Football 7-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics was held in Rio de Janeiro at the Deodoro Olympic Park, from 8 September to 16 September. Football 7-a-side is played by athletes with cerebral palsy, a condition characterized by impairment of muscular coordination, stroke, or traumatic brain injury (TBI). 112 footballers are expected to compete for one set of medals.

For these games, the men compete in an 8-team tournament.

Medalists Men's team Kostyantyn Symashko Vitaliy Trushev Yevhen Zinoviev Taras Dutko Oleh Len Edhar Kahramanian Vitalii Romanchuk Ivan Dotsenko Dmytro Molodtsov Stanislav Podolksyi Volodymyr Antonyuk Bohdan Kulynych Artem Krasylnykov Ivan Shkvarlo Moslem Khazaeipirsarabi Hashem Rastegarimobin Lotfollah Jangjou Hassan Safari Sadegh Hassani Baghi Farzad Mehri Behnam Sohrabi Hossein Tiz Bor Mehdi Jamali Jasem Bakhshi Rasoul Atashafrouz Mohammad Kharat Moslem Akbari Babak Safarikourabbasloo

Qualifying

Eight teams will contest the competition, which is for male athletes only. An NPC can enter a single squad, consisting of fourteen players, two more per team than in 2012.

Qualification is by a series of tournaments, and was one of the first events for which entries were completed.

Means of qualification Date Venue BerthsFootball 7-a-Side Qualification Criteria - FT , International Paralympic Committee (IPC), February 2011 Qualified Host nation 2 October 2009 Copenhagen, Denmark 1 2014 CPISRA Football 7-a-side European Championships 23 July 2014 – 2 August 2014 Maia, Portugal 1 2014 Asian Para Games 19–23 October 2014 Incheon, South Korea 1 Football 7-a-side at the 2015 Parapan American Games September 2015 Toronto, Canada 1 2015 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships 16–28 June 2015 Burton, Great BritainDraw for the CPISRA football 7-a-side world championships 2015, Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association (CPISRA) 4 Total 8

Squads

Tournament

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Classification round

7th–8th place match

5th–6th place match

Medal round

Semi finals

Bronze-medal match

Gold-medal match

Final rankings RankTeam4.5.6.7.8. Source: Paralympic.org

See also Football 5-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics

References

External links Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association (CPISRA)