Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

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2004 Women's Olympic Football Tournament
Tournament details
Host countryGreece
Dates11–26 August
Teams10 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions United States (2nd title)
Runners-up Brazil
Third place Germany
Fourth place Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played20
Goals scored55 (2.75 per match)
Attendance208,637 (10,432 per match)
Top scorer(s)Brazil Cristiane
Germany Birgit Prinz
(5 goals each)
Fair play award Japan
 Sweden
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Women's Olympic Football tournament was held for the third time at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[1][2] The tournament featured 10 women's national teams from six continental confederations. The 10 teams were drawn into two groups of three and one group of four and each group played a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top teams from each group advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at Karaiskakis Stadium on 26 August 2004.

Qualification[edit]

Main article: Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

Several qualification tournaments were held to determine the participating nations.[3]

Venues[edit]

Further information: Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics § Venues

The tournament was held in five venues across five cities:

Seeding[edit]

Originally, the tournament was planned to form two groups of five teams in the group stage, then play a knockout stage by four teams (two top teams in each group).[4] The format is later changed: the tournament is to form three groups of three or four teams in the group stage, then play a knockout stage by eight teams (two top teams in each group and two best third-placed teams from three groups).[5]

Pot 1: Europe Pot 2: Americas Pot 3: Rest of the World

Squads[edit]

Main article: Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's team squads

Match officials[edit]

Group stage[edit]

Competing countries were divided into three groups: two containing three teams (groups E and F) and one containing four teams (group G). Teams in each group played one another in a round-robin. The top two teams of each group advanced to the knockout stage, along with the third-placed team from the four-team group (group G) and the better-ranked third-placed team from the three-team groups (groups E and F).

Key:

  • Teams highlighted in green went through to the knockout stages.

Group E[edit]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Sweden 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3 Qualified for the quarterfinals
2  Nigeria 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3
3  Japan 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 3
Source: [citation needed]
Sweden 0–1 Japan
Report Arakawa 24'
Attendance: 10.104
Referee: Gaye (Senegal)
Japan 0–1 Nigeria
Report Okolo 55'
Attendance: 14.126
Sweden 2–1 Nigeria
Marklund 68'
Moström 73'		 Report Akide 25'
Attendance: 21.597
Referee: de Oliveira (Brazil)

Group F[edit]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Germany 2 2 0 0 10 0 +10 6 Qualified for the quarterfinals
2  Mexico 2 0 1 1 1 3 −2 1
3  China 2 0 1 1 1 9 −8 1
Source: [citation needed]
Germany 8–0 China
Prinz 13', 21', 73', 88'
Wunderlich 65'
Lingor 76' (pen.)
Pohlers 82'
Müller 90'		 Report
Attendance: 14.657
Referee: Seitz (United States)
China 1–1 Mexico
Ji 34' Report Domínguez 11'
Attendance: 5.112
Referee: Ionescu (Romania)
Germany 2–0 Mexico
Wimbersky 20'
Prinz 79'		 Report
Attendance: 26.338
Referee: Szokolai (Australia)

Group G[edit]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  United States 3 2 1 0 6 1 +5 7 Qualified for the quarterfinals
2  Brazil 3 2 0 1 8 2 +6 6
3  Australia 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 4
4  Greece 3 0 0 3 0 11 −11 0
Source: [citation needed]
Greece 0–3 United States
Report Boxx 14'
Wambach 30'
Hamm 82'
Attendance: 15.757
Referee: Palmqvist (Sweden)
Brazil 1–0 Australia
Marta 36' Report
Attendance: 25.152
Greece 0–1 Australia
Report Garriock 27'
Attendance: 8.857
Referee: D'Coth (India)
United States 2–0 Brazil
Hamm 58' (pen.)
Wambach 77'		 Report
Attendance: 17.123
Greece 0–7 Brazil
Report Pretinha 21'
Cristiane 46', 55', 77'
Grazielle 49'
Marta 70'
Daniela 72'
Attendance: 7.214
Referee: Frai (Germany)
United States 1–1 Australia
Lilly 19' Report Peters 82'
Attendance: 3.320
Referee: Ionescu (Romania)

Ranking of third-placed teams from groups of three[edit]

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Japan 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 3
 China 2 0 1 1 1 9 −8 1
Source: [citation needed]

Knockout stage[edit]

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
20 August – Patras
 
 
 Germany2
 
23 August – Heraklio
 
 Nigeria1
 
 Germany1
 
20 August – Thessaloniki
 
 United States2
 
 United States2
 
26 August – Athens
 
 Japan1
 
 United States2
 
20 August – Heraklio
 
 Brazil1
 
 Mexico0
 
23 August – Patras
 
 Brazil5
 
 Sweden0
 
20 August – Volos
 
 Brazil1 Bronze medal match
 
 Sweden2
 
26 August – Athens
 
 Australia1
 
 Germany1
 
 
 Sweden0
 

Quarter-finals[edit]

Germany 2–1 Nigeria
Jones 76'
Pohlers 81'		 Report Akide 49'
Attendance: 2.531
Referee: D'Coth (India)
United States 2–1 Japan
Lilly 43'
Wambach 59'		 Report Yamamoto 48'
Attendance: 1.418
Referee: de Oliveira (Brazil)
Mexico 0–5 Brazil
Report Cristiane 25', 49'
Formiga 29', 54'
Marta 60'
Attendance: 3.012
Referee: Gaye (Senegal)
Sweden 2–1 Australia
Ljungberg 25'
Larsson 30'		 Report De Vanna 48'
Attendance: 4.811

Semi-finals[edit]

United States 2–1 (a.e.t.) Germany
Lilly 33'
O'Reilly 99'		 Report Bachor 90+2'
Attendance: 5.165
Referee: Szokolai (Australia)
Brazil 1–0 Sweden
Pretinha 64' Report
Attendance: 1.511

Bronze medal match[edit]

Germany 1–0 Sweden
Lingor 17' Report
Attendance: 10,416

Gold medal match[edit]

United States 2–1 (a.e.t.) Brazil
Tarpley 39'
Wambach 112'		 Report Pretinha 73'
Attendance: 10,416

Statistics[edit]

Goalscorers[edit]

There were 55 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 2.75 goals per match. Cristiane of Brazil and Birgit Prinz of Germany finished as the top scorers of the tournament, with each scoring five goals.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Source: FIFA[3]

Assists[edit]

3 assists

2 assists

1 assist

Source: FIFA[3]

FIFA Fair Play Award[edit]

Japan and Sweden won the FIFA Fair Play Award, given to the team with the best record of fair play during the tournament. Every match in the final competition is taken into account but only teams that played at least three matches are eligible for the Fair Play Award.[3]

Pos Team Pts
1  Japan 857
 Sweden 857
3  Australia 843
4  China 815
5  Germany 811
6  Nigeria 781
7  Brazil 772
8  United States 762
9  Greece 752
10  Mexico 686

Tournament ranking[edit]

Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Final result
1 G  United States 6 5 1 0 12 4 +8 16 Gold medal
2 G  Brazil 6 4 0 2 15 4 +11 12 Silver medal
3 F  Germany 5 4 0 1 14 3 +11 12 Bronze medal
4 E  Sweden 5 2 0 3 4 5 −1 6 Fourth place
5 G  Australia 4 1 1 2 3 4 −1 4 Eliminated in
quarter-finals
6 E  Nigeria 3 1 0 2 3 4 −1 3
7 E  Japan 3 1 0 2 2 3 −1 3
8 F  Mexico 3 0 1 2 1 8 −7 1
9 F  China 2 0 1 1 1 9 −8 1 Eliminated in
group stage
10 G  Greece (H) 3 0 0 3 0 11 −11 0
Source: FIFA[3]
(H) Hosts

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Palmqvist was replaced by Dianne Ferreira-James (Guyana) after 90 minutes due to dehydration.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "SI.com – Wambach gives U.S. veterans golden parting gift in extra time – Thursday August 26, 2004 7:26PM". Sportsillustrated.cnn.com. 26 August 2004. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  2. ^ "SI.com – Writers – Michael Silver: Fitting farewell for U.S. soccer's Fab Five – Friday August 27, 2004 2:55PM". Sportsillustrated.cnn.com. 27 August 2004. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  3. ^ a b c d e Report and Statistics – Olympic Football Tournaments Athens 2004 (PDF). Zürich. 2004. Retrieved 5 February 2021. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ "Regulations of the Olympic Football Tournaments Games of the XXVIIIth Olympiad Athens 2004" (PDF). FIFA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 July 2004. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Olympic Football Tournaments: FIFA Emergency Committee approves venue and kick-off time for men's Final as well as format for women's competition". FIFA. 28 July 2003. Archived from the original on 20 April 2004. Retrieved 3 February 2017.

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