| Event: | Football |
| Games: | 2011 |
| Venue: | Estadio Omnilife |
| Dates: | October 18–28 |
| Competitors: | 287 |
| Nations: | 12 |
| Prev: | 2007 |
| Next: | 2015 |
Football at the 2011 Pan American Games was held in Zapopan, Mexico from October 18 to October 28. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to send their full women's national teams and men's U-22 teams to participate. In addition teams are allowed to enter a maximum of eighteen athletes.
For these games, the men and women competed in an 8-team tournament, a reduction of 4 teams for men and 2 for women, who competed with 10 teams, from the previous edition of the games.
| Zapopan (Guadalajara Area) | |
|---|---|
| Estadio Omnilife | |
| Capacity: 49,850 | |
See main article: Football at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's tournament.
See also: Football at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's team squads.
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See main article: Football at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's tournament.
See also: Football at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's team squads.
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The competition was spread out across eleven days, with the men and women competing on alternating dates.[1]
| Preliminary round | Semifinals | M | Event finals |
| October | 18th Tue | 19th Wed | 20th Thu | 21st Fri | 22nd Sat | 23rd Sun | 24th Mon | 25th Tue | 26th Wed | 27th Thu | 28th Fri | Gold medals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | M | 1 | |||||||||||
| Women | M | 1 |