| Event: | Football 7-a-side |
| Games: | 2016 Summer |
| Venue: | Deodoro Olympic Park |
| Dates: | 8–16 September |
| Competitors: | 112 (8 teams) |
| Nations: | 8 |
| Prev: | 2012 |
Football 7-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics[1] was held in Rio de Janeiro at the Deodoro Olympic Park, from 8 September to 16 September. Football 7-a-side is played by athletes with cerebral palsy, a condition characterized by impairment of muscular coordination, stroke, or traumatic brain injury (TBI). 112 footballers are expected to compete for one set of medals.
For these games, the men compete in an 8-team tournament.
| Men's team | Kostyantyn Symashko Vitaliy Trushev Yevhen Zinoviev Taras Dutko Oleh Len Edhar Kahramanian Vitalii Romanchuk Ivan Dotsenko Dmytro Molodtsov Stanislav Podolksyi Volodymyr Antonyuk Bohdan Kulynych Artem Krasylnykov Ivan Shkvarlo | Moslem Khazaeipirsarabi Hashem Rastegarimobin Lotfollah Jangjou Hassan Safari Sadegh Hassani Baghi Farzad Mehri Behnam Sohrabi Hossein Tiz Bor Mehdi Jamali Jasem Bakhshi Rasoul Atashafrouz Mohammad Kharat Moslem Akbari Babak Safarikourabbasloo | |
Eight teams will contest the competition, which is for male athletes only.An NPC can enter a single squad, consisting of fourteen players, two more per team than in 2012.
Qualification is by a series of tournaments, and was one of the first events for which entries were completed.
| Means of qualification | Date | Venue | Berths[2] | Qualified | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host nation | 2 October 2009 | Copenhagen, Denmark | 1 | ||
| 2014 CPISRA Football 7-a-side European Championships | 23 July 2014 – 2 August 2014 | Maia, Portugal | 1 | ||
| 19–23 October 2014 |  Incheon, South Korea | 1 | |||
| September 2015 |  Toronto, Canada | 1 | |||
| 16–28 June 2015 |  Burton, Great Britain[3] | 4 | |||
| Total | 8 | ||||
See main article: Football 7-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Team squads.
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