Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
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.
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Greece |
Dates | 11–26 August |
Teams | 10 (from 6 confederations) |
Final positions | |
Champions | |
Runners-up | |
Third place | |
Fourth place | |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 20 |
Goals scored | 55 (2.75 per match) |
Attendance | 208,637 (10,432 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | |
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Qualification | ||
men | women | |
Tournament | ||
men | women | |
Squads | ||
men | women | |
Qualification
Several qualification tournaments were held to determine the participating nations.[3][4]
Seeding
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).[5] 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).[6]
Pot 1: Europe | Pot 2: Americas | Pot 3: Rest of the World |
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Squads
Final tournament
Key:
- Teams highlighted in green went through to the knockout stages.
First round
Group E
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Group F
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | +10 | 6 | |
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 1 | |
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | −8 | 1 |
Germany | 8–0 | |
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Prinz Wunderlich Lingor Pohlers Müller |
Report |
Group G
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 7 | |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 6 | |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 | −11 | 0 |
United States | 1–1 | |
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Lilly |
Report | Peters |
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
20 August – Patras | ||||||||||
2 | ||||||||||
23 August – Heraklio | ||||||||||
1 | ||||||||||
1 | ||||||||||
20 August – Thessaloniki | ||||||||||
2 | ||||||||||
2 | ||||||||||
26 August – Athens | ||||||||||
1 | ||||||||||
2 | ||||||||||
20 August – Heraklio | ||||||||||
1 | ||||||||||
0 | ||||||||||
23 August – Patras | ||||||||||
5 | ||||||||||
0 | ||||||||||
20 August – Volos | ||||||||||
1 | Bronze medal match | |||||||||
2 | ||||||||||
26 August – Athens | ||||||||||
1 | ||||||||||
1 | ||||||||||
0 | ||||||||||
Quarter-finals
Gold Medal match
United States | 2–1 (a.e.t.) | |
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Tarpley Wambach |
Report | Pretinha |
Final ranking
Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 16 | |
2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 4 | +11 | 12 | |
3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 3 | +11 | 12 | |
4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 6 | |
5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 | |
6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 3 | |
7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 | |
8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | −7 | 1 | |
9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | −8 | 1 | |
10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 | −11 | 0 |
Statistics
Goalscorers
With five goals, Cristiane of Brazil and Birgit Prinz of Germany are the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 55 goals were scored by 33 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
- 5 goals
Cristiane Birgit Prinz
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
Marta Pretinha Kristine Lilly
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
References
- "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.
- "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.
- FIFA report, page 132.
- "Olympic Football Tournaments Athens 2004" (PDF). FIFA. p. 132. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- "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.
- "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.
- Palmqvist was replaced by Dianne Ferreira-James (Guyana) after 90 minutes due to dehydration