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Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's tournament

2004 Women's Olympic
football tournament
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Tournament details
Host country Greece
Dates 11 – 26 August
Teams 10 (from 6 confederations)
Final positions
Champions  United States (2nd title)
Runners-up  Brazil
Third place  Germany
Fourth place  Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played 20
Goals scored 55 (2.75 per match)
Attendance 208,637 (10,432 per match)
Top scorer(s) Brazil Cristiane
Germany Birgit Prinz (5 goals)
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Women's Olympic Football tournament was held for the third time at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The tournament featured 10 women's national teams from six continental confederations. The 10 teams were drawn into two groups of three and one group of four and each group played a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top teams from each group advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at Karaiskakis Stadium on August 26, 2004.

Originally, the tournament was planned to form two groups of five teams in the group stage, then play a knockout stage by four teams (two top teams in each group). The format is later changed: the tournament is to form three groups of three or four teams in the group stage, then play a knockout stage by eight teams (two top teams in each group and two best third-placed teams from three groups).

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