| Event: | Football 5-a-side |
| Games: | 2012 Summer |
| Venue: | Olympic Hockey Centre |
| Dates: | 31 August – 8 September |
| Competitors: | 96 (8 teams) |
| Gold: | Brazil |
| Goldnpc: | BRA |
| Silver: | France |
| Silvernpc: | FRA |
| Bronze: | Spain |
| Bronzenpc: | ESP |
| Prev: | 2008 |
| Next: | 2016 |
Football 5-a-side at the 2012 Summer Paralympics[1] was held in London at the Riverbank Arena, from 31 August to 8 September. Football 5-a-side is played by athletes with visual impairment, with a ball with a noise making device inside.[2]
For these games, the men competed in an 8-team tournament. Brazil were the favourites since they had won both in Athens 2004 and in Beijing 2008; they were also the defending world champions.[3]
| Means of qualification | Date | Venue | Berths[4] | Qualified | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host nation | 1 | ||||
| 14–22 August 2010 | 1 | ||||
| 13–18 December 2010 | Guangzhou, | 1 | |||
| 2011 IBSA Football 5-a-side European Championships | 17 June – 1 July 2011 | Aksaray, | 2 | ||
| 15–20 November 2011 | Guadalajara, | 1 | |||
| Wildcard | 2 | ||||
| Total | 8 | ||||
See main article: Football 5-a-side at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Team squads.
Each of the eight participating nations submitted a squad of ten men – eight blind or visually impaired players and two sighted goalkeepers. For the first time, the sighted players were awarded medals as part of their team.
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| Men's team | Fábio Luiz Ribeiro de Vasconcelos Daniel Dantas da Silva Emerson de Carvalho Gledson da Paixão Barros Cássio Lopes dos Reis Marcos Jose Jeferson da Conceição Gonçalves Severino Gabriel da Silva Ricardo Steinmetz Alves (captain) Raimundo Nonato Alves Mendes | Frédéric Jannas Hakim Arezki Abderrahim Maya Yvan Kepmegni David Labarre Jonathan Grangier Gaël Rivière Martin Baron Arnaud Ayax Frédéric Villeroux (captain) | Álvaro Gonzalez Alcaraz José Luis Giera Tejuelo Francisco Muñoz Pérez Adolfo Acosta Rodriguez (captain) José López Ramírez Alfredo Cuadrado Freire Antonio Martín Gaitán Youssef El Haddaoui Rabii Marcelo Rosado Carrasco Raul Díaz Ortín |