Group F of the women's football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics was played from 21 to 27 July 2021 and included Brazil, China PR, the Netherlands and Zambia. The top two teams, the Netherlands and Brazil, advanced to the knockout stage.[1]
Draw position | Team | Pot | Confederation | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | Olympic appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance | FIFA Rankings | |||||
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F1 | style=white-space:nowrap | 3 | 2020 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament play-off round winners | 13 April 2021 | data-sort-value="6" | 6th | data-sort-value="2.2" | Silver medalists (1996) | 14 | 15 | ||||
F2 | style=white-space:nowrap | 2 | 2018 Copa América Femenina 1st place | 22 April 2018 | data-sort-value="7" | 7th | data-sort-value="2.1" | Silver medalists (2004, 2008) | 7 | 7 | ||||
F3 | style=white-space:nowrap | 4 | 2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament winners | 10 March 2020 | data-sort-value="1" | 1st | — | data-sort-value="99" | Debut | 104 | 104 | |||
F4 | style=white-space:nowrap | 1 | 29 June 2019 | data-sort-value="1" | 1st | — | data-sort-value="99" | Debut | 3 | 4 |
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This was the highest-scoring women's football match ever at the Olympic Games, with the Netherlands' tally of ten goals is also a women's Olympic record.[3] It was also the highest-scoring match at the Olympics since 1928, when Italy beat Egypt 11–3 in the men's bronze medal match in Amsterdam.[4]
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Fair play points would have been used as a tiebreaker if the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:[1]
Only one of the above deductions could be applied to a player in a single match.
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1 | 3 | −7 | ||||||||||||
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | −7 |