The association football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics were held from 3 to 20 August in Brazil.

The tournament were feature both the men's and women's teams. The men's teams can only have players who were born on or after 1 January 1993, and the women's teams have no age limit.

Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics

The tournament were played in six cities: Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Salvador, São Paulo, and Manaus.

Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Qualified teams

Men

The top 4 teams in the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualify, the winner of the 2015 Pacific Games qualifies, the top 2 teams in the 2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualify, the top 3 teams from the 2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualify, the top 3 teams from the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship qualify and the winner of the 2016 CONCACAF–CONMEBOL play-off qualifies.

Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Women

The best two European teams from the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualify, the winner of the 2014 Copa América Femenina qualifies (which was Brazil but they already qualified for being hosts, so the runners-up qualified instead), the top 2 teams from the 2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament qualify, the winner of the 2016 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament qualifies, the top 2 teams from the 2016 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualify, the top 2 teams from the 2016 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament qualify and the winner of the 2016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament qualifies.

Men's tournament

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Women's tournament

Group stage

Group E

Group F

Group G

Best third-place teams

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Medal summary

Medal table

Statistics

Men top goalscorers

6 goals

Serge Gnabry

Nils Petersen

4 goals

Neymar

Maximilian Meyer

Erick Gutiérrez

Oghenekaro Etebo

Umar Sadiq

3 goals

Gabriel Jesus

Luan

Teo Gutiérrez

Anthony Lozano

Kwon Chang-hoon

Ryu Seung-woo

Suk Hyun-jun

Gonçalo Paciência

2 goals

Sofiane Bendebka

Gabriel

Dorlan Pabón

Matthias Ginter

Davie Selke

Alberth Elis

Marcelo Pereira

Takuma Asano

Son Heung-min

Aminu Umar

1 goal

Mohamed Benkablia

Baghdad Bounedjah

Jonathan Calleri

Ángel Correa

Mauricio Martínez

Marquinhos

Robert Skov

Roy Krishna

Lukas Klostermann

Philipp Max

Romell Quioto

Saad Abdul-Amir

Shinzo Koroki

Takumi Minamino

Shoya Nakajima

Musashi Suzuki

Shinya Yajima

Oribe Peralta

Rodolfo Pizarro

Carlos Salcedo

John Obi Mikel

Tobias Figueiredo

Pité

Hwang Hee-chan

Gift Motupa

Astrit Ajdarević

Mikael Ishak

Own goals

Hiroki Fujiharu (playing against Colombia)

Women top goalscorers

5 goals

Melanie Behringer

3 goals

Beatriz

Janine Beckie

Christine Sinclair

Sara Däbritz

2 goals

Michelle Heyman

Cristiane

Marta

Melissa Tancredi

Catalina Usme

Louisa Cadamuro

Eugenie Le Sommer

Stina Blackstenius

Carli Lloyd

Alex Morgan

1 goal

Lisa De Vanna

Caitlin Foord

Alanna Kennedy

Samantha Kerr

Clare Polkinghorne

Kyah Simon

Andressa Alves

Mônica

Deanne Rose

Sophie Schmidt

Gu Yasha

Tan Ruyin

Camille Abily

Amel Majri

Saskia Bartusiak

Melanie Leupolz

Dzsenifer Marozsán

Alexandra Popp

Amber Hearn

Nilla Fischer

Lotta Schelin

Crystal Dunn

Mallory Pugh

Kudakwashe Basopo

Mavis Chirandu

Emmaculate Msipa

1 own goal

Carolina Arias (playing against France) Linda Sembrant (playing against Germany) Eunice Chibanda (playing against Germany)

Tournament rankings

Men

Women

References

Other websites

Football , Rio2016.com

Men's Olympic Football Tournament, Rio 2016 , FIFA.com

Women's Olympic Football Tournament, Rio 2016 , FIFA.com

2016 Summer Olympics

2016 in association football

Olympic football tournaments