Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

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The qualification for women's football tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Qualifications

A total of twelve teams will participate in the finals of the Olympic tournament for women. These finalists were:

Confederation/Region Berths Qualified Teams
Host nation (automatically qualified) 1
UEFA (Europe) 3
CONMEBOL (South America) 1
CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean) 2
CAF (Africa) 1
AFC (Asia) 2
OFC (Oceania) 1
CONMEBOL–CAF play-off play-off 1

AFC

China was automatically qualified for the Olympics as host.

First round

Japan and North Korea received bye for the final round. Other 12 teams are divided into 3 groups, where top two teams in each group would advance to the final round.

Group A was played as a knockout tournament of two-legged (Home&Away) matches. Each of Group B and Group C was played as a single round robin.

Group A

First leg played on 17 February 2007. Second leg played on 25 February 2007.

Team 1 Agg Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Hong Kong   Jordan*
South Korea  8–0  India 5–0 3–0

Hong Kong through to the final after Jordan withdrew from the tournament. The final first and second leg played on 10 March 2007 and 18 March 2007 respectively.

Team 1 Agg Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Hong Kong  3–2  South Korea 2–2 1–0
Group B

All matches were held at Thai-Japanese Stadium (Bangkok, Thailand).

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
 Thailand (host) 9 3 3 0 0 15 0 +15
 Vietnam 6 3 2 0 1 8 1 +7
 Singapore 3 3 1 0 2 6 8 −2
 Maldives 0 3 0 0 3 0 20 −20
19 February 2007 (2007-02-19)
Maldives 0–6 Singapore
Thai-Japanese Stadium, Bangkok 19 February 2007 (2007-02-19)
Thailand 1–0 Vietnam
  • 85'
Thai-Japanese Stadium, Bangkok 21 February 2007 (2007-02-21)
Thailand 5–0 Singapore
Thai-Japanese Stadium, Bangkok 21 February 2007 (2007-02-21)
Vietnam 5–0 Maldives
Thai-Japanese Stadium, Bangkok 23 February 2007 (2007-02-23)
Vietnam 3–0 Singapore
Thai-Japanese Stadium, Bangkok 23 February 2007 (2007-02-23)
Thailand 9–0 Maldives
Thai-Japanese Stadium, Bangkok Group C

All matches were held at Zhongshan Soccer Stadium (Taipei, Taiwan).

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
 Australia 9 3 3 0 0 20 1 +19
Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei (host) 6 3 2 0 1 4 8 −4
 Myanmar 1 3 0 1 2 1 4 −3
 Uzbekistan 1 3 0 1 2 1 13 −12

21 February 2007

Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei 2–0  Uzbekistan
Australia  2–0  Myanmar

23 February 2007

Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei 1–0  Myanmar
Uzbekistan  0–10  Australia

25 February 2007

Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei 1–8  Australia
Uzbekistan  1–1  Myanmar

Final Round

Group winners would qualify for the Olympics. Matches played from 7 April to 12 August 2007.

Group A
Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
 Japan 16 6 5 1 0 27 3 +24
 South Korea 8 6 2 2 2 8 12 −4
 Thailand 7 6 2 1 3 7 11 −4
 Vietnam 3 6 1 0 5 3 19 −16
7 April 200716:00
Japan 2–0 Vietnam
Sawa 36'
Sakai 73'
National Olympic Stadium, Tokyo 7 April 200715:00
South Korea 0–1 Thailand
Ansan Wa~ Stadium, Ansan 15 April 200719:00
Thailand 0–4 Japan
Sawa 38'
Arakawa 41'
Ohno 44', 66'
Thai Army Sports Stadium, Bangkok 15 April 200716:00
Vietnam 1–2 South Korea
Đoàn Thị Kim Chi 25' Ji So-Yun 55', 59'
Lạch Tray Stadium, Hai Phong 3 June 200719:00
Japan 6–1 South Korea
Miyamoto 9'
Ohno 21'
Arakawa 24'
Lee Kye-lim 34' (o.g.)
Ito 66'
Sawa 68'		 Jung Hae-in 74'
National Olympic Stadium, Tokyo 3 June 200717:00
Vietnam 1–0 Thailand
Nhiêu Thùy Linh 41'
Lạch Tray Stadium, Hai Phong 10 June 200717:00
South Korea 2–2 Japan
Kim Jin-hee 5'
Park Hee-young 64'		 Ohno 11'
Miyama 37'
Bucheon Stadium, Bucheon 10 June 200716:00
Thailand 5–0 Vietnam
Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok 4 August 200716:00
Thailand 1–1 South Korea
Thai-Japanese Stadium, Bangkok 4 August 200717:00
Vietnam 0–8 Japan
Sakai 10'
Iwashimizu 17'
Ohno 36', 60'
Miyama 39'
Miyamoto 70'
Sawa 72'
Nagasato 80'
Lạch Tray Stadium, Hai Phong 12 August 200719:00
South Korea 2–1 Vietnam
Ji So-yun 14'
39'		 Đỗ Thị Ngọc Châm 32'
Cheongju Stadium, Cheongju 12 August 200719:00
Japan 5–0 Thailand
Ohno 1'
Nagasato 30'
Yanagita 45'
Sawa 45+2'
Sakaguchi 89'
National Olympic Stadium, Tokyo Group B
Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
 North Korea 18 6 6 0 0 51 0 +51
 Australia 12 6 4 0 2 40 5 +35
Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei 6 6 2 0 4 12 31 −19
 Hong Kong 0 6 0 0 6 1 68 −67
7 April 200716:00
North Korea 8–0 Chinese Taipei
Kim Il-sung Stadium, Pyongyang 7 April 200715:00
Australia 15–0 Hong Kong
BCU International Stadium, Coffs Harbour 15 April 200716:00
Chinese Taipei 0–10 Australia
Chungshan Stadium, Taipei 15 April 200715:00
Hong Kong 0–14 North Korea
Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground, Hong Kong 3 June 200718:00
Chinese Taipei 6–0 Hong Kong
Chungshan Stadium, Taipei 3 June 200718:00
North Korea 2–0 Australia
Yanggakdo Stadium, Pyongyang 10 June 200715:00
Hong Kong 0–6 Chinese Taipei
Mong Kok Stadium, Hong Kong 10 June 200715:00
Australia 0–2 North Korea
BCU International Stadium, Coffs Harbour 4 August 200718:00
Chinese Taipei 0–6 North Korea
Chungshan Stadium, Taipei 4 August 200715:30
Hong Kong 1–8 Australia
Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong 12 August 200717:00
North Korea 19–0 Hong Kong
Kim Il-sung Stadium, Pyongyang 12 August 200715:00
Australia 7–0 Chinese Taipei
BCU International Stadium, Coffs Harbour

CAF

Preliminary competition was divided in four rounds. First three rounds was knock-out rounds, and the final round was a group stage.

The winners of the final round would qualify for the Olympics. The runners-up of the round would advance to inter-continental play-off.

Preliminary round

First leg played from 27 to 29 October 2006. Second leg played from 10 to 12 November 2006.

Team 1 Agg Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Angola   Tanzania*
Mozambique  7–2  Comoros 7–2 *
Guinea-Bissau  2–4  Guinea 1–1 1–3
*Benin   Namibia
*Uganda   Eritrea
* = withdrew

First round

First leg played on 17 and 18 February 2007. Second leg will play from 9 to 11 March 2007. Eritrea and Morocco will play their matches on 10 and 24 March 2007. Guinea and Zimbabwe only played one leg in Zimbabwe due to political unrest in Guinea.

Team 1 Agg Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Angola  1–4  Ghana 1–2 0–2
Equatorial Guinea  4–5  South Africa 2–1 2–4
Liberia  0–5  Ethiopia 0–3 0–2
Nigeria  w/o  Senegal* — —
Mozambique  1–12  Algeria 0–3 1–9
Eritrea  4–4 (a)  Morocco 3–2 1–2
Namibia  5–8  DR Congo 3–3 2–5
Guinea  1–6  Zimbabwe — 1–6
* = withdrew

Second round

First leg played from 1 to 3 June 2007. Second leg played from 15 to 17 June 2007.

Team 1 Agg Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Ghana  4–1  DR Congo 3–1 1–0
Algeria  1–6  Nigeria 1–0 0–6
South Africa  5–3  Zimbabwe 2–1 3–2
Ethiopia  (a)2–2  Morocco 1–0 1–2

Final Round

Matches played between 27 July 2007 and 14 March 2008. Ethiopia withdrew.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Nigeria 4 3 0 1 8 1 +7 9
 Ghana 4 3 0 1 4 3 +1 9
 South Africa 4 0 0 4 1 9 −8 0
 Ethiopia withdraw

28 July 2007

Nigeria  5–0  South Africa
Ethiopia  1–3
(later annulled) 		 Ghana

12 August 2007

Ghana  1–0  Nigeria

26 August 2007

South Africa  0–1  Ghana

9 December 2007

Ghana  2–1  South Africa

16 February 2008

South Africa  0–1  Nigeria

15 March 2008

Nigeria  2–0  Ghana

Nigeria qualified for the Olympics. Ghana advanced to the inter-continental play-off.

CONCACAF

Preliminary round

Caribbean Zone

The system is a two-round single round robin format, held in October 2007. Four groups will play the first round (3 groups of 4 and one group of 3), with the winners moving on to a second round group.

First round
Group 1 Group 2

Pos Team Pld Pts
1  Trinidad and Tobago 3 9
2  Suriname (H) 3 6
3  Grenada 3 3
4  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 3 0
Source: CONCACAF
(H) Hosts

Pos Team Pld Pts
1  Cuba 3 9
2  Dominican Republic (H) 3 6
3  U.S. Virgin Islands 3 3
4  British Virgin Islands 3 0
Source: CONCACAF
(H) Hosts
Group 3 Group 4

Pos Team Pld Pts
1  Jamaica 3 9
2  Bermuda 3 6
3  Antigua and Barbuda (H) 3 3
4  Dominica 3 0
Source: CONCACAF
(H) Hosts

Pos Team Pld Pts
1  Puerto Rico 2 6
2  Haiti 2 3
3  Cayman Islands (H) 2 0
Source: CONCACAF
(H) Hosts
Second round

The 4 remaining teams were drawn into 2 pairings. The winners of each tie will progress to the CONCACAF Finals. Both Puerto Rico v Trinidad & Tobago matches will be played in Puerto Rico on 23 & 25 November 2007. Cuba will play both legs at home against Jamaica on 29 November and 1 December 2007, with the second match counting as Jamaica's home match for away goals purposes.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Puerto Rico  2–2 (a)  Trinidad and Tobago 1–2 1–0
Cuba  0–3  Jamaica 0–1 0–2
Central American Zone

Two home and away series will be played, with the winners moving on to the final round. The first leg will play on 6 October 2007. The second leg will play on 13 October 2007. The winners of the ties will play in the decisive final round on 20 and 27 October 2007.

Panama withdrew from their scheduled match against Costa Rica, so Costa Rica advance to the 2nd Round where they will play the winner of El Salvador v Nicaragua.

 First roundSecond round
           
  
 
  El Salvador101
  
  Nicaragua235
  Nicaragua000
  
  Costa Rica369
  Panama——
 
  Costa Rica——w/o
 

Group stage

Six teams will qualify for the final round. The final round will be held at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, from 2–13 April. The draw was held at 11:00 am (EST) on 25 February.

Group A Group B

Pos Team Pld Pts
1  United States 2 6
2  Mexico (H) 2 3
3  Jamaica 2 0
Source: CONCACAF
(H) Hosts

Pos Team Pld Pts
1  Canada 2 6
2  Costa Rica 2 1
3  Trinidad and Tobago 2 1
Source: CONCACAF

Knockout stage

The winners of the semi-finals qualified for the Olympics.

 Semi-finalsFinal
       
 9 April – Ciudad Juárez
 
  Canada1
 12 April – Ciudad Juárez
  Mexico0
  Canada1 (5)
 9 April – Ciudad Juárez
  United States (p)1 (6)
  United States3
 
  Costa Rica0
 Third place play-off
 
 12 April – Ciudad Juárez
 
  Mexico1
 
  Costa Rica0

CONMEBOL

CONMEBOL announced that the 2006 Sudamericano Femenino in Argentina would also serve as the qualifying tournament for the Olympics. Argentina won the tournament, and qualified for the Olympics. The runners-up Brazil advanced to the inter-continental play-off.

OFC

The 2007 Pacific Games was played as the first part of Oceania qualification for the 2008 Olympics. The winners of the Pacific Games, Papua New Guinea, met New Zealand in a playoff in March 2008 for a place in the Olympic Games Finals. This had originally been scheduled over two legs (on 8 and 12 March) but the New Zealand leg was cancelled by mutual consent, leaving a single play-off match in Papua New Guinea.

Team 1 Result Team 2
Papua New Guinea  0–2  New Zealand

UEFA

Qualification for women's championships (UEFA)
FIFA Women's World Cup
UEFA Women's Championship
Summer Olympics

UEFA announced that the 2007 Women's World Cup in the People's Republic of China will also serve as the qualifying tournament for the Olympics. Originally it was thought that, should England make the top three European teams, they would compete under the United Kingdom banner. However, on 6 September 2007, FIFA issued a press release indicating that England are ineligible to participate in the 2008 Olympics as England does not have its own Olympic Committee.

As the result of the World Cup, Germany (winners) and Norway (fourth place) qualified for the Olympics, while Sweden and Denmark (both eliminated in the group stage) qualified for the play-off. There has been some further confusion over the identity of the UEFA qualifiers stemming from conflicting media releases from UEFA and FIFA. The FIFA release noted that "teams eliminated at the end of the group phase will have the same ranking irrespective of their position, number of points or goal differences", which implies that Sweden and Denmark will require a playoff for the final qualification spot. While UEFA initially stated that no playoff was required The official website for European football, this was amended fairly rapidly The official website for European football.

Olympic play-off

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Denmark  3–7  Sweden 2–4 1–3
8 November 200719:00 UTC+1
Denmark 2–4 Sweden
Sørensen 31'
Pape 73'		 report (UEFA)
report (Danish FA)		 Landström 30'
Schelin 46', 65'
Seger 49'
Energi Viborg Arena, ViborgAttendance: 4,011Referee: Cristina Ionescu (Romania) 28 November 200719:00 UTC+1
Sweden 3–1 Denmark
Schelin 43'
Svensson 45', 74'		 report (UEFA)
report (Danish FA)		 Sørensen 80'
Råsundastadion, SolnaAttendance: 4,078Referee: Alexandra Ihringova (England)

Sweden won 7–3 on aggregate and qualified for the Olympics.

CONMEBOL–CAF play-off

An inter-continental play-off was held between the second placed South American and African teams, which were Brazil and Ghana, respectively.

The play-off took place on 19 April 2008 in a single, one-off match at the Workers' Stadium in Beijing, China (a neutral venue).

Team 1  Score  Team 2
Brazil  5–1  Ghana

References

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  7. ^ CAF Online
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