Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament facts for kids

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2024 Women's Olympic Football Tournament

Tournament details
Host country	France
Dates	25 July – 10 August
Teams	12 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	7 (in 7 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	United States (5th title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	Germany
Fourth place	Spain
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	76 (2.92 per match)
Attendance	398,699 (15,335 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Marie-Antoinette Katoto (5 goals)
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The women's football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 25 July to 10 August 2024. 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.

Canada were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Germany in the quarter-finals.

Schedule

The schedule was as follows.

Legend

G

Group stage

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Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

B

Bronze medal match

F

Gold medal match

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
GS			GS			GS			QF			SF			B	F

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. Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

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 UEFA Women's Nations League.

Venues

Marseille	Décines-Charpieu (Lyon area)	Paris
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

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.

Match officials

On 3 April 2024, FIFA released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympic Games.

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held on 20 March 2024, 20:00 CET (UTC+1), at the Pulse building in Saint-Denis, France.

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 Rankings released on 15 March 2024 (shown in parentheses below). No group could contain more than one team from each confederation.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
France (3) (assigned to A1)  Spain (1)  United States (4)	Germany (5)  Japan (7)  Canada (9)	Brazil (10)  Australia (12)  Colombia (23)	New Zealand (28)  Nigeria (36)  Zambia (65)

Notes

Group stage

The 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).

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:

1. Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat);
2. Goal difference in all group matches;
3. Number of goals scored in all group matches;
4. Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
5. Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
6. Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
7. Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):
   • Yellow card: −1 point;
   • Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
   • Direct red card: −4 points;
   • Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
8. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts

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Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts

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Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts

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.

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	3 August – Nantes
	France	0
					6 August – Marseille
	Brazil	1
					Brazil	4
	3 August – Décines-Charpieu
					Spain	2
	Spain (p)	2 (4)
									10 August – Paris
	Colombia	2 (2)
									Brazil	0
	3 August – Paris
									United States	1
	United States (aet)	1
					6 August – Décines-Charpieu
	Japan	0
					United States (aet)	1
	3 August – Marseille
					Germany	0			Bronze medal match
	Canada	0 (2)
									9 August – Décines-Charpieu
	Germany (p)	0 (4)
									Spain	0
									Germany	1

Quarter-finals

3 August 2024 (2024-08-03) 15:00	United States	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Japan	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 43,004 Referee: Tess Olofsson (Sweden)
	Rodman  105+2'

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3 August 2024 (2024-08-03) 17:00	Spain	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Colombia	Stade de Lyon, Décines-Charpieu Attendance: 10,355 Referee: Katia García (Mexico)
	Hermoso  79' Paredes  90+7'		Ramírez  12' Santos  52'
		Penalties
	*Caldentey Navarro Paralluelo Bonmatí	4–2	* Usme Vanegas Salazar Carabalí

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3 August 2024 (2024-08-03) 19:00	Canada	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Germany	Stade de Marseille, Marseille Attendance: 12,517 Referee: Edina Alves Batista (Brazil)
		Penalties
	*Quinn Lawrence Leon Beckie	2–4	* Gwinn Minge Lohmann Rauch Berger

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3 August 2024 (2024-08-03) 21:00	France	0–1	Brazil	Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes Attendance: 32,280 Referee: Tori Penso (United States)
			Gabi Portilho  82'

Semi-finals

6 August 2024 (2024-08-06) 18:00	United States	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Germany	Stade de Lyon, Décines-Charpieu Attendance: 11,716 Referee: Bouchra Karboubi (Morocco)
	Smith  95'

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6 August 2024 (2024-08-06) 21:00	Brazil	4–2	Spain	Stade de Marseille, Marseille Attendance: 14,201 Referee: Rebecca Welch (Great Britain)
	Paredes  6' (o.g.) Gabi Portilho  45+4' Adriana  71' Kerolin  90+1'		Duda Sampaio  85' (o.g.) Paralluelo  90+12'

Bronze medal match

9 August 2024 (2024-08-09) 15:00	Spain	0–1	Germany	Stade de Lyon, Décines-Charpieu Attendance: 10,995 Referee: Katia García (Mexico)
			Gwinn  65' (pen.)

Gold medal match

Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament final

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 76 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.92 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Final ranking

As 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	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	United States	6	6	0	0	12	2	+10	18	Gold medal
2	Brazil	6	3	0	3	7	7	0	9	Silver medal
3	Germany	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10	Bronze medal
4	Spain	6	3	1	2	9	8	+1	10	Fourth place
5	Japan	4	2	0	2	6	5	+1	6	Eliminated in quarter-finals
6	France (H)	4	2	0	2	6	6	0	6
7	Canada	4	3	1	0	5	2	+3	4
8	Colombia	4	1	1	2	6	6	0	4
9	Australia	3	1	0	2	7	10	−3	3	Eliminated in group stage
10	New Zealand	3	0	0	3	2	6	−4	0
11	Nigeria	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0
12	Zambia	3	0	0	3	6	13	−7	0

See also

In Spanish: Torneo femenino de fútbol en los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024 para niños

• Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament