Football at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's tournament

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Women's football tournament at the 2011 Pan American Games
Estadio Omnilife
DatesOctober 18 – 27
Competitors143 from 8 nations
Medalists
Gold medal 
Silver medal 
Bronze medal 
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The women's

Estadio Omnilife from October 18 to October 27. Associations affiliated with FIFA that qualified were invited to send their full women's national teams.[1]

For these Games, the women competed in an 8-team tournament, which is a drop from 10 at the 2007 games. The defending champions are Brazil, who won the title on home field.

Teams

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee may enter one women's team for the football competition. Mexico, the host nation and Canada (automatic qualification) along with six other countries qualified through regional competitions.

Event Date Location Vacancies Qualified
Host Nation 1  Mexico
Qualified automatically[2] 1  Canada
Central American and Caribbean qualifying tournament
October 28 – November 8, 2010 Mexico Mexico 2  Costa Rica
 Trinidad and Tobago
South American qualifying tournament
November 4–21, 2010 Ecuador Ecuador 4  Brazil
 Colombia
 Chile
 Argentina
TOTAL 8

Squads

The women's tournament is a full international tournament with no restrictions on age. Each nation must submit a squad of 18 players September 2011. A minimum of two goalkeepers (plus one optional alternate goalkeeper) must be included in the squad.

Format

  • Eight teams are split into 2 preliminary round groups of 4 teams each. The top 2 teams from each group qualify for the knockout stage.
  • The third and fourth placed teams are eliminated from the competition.
  • In the semifinals, the matchups are as follows: A1 vs. B2 and B1 vs. A2
  • The winning teams from the semifinals play for the gold medal. The losing teams compete for the bronze medal.

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held at the offices of CONCACAF in New York City, United States. The draw was conducted by CONCACAF Deputy General Secretary Ted Howard. The seeding information was not provided, rather the results of the draw were given.[3]

  • Team (World ranking as of July 2011)[4]
Group A Group B

Preliminary round

All times are local

Central Daylight Time (UTC−5)[5]

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Colombia 3 2 0 1 2 1 +1 6 Advance to Semifinals
2  Mexico 3 1 2 0 2 1 +1 5
3  Chile 3 1 1 1 3 1 +2 4
4  Trinidad and Tobago 3 0 1 2 1 5 −4 1
Colombia 1–0 Trinidad and Tobago
Andrade
18'
Report
Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara
Attendance: 3,548
)





Mexico 1–0 Colombia
Pérez 2' Report
El Salvador
)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Brazil 3 2 1 0 4 1 +3 7 Advance to Semifinals
2  Canada 3 2 1 0 4 1 +3 7
3  Costa Rica 3 0 1 2 5 8 −3 1
4  Argentina 3 0 1 2 3 6 −3 1
Canada 3–1 Costa Rica
Julien 30'
Sinclair 51'
Pietrangelo 82'
Report
Cruz 28' (pen.
)
Trinidad and Tobago
)

Argentina 0–2 Brazil
Report
Daniele
37'
Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara
Attendance: 5,967
)

Canada 1–0 Argentina
Julien 48' Report
El Salvador
)


Costa Rica 3–3 Argentina
Rodríguez 75'
Alvarado
82'
Report Pereyra 5'
Vallejos 8'
Ugalde 16' (o.g.)
Trinidad and Tobago
)

  • A drawing of lots was used to separate Canada and Brazil after they were tied on every tiebreaker. Brazil won the draw.

Knockout stage

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
25 October –
Guadalajara
 
 Mexico 0
 
 
pen.
)
1 (4)
 
 Colombia1
 
 
 Canada2
 
Third place
 
 
27 October –
a.e.t.)
1
 
 
 Colombia0

Semifinals


Bronze-medal match

Mexico 1–0 (a.e.t.) Colombia
Ruiz
100'
Report
El Salvador
)

Gold-medal match

 2011 Pan American Games Women's football tournament
Winners 

Canada
1st title

Goalscorers

2 goals
1 goals
1 own goal
  • Costa Rica Marianne Ugalde (playing against Argentina)

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Women's football    
Ketlen Wiggers
 

Final standings

Rank Team Record
 Canada 3–2–0
 Brazil 3–2–0
 Mexico 2–2–1
4  Colombia 2–0–3
5  Chile 1–1–1
6  Costa Rica 0–1–2
7  Argentina 0–1–2
8  Trinidad and Tobago 0–1–2

References