The Football competitions in the 2001 Summer Universiade were held in Beijing, China.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Japan	Ukraine Dmytro Kozachenko Vadym Zhukov Vasyl Hrechanyi Yevhen Bredun Oleh Shkred Dmytro Kondratovych Andriy Yerokhin Vitaliy Bielikov Serhiy Klyuchyk Oleksandr Batrachenko Ivan Oleksiyenko Volodymyr Brayila Dmytro Bermudes Oleksandr Antonenko Ivan Kozoriz Oleksiy Telyatnykov Myroslav Bundash Yaroslav Skydan	South Korea
Women details	Brazil	Netherlands	South Korea

• World Student Games (Universiade – Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 18 February 2010.
• World Student Games (Universiade – Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 18 February 2010.