Football 7-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

This article is about the 2016 Summer Paralympics event for athletes with cerebral palsy and similar impairments . For the event at those Games for blind and partially sighted athletes, see Football 5-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Football 7-a-side
at the Paralympic Games
VenueDeodoro Olympic Park
DatesSeptember 2016
Competitors112 (8 teams) from 8 nations
The Paralympic symbol.

Football 7-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics[1] will be held in Rio de Janeiro at the Deodoro Olympic Park, from 8 September to 16 September. Football 7-a-side is played by athletes with cerebral palsy, a condition characterized by impairment of muscular coordination. 112 footballers are expected to compete for one set of medals.[2]

For these games, the men compete in an 8-team tournament.

Qualifying

Eight teams will contest the competition, which is for male athletes only. An NPC can enter a single squad, consisting of fourteen players, two more per team than in 2012.

Qualification is by a series of tournaments, and was one of the first events for which entries were completed. Iran won the Asian qualification tournament, but in line with the rules of the process, were not awarded a place as the Asian tournament had fewer than the necessary 5 teams to be a valid qualifier. The extra place thus created was allocated to the highest place unqualified team after the CPISRA World Championship.

Means of qualification Date Venue Berths[3] Qualified
Host nation 2 October 2009 Denmark Copenhagen 1  Brazil (BRA)
2014 CPISRA Football 7-a-side European Championships 23 July 2014 – 2 August 2014 Maia,  Portugal 1  Ukraine (UKR)
2014 Asian Para Games October 19–23, 2014 Incheon,  South Korea 1  Iran (IRI)
Iran fail to qualify as field in qualification event insufficiently large.
Football 7-a-side at the 2015 Parapan American Games September 2015 Toronto,  Canada 1  Argentina (ARG)
2015 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships 16 June - 28 June 2015 Burton,  United Kingdom[4] 5  Great Britain (GBR)
 Ireland (IRL)
 Russia (RUS)
 United States (USA)
 Netherlands (NED)
Total 8

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.rio2016.com/football-7-a-side
  2. ↑ "Football 7-a-side", The official site of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, accessed 29 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Football 7-a-Side Qualification Criteria - FT, International Paralympic Committee (IPC), February 2011
  4. ↑ Draw for the CPISRA football 7-a-side world championships 2015, Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association (CPISRA)

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