Event: | Football – Men's tournament |
Games: | 2015 |
Venue: | Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium |
Dates: | 12–26 July |
Competitors: | 144 |
Nations: | 8 |
Prev: | 2011 |
Next: | 2019 |
The men's football tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada was held at the Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium in Hamilton from July 12 to 26.[1]
For the football competition in these Games, the men competed in an eight-team tournament. The teams were grouped into two pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams in each group advanced to a single elimination bracket. The men's competition was an under-22 event, with each team supplemented with up to three over age players.[2]
Mexico were the defending champions from the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara. The gold medal was won by Uruguay.
A total of eight men's teams qualified to compete at the games. Hosts Canada and Mexico qualified automatically. The winners of the regional Caribbean and Central American championships also qualified. Teams placing between 3rd and 6th at the South American Championship also qualified.[2] [3]
Event | Date | Location | Vacancies | Qualified | |
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Host Nation | 1 | ||||
Qualified automatically | 1 | ||||
Central American Qualifier[4] | July 17–29, 2014 | ![]() | 1 | ||
Caribbean Qualifier | September 12–19, 2014 | ![]() | 1 | ||
South American Qualifier[5] [6] | January 14 – February 7, 2015 | Uruguay | 4 | ||
Total | 8 |
The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.
Team | Appearance | Previous best performance | |
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(1963, 1975, 1979, 1987) | |||
(hosts) | (1967, 1999) | ||
(1967, 1975, 1999, 2011) | |||
(1951) | |||
(1967) | |||
(1983) |
1 – Guillermo de Amores 2 – Sebastián Gorga 3 – Federico Ricca 4 – Mauricio Lemos 5 – Andrés Schetino 6 – Fabricio Formiliano 7 – Facundo Castro 8 – Juan Cruz Mascia 9 – Junior Arias 10 – Michael Santos 11 – Ignacio González 12 – Gastón Olveira 13 – Erick Cabaco 14 – Gastón Faber 15 – Fernando Gorriarán 16 – Nicolás Albarracín 17 – Mathías Suárez 18 – Brian Lozano (HC – Fabián Coito) | 1 – Gibrán Lajud 2 – Carlos Guzmán 3 – Hedgardo Marín 4 – Luis Alberto López 5 – José Abella 6 – José Van Rankin 7 – Jonathan Espericueta 8 – Uvaldo Luna 9 – Marco Bueno 10 – Ángel Zaldívar 11 – Carlos Cisneros 12 – Luis Cárdenas 13 – Jordan Silva 14 – Kevin Escamilla 15 – Michael Pérez 16 – Alfonso Tamay 17 – Martín Eduardo Zúñiga 18 – Daniel Álvarez (HC – Raúl Gutiérrez) | 1 – Jacsson 2 – Gilberto 3 – Bressan 4 – Luan 5 – Bruno Paulista 6 – Vinícius Freitas 7 – Barreto 8 – Dodô 9 – Erik 10 – Lucas Piazon 11 – Clayton 12 – Andrey 13 – Tinga 14 – Gustavo Henrique 15 – Euller 16 – Rômulo 17 – Eurico 18 – Luciano (HC – Rogério Micale) |
See main article: Football at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's team rosters. At the start of tournament, all eight participating countries had to submit up to 18 players on their rosters.
In the first round of the competition, teams were divided into two groups of four teams, played in round-robin format with each of the teams playing all other teams in the group once. Teams were awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss. The teams were ranked as follows:[7]
Following the completion of the group games, the top two teams in each group advanced to the semifinals, with the winners of one group playing the runners-up of another group. The winners of the semifinals advanced to the gold medal match and the losers advanced to the bronze medal match.[7]
All games were played in two 45-minute halves. In the medal round, if the match ended in a draw after 90 minutes, extra time was played (two 15-minute halves), followed by penalty kicks competition if the match still remained tied.[7]
The official detailed schedule and draw was revealed on April 24, 2015.[8]
All times were Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)
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thumb|170px|Luciano, top scorer