Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics (men)

Football on 2012 Summer Olympics
Tournaments
Men		Women
Compositions
Men		Women
Qualification

16 teams took part in the men's soccer tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics . Competitions began on July 26 and took place in 6 cities of Great Britain : London , Glasgow , Cardiff , Coventry , Manchester and Newcastle . The finals of the football championship were played on August 11 at Wembley Stadium . For the first time since the 1960 Olympics in Rome, one of the tournament participants was the British Olympic team .

The men's soccer tournament is the only discipline at the London Olympics in which there was a traditional restriction on the maximum age of participants. Each team could declare only 3 players who were born before January 1, 1989 .

5-time world football champions Brazilians once again missed the opportunity to win the first Olympic gold, losing to the Mexicans in the final.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mexico Javier Aquino Nestor Araujo Nestor Vidrio Jose Corona Javier Cortes Iram Mier Oribe Peralta Miguel Ponce Diego Reyes Jose Rodriguez Carlos Salcido Giovanni dos Santos Marco Fabian Darwin Chavez Israel Jimenez Raul Jimenez Jorge Enrique Hector Herrera	Brazil Gabriel Ganso Leandro Damian Danilo Juan jesus Lucas Marcelo Neymar Not that Oscar Alexandre Pato Raphael Romulo Alex Sandro Sandro Thiago Silva Bruno Uwini Hulk	South Korea Ki Song Young Kim Bo Kyung Kim gi hee Kim Young Gwon Kim Hyun Sung Kim Chan Soo Ku Ja Chol Lee Bom Young Nam Tae Hee Oh Jae Suk Park Jung Woo Park Joo Young Baek Song Dong Hwang Suk Ho Chi Dong Won Jung Seung Ryun Jung Woo Young Yoon Seok Young

Qualification

Tournament	date	Location	Places	Teams
The host	-	-	one	Great Britain
Asian Qualifiers	February 23, 2011 - March 29, 2012	-	3	The Republic of Korea Japan UAE
African Youth Championship 2011 (U23)	November 26 - December 10, 2011	Morocco	3	Gabon Morocco Egypt
America Qualifiers	March 22 - April 2, 2012	USA	2	Mexico Honduras
South American Championship among youth teams 2011	January 16 - February 12, 2012	Peru	2	Brazil Uruguay
Oceania Qualifier	March 16 - March 25, 2012	Taupo	one	New Zealand
Europe championship among youth teams 2011	June 10 - June 23, 2012	Denmark	3	Spain Switzerland Belarus
Playoffs between the best unskilled teams of AFC and KAF	April 23, 2012	Coventry	one	Senegal ^[1]
Total			sixteen

Lineups

According to the rules of the Olympic tournament, special Olympic teams consisting of 18 players participate in the men's soccer competition, of which 15 must be born no earlier than January 1, 1989 . Also, the composition must be at least two goalkeepers.

Judges

The list of referees who will serve the matches of the teams at the Olympic tournament was published on April 19, 2012 ^[2] .

Confederation	Judges	Assistant Judges
AFC	Ravshan Irmatov	Abduhamidullo Rasulov Bahadir Kuchkarov
	Yuichi Nishimura	Toru Sagara Toshiyuki Nagi
	Ben williams	Matthew Cream Hakan Anaz
CAF	Bakari Gassama	Jason damu Angus Ogbamariam
CAF	Selim Jedidi	Bechir Hassani Sheriff Hassan
CONCACAF	Roberto Garcia	Jose Luis Camargo Alberto Maureen
CONCACAF	Mark Geiger	Mark Heard Joe Fletcher
CONMEBOL	Raul Orozco	Efrain Castro Arol Walda
	Wilmar Roldan	Umberto Clavijo Eduardo Diaz
	Juan Ernesto Soto	Jorge Urrego Carlos Lopez

Confederation	Judges	Assistant Judges
OFC	Peter O'Leary	Jan Hintz Ravenish Kumar
UEFA	Felix Brych	Mark Borsch Stefan Lupp
	Mark Clattenburg	Stephen Child Simon Beck
	Pavel Kralovets	Martin Wilcek Antonin Kordula
	Svein Moen	Kim haglund Frank Andas
	Gianluca Rocky	Elenito Di Liberatore Gianluca Cariolato

Tournament

Group Stage

	Quarterfinal team
	Tournament Leaving Team

Group A

	Team	AND	AT	N	P	GZ	GP	+/-	Glasses
one	Great Britain	3	2	one	0	five	2	+3	7
2	Senegal	3	one	2	0	four	2	+2	five
3	Uruguay	3	one	0	2	2	four	-2	3
four	UAE	3	0	one	2	3	6	-3	one

July 26, 2012
17:00 UTC + 1

UAE	1: 2 (1: 1) Report	Uruguay
Matar 23 '	Goals	Ramirez 42 ' Lodeiro 56 '

Stadium: Old Trafford , Manchester
Spectators: 51 745
Judge: Peter O'Leary

July 26, 2012
20:00 UTC + 1

Great Britain	1: 1 (1: 0) Report	Senegal
Bellamy 20'	Goals	Konate 82 '

Stadium: Old Trafford , Manchester
Spectators: 72,176
Judge: Ravshan Irmatov

July 29, 2012
17:00 UTC + 1

Senegal	2-0 (2-0) Report	Uruguay
Konate 10 ' , 37'	Goals

Stadium: Wembley , London
Spectators: 75 093
Judge: Felix Brych

July 29, 2012
19:45 UTC + 1

Great Britain	3: 1 (1: 0) Report	UAE
Giggs sixteen' Sinclair 73 ' Sturridge 76 '	Goals	Ace 60 '

Stadium: Wembley , London
Spectators: 85 137
Judge: Roberto Garcia

August 1, 2012
19:45 UTC + 1

Senegal	1: 1 (0: 1) Report	UAE
Konate 49 '	Goals	Matar 21 '

Stadium: Coventry City Stadium , Coventry
Viewers: 28 652
Judge: Svein Oddwar Moen

August 1, 2012
19:45 UTC + 1

Great Britain	1: 0 (1: 0) Report	Uruguay
Sturridge 45 '(+1)	Goals

Stadium: Millennium , Cardiff
Spectators: 70,438
Judge: Yuichi Nishimura

Group B

	Team	AND	AT	N	P	GZ	GP	+/-	Glasses
one	Mexico	3	2	one	0	3	0	+3	7
2	The Republic of Korea	3	one	2	0	2	one	+1	five
3	Gabon	3	0	2	one	one	3	-2	2
four	Switzerland	3	0	one	2	2	four	-2	one

July 26, 2012
14:30 UTC + 1

Mexico

0: 0
Report

The Republic of Korea

Stadium: St. James Park , Newcastle
Spectators: 15,748
Judge: Selim Jedidi

July 26, 2012
17:15 UTC + 1

Gabon	1: 1 (1: 1) Report	Switzerland
Obameyyang 45 '	Goals	Mehmedi 5 '( pen. )

Stadium: St. James Park , Newcastle
Spectators: 15,748
Judge: Wilmar Roldan

July 29, 2012
14:30 UTC + 1

Mexico	2: 0 (0: 0) Report	Gabon
dos santos 63 ' , 90' ( pen. )	Goals

Stadium: Coventry City Stadium , Coventry
Spectators: 28 171
Judge: Ben williams

July 29, 2012
17:15 UTC + 1

The Republic of Korea	2: 1 (0: 0) Report	Switzerland
Park Joo Young 57 ' Kim Bo Kyung 64 '	Goals	Emegara 60 '

Stadium: Coventry City Stadium , Coventry
Spectators: 30 114
Judge: Raul Orozco

August 1, 2012
17:00 UTC + 1

Mexico	1: 0 (0: 0) Report	Switzerland
Peralta 69 '	Goals

Stadium: Millennium , Cardiff
Spectators: 50,000
Judge: Ravshan Irmatov

August 1, 2012
19:00 UTC + 1

The Republic of Korea

0: 0 (0: 0)
Report

Gabon

Stadium: Wembley , London
Spectators: 76 927
Judge: Pavel Kralovets

Group C

	Team	AND	AT	N	P	GZ	GP	+/-	Glasses
one	Brazil	3	3	0	0	9	3	+6	9
2	Egypt	3	one	one	one	6	five	+1	four
3	Belarus	3	one	0	2	3	6	-3	3
four	New Zealand	3	0	one	2	one	five	-four	one

July 26, 2012
19:45 UTC + 1

Belarus	1: 0 (1: 0) Report	New Zealand
Baga 45 '	Goals

Stadium: Coventry City Stadium , Coventry
Spectators: 14 457
Judge: Bakari Gassama

July 26, 2012
19:45 UTC + 1

Brazil	3: 2 (3: 0) Report	Egypt
Raphael sixteen' Leandro Damian 26 ' Neymar thirty'	Goals	Abutrika 52 ' Salah 76 '

Stadium: Millennium , Cardiff
Spectators: 26,812
Judge: Gianluca Rocky

July 29, 2012
12:00 UTC + 1

Brazil	3: 1 (1: 1) Report	Belarus
Pato 15' Neymar 65 ' Oscar 90 '	Goals	Bressan eight'

Stadium: Old Trafford , Manchester
Spectators: 66,212
Judge: Yuichi Nishimura

July 29, 2012
14:45 UTC + 1

Egypt	1: 1 (1: 1) Report	New Zealand
Salah 40 '	Goals	Wood 17 '

Stadium: Old Trafford , Manchester
Spectators: 50,050
Judge: Mark Clattenburg

August 1, 2012
14:30 UTC + 1

Brazil	3-0 (2-0) Report	New Zealand
Danilo 23 ' Leandro Damian 29 ' Sandro 52 '	Goals

Stadium: St. James Park , Newcastle
Spectators: 25 201
Judge: Bakari Gassama

August 1, 2012
14:30 UTC + 1

Egypt	3: 1 (0: 0) Report	Belarus
Salah 56 ' Mohsen 73 ' Abutrika 79 '	Goals	Voronkov 87 '

Stadium: Hampden Park , Glasgow
Spectators: 8 732
Judge: Roberto Garcia

Group D

	Team	AND	AT	N	P	GZ	GP	+/-	Glasses
one	Japan	3	2	one	0	2	0	+2	7
2	Honduras	3	one	2	0	3	2	+1	five
3	Morocco	3	0	2	one	2	3	-one	2
four	Spain	3	0	one	2	0	2	-2	one

July 26, 2012
12:00 UTC + 1

Honduras	2: 2 (0: 1) Report	Morocco
Bengtson 56 ' , 65' ( pen. )	Goals	Barrada 39 ' Labyad 67 '

Stadium: Hampden Park , Glasgow
Spectators: 23,421
Judge: Pavel Kralovets

July 26, 2012
14:45 UTC + 1

Spain	0: 1 (0: 1) Report	Japan
	Goals	Yuki Otsu 34 '

Stadium: Hampden Park , Glasgow
Spectators: 37 726
Judge: Mark Geiger

July 29, 2012
17:00 UTC + 1

Spain	0: 1 (0: 1) Report	Honduras
	Goals	Bengtson 7 '

Stadium: St. James Park , Newcastle
Spectators: 26 523
Judge: Juan Ernesto Soto

July 29, 2012
19:45 UTC + 1

Japan	1: 0 (0: 0) Report	Morocco
Nagai 84 '	Goals

Stadium: St. James Park , Newcastle
Spectators: 24 936
Judge: Svein Oddwar Moen

August 1, 2012
17:00 UTC + 1

Japan

0: 0 (0: 0)
Report

Honduras

Stadium: Coventry City Stadium , Coventry
Spectators: 25,862
Judge: Selim Jedidi

August 1, 2012
17:00 UTC + 1

Spain

0: 0 (0: 0)
Report

Morocco

Stadium: Old Trafford , Manchester
Spectators: 35 973
Judge: Ben williams

Playoffs

Quarter finals

Semifinals

The final

August 4 - Manchester

Japan

3

August 7 - London

Egypt

0

Mexico

3

August 4 - London

Japan

one

Mexico

four

August 11 - London

Senegal

2

Brazil

one

August 4 - Newcastle

Mexico

2

Brazil

3

August 7 - Manchester

Honduras

2

The Republic of Korea

0

3rd place match

August 4 - Cardiff

Brazil

3

Great Britain

14)

The Republic of Korea

2

The Republic of Korea

15)

Japan

0

August 10 - Cardiff

Quarter Finals

August 4, 2012
12:00 UTC + 1

Japan	3: 0 (1: 0) Report	Egypt
Nagai 14' Yoshida 78 ' Otsu 83 '	Goals

Stadium: Old Trafford , Manchester
Spectators: 70 722
Judge: Mark Geiger

August 4, 2012
14:30 UTC + 1

Mexico	4: 2 ( d.v. ) Report	Senegal
Heriques ten' Aquino 62 ' dos santos 98 ' Herrera 109 '	Goals	Konate 69 ' Balde 76 '

Stadium: Wembley , London
Spectators: 81 855
Judge: Mark Clattenburg

August 4, 2012
17:00 UTC + 1

Brazil	3: 2 (1: 1) Report	Honduras
Leandro Damian 38 ' , 60' Neymar 50 '( pen. )	Goals	Martinez 12' Espinosa 48 '

Stadium: St. James Park , Newcastle
Viewers: 42 166
Judge: Felix Brych

August 4, 2012
19:30 UTC + 1

Great Britain	1: 1 ( p. 4: 5) Report	The Republic of Korea
Ramsey 36 '( pen. )	Goals	Chi Dong Won 29 '

Stadium: Millennium , Cardiff
Spectators: 70 171
Judge: Wilmar Roldan

Semifinals

August 7, 2012
17:00 UTC + 1

Japan	1: 3 (1: 1) Report	Mexico
Otsu 12'	Goals	Fabian 31 ' Peralta 65 ' Cortes 90 + 3 '

Stadium: Wembley , London
Spectators: 82 372
Judge: Gianluca Rocky

August 7, 2012
19:45 UTC + 1

Brazil	3: 0 (1: 0) Report	The Republic of Korea
Romulo 34 ' Leandro Damian 57 ' , 64'	Goals

Stadium: Old Trafford , Manchester
Spectators: 69 389
Judge: Pavel Kralovets

3rd place match

August 10, 2012
19:45 UTC + 1

The Republic of Korea	2-0 (1-0) Report	Japan
Park Joo Young 38 ' Ku Ja Chol 57 '	Goals

Stadium: Millennium , Cardiff
Viewers: 56 393
Judge: Ravshan Irmatov

Final

August 11, 2012
15:00 UTC + 1

Brazil	1: 2 (0: 1) Report	Mexico
Hulk 90 + 1 '	Goals	Peralta 1 ' , 75'

Stadium: Wembley , London
Spectators: 86 162
Judge: Mark Clattenburg

Scorers list

6 goals
- Leandro Damian

5 goals
- Moussa Konate

4 goals
- Oribe Peralta

3 goals
- Neymar
- Jerry Bengtson
- Mohammed Salah
- Giovanni dos Santos
- Yuki Otsu

2 goals
- Daniel Sturridge
- Mohammed Abutrika
- Ismail Matar
- Park Joo Young
- Kensuke Nagai

1 goal

- Dmitry Baga
- Renan Bressan
- Andrey Voronkov
- Danilo
- Oscar
- Alexandre Pato
- Raphael
- Romulo
- Sandro
- Hulk
- Craig Bellamy
- Ryan Giggs
- Aron Ramsey
- Scott Sinclair
- Pierre-Emerick Obameyyang
- Mario martinez
- Roger Espinosa
- Marwan Mohsen

- Abdelaziz Barrada
- Zakaria Labyad
- Javier Aquino
- Javier Cortes
- Marco Fabian
- Jorge Enriquez
- Hector Herrera
- Chris Wood
- Rashid Ace
- Ibrahma Balde
- Nicholas Lodeiro
- Gaston Ramirez
- Admir Mehmed
- Innocent Emegara
- Kim Bo Kyung
- Ku Ja Chol
- Chi Dong Won
- Maya Yoshida

Notes

Links

[1] Senegal's national team was last selected to participate in the Olympic football tournament

[2] Judges at the 2012 London Olympics

Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics (men)

Medalists

Qualification

Lineups

Judges

Tournament

Group Stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Playoffs

Quarter Finals

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Scorers list

Notes

Links

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