Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
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| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | United States |
| Dates | July 21 – August 1 |
| Teams | 8 (from 4 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 5 (in 5 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  United States[1] (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  China PR |
| Third place |  Norway |
| Fourth place |  Brazil |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 16 |
| Goals scored | 53 (3.31 per match) |
| Attendance | 691,762 (43,235 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Ann Kristin Aarønes Linda Medalen Pretinha (4 goals) |
The 1996 Summer Olympics—based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States—marked the first time that women participated in the Olympic association football tournament.[2][3] The tournament featured eight women's national teams from four continental confederations. The teams were drawn into two groups of four and each group played a round-robin tournament (which was held in Miami, Orlando, Birmingham and Washington, D.C.). At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage (which was held at Sanford Stadium), beginning with the semi-finals and culminating with the gold medal match on August 1, 1996.
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Contents
1 Competition schedule
2 Qualification
3 Venues
4 Squads
5 Match officials
6 Preliminary round
6.1 Group E
6.2 Group F
7 Knockout stage
7.1 Semi finals
7.2 Bronze medal match
7.3 Gold medal match
8 FIFA Fair play award
9 Goalscorers
10 Final ranking
11 References
12 External links
Competition schedule
| G | Group stage | ½ | Semifinals | B | 3rd place play-off | F | Final |
| Sun 21 | Mon 22 | Tue 23 | Wed 24 | Thu 25 | Fri 26 | Sat 27 | Sun 28 | Mon 29 | Tue 30 | Wed 31 | Thu 1 | |
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| G | G | G | ½ | B | F | |||||||
Qualification
Since there was no time to hold a qualifying tournament, the eight best teams at the Women's World Cup in 1995 were automatically selected for the Olympic tournament (which meant no teams from Africa or Oceania could take part in this tournament). The only exception was the inclusion of Brazil in place of England (who, under the regulations of the International Olympic Committee are ineligible).
The following eight teams qualified for the 1996 Olympics football tournament:
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Venues
The tournament was held in five venues across five cities:
Sanford Stadium, Athens
Legion Field, Birmingham
Orange Bowl, Miami
Citrus Bowl, Orlando
RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.
Squads
Match officials
North and Central America
South America
| Europe
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Preliminary round
Group E
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | China PR | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 7 | Semi-finals |
| 2 | United States (H) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 7 | |
| 3 |  Sweden | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 | |
| 4 |  Denmark | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | −9 | 0 |
Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host.
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host.
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21 July 1996 (1996-07-21)
16:00
| United States | 3–0 | Denmark |
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Venturini  37'Hamm 41'Milbrett 49' | Report (FIFA) |
Citrus Bowl, Orlando
Attendance: 25,303[4]
Referee: Cláudia de Vasconcellos (Brazil)
21 July 1996 (1996-07-21)
16:00
| Sweden | 0–2 | China PR |
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| Report (FIFA) | Shi Guihong 31'Zhao Lihong 32' |
Orange Bowl, Miami
Attendance: 46,724[5]
Referee: Gamal Al-Ghandour (Egypt)
23 July 1996 (1996-07-23)
18:00
| United States | 2–1 | Sweden |
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Venturini 15'MacMillan 62' | Report (FIFA) | Overbeck 64' (o.g.) |
Citrus Bowl, Orlando
Attendance: 28,000[6]
Referee: Bente Ovedie Skogvang (Norway)
23 July 1996 (1996-07-23)
16:00
| Denmark | 1–5 | China PR |
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Madsen 55' | Report (FIFA) | Shi Guihong 10'Liu Ailing 49'Sun Qingmei 29', 59'Fan Yunjie 36' |
Orange Bowl, Miami
Attendance: 34,871[7]
Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)
25 July 1996 (1996-07-25)
18:30
| United States | 0–0 | China PR |
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| Report (FIFA) |
Orange Bowl, Miami
Attendance: 55,650[8]
Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)
25 July 1996 (1996-07-25)
18:30
| Denmark | 1–3 | Sweden |
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Jensen 90' | Report (FIFA) | Swedberg 62', 68'Videkull 76' |
Citrus Bowl, Orlando
Attendance: 17,020[9]
Referee: Cláudia de Vasconcellos (Brazil)
Group F
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1. | Norway | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 7 |
| 2. | Brazil | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 5 |
| 3. |  Germany | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 |
| 4. |  Japan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 0 |
Knockout stage
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| July 28 – Athens, Georgia | ||||||
| China PR | 3 | |||||
| August 1 – Athens | ||||||
| Brazil | 2 | |||||
| China PR | 1 | |||||
| July 28 – Athens, Georgia | ||||||
| United States | 2 | |||||
| Norway | 1 | |||||
| United States (AET) | 2 | |||||
| Third place | ||||||
| August 1 – Athens | ||||||
| Brazil | 0 | |||||
| Norway | 2 | |||||
Semi finals
28 July 1996
| China PR | 3–2 | Brazil |
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Qingmei 5' Haiying 83' 90' | Report | Roseli 67'Pretinha 72' |
Sanford Stadium, Athens, Georgia
Attendance: 64,196
Referee: Ingrid Jonsson (Sweden)
28 July 1996
| Norway | 1–2 (a.e.t) | United States |
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Medalen 18' | Report | Akers 76(pen)'MacMillan 100(g.g)' |
Sanford Stadium, Athens, Georgia
Attendance: 64,196
Referee: Sonia Denoncourt (Canada)
Bronze medal match
1 August 1996
| Brazil | 0–2 | Norway |
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| Report | Aarønes 21' 25' |
Sanford Stadium, Athens, Georgia
Attendance: 76,489
Referee: Ingrid Jonsson (Sweden)
Gold medal match
1 August 1996
| China PR | 1–2 | United States |
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Wen 32' | Report | MacMillan 19'MacMillanTiffany Milbrett 68' |
Sanford Stadium, Athens, Georgia
Attendance: 76,489
Referee: Bente Ovedie Skogvang (Norway)
FIFA Fair play award
United States
Goalscorers
With four goals, Pretinha of Brazil, Ann Kristin Aarønes and Linda Medalen of Norway are the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 53 goals were scored by 33 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.
4 goals
Pretinha
Ann Kristin Aarønes- Linda Medalen
3 goals
Sun Qingmei- Shannon MacMillan
2 goals
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Own goals
Yumi Tomei (playing against Germany)- Carla Overbeck (playing against Sweden)
Final ranking
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 |  United States (USA) | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 13 |
| 2 |  China (CHN) | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 10 |
| 3 |  Norway (NOR) | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 10 |
| 4 | Brazil (BRA) | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | –1 | 5 |
| 5 |  Germany (GER) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 |  Sweden (SWE) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | –1 | 3 |
| 7 | Japan (JPN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | –7 | 0 |
| 8 |  Denmark (DEN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | –9 | 0 |
References
^ "U.S. Women's Soccer Team Wins Gold". WashingtonPost.com. August 2, 1996. Retrieved August 1, 2012..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ GEORGE VECSEYPublished: August 2, 1996 (August 2, 1996). "Women's Soccer: 76,481 Fans, 1 U.S. Gold - New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved November 1, 2012.
^ "Women Sports Get a Boost - New York Times". Nytimes.com. September 20, 1993. Retrieved September 17, 2012.
^ "USA - Denmark". FIFA. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
^ "Sweden - China PR". FIFA. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
^ "USA - Sweden". FIFA. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
^ "Denmark - China PR". FIFA. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
^ "USA - China PR". FIFA. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
^ "Denmark - Sweden". FIFA. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
External links
Olympic Football Tournaments Atlanta 1996 - Women, FIFA.com- RSSSF Summary
FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)
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