Hi all! This thread is the thread for covering Football at the Olympics this year. Feel free to discuss all the ins and outs of the sport, any predictions you may have, support for the teams and anything else you notice as we kick off on Wednesday!

Always interesting to see how the football pans out given the player restrictions. Guinea, Iraq and Dominican Republic are in the men's tournament!

Men's Football (2pm UK) that also gets under way, you can see that on Eurosport.

 

 

As expected, there is a massive security operation in place for tonight's Mali/Israel Football Match. With protests expected outside the stadium and measures in place inside the arena to try and prevent match disruption.

Men's Tournament:

 

Group A:- France, USA, Guinea, New Zealand

Group B:- Argentina, Morocco, Iraq, Ukraine

Group C:- Uzbekistan, Spain, Egypt, Dominican Republic

Group D:- Japan, Paraguay, Mali, Israel

 

Women's Tournament:

 

Group A:- France, Colombia, Canada, New Zealand

Group B:- USA, Zambia, Germany, Australia

Group C:- Spain, Japan, Nigeria, Brazil

 

Canada's women have been deducted 6 points for using a drone to spy on New Zealand. Ouch!

Wild result in the women's tournament today - Australia beating Zambia 6-5 after going down 5-2! :drama:

How do teams qualify for the Olympics??

These handy Wikipedia pages will tell you! Mens / Womens

 

(they will also tell you we would've gotten a team into the men's competition if the UK countries had actually gotten an agreement together on how they should be represented!)

These handy Wikipedia pages will tell you! Mens / Womens

 

(they will also tell you we would've gotten a team into the men's competition if the UK countries had actually gotten an agreement together on how they should be represented!)

Thanks!

Not watching the football, but how is there 16 minutes of added time between Brazil and France!