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The women's football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan was held from 21 July to 6 August 2021. The women's tournament was a full international tournament with no restrictions on age. The twelve national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 18 players, including two goalkeepers.
The women's football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held from 21 July to 6 August 2021. [1] Originally, it was to be held from 22 July to 7 August 2020, but the Summer Olympics were postponed to the following year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the official name of the games remains the 2020 Summer Olympics. [2]
Teams were restricted to 18 athletes, however due to the COVID-19 pandemic, rosters were allowed to consist of up to 22 athletes. [6] Brazil were the men's defending champions. Germany won the previous women's tournament, but failed to qualify after losing to Sweden in the quarter-finals of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.
A Great Britain Olympic football team was selected by the FA for men's Olympic football between 1908 and 1972, for amateur players, but the UK had stopped entering teams into the Olympic football tournament by the time of the first women's football competition in 1996 due to The FA abolishing the distinction between amateurism and ...
After graduating high school in Frisco, Texas, rather than try her hand at collegiate soccer, Shaw went straight to the pros. At 19, she is the youngest player on the U.S. Women’s Olympic roster.
Netherlands women's national football team qualified for the Games by securing a top-three finish at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France, defeating the Italians in the quarterfinal round to reach the country's first women's Olympic tournament. [29] Team roster. The final squad of 22 athletes was announced on 16 June 2021. [30]
Eighteen women are headed to Paris to represent Team USA in soccer at the 2024 Olympics. They will be coached by Emma Hayes. Here's the 2024 Olympic roster for the US women's national soccer team
[108] [109] A book about the team's 1999 Women's World Cup campaign, Girls of Summer: The U.S. Women's Soccer Team and How It Changed the World was released in 2001 and in 2020 Netflix announced a film based on the book. [110]