbekistan , Vietnam and Thailand had qualified from the first round . At the qualifying tournament, Thailand prevailed with three wins - including one at the green table after the Iranian team was disqualified - and a draw.

The two starting places of the African association CAF were played in a total of four qualifying rounds. Nigeria and Cameroon as well as South Africa and Ethiopia faced each other in the decisive play-off games . The first leg took place on August 27, 2011, the second leg on September 11 (between Ethiopia and South Africa) and October 22, 2011 (between Cameroon and Nigeria). South Africa and Cameroon were able to qualify for the Olympic football tournament.

The two teams of the North and Central American federation CONCACAF were played between eight teams in Canada in 2012 . In addition to the three pre-qualified teams from Canada , Mexico and the USA , there were three teams from the Caribbean and two from Central America. At tournaments in the Dominican Republic and Aruba from June 29 to July 9, 2011, the Dominican Republic , Haiti and Cuba qualified for the final tournament. The Central American participants in the final tournament were determined at a tournament from September 30 to October 8, 2011 in Guatemala City . Costa Rica and Guatemala prevailed. The final tournament took place from January 19-29, 2012 in Vancouver . Record Olympic champions USA and hosts Canada qualified for London at the tournament.

From the European association UEFA , the two best European teams qualified for the 2011 World Cup from June 26 to July 17, 2011 in Germany . Only two European teams reached the semi-finals, Sweden and France , and thus qualified. The German team , which had clearly beaten France in the preliminary round, was unhappy in the quarter-finals against eventual world champions Japan. In addition, Great Britain was automatically qualified to host. A team consisting of English and Scottish players and trained by the then English national coach Hope Powell took part as Team GB .

The one starting place of the oceanic association OFC was played in spring 2012. First appeared in Tonga teams from March Papua New Guinea , Samoa , Tonga and Vanuatu in a tournament "Free-for-All" against each other. The two best teams then played out the participant who played against New Zealand in a two-way leg for the starting place in London at the end of March / beginning of April . Papua New Guinea prevailed against hosts Tonga and reached the playoff games against New Zealand. New Zealand won them 8-0 and 7-0 and was the last team to qualify for the women's Olympic tournament.

At the South American Women's Soccer Championship 2010 from November 4 to 21, 2010 in Ecuador , the two starting places of the South American association CONMEBOL were played. Brazil and Colombia prevailed in the final round and were the first teams to qualify for the Olympic tournament.

The following teams were able to qualify for the women's Olympic football tournament:

3 from Europe	Great Britain (hosts)	France	Sweden
2 from South America	Brazil	Colombia
2 from North and Central America	Canada	United States
2 from Africa	Cameroon	South Africa
2 from Asia	Japan	North Korea
1 from Oceania	New Zealand

Group stage

The group draw took place on April 24, 2012. The qualified teams were divided into four pots each. In addition, hosts Great Britain, world champions Japan and defending champions USA were set as group heads of groups E to G.

Lottery pots of the women's tournament:

Pot 1: Great Britain (E1), France and Sweden

Pot 2: Cameroon, South Africa, Colombia

Pot 3: Japan (F1), North Korea, New Zealand

Pot 4: USA (G1), Canada, Brazil

The women's tournament began two days before the actual opening of the Olympic Games. The first two game days of each group were held as double events. The third game day took place in parallel in different stadiums. The three group winners and runners-up as well as the two best group thirds qualified for the quarter-finals.

Group E

25 July 2012, 4 p.m., Cardiff Great Britain - New Zealand 1: 0 (0: 0) 25 July 2012, 6:45 pm, Cardiff Cameroon - Brazil 0: 5 (0: 2) 28 July 2012, 2:30 p.m., Cardiff New Zealand - Brazil 0: 1 (0: 0) 28 July 2012, 5:15 pm, Cardiff Great Britain - Cameroon 3: 0 (2: 0) July 31, 2012, 7:45 p.m., Coventry New Zealand - Cameroon 3: 1 (1: 0) 31 July 2012, 7:45 p.m., London Great Britain - Brazil 1: 0 (1: 0)

rank country Gates Points 1  Great Britain 5-0 9 2  Brazil 6: 1 6th 3  New Zealand 3: 3 3 4th  Cameroon 1:11 0

Group F.

July 25, 2012, 5:00 p.m., Coventry Japan - Canada 2: 1 (2: 0) July 25, 2012, 7:45 p.m., Coventry Sweden - South Africa 4: 1 (3: 0) July 28, 2012, 12:00 p.m., Coventry Japan - Sweden 0-0 July 28, 2012, 2:45 p.m., Coventry Canada - South Africa 3: 0 (1: 0) 31 July 2012, 2:30 p.m., London Japan - South Africa 0-0 31 July 2012, 2:30 p.m., Newcastle Canada - Sweden 2: 2 (1: 2)

rank country Gates Points 1  Sweden 6: 3 5 2  Japan 2: 1 5 3  Canada 6: 4 4th 4th  South Africa 1: 7 1

Group G

25 July 2012, 5:00 p.m., Glasgow United States - France 4: 2 (2: 2) 25 July 2012, 8:50 pm, Glasgow Colombia - North Korea 0: 2 (0: 1) 28 July 2012, 5:00 p.m., Glasgow United States - Colombia 3: 0 (1: 0) 28 July 2012, 7:45 pm, Glasgow France - North Korea 5: 0 (1: 0) 31 July 2012, 5:15 pm, Manchester United States - North Korea 1: 0 (1: 0) 31st July 2012, 5:15 pm, Newcastle France - Colombia 1: 0 (1: 0)

rank country Gates Points 1  United States 8: 2 9 2  France 8: 4 6th 3  North Korea 2: 6 3 4th  Colombia 0: 6 0

Quarter finals

3rd August 2012, 12:00 noon, Glasgow
Sweden	-	France	1: 2 (1: 2)
3rd August 2012, 2:30 pm, Newcastle
United States	-	New Zealand	2: 0 (1: 0)
3rd August 2012, 5:00 p.m., Cardiff
Brazil	-	Japan	0: 2 (0: 1)
August 3, 2012, 7:30 p.m., Coventry
Great Britain	-	Canada	0: 2 (0: 2)

Semifinals

6 August 2012, 5:00 p.m., London
France	-	Japan	1: 2 (0: 1)
6 August 2012, 7:45 pm, Manchester
Canada	-	United States	3: 4 n.V. (3: 3, 1: 0)

Bronze game

9 August 2012, 1:00 p.m., Coventry
Canada	-	France	1: 0 (0: 0)

final

United States		Japan
	9 August 2012 at 7.45 p.m. in London , ( Wembley Stadium ) Result: 2: 1 (1: 0) Spectators: 80,203 * Referee: Bibiana Steinhaus ( Germany )
	Hope Solo - Christie Rampone , Rachel Buehler (80th Becky Sauerbrunn ), Kelley O'Hara , Amy LePeilbet - Carli Lloyd , Shannon Boxx , Megan Rapinoe (57th Lauren Cheney ), Tobin Heath - Abby Wambach , Alex Morgan Trainer: Pia Sundhage ( Sweden )	Miho Fukumoto - Yukari Kinga , Azusa Iwashimizu , Saki Kumagai , Aya Sameshima (77th Mana Iwabuchi ) - Aya Miyama , Mizuho Sakaguchi (59th Asuna Tanaka ), Nahomi Kawasumi , Homare Sawa - Shinobu Ōno (86th Karimi. Maruyama ), Karimi. Maruyama Coach: Norio Sasaki
	1-0 Carli Lloyd (7th) 2-0 Carli Lloyd (53rd)	2: 1 Yūki Ōgimi (62.)
	Abby Wambach (90.)

* The number of spectators of 80,203 in the final meant an Olympic and European record for a women's international match. The previous European record of 73,680 spectators was reached at the opening game of the 2011 World Cup in Berlin . Only the 1999 World Cup final between the USA and China saw more spectators with 90,185.

Medal ranks

rank	Medalists
Gold United States	Nicole Barnhart (TW), Shannon Boxx , Rachel Buehler , Lauren Cheney , Tobin Heath , Amy LePeilbet , Sydney Leroux , Carli Lloyd , Heather Mitts , Alex Morgan , Kelley O'Hara , Heather O'Reilly , Christie Rampone , Megan Rapinoe , Amy Rodriguez , Becky Sauerbrunn , Hope Solo (TW), Abby Wambach Trainer: Pia Sundhage ( Sweden )
Silver japan	Kozue Ando , Miho Fukumoto (TW), Mana Iwabuchi , Azusa Iwashimizu , Ayumi Kaihori (TW), Nahomi Kawasumi , Yukari Kinga , Saki Kumagai , Karina Maruyama , Aya Miyama , Yūki Ōgimi , Shinobu Ohno , Mizuho Sakaguchi , Aya Sameshima , Homare Sawa , Megumi Takase , Asuna Tanaka , Kyōko Yano Trainer: Norio Sasaki
Bronze Canada	Candace Chapman , Jonelle Filigno , Robyn Gayle , Kaylyn Kyle , Karina LeBlanc (TW), Diana Matheson , Erin McLeod (TW), Carmelina Moscato , Marie-Ève ​​Nault , Kelly Parker , Desiree Scott , Sophie Schmidt , Lauren Stuhlmann , Christine Sinclair , Chelsea Stewart , Melissa Tancredi , Brittany Timko , Rhian Wilkinson Coach: John Herdman ( Great Britain [England])

Italic: Not used.

List of goalscorers

rank Player Gates 1 Christine Sinclair 6th 2 Abby Wambach 5 3 Melissa Tancredi 4th Carli Lloyd 4th 5 Alex Morgan 3 Megan Rapinoe 3 Steph Houghton 3 Yūki Ōgimi 3 9 Élodie Thomis 2  Cristiane 2 Kim Song-hui 2 Nilla Fischer 2 Lotta Schelin 2  Marta 2 Laura Georges 2 Marie-Laure Delie 2 Wendie Renard 2 18th Marie Hammarström 1 Shinobu Ōno 1

rank Player Gates 18th Sofia Jakobsson 1  Francielle 1 Aya Miyama 1 Diana Matheson 1 Camille Catala 1 Sydney Leroux 1 Eugénie Le Sommer 1 Portia Modise 1 Gabrielle Onguéné 1 Jonelle Filigno 1 Lisa Dahlkvist 1 Sarah Gregorius 1 Casey Stoney 1 Jill Scott 1 Rebecca Smith 1  Renata Costa 1 Mizuho Sakaguchi 1 Nahomi Kawasumi 1 Gaëtane Thiney 1 ET Ysis Sonkeng 1

Note: Sorting with the same number of goals according to the number of assists and time played.

Trivia

• The Brazilian player Formiga is the only participant who has taken part in all of the women's Olympic football tournaments since 1996. She has also played the most games (24).
• The Brazilian player Cristiane scored her 11th goal at the Olympic Games with a 4-0 to 5-0 victory in the first game against Cameroon and thus became the sole record holder (previously together with Birgit Prinz ). In the game against New Zealand, she improved the record to twelve goals.
• During the match between Colombia and North Korea, the South Korean flag was accidentally shown on the video wall during the team presentation, causing the North Korean players to leave the pitch. Only after an apology from the Olympic organizers was the game able to start one hour late.
• The 0: 5 against France is the biggest defeat in North Korea's international game history.
• With their three wins in the preliminary round and three wins in the knockout round, the USA have extended Norway's previous record of six wins in a row between 2000 and 2008 to eleven wins in a row since 2008. The USA's last defeat took place on August 6, 2008 against Norway.
• With 70,584 spectators, the match between Great Britain and Brazil was the highest number of spectators in a match for a British women's team. The old record was set on December 26, 1920 when 53,000 fans came to Liverpool's Goodison Park to watch a game between Dick Kerr Ladies and St. Helen's.
• With the USA winning the quarter-finals, Pia Sundhage is the coach with the most wins with nine wins - the team she supervises. April Heinrichs held the record with eight wins (also in the USA between 2000 and 2004). By winning the final, the record was increased to eleven games.
• For the first time, the finalists of the last world championship faced each other in the final, but again the world champion could not win the gold medal.
• Christie Rampone is the first player to stand in four Olympic finals and, along with Shannon Boxx and Heather O'Reilly (2012 without a final), the first player to win three gold medals. Rampone also won the silver medal in Sydney .
• Bibiana Steinhaus is the first female referee to lead both a World Cup final and the final at the Olympic Games. For men, this was previously achieved by William Ling ( 1948 and 1954 ) and Pierluigi Collina ( 1996 and 2002 ) in reverse order and with a greater time gap.
• With Christine Sinclair , a player with more than five goals became the top scorer for the first time.
• The USA set a new record for the women's tournament with 16 goals. In 2004 , Brazil set the previous record of 15 goals .

referee

referee  Felix Brych  Yūichi Nishimura  Roberto García Orozco  Mark Geiger  Svein Oddvar Moen  Ben Williams  Bakary Gassama  Slim Jedidi  Raúl Orosco  Wilmar Roldán  Juan Soto  Peter O'Leary  Mark Clattenburg  Pavel Královec  Gianluca Rocchi  Ravshan Ermatov

Referees  Bibiana stone house  Sachiko Yamagishi  Quetzalli Alvarado  Kari Seitz  Christina Pedersen  Carol Chenard  Jesica Di Iorio  Kirsi Heikkinen  Thalia Mitsi  Jenny Palmqvist  Hong Eun Ah  Thérèse Neguel

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ “Football Schedule” (PDF; 2.6 MB) London 2012 website. Accessed February 15, 2011. (English).
3. ↑ Regulations for the Olympic Football Tournaments London 2012 (PDF; 490 kB).
4. ↑ AFC “2012 Olympics qualifying draw results” website. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
5. ↑ FIFA.com: Korea Republic buys Olympic ticket .
6. ↑ Japan and UAE in London .
7. ↑ FIFA.com: 15 teams dream of gold, two of London .
8. ↑ FIFA.com: Senegal cheers and books Olympic ticket .
9. ↑ “Olympic qualifying” ( memento of the original from October 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. CONCACAF website. Retrieved February 13, 2011. (English). 
10. ↑ FIFA.com: Mexico and Honduras book London tickets .
11. ↑ ^{a b} FIFA.com: London 2012 Olympic Football Tournaments / Qualifying .
12. ^ "British Football Team for 2012" website for WorldFootballInsider magazine. Retrieved August 26, 2010. (English).
13. ↑ FIFA.com: London 2012 Women's Olympic Football Tournament / Qualification .
14. ↑ Tournament schedule of the OFC qualification tournament .
15. ↑ ^{a b} FIFA.com: The draw shows the way to gold .
16. ↑ FIFA.com: London 2012 Olympic Football Tournaments - Statistics - Players - Most goals
17. ^ "Endgame" in Cardiff: Brits fear their own fans on Sportschau.de
18. ↑ ^{a b} FIFA.com: Stars in a brilliant mood - Spain out .
19. ↑ FIFA.com: Egypt-Hungary Match Report .
20. ↑ FIFA.com: Swiss exclude footballers .
21. ↑ FIFA.com: Statistics for the day August 12, 2012 (accessed on August 13, 2012)
22. ^ Road for Asian women's teams to London Olympics. AFC, February 8, 2011, accessed February 13, 2011 . 
23. ↑ Five nations dream of London. FIFA, March 28, 2011, accessed June 20, 2012 . 
24. ↑ Headscarves are taboo for FIFA. Kleine Zeitung , June 7, 2011, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 . 
25. ↑ qualification. FIFA, accessed June 20, 2012 . 
26. ↑ Olympic qualifying, Pan Ams berths allocated. (No longer available online.) CONCACAF, October 13, 2010, archived from the original on October 17, 2010 ; accessed on June 20, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
27. ↑ Dominicans reach CONCACAF women's finals. (No longer available online.) CONCACAF, July 9, 2011, archived from the original on August 17, 2011 ; accessed on June 20, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
28. ↑ Women's Olympic Qualifying CONCACAF 2012. (No longer available online.) CONCACAF, archived from the original on August 1, 2012 ; accessed on June 20, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
29. ↑ Tournament schedule Oceania qualification ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
30. ↑ oceaniafootball.com: Papua New Guinea 0 - 7 New Zealand ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
31. ↑ FIFA.com: London 2012 Olympic Football Tournaments - Statistics - Players - Most goals
32. ↑ FIFA.com: Statistics of the Day (accessed July 26, 2012) .
33. ↑ spiegel.de: Embarrassing confusion of South Korea's flag for North Korea's soccer women .
34. ↑ FIFA.com: The quarter-finals have been decided .
35. ↑ FIFA.com: Statistics of the day (accessed August 4, 2012)

Web links

Commons : Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of FIFA for the men's tournament
• Official website of FIFA for women's tournament
• Official website of the Olympic Games for the tournament
• fifa.com: Great football in Great Britain