Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament


The 1996 Summer Olympics—based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States—marked the first time that women participated in the Olympic association football tournament. The tournament featured eight women's national teams from four continental confederations. The teams were drawn into two groups of four and each group played a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the semi-finals and culminating with the gold medal match on August 1, 1996.

Competition schedule

GGroup stage½SemifinalsB3rd place play-offFFinal

Qualification

Eight teams qualified for the 1996 Olympic women's football tournament, the hosts United States and the seven other best ranked teams at the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup. England was ineligible to qualify for the tournament.
The tournament was held in five venues across five cities:

Match officials

North and Central America
South America
Europe

Group E

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Group F

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Knockout stage

Semi finals

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Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

FIFA Fair play award

With four goals, Pretinha of Brazil, Ann Kristin Aarønes and Linda Medalen of Norway are the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 53 goals were scored by 33 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goals
RankTeam
1541093+613
25311115+610
35311126+610
4512278–15
531116604
6310245–13
7300329–70
83003211–90