| Tourney Name: | Men's Olympic Football Tournament |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Size: | 150px |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Dates: | 4–20 August |
| Num Teams: | 16 |
| Confederations: | 6 |
| Venues: | 7 |
| Cities: | 6 |
| Count: | 1 |
| Matches: | 32 |
| Goals: | 104 |
| Top Scorer: | Serge Gnabry Nils Petersen |
| Prevseason: | 2012 |
| Nextseason: | 2020 |
The men's football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held in Rio de Janeiro and five other cities in Brazil from 4 to 20 August 2016.[1] It was the 26th edition of the men's Olympic football tournament. Together with the women's competition, the 2016 Summer Olympics football tournament was held in six cities in Brazil, including Olympic host city Rio de Janeiro, which hosted the final at the Maracanã Stadium.[2] Teams participating in the men's competition were restricted to under-23 players (born on or after 1 January 1993) with a maximum of three overage players allowed.
In March 2016, it was agreed that the competition would be part of IFAB's trial to allow a fourth substitute to be made during extra time.[3]
Brazil captured their first gold medal after defeating Germany on penalties.[4] Nigeria won the bronze medal by beating Honduras 3–2.[5] With the victory, Brazil became the second country after France to win all five FIFA 11-a-side men's titles (FIFA World Cup, FIFA Confederations Cup, FIFA U-20 World Cup, FIFA U-17 World Cup, and the Olympic football tournament).
The match schedule of the men's tournament was unveiled on 10 November 2015.[6] [7]
| G | Group stage | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| Thu 4 | Fri 5 | Sat 6 | Sun 7 | Mon 8 | Tue 9 | Wed 10 | Thu 11 | Fri 12 | Sat 13 | Sun 14 | Mon 15 | Tue 16 | Wed 17 | Thu 18 | Fri 19 | Sat 20 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F | |||||||||||||
In addition to host nation Brazil, 15 men's national teams qualified from six separate continental confederations. FIFA ratified the distribution of spots at the executive committee meeting in March 2014.[8]
| Means of qualification | Dates | Venue | Berths | Qualified | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host country | 2 October 2009 | 1 | |||
| 2015 South American Youth Championship[9] | 14 January – 7 February 2015 |  Uruguay | 1 | ||
| 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship[10] | 17–30 June 2015 |  Czech Republic | 4 | ||
| 2015 Pacific Games[11] | 3–17 July 2015 | 1 | |||
| 2015 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship[12] | 1–13 October 2015 |  United States | 2 | ||
| 2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations[13] | 28 November – 12 December 2015 |  Senegal | 3 | ||
| 2016 AFC U-23 Championship[14] | 12–30 January 2016 |  Qatar | 3 | ||
| 25–29 March 2016 |  Colombia (first leg) United States (second leg) | 1 | |||
| Total | 16 | ||||
On 2 May 2016, FIFA released the list of match referees that would officiate at the Olympics.[15]
| Confederation | Referee | Assistants |
|---|---|---|
| AFC | Fahad Al-Mirdasi (Saudi Arabia) | Abdullah Al-Shalwai (Saudi Arabia) Mohammed Al-Abakry (Saudi Arabia) |
| Alireza Faghani (Iran) | Reza Sokhandan (Iran) Mohammadreza Mansouri (Iran) | |
| Ryuji Sato (Japan) | Toru Sagara (Japan) Hiroshi Yamauchi (Japan) | |
| CAF | Gehad Grisha (Egypt) | Rédouane Achik (Morocco) Waleed Ahmed (Sudan) |
| Malang Diedhiou (Senegal) | Djibril Camara (Senegal) El Hadji Malick Samba (Senegal) | |
| CONCACAF | Walter López Castellanos (Guatemala) | Leonel Leal (Costa Rica) Gerson López Castellanos (Guatemala) |
| César Ramos (Mexico) | Marvin Torrentera (Mexico) Miguel Hernández (Mexico) | |
| CONMEBOL | Néstor Pitana (Argentina) | Hernán Maidana (Argentina) Juan Pablo Belatti (Argentina) |
| Sandro Ricci (Brazil) | Emerson de Carvalho (Brazil) Marcelo Van Gasse (Brazil) | |
| Roddy Zambrano (Ecuador) | Christian Lescano (Ecuador) Byron Romero (Ecuador) | |
| OFC | Matthew Conger (New Zealand) | Simon Lount (New Zealand) Tevita Makasini (Tonga) |
| UEFA | Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey) | Bahattin Duran (Turkey) Tarık Ongun (Turkey) |
| Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania) | Octavian Șovre (Romania) Sebastian Gheorghe (Romania) | |
| Sergei Karasev (Russia) | Tikhon Kalugin (Russia) Nikolay Golubev (Russia) | |
| Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain) | Pau Cebrián Devis (Spain) Roberto Díaz Pérez (Spain) | |
| Clément Turpin (France) | Frédéric Cano (France) Nicolas Danos (France) | |
| Support Referee | Diego Haro (Peru) | |
| Joseph Lamptey (Ghana) | ||
| Rio de Janeiro | Brasília | São Paulo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maracanã | Olympic Stadium | Mané Garrincha National Stadium | Arena Corinthians |
| Capacity 74,738[16] | Capacity: 60,000 | Capacity: 69,349 | Capacity: 48,234 |
| Belo Horizonte | |||
| Mineirão | |||
| Capacity: 58,170 | |||
| Salvador | |||
| Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova | |||
| Capacity: 51,900 | |||
| Manaus | |||
| Arena da Amazônia | |||
| Capacity: 40,549 | |||
| Event stadium | Training venue #1 | Training venue #2 | Training venue #3 | Training venue #4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maracanã | CFZ Stadium | Vasco Barra Football Club | Juliano Moreira Sports Complex | ||
| Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha | Cave Stadium | Minas Brasília Tennis Club | Yacht Club of Brasília | Cruzeiro Stadium | |
| Mineirão | Toca da Raposa 1 | Toca da Raposa 2 | Cidade do Galo | América F.C. Training Center | |
| Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova | Parque Santiago Stadium | Pituaçu Stadium | Barradão Stadium | E.C. Bahia Training Center | |
| Arena Corinthians | São Paulo F.C. Training Center | S.E. Palmeiras Training Center | C.A. Juventus Stadium | Nacional A.C. Stadium |
See main article: Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads. The men's tournament was an under-23 international tournament (born on or after 1 January 1993), with a maximum of three overage players allowed. Each team had to submit a squad of 18 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers. Each team might also have a list of four alternate players, who might replace any player in the squad in case of injury during the tournament.[17]
The draw for the tournament was held on 14 April 2016, 10:30 BRT (UTC−3), at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.[18] The 16 teams in the men's tournament were drawn into four groups of four teams.[19] The teams were seeded into four pots based on their performances in the five previous Olympics (with more recent tournaments weighted higher), plus bonus points awarded to the six confederation qualifying champions (Japan, Nigeria, Mexico, Argentina, Fiji, Sweden).[20] The hosts Brazil were automatically assigned into position A1. No groups could contain more than one team from the same confederation.[21]
The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals. The rankings of teams in each group were determined as follows:[17]
If two or more teams were equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings were determined as follows:
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See main article: Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Knockout stage. In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of fifteen minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.[17]
On 18 March 2016, the FIFA Executive Committee agreed that the competition would be part of the International Football Association Board's trial to allow a fourth substitute to be made during extra time.[3]
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See main article: Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Final.
Gabriel Jesus Luan Teo Gutiérrez
Kwon Chang-hoon Ryu Seung-woo Suk Hyun-jun Gabriel Barbosa Dorlan Pabón
Takuma Asano
Aminu Umar Son Heung-min
Jonathan Calleri Ángel Correa Mauricio Martínez Marquinhos
Saad Abdul-Amir Shinzō Kōroki Takumi Minamino Shōya Nakajima Musashi Suzuki Shinya Yajima
Oribe Peralta Rodolfo Pizarro Carlos Salcedo Mikel John Obi Hwang Hee-chan
Astrit Ajdarević Mikael Ishak Hiroki Fujiharu (playing against Colombia)