Football at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's tournament

Women's football tournament at the 2011 Pan American Games
Venue	Omnilife Stadium
Dates	October 18–27
Competitors	143 from 8 nations
Medalists
Canada    Brazil    Mexico
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The women's association football tournament at the 2011 Pan American Games was held in Guadalajara, Mexico at the Omnilife Stadium from October 18 to October 27. Associations affiliated with FIFA that qualified were invited to send their full women's national teams.^[1]

For these Games, the women competed in an 8-team tournament, which is a drop from 10 at the 2007 games. The defending champions are Brazil, who won the title on home field.

Teams

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee may enter one women's team for the football competition. Mexico, the host nation and Canada (automatic qualification) along with six other countries qualified through regional competitions.

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	–	–	1	Mexico
Qualified automatically[2]	–	–	1	Canada
Central American and Caribbean qualifying tournament	October 28 – November 8, 2010	Mexico	2	Costa Rica  Trinidad and Tobago
South American qualifying tournament	November 4–21, 2010	Ecuador	4	Brazil  Colombia  Chile  Argentina
TOTAL			8

• The highest finisher from each the Caribbean and Central American regions qualified.^[2]

Squads

The women's tournament is a full international tournament with no restrictions on age. Each nation must submit a squad of 18 players September 2011. A minimum of two goalkeepers (plus one optional alternate goalkeeper) must be included in the squad.

Format

• Eight teams are split into 2 preliminary round groups of 4 teams each. The top 2 teams from each group qualify for the knockout stage.
• The third and fourth placed teams are eliminated from the competition.
• In the semifinals, the matchups are as follows: A1 vs. B2 and B1 vs. A2
• The winning teams from the semifinals play for the gold medal. The losing teams compete for the bronze medal.

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held at the offices of CONCACAF in New York City, United States. The draw was conducted by CONCACAF Deputy General Secretary Ted Howard. The seeding information was not provided, rather the results of the draw were given.^[3]

• Team (World ranking as of July 2011)^[4]

Group A	Group B
Mexico (22)  Colombia (29)  Trinidad and Tobago (48)  Chile (44)	Brazil (3)  Canada (9)  Costa Rica (42)  Argentina (34)

Preliminary round

All times are local Central Daylight Time (UTC−5)^[5]

Qualified for the semifinals

Group A

Nation	PLD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Colombia	3	2	0	1	2	1	+1	6
Mexico	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	5
Chile	3	1	1	1	3	1	+2	4
Trinidad and Tobago	3	0	1	2	1	5	–4	1

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Group B

Nation	PLD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
Canada	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
Costa Rica	3	0	1	2	5	8	-3	1
Argentina	3	0	1	2	3	6	-3	1

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• A drawing of lots was used to separate Canada and Brazil after they were tied on every tiebreaker. Brazil won the draw.

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	October 25
	Brazil	1
					October 27
	Mexico	0
					Brazil	1 (3)
	October 25
					Canada (pen.)	1 (4)
	Colombia	1
	Canada	2
					Third place
					October 27
					Mexico (a.e.t.)	1
					Colombia	0

Semifinals

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Bronze-medal match

Gold-medal match

Team details

Brazil Canada GK 1 Bárbara DF 2 Maurine DF 13 Karen Rocha DF 4 Tânia Maria DF 15 Maycon MF 5 Daiane Rodrigues MF 6 Rosana  a' MF 7 Francielle MF 8 Formiga FW 17 Debinha FW 11 Thaisinha  b' Substitutes: FW 16 Ketlen  a' FW Grazielle  b' Manager: Kleiton Lima GK 1 Karina LeBlanc DF 5 Robyn Gayle  a' DF 14 Lauren Sesselmann  b' DF 9 Candace Chapman DF 16 Shannon Woeller MF 8 Diana Matheson MF 2 Kelly Parker MF 6 Kaylyn Kyle  c' FW 11 Desiree Scott FW 12 Christine Sinclair FW 10 Christina Julien Substitutes: DF 7 Rhian Wilkinson  a' MF 3 Melanie Booth  b' MF 13 Sophie Schmidt  c' Manager: John Herdman

2011 Pan American Games winners
Canada First title

Goalscorers

2 goals

1 goals

1 own goal

• Marianne Ugalde (playing against Argentina)

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's football	Canada Rachelle Beanlands Melanie Booth Candace Chapman Robyn Gayle Christina Julien Kaylyn Kyle Karina LeBlanc Vanessa Legault-Cordisco Diana Matheson Kelly Parker Sophie Schmidt Desiree Scott Lauren Sesselmann Diamond Simpson Christine Sinclair Brittany Timko Rhian Wilkinson Shannon Woeller	Brazil Francielle Alberto Rosana Augusto Bárbara Barbosa Daniele Batista Renata Costa Débora de Oliveira Maurine Gonçalves Thaís Guedes Beatriz Zaneratto João Miraildes Mota Grazielle Nascimento Tânia Ribeiro Thaís Picarte Karen Rocha Daiane Rodrigues Andréia Suntaque Renata Diniz Ketlen Wiggers	Mexico Aurora Santiago Erika Venegas Kenti Robles Rubí Sandoval Jennifer Ruiz Valeria Miranda Mónica Vergara Marylin Díaz Luz del Rosario Saucedo Stephany Mayor Guadalupe Worbis Dinora Garza Liliana Mercado Liliana Godoy Verónica Pérez Maribel Domínguez Mónica Ocampo Tanya Samarzich

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record
	Canada	3–2–0
	Brazil	3–2–0
	Mexico	2–2–1
4	Colombia	2–0–3
5	Chile	1–1–1
6	Costa Rica	0–1–2
7	Argentina	0–1–2
8	Trinidad and Tobago	0–1–2

References