Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Tournament details
Host country	Japan
Dates	22 July – 8 August 2020
Teams	16 (men's) + 12 (women's) (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	7 (in 6 host cities)
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Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Qualification
	men	women
Tournament
	men	women
Squads
	men	women
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The association football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics will be held from 22 July to 8 August 2020 in Japan.
In addition to the Olympic host city of Tokyo, matches will also be played in Kashima, Saitama, Sapporo, Sendai, and Yokohama.^[1]
Associations affiliated with FIFA may send teams to participate in the tournament. Men's teams are restricted to under-23 players (born on or after 1 January 1997) with a maximum of three overage players allowed, while there are no age restrictions on women's teams.^[2]
Brazil are the men's defending champions. Germany are the women's defending champions, but failed to qualify.

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Competition schedule

GS

Group stage

QF

Quarterfinals

SF

Semifinals

B

3rd place play-off

F

Final

Date Event	Wed 22	Thu 23	Fri 24	Sat 25	Sun 26	Mon 27	Tue 28	Wed 29	Thu 30	Fri 31	Sat 1	Sun 2	Mon 3	Tue 4	Wed 5	Thu 6	Fri 7	Sat 8
Men		GS			GS			GS			QF			SF			B	F
Women	GS			GS			GS			QF			SF			B	F

Venues

A total of seven venues will be used:^[1]

Shinjuku, Tokyo	Chofu, Tokyo	Saitama, Saitama	Yokohama, Kanagawa
National Stadium	Tokyo Stadium	Saitama Stadium	Int. Stadium Yokohama
Capacity: 60,016	Capacity: 48,000	Capacity: 62,000	Capacity: 70,000
Kashima, Ibaraki	Yokohama Saitama Sendai Tokyo Kashima Sapporo
Ibaraki Kashima Stadium[3]
Capacity: 42,000
Rifu, Miyagi (Sendai metropolitan area)
Miyagi Stadium
Capacity: 48,000
Sapporo, Hokkaido
Sapporo Dome
Capacity: 42,000

Qualification

The Organising Committee for FIFA Competitions ratified the distribution of spots at their meeting on 14 September 2017.^[4]

Men's qualification

Main article: Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

In addition to host nation Japan, 15 men's national teams will qualify from six separate continental confederations.^[4]

Means of qualification	Ref.	Dates1	Venue1	Berths	Qualified
Host country		7 September 2013	N/A	1	Japan
2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship	[5]	16–30 June 2019	Italy  San Marino	4	France  Germany  Romania  Spain
2019 OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament		21 September – 5 October 2019	Fiji	1	TBD
2019 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship	[6]	3–15 October 2019	Costa Rica	2	TBD
2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations	[7]	8–22 November 2019	Egypt	3	TBD
2020 AFC U-23 Championship	[8]	8–26 January 2020	Thailand	3	TBD
2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	[9]	15 January – 2 February 2020	Colombia	2	TBD
Total				16

• ^1 Dates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments), various qualification stages may precede matches at these specific venues.

Women's qualification

Main article: Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

In addition to host nation Japan, 11 women's national teams will qualify from six separate continental confederations.^[4]
For the first time, as per an agreement between the four British football associations (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales), Great Britain qualified for the Olympics through England's performance in the World Cup (a procedure already successfully employed by Team GB in field hockey and rugby sevens). Scotland also participated in the World Cup but, under the agreement whereby the highest ranked home nation is nominated to compete for the purposes of Olympic qualification, their performance was not taken into account.^[10][11]

Means of qualification	Ref.	Dates2	Venue2	Berths	Qualified
Host country		7 September 2013	N/A	1	Japan
2018 Copa América	[12]	4–22 April 2018	Chile	1	Brazil
2018 OFC Nations Cup	[13]	18 November – 1 December 2018	New Caledonia	1	New Zealand
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup (As UEFA qualifying)		7 June – 7 July 2019	France	3	Great Britain  Netherlands  Sweden
2020 CAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament	[14]	13 January – 9 February 2020	Various	1	TBD
2020 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship		February 2020	TBD	2	TBD
2020 AFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament	[15]	2–11 March 2020	Various	2	TBD
CAF–CONMEBOL play-off		2020 (TBD)	TBD	1	TBD
Total				12

• ^2 Dates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments), various qualification stages may precede matches at these specific venues.

See also

• Football at the 2018 Asian Games
• Football at the 2019 African Games
• Football at the 2019 Pan American Games
• Football 5-a-side at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Notes

References

1. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b} "Olympic sport football". tokyo2020.jp. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
2. ^ "Regulations for the Olympic Football Tournaments Tokyo 2020" (PDF). FIFA.com.
3. ^ "Olympic Sports : Football". The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
4. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b c} "OC for FIFA Competitions approves procedures for the Final Draw of the 2018 FIFA World Cup". FIFA.com. 14 September 2017.
5. ^ "Under-21 EURO 2019: all you need to know". uefa.com. 16 October 2018.
6. ^ "Concacaf Announces Details for the Preliminary Rounds of the Concacaf Men's Olympic Qualifiers". CONCACAF. 16 April 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
7. ^ "CAF confirms 2019 Total U-23 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt will be played in November". Ghana Soccernet. 29 September 2018.
8. ^ "Competition Regulations AFC U-23 Championship 2020". AFC.
9. ^ "Colombia será sede del Campeonato Sudamericano Preolímpico Sub-23 del 2020". conmebol.com. 14 August 2018.
10. ^ "Organising Committee takes important decisions on FIFA Women's World Cup". FIFA.com. 1 October 2018.
11. ^ "Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Home nations agree to GB women's football team". BBC Sport. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
12. ^ "La Copa América Femenina se celebrará del 4 al 22 de abril". CONMEBOL.com. 21 July 2017.
13. ^ "OFC Women's Nations Cup confirmed". Oceania Football Confederation. 12 March 2018.
14. ^ "Tokyo 2020: Sierra Leone disqualified, Angola withdraws". CAF. 5 March 2019.
15. ^ "Asia's elite set to vie for two Tokyo 2020 tickets". Asian Football Confederation. 2 August 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2018.

External links

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