Tourney Name: | Women's Olympic Football Tournament |
Year: | 2024 |
Size: | 150 |
Country: | France |
Num Teams: | 12 |
Confederations: | 6 |
Venues: | 7 |
Cities: | 7 |
Count: | 5 |
Matches: | 26 |
Goals: | 76 |
Top Scorer: | Marie-Antoinette Katoto |
Prevseason: | 2020 |
Nextseason: | 2028 |
The women's football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 25 July to 10 August 2024.[1] It was the eighth edition of the women's Olympic football tournament. Together with the men's competition, the 2024 Summer Olympics football tournament was held at seven stadiums in seven cities in France.
The United States won a record-extending fifth gold medal, and their first since 2012, defeating Brazil 1–0 in the final, held at Parc des Princes in Paris.[2]
The schedule was as follows.[3]
Thu 25 | Fri 26 | Sat 27 | Sun 28 | Mon 29 | Tue 30 | Wed 31 | Thu 1 | Fri 2 | Sat 3 | Sun 4 | Mon 5 | Tue 6 | Wed 7 | Thu 8 | Fri 9 | Sat 10 | |
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GS | GS | GS | QF | SF | B | F |
See main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification.
In addition to host nation France, eleven women's national teams qualified from six separate continental confederations. The Organising Committee for FIFA Competitions ratified the distribution of spots at their meeting on 24 February 2022.[4]
Sweden, runners-up of the 2016 and 2020 Olympic tournaments, failed to qualify for the 2024 tournament after being eliminated in the group stage of the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League.
Marseille | Décines-Charpieu (Lyon Area) | Paris | |
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Stade de Marseille | Stade de Lyon | Parc des Princes | |
Capacity: 67,394 | Capacity: 59,186 | Capacity: 47,929 | |
Bordeaux | |||
Stade de Bordeaux | |||
Capacity: 42,115 | |||
Saint-Étienne | Nice | Nantes | |
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard | Stade de Nice | Stade de la Beaujoire | |
Capacity: 41,965 | Capacity: 36,178 | Capacity: 35,322 | |
See main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's team squads.
The women's tournament was a full international tournament with no restrictions on age. Each team had to submit a squad of 18 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers. Each team could also name a list of four alternate players, who could replace any player in the squad in case of injury during the tournament.[5]
On 3 April 2024, FIFA released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympic Games.[6]
Confederation | Referee | Assistant referees |
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AFC | Yoshimi Yamashita (Japan) | Makoto Bozono (Japan) Naomi Teshirogi (Japan) |
Kim Yu-jeong (South Korea) | Joanna Charaktis (Australia) Park Mi-suk (South Korea) | |
CAF | Bouchra Karboubi (Morocco) | Fatiha Jermoumi (Morocco) Diana Chikotesha (Zambia) |
CONCACAF | Katia García (Mexico) | Karen Díaz (Mexico) Sandra Ramírez (Mexico) |
Tori Penso (United States) | Brooke Mayo (United States) Kathryn Nesbitt (United States) | |
CONMEBOL | Edina Alves Batista (Brazil) | Neuza Back (Brazil) Fabrini Bevilaqua (Brazil) |
Emikar Calderas (Venezuela) | Mary Blanco (Colombia) Migdalia Rodríguez (Venezuela) | |
UEFA | Rebecca Welch (Great Britain) | Emily Carney (Great Britain) Franca Overtoom (Netherlands) |
Tess Olofsson (Sweden) | Francesca Di Monte (Italy) Almira Spahić (Sweden) |
Confederation | Referee |
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AFC | Veronika Bernatskaia (Kyrgyzstan) |
CAF | Shamirah Nabadda (Uganda) |
CONCACAF | Odette Hamilton (Jamaica) |
CONMEBOL | Anahí Fernández (Uruguay) |
UEFA | Frida Klarlund (Denmark) |
Jelena Cvetković (Serbia) |
Confederation | Video assistant referee | |
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Male officials | ||
AFC | Khamis Al-Marri (Qatar) | |
Sivakorn Pu-udom (Thailand) | ||
CAF | Lahlou Benbraham (Algeria) | |
Mahmoud Ashour (Egypt) | ||
CONCACAF | Daneon Parchment (Jamaica) | |
Guillermo Pacheco (Mexico) | ||
CONMEBOL | Héctor Paletta (Argentina) | |
Rodrigo Carvajal (Chile) | ||
Leodán González (Uruguay) | ||
UEFA | Ivan Bebek (Croatia) | |
David Coote (Great Britain) | ||
Jérôme Brisard (France) | ||
Paolo Valeri (Italy) | ||
Rob Dieperink (Netherlands) | ||
Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania) | ||
Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain) | ||
Female officials | ||
AFC | Kate Jacewicz (Australia) | |
CONCACAF | Tatiana Guzmán (Nicaragua) | |
CONMEBOL | Daiane Muniz (Brazil) | |
UEFA | Katalin Kulcsár (Hungary) |
The draw for the tournament was held on 20 March 2024, 20:00 CET (UTC+1), at the Pulse building in Saint-Denis, France.[7] [8]
The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four teams. The hosts France were automatically seeded into Pot 1 and assigned to position A1 while the remaining teams were seeded into their respective pots based on the FIFA Women's World Ranking released on 15 March 2024 (shown in parentheses below). No group could contain more than one team from each confederation.
NotesThe competing countries were divided into three groups of four teams, denoted as groups A, B, and C. Teams in each group played one another in a round-robin basis, with the top two teams of each group and the two best third-placed teams advancing to the quarter-finals.
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).[9]
The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:[5]
See main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament – Group A. --------
See main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament – Group B. --------
See main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament – Group C. --------
See main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament – Knockout stage.
In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of regulation time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each), and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.[5]
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See main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament final.