Football at the 2019 Pan American Games – Women's tournament explained

Event:	Football – Women's tournament
Games:	2019
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The Women's football tournament at the 2019 Pan American Games was held in Lima during July and August 2019.

Qualification

A total of eight women's teams qualified to compete at the games, four CONMEBOL teams and four CONCACAF teams.^[1] For CONMEBOL, the three teams ranked third to fifth at the 2018 Copa América Femenina qualified, while Peru automatically qualified as hosts. For CONCACAF, the best team from each of the three zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean) at the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship qualified; however, both United States and Canada declined to participate to focus on the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, so Mexico qualified for the North American berth, while Costa Rica also qualified by decision of CONCACAF.^[2]

Qualified teams

Confederation	Region	Means of qualification	Teams qualified	Appearance	Previous best performance
CONCACAF	North American	2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship (4–17 October 2018)		6th	Silver medal (1999)
	Caribbean			2nd	Group stage (2007)
	Central American			2nd	Group stage (2007)
	Central American	Last berth defined by CONCACAF		5th	Bronze medal (1999)
CONMEBOL	South American	Automatically qualified	(hosts)	1st	Debut
		2018 Copa América Femenina (4–22 April 2018)		5th	Fourth place (2003)
				3rd	Silver medal (2015)
				2nd	Group stage (2007)

Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 12 April 2019, 12:00 PET (UTC−5), at the Peruvian Football Federation headquarters in Lima, Peru.^[3] ^[4] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four and each group had two CONCACAF teams and two CONMEBOL teams. The hosts Peru were seeded into group B and assigned to position 4 in their group, while the remaining seven teams were placed into two pots according to the confederation to which they belong.

width=50%	CONCACAF pot	width=50%	CONMEBOL pot

The CONCACAF teams were drawn first and assigned to positions 1 and 2 in groups A and B. Then, the CONMEBOL teams were drawn and the first two teams occupied positions 3 and 4 in group A while the third team occupied the position 3 in group B. The draw resulted in the following groups:^[5]

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+ Group A
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A1
A2
A3
A4

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+ Group B
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B1
B2
B3
B4

The draw was led by Hugo Figueredo, competition director of CONMEBOL, and had the help of Miriam Tristan and Cindy Novoa, members of the Peru women's national football team.

Squads

There are no age restrictions for the women's event.

Group stage

Tie-breakers

All times are local, PET (UTC−5).^[6]

Group A

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Group B

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Placement stage (5th–8th place)

Fifth place match

Knockout stage

If necessary, extra time and penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner.

Gold medal match

Final standings

Rank		Team



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Notes and References

Web site: SIETE PAÍSES YA ESTÁN CLASIFICADOS A LOS JUEGOS PANAMERICANOS LIMA 2019 EN FÚTBOL MASCULINO. lima2019.pe. 12 February 2019. es.
Web site: Selección Femenina de fútbol estará en los Panamericanos 2019 pese a no haber clasificado. La Nación. 25 February 2019. es.
Web site: LIMA 2019 DRAWS FOOTBALL GROUPS FOR THE PAN AMERICAN GAMES. lima2019.pe. 11 April 2019. 14 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190414083047/https://www.lima2019.pe/en/news/lima-2019-draws-football-groups-for-the-pan-american-games. 14 April 2019. dead.
Web site: LIMA 2019 DRAWS FOOTBALL GROUPS FOR THE PAN AMERICAN GAMES. lima2019.pe. 12 April 2019. 14 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190414083052/https://www.lima2019.pe/en/news/lima-2019-draws-the-football-groups-for-the-pan-american-games. 14 April 2019. dead.
Web site: En vivo mira ahora el livestream del sorteo del torneo de fútbol masculino y fem. Facebook Lima 2019. 12 April 2019.
Web site: Football Women – Competition Schedule. COPAL Lima 2019. 28 July 2019.