Football 7-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics explained

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.

Medalists

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














Qualifying

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 Korea1
September 2015 Toronto, Canada 1
16–28 June 2015 Burton, Great Britain[3] 4
Total 8

Squads

See main article: Football 7-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Team squads.

Tournament

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Classification round

7th–8th place match

5th–6th place match

Medal round

Semi finals

Bronze-medal match

Gold-medal match

Final rankings

RankTeam
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Source: Paralympic.org

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Paralympic Football 7-a-side . Rio 2016 Summer Paralympics . 22 August 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160824200857/https://www.rio2016.com/en/paralympics/football-7-a-side . 24 August 2016 .
  2. http://www.rio2016.com/sites/default/files/users/rio2016_files/football-7-paralympics.pdf Football 7-a-Side Qualification Criteria - FT
  3. http://www.cpisra.org/ Draw for the CPISRA football 7-a-side world championships 2015