Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

2012 Men's Olympic Football Tournament
Tournament details
Host countryUnited Kingdom
Dates26 July – 11 August
Teams16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Mexico (1st title)
Runners-up Brazil
Third place South Korea
Fourth place Japan
Tournament statistics
Matches played32
Goals scored76 (2.38 per match)
Attendance1,525,134 (47,660 per match)
Top scorer(s)Brazil Leandro Damião
(6 goals)
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The men's football tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics was held in London and five other cities in Great Britain from 26 July to 11 August. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to enter their men's U-23 teams in regional qualifying competitions, from which 15 teams, plus the hosts Great Britain, reached the final tournament. Men's teams were allowed to augment their squads with three players over the age of 23. It was the first men's Olympic football tournament to feature a team representing Great Britain since the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.[1] The competition also marked Uruguay's men's football team's first Olympic appearance since 1928, when it won its second consecutive gold medal.

The gold medal was won by Mexico who defeated Brazil 2–1 in the final.[2]

Schedule

The match schedule of the men's tournament.[3]

Legend
G Group stage ¼ Quarter-finals ½ Semi-finals B Bronze medal match F Gold medal match
26 Thu 27 Fri 28 Sat 29 Sun 30 Mon 31 Tue 1 Wed 2 Thu 3 Fri 4 Sat 5 Sun 6 Mon 7 Tue 8 Wed 9 Thu 10 Fri 11 Sat
G G G ¼ ½ B F

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee may enter one men's team in the football tournament. The 2004 and 2008 Olympic gold-medallists Argentina failed to qualify, after finishing third in the South American qualifying tournament.

Participating countries
Means of qualification Date of completion Venue1 Berths[4] Qualified
Host nation 2005 — 1  Great Britain
2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship 25 June 2011  Denmark 3  Spain
  Switzerland
 Belarus
AFC Preliminary Competition 29 March 2012 Various
(home and away format)		 3  Japan
 South Korea
 United Arab Emirates
2011 CAF U-23 Championship 10 December 2011  Morocco 3  Gabon
 Morocco
 Egypt
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition 2 April 2012  United States 2  Mexico
 Honduras
2011 South American Youth Championship 12 February 2011  Peru 2  Brazil
 Uruguay
OFC Preliminary Competition 25 March 2012  New Zealand 1  New Zealand
AFC–CAF play-off 23 April 2012 United Kingdom Great Britain[5] 1  Senegal
Total 16
  • ^1 Locations are those of final tournaments, various qualification stages may precede matches at these specific venues.

Venues

Six venues were used during the tournament with Wembley Stadium in London hosted the Final.

London Trafford
(Manchester) 		Cardiff
Wembley Stadium Old Trafford Millennium Stadium
Capacity: 90,000 Capacity: 75,643 Capacity: 74,500
Newcastle Glasgow Coventry
St James' Park Hampden Park City of Coventry Stadium
Capacity: 52,354 Capacity: 51,866 Capacity: 32,609

Squads

Main article: Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

For the men's tournament, each nation submitted a squad of 18 players, 15 of whom had to be born on or after 1 January 1989, and three of whom could be overage players. A minimum of two goalkeepers (plus one optional alternate goalkeeper) had to be included in the squad.

Match officials

On 19 April 2012, FIFA released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympics.[6]

Confederation Referee Assistants
AFC Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan) Abdukhamidullo Rasulov (Uzbekistan)
Bakhadyr Kochkarov (Kyrgyzstan)
Yuichi Nishimura (Japan) Toru Sagara (Japan)
Toshiyuki Nagi (Japan)
Ben Williams (Australia) Matthew Cream (Australia)
Hakan Anaz (Australia)
CAF Bakary Gassama (Gambia) Jason Damoo (Seychelles)
Angesom Ogbamariam (Eritrea)
Slim Jedidi (Tunisia) Bechir Hassani (Tunisia)
Sherif Hassan (Egypt)
CONCACAF Roberto García (Mexico) José Luis Camargo (Mexico)
Alberto Morín (Mexico)
Mark Geiger (United States) Mark Hurd (United States)
Joe Fletcher (Canada)
CONMEBOL Raúl Orosco (Bolivia) Efraín Castro (Bolivia)
Arol Valda (Bolivia)
Wilmar Roldán (Colombia) Humberto Clavijo (Colombia)
Eduardo Díaz (Colombia)
Juan Soto (Venezuela) Jorge Urrego (Venezuela)
Carlos López (Venezuela)
OFC Peter O'Leary (New Zealand) Jan-Hendrik Hintz (New Zealand)
Ravinesh Kumar (Fiji)
UEFA Felix Brych (Germany) Stefan Lupp (Germany)
Mark Borsch (Germany)
Mark Clattenburg (Great Britain) Stephen Child (Great Britain)
Simon Beck (Great Britain)
Pavel Královec (Czech Republic) Martin Wilczek (Czech Republic)
Antonín Kordula (Czech Republic)
Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway) Kim Haglund (Norway)
Frank Andas (Norway)
Gianluca Rocchi (Italy) Elenito Di Liberatore (Italy)
Gianluca Cariolato (Italy)

Draw

The draw for the tournament took place on 24 April 2012.[7] Great Britain, Mexico, Brazil and Spain were seeded for the draw and placed into groups A–D, respectively.[8] The remaining teams were drawn from four pots with teams from the same region kept apart.[9]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

Group stage

The competing countries were divided into four groups of four teams, denoted as groups A, B, C and D. Teams in each group will play one another in a round-robin basis, with the top two teams of each group advancing to the quarter-finals.

All times are local, British Summer Time (UTC+1).

Group A

The match of Great Britain against Senegal in Old Trafford, Manchester
Main article: Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Group A
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Great Britain (H) 3 2 1 0 5 2 +3 7 Advance to knockout stage
2  Senegal 3 1 2 0 4 2 +2 5
3  Uruguay 3 1 0 2 2 4 −2 3
4  United Arab Emirates 3 0 1 2 3 6 −3 1
Source: FIFA
(H) Hosts
United Arab Emirates 1–2 Uruguay
  • Matar 23'
 Report
Attendance: 51,745[10]
Great Britain 1–1 Senegal
 Report
Attendance: 72,176[11]
Senegal 2–0 Uruguay
Konaté 10', 37' Report
Attendance: 75,093[12]
Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)
Great Britain 3–1 United Arab Emirates
 Report
Attendance: 85,137[13]
Senegal 1–1 United Arab Emirates
 Report
Attendance: 28,652[14]
Great Britain 1–0 Uruguay
 Report
Attendance: 70,438[15]

Group B

Main article: Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Group B
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Mexico 3 2 1 0 3 0 +3 7 Advance to knockout stage
2  South Korea 3 1 2 0 2 1 +1 5
3  Gabon 3 0 2 1 1 3 −2 2
4   Switzerland 3 0 1 2 2 4 −2 1
Source: FIFA
Mexico 0–0 South Korea
Report
Attendance: 15,748[16]
Referee: Slim Jedidi (Tunisia)
Gabon 1–1  Switzerland
 Report
Attendance: 15,748[17]
Mexico 2–0 Gabon
 Report
Attendance: 28,171[18]
South Korea 2–1  Switzerland
 Report
Attendance: 30,114[19]
Mexico 1–0  Switzerland
 Report
Attendance: 50,000[20]
South Korea 0–0 Gabon
Report
Attendance: 76,927[21]

Group C

Match between Brazil and Belarus
Main article: Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Group C
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Brazil 3 3 0 0 9 3 +6 9 Advance to knockout stage
2  Egypt 3 1 1 1 6 5 +1 4
3  Belarus 3 1 0 2 3 6 −3 3
4  New Zealand 3 0 1 2 1 5 −4 1
Source: FIFA
Belarus 1–0 New Zealand
 Report
Attendance: 14,457[22]
Brazil 3–2 Egypt
 Report
Attendance: 26,812[23]
Egypt 1–1 New Zealand
 Report
Attendance: 50,050[24]
Brazil 3–1 Belarus
 Report
Attendance: 66,212[25]
Brazil 3–0 New Zealand
 Report
Attendance: 25,201[26]
Egypt 3–1 Belarus
 Report
Attendance: 8,732[27]

Group D

Juan Mata taking a corner in the match between Spain and Japan
Main article: Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Group D
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Japan 3 2 1 0 2 0 +2 7 Advance to knockout stage
2  Honduras 3 1 2 0 3 2 +1 5
3  Morocco 3 0 2 1 2 3 −1 2
4  Spain 3 0 1 2 0 2 −2 1
Source: FIFA
Honduras 2–2 Morocco
 Report
Attendance: 23,421[28]
Spain 0–1 Japan
Report
Attendance: 37,726[29]
Japan 1–0 Morocco
 Report
Attendance: 24,936[30]
Spain 0–1 Honduras
Report
Attendance: 26,523[31]
Referee: Juan Soto (Venezuela)
Spain 0–0 Morocco
Report
Attendance: 35,973[32]
Japan 0–0 Honduras
Report
Attendance: 25,862[33]
Referee: Slim Jedidi (Tunisia)

Knockout stage

Main article: Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of fifteen minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.[34]

Bracket

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsGold medal match
 
          
 
4 August – Cardiff
 
 
 Great Britain1 (4)
 
7 August – Manchester
 
 South Korea (p)1 (5)
 
 South Korea0
 
4 August – Newcastle
 
 Brazil3
 
 Brazil3
 
11 August – London
 
 Honduras2
 
 Brazil1
 
4 August – London
 
 Mexico2
 
 Mexico (a.e.t.)4
 
7 August – London
 
 Senegal2
 
 Mexico3
 
4 August – Manchester
 
 Japan1 Bronze medal match
 
 Japan3
 
10 August – Cardiff
 
 Egypt0
 
 South Korea2
 
 
 Japan0
 

Quarter-finals

Japan 3–0 Egypt
Nagai 14'
Yoshida 78'
Ōtsu 83'		 Report
Attendance: 70,772[35]
Mexico 4–2 (a.e.t.) Senegal
Enríquez 10'
Aquino 62'
Dos Santos 98'
Herrera 109'		 Report Konaté 69'
Baldé 76'
Attendance: 81,855[36]
Brazil 3–2 Honduras
Damião 38', 60'
Neymar 50' (pen.)		 Report Martínez 12'
Espinoza 48'
Attendance: 42,166[37]
Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)
Great Britain 1–1 (a.e.t.) South Korea
Ramsey 36' (pen.) Report Ji Dong-won 29'
Penalties
Ramsey soccer ball with check mark
Cleverley soccer ball with check mark
Dawson soccer ball with check mark
Giggs soccer ball with check mark
Sturridge soccer ball with red X		 4–5 soccer ball with check mark Koo Ja-cheol
soccer ball with check mark Baek Sung-dong
soccer ball with check mark Hwang Seok-ho
soccer ball with check mark Park Jong-woo
soccer ball with check mark Ki Sung-yueng
Attendance: 70,171[38]

Semi-finals

Mexico 3–1 Japan
Fabián 31'
Peralta 65'
Cortés 90+3'		 Report Ōtsu 12'
Attendance: 82,372[39]
South Korea 0–3 Brazil
Report Rômulo 38'
Damião 57', 64'
Attendance: 69,389[40]

Bronze medal match

South Korea 2–0 Japan
Park Chu-young 38'
Koo Ja-cheol 57'		 Report
Attendance: 56,393[41]

Gold medal match

Main article: Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Final
Brazil 1–2 Mexico
 Report 1
Report 2
Attendance: 86,162[42]

Statistics

Goalscorers

With six goals, Leandro Damião of Brazil was the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 76 goals were scored by 49 different players, none of them credited as own goals.

6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal

Discipline

Red cards

Final ranking

As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Final result
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Mexico 6 5 1 0 12 4 +8 16 Gold medal
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Brazil 6 5 0 1 16 7 +9 15 Silver medal
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  South Korea 6 2 3 1 5 5 0 9 Bronze medal
4  Japan 6 3 1 2 6 5 +1 10 Fourth place
5  Great Britain 4 2 2 0 6 3 +3 8 Eliminated in
quarter-finals
6  Senegal 4 1 2 1 6 6 0 5
7  Honduras 4 1 2 1 5 5 0 5
8  Egypt 4 1 1 2 6 8 −2 4
9  Uruguay 3 1 0 2 2 4 −2 3 Eliminated in
group stage
10  Belarus 3 1 0 2 3 6 −3 3
11  Morocco 3 0 2 1 2 3 −1 2
12  Gabon 3 0 2 1 1 3 −2 2
13   Switzerland 3 0 1 2 2 4 −2 1
14  Spain 3 0 1 2 0 2 −2 1
15  United Arab Emirates 3 0 1 2 3 6 −3 1
16  New Zealand 3 0 1 2 1 5 −4 1
Source: Olympics

Controversies

Queues

Further information: Controversies at the 2012 Summer Olympics

For the first matchday at St James' Park, there were long queues at the box office, leading to fans missing some of the game. A spokesman for Ticketmaster said: "We saw extremely high numbers of spectators arriving at St James' Park to purchase football tickets on the day of the event. While Ticketmaster is contracted to manage the box offices at Olympic venues, the staff numbers at those venues are determined by LOCOG. We will continue to work closely with LOCOG to ensure that the box office staff levels are sufficient to meet the demands for ticket sales and collection". LOCOG described the situation as "totally and completely 100% unacceptable", and after changes were made in the process, the issue was reportedly avoided for the second round of matches.[43][44]

During the matches held at the Wembley Stadium on 29 July, fans were subjected to long queues at the concession stands in the ground after Visa's card payment system crashed, leaving cash payment as the only alternative. The situation was compounded by the fact that, as Visa had been granted exclusive rights to the Olympics, other cards could not be accepted as payment, and the number of cash machines in the stadium had been reduced after 27 that worked on the LINK system had been removed to be replaced by eight that could only be used by Visa cards.[45]

There were several problems relating to transport for events held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. There was severe congestion at Cardiff Central railway station when Great Britain played South Korea;[46] and the bronze medal match also had rail disruption when a retaining wall collapsed onto the tracks.[47][48][49]

Player sent home

Swiss footballer Michel Morganella was sent home by the Switzerland team following their 2–1 loss against South Korea after he sent a tweet that, according to the director of Swiss Olympic Committee Gian Gilli, "discriminated, insulted and violated the dignity of the South Korean football team and people".[50]

Great Britain football teams

Following the criticism against Scottish female player Kim Little, for choosing not to sing the British national anthem "God Save the Queen" because of her national identity,[51] other Scottish and Welsh players, Ryan Giggs, Craig Bellamy and Ifeoma Dieke, also attracted comment in the media for remaining silent.[52] Giggs, the Great Britain men's captain, later said: "The problem is the British anthem is the same as the English anthem and if you're a Welshman or a Scotsman it's difficult".[53]

LOCOG also apologised after an error in the official match programme for the first game mistakenly described Welsh player Joe Allen as being English.[54]

Political statement made by Park Jong-woo

After South Korea defeated Japan in the bronze medal match at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 10 August, South Korean player Park Jong-woo walked around the field holding a banner with a political message written in Korean, "독도는 우리 땅!" (dokdo neun uri ttang, lit.: "Dokdo is our territory").[55] This incident occurred on the same night after South Korean President Lee Myung-bak had visited the islands which both South Korea and Japan claim as their territory.[56] The IOC and FIFA reviewed the evidence, since FIFA statutes prohibit political statements being made by athletes at Olympic events.[57] The IOC barred Park from the bronze medal ceremony and did not permit him to receive his medal.[58] In addition, it asked FIFA to discipline Park, and stated that it may decide on further sanctions at a later date.[59][60] IOC president Jacques Rogge told reporters: "We will take a possible decision of what will happen with the medal later".[61] FIFA failed to reach a conclusion on the case at a meeting at its Zürich headquarters held on 5 October, and the disciplinary committee discussed the case again on the following week,[62] then again failed to reach a verdict. After that, the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) announced that Park would receive his bronze medal. The case was heard again by the committee on 20 November,[63] and FIFA finally decided and announced on 3 December to suspend Park for two matches after he was considered to have breached the FIFA Disciplinary Code and the Regulations of the Olympic Football Tournaments. FIFA also imposed a warning on the Korea Football Association and reminded it of its obligation to properly instruct its players on all the pertinent rules and applicable regulations before the start of any competition, in order to avoid such incidents in the future. The Korea Football Association was warned that should incidents of such nature occur again in the future, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee may impose harsher sanctions on the Korea Football Association.[64]

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