The women's football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 25 July to 10 August 2024. It was the eighth edition of the women's Olympic football tournament. Together with the men's competition, the 2024 Summer Olympics football tournament was held at seven stadiums in seven cities in France.

The United States won a record-extending fifth gold medal, and their first since 2012, defeating Brazil 1–0 in the final, held at Parc des Princes in Paris.

Schedule The schedule was as follows.

Thu 25 Fri 26 Sat 27 Sun 28 Mon 29 Tue 30 Wed 31 Thu 1 Fri 2 Sat 3 Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10GS GS GS QF SF B F

Qualification

In addition to host nation France, eleven women's national teams qualified from six separate continental confederations. The Organising Committee for FIFA Competitions ratified the distribution of spots at their meeting on 24 February 2022.

Sweden, runners-up of the 2016 and 2020 Olympic tournaments, failed to qualify for the 2024 tournament after being eliminated in the group stage of the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League.

Venues

Marseille Décines-Charpieu(Lyon Area) Paris Stade de Marseille Stade de Lyon Parc des Princes Capacity: 67,394 Capacity: 59,186 Capacity: 47,929 Bordeaux Stade de Bordeaux Capacity: 42,115 Saint-Étienne Nice Nantes Stade Geoffroy-Guichard Stade de Nice Stade de la Beaujoire Capacity: 41,965 Capacity: 36,178 Capacity: 35,322

Squads

The women's tournament was a full international tournament with no restrictions on age. Each team had to submit a squad of 18 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers. Each team could also name a list of four alternate players, who could replace any player in the squad in case of injury during the tournament.

Match officials

On 3 April 2024, FIFA released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympic Games.

+ Match officials Confederation Referee Assistant referees AFC Yoshimi Yamashita (Japan) (Japan) (Japan) (South Korea) (Australia) (South Korea) CAF Bouchra Karboubi (Morocco) (Morocco)Diana Chikotesha (Zambia) CONCACAF Katia García (Mexico) (Mexico)Sandra Ramírez (Mexico) Tori Penso (United States) Brooke Mayo (United States)Kathryn Nesbitt (United States) CONMEBOL Edina Alves Batista (Brazil) (Brazil) (Brazil) Emikar Calderas (Venezuela) (Colombia) (Venezuela) UEFA Rebecca Welch (Great Britain) (Great Britain) (Netherlands) Tess Olofsson (Sweden) (Italy) (Sweden)

+ Support officials Confederation Referee AFCVeronika Bernatskaia (Kyrgyzstan)CAFShamirah Nabadda (Uganda)CONCACAFOdette Hamilton (Jamaica)CONMEBOLAnahí Fernández (Uruguay) UEFAFrida Klarlund (Denmark)Jelena Cvetković (Serbia)

+ Video assistant referees Confederation Video assistant referee Male officials AFCKhamis Al-Marri (Qatar)Sivakorn Pu-udom (Thailand) CAFLahlou Benbraham (Algeria)Mahmoud Ashour (Egypt) CONCACAFDaneon Parchment (Jamaica)Guillermo Pacheco (Mexico) CONMEBOLHéctor Paletta (Argentina)Rodrigo Carvajal (Chile)Leodán González (Uruguay) UEFAIvan Bebek (Croatia)David Coote (Great Britain)Jérôme Brisard (France)Paolo Valeri (Italy)Rob Dieperink (Netherlands)Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain) Female officialsAFCKate Jacewicz (Australia)CONCACAFTatiana Guzmán (Nicaragua)CONMEBOLDaiane Muniz (Brazil) UEFAKatalin Kulcsár (Hungary)

Notes

Draw The draw for the tournament was held on 20 March 2024, 20:00 CET (UTC+1), at the Pulse building in Saint-Denis, France.

The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four teams. The hosts France were automatically seeded into Pot 1 and assigned to position A1 while the remaining teams were seeded into their respective pots based on the FIFA Women's World Ranking released on 15 March 2024 (shown in parentheses below). No group could contain more than one team from each confederation.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 (3) (assigned to A1) (1) (4) (5) (7) (9) (10) (12) (23) (28) (36) (65) Notes

Group stage The competing countries were divided into three groups of four teams, denoted as groups A, B, and C. Teams in each group played one another in a round-robin basis, with the top two teams of each group and the two best third-placed teams advancing to the quarter-finals.

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Tiebreakers The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:

Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat); Goal difference in all group matches; Number of goals scored in all group matches; Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question; Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question; Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question; Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match): Drawing of lots.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Ranking of third-placed teams

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of regulation time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each), and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Statistics Goalscorers

Final ranking

See also Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

References

External links

Women's Olympic Football Tournament Paris 2024, FIFA.com Match schedule, FIFA.com