The Olympic Video games will carry but extra soccer to our summer time schedules with gold medals up for grabs for each the boys’s groups and the ladies’s groups.
Nice Britain won’t be concerned within the Olympic soccer this summer time: they didn’t enter a males’s aspect for qualifying, whereas the ladies – represented in qualifying by the Lionesses – narrowly missed out to the Netherlands on aim distinction
For the boys, the groups concerned are restructured to eligible under-23s gamers with a most of three over-age gamers. There is no such thing as a such restriction for the ladies’s match.
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The lads’s match consists of 16 groups, who will play within the outdated Euros format: 4 teams of 4, with the very best two sides in every group progressing to the quarter-finals. It’s a straight knockout from there to the ultimate.
The lads’s teams are as follows:
- Group A: France, Guinea, New Zealand, USA
- Group B: Argentina, Iraq, Morocco, Ukraine
- Group C: Dominican Republic, Egypt, Spain, Uzbekistan
- Group D: Israel, Japan, Mali, Paraguay
The tiebreak standards, so as, are: factors, aim distinction, targets scored, then repeat on head-to-head report, then disciplinary factors, then drawing tons.
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The quarter-final draw is as follows:
- Winner Group A vs Runner-up Group B
- Winner Group C vs Runner-up Group D
- Winner Group B vs Runner-up Group A
- Winner Group D vs Runner-up Group C
The winners of the primary two video games will play each other within the semi-finals, as will the winners of the final two video games on the opposite aspect of the draw.
The group stage kicks off on Wednesday twenty fourth July with the ultimate set to be held on Friday ninth August. Being the Olympics, there will likely be a bronze medal match held between the 2 dropping semi-finalists the day earlier than the ultimate.
For the ladies’s match, solely 12 groups will compete, with three teams of 4. The highest two sides in every group will progress to the quarter-finals alongside the 2 finest third-placed sides. Successfully it’s like the boys’s Euro 2024, however lower in half.
The ladies’s teams are as follows:
- Group A: France, Canada, Colombia, New Zealand
- Group B: Australia, Germany, USA, Zambia
- Group C: Brazil, Japan, Nigeria, Spain
The identical tiebreak standards apply right here as within the males’s match.
The quarter-final draw is as follows:
- Winner Group A vs third Group B/C
- Winner Group C vs third Group A/B
- Winner Group B vs Runner-up Group C
- Runner-up Group A vs Runner-up Group B.
The winners of the primary two video games will play each other within the semi-finals, as will the winners of the final two video games on the opposite aspect of the draw.
The group stage begins on Thursday twenty fifth July with the ultimate to be held on Saturday tenth August. Once more, a bronze medal match will likely be held between the 2 dropping semi-finalists the day earlier than the ultimate.
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