Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Qualification

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

Several qualification tournaments were held to determine the participating nations.

Venues

The tournament was held in five venues across five cities:

• Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
• Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion
• Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras
• Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki
• Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos

Seeding

As the another sports, the tournament was originally 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). Due to logistical and calendar issues, the tournament format had to be changed.FIFA decided 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).

Squads

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

Match officials

Group stage

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

Moström

Group F

Wunderlich Lingor
Pohlers Müller

Prinz

Group G

Wambach
Hamm

Wambach

Cristiane
Grazielle
Marta
Daniela

Ranking of third-placed teams from groups of three

Knockout stage

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Quarter-finals

Pohlers Wambach Formiga
Marta Larsson

Semi-finals

O'Reilly

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Wambach

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Statistics

Goalscorers

• Cristiane

• Birgit Prinz

• Abby Wambach

• Marta

• Pretinha

• Kristine Lilly

• Formiga

• Renate Lingor

• Conny Pohlers

• Mercy Akide

• Mia Hamm

• Lisa De Vanna

• Heather Garriock

• Joanne Peters

• Daniela

• Grazielle

• Ji Ting

• Isabell Bachor

• Steffi Jones

• Martina Müller

• Petra Wimbersky

• Pia Wunderlich

• Eriko Arakawa

• Emi Yamamoto

• Maribel Domínguez

• Vera Okolo

• Sara Larsson

• Hanna Ljungberg

• Hanna Marklund

• Malin Moström

• Shannon Boxx

• Heather O'Reilly

• Lindsay Tarpley

Assists

• Renate Lingor

• Kerstin Stegemann

• Perpetua Nkwocha

• Formiga

• Grazielle

• Marta

• Pretinha

• Rosana

• Martina Müller

• Conny Pohlers

• Victoria Svensson

• Mia Hamm

• Heather Garriock

• Sarah Walsh

• Cristiane

• Daniela

• Maycon

• Qu Feifei

• Sonja Fuss

• Birgit Prinz

• Pia Wunderlich

• Mio Otani

• Kristin Bengtsson

• Malin Moström

• Shannon Boxx

• Julie Foudy

• Kristine Lilly

• Kate Markgraf

• Abby Wambach

FIFA Fair Play Award

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.

Tournament ranking

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.

quarter-finals group stage

Notes

References

References

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