Women's Olympic Football tournament was held for the third time at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The tournament featured 10 women's national teams from six continental confederations. The 10 teams were drawn into two groups of three and one group of four and each group played a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top teams from each group advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at Karaiskakis Stadium on 26 August 2004.
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 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).
Pot 1: Europe Pot 2: Americas Pot 3: Rest of the World (Hosts)
Squads
Match officials
+ Referees Confederation Referee AFC Bentla D'Coth (India) CAF Fatou Gaye (Senegal) CONCACAF Dianne Ferreira-James (Guyana) Kari Seitz (United States) CONMEBOL Silvia Regina de Oliveira (Brazil) OFC Krystyna Szokolai (Australia) UEFA Dagmar Damková (Czech Republic) Christine Frai (Germany) Cristina Ionescu (Romania) Jenny Palmqvist (Sweden)
+ Assistant referees Confederation Assistant referee AFC Shiho Ayukai (Japan) Liu Hongjuan (China PR) CAF Mariette Bantsimba (Congo) Tempa Ndah (Benin) CONCACAF Denise Robinson (Canada) Jackeline Sáez Blanquice (Panama) María Isabel Tovar (Mexico) CONMEBOL Aracely Castro (Bolivia) Ana Paula Oliveira (Brazil) OFC Airlie Keen (Australia) Jacqueline Leleu (Australia) UEFA Katarzyna Nadolska (Poland) Emilia Parviainen (Finland) Andi Regan (Great Britain) Nelly Viennot (France) María Luisa Villa Gutiérrez (Spain)
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
Group F
Group G
Ranking of third-placed teams from groups of three
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
GK 1 Briana ScurryCB 3 Christie RamponeCB 5 Lindsay Tarpley CB 6 Brandi Chastain RWB 7 Shannon BoxxDM 13 Kristine LillyCM 9 Mia HammCM 11 Julie FoudyLWB 14 Joy FawcettFW 15 Kate MarkgrafFW 16 Abby WambachSubstitutes:CB 4 Cat Whitehill CB 14 Heather O'Reilly Manager: April Heinrichs GK 1 AndréiaCB 3 Mônica CB 4 Tânia MaranhãoCB 5 Juliana CabralRWB 16 Daniela AlvesDM 7 Formiga CM 9 PretinhaCM 10 MartaLB 11 Rosana LWB 12 CristianeFW 14 Elaine Substitutes:RW 6 Renata Costa RB 15 Maycon Manager: Renê Simões
Statistics
Goalscorers
Assists
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.
Team 1 857 857 3 843 4 815 5 811 6 781 7 772 8 762 9 752 10 686
Tournament ranking
Notes
References
External links Olympic Football Tournaments Athens 2004 – Women, FIFA.com RSSSF Summary Okestream FIFA Technical Report