Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics will be held in London and several other cities in the United Kingdom, from 25 July to 11 August. The finals will be played at Wembley Stadium.
Currently there are six stadiums that will host matches: Wembley Stadium with a capacity of 90,000
Old Trafford with a capacity of 76,212
St Jame's Park with a capacity of 52,387
Hampden Park with a capacity of 52,103
City of Coventry Stadium 32,609
For these games, the men will compete in a 16-team tournament, and the women in a 12-team tournament. Football preliminaries will actually commence two days before the Opening Ceremony of the Games on 27 July.
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The aim of Football, to score more goals than the opposition, is both simple and universally known. Teams of 11 players compete across two 45-minutes halves, with extra time and penalty shootouts used to decide drawn matches during the knockout stages of the competition.
Due to the intense schedule, the Football competition actually kicks off two days before the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony with the first group matches. At London 2012, the men's competition will be an under-23s event, although each country will be allowed to include three older players in their team. There are no age restrictions for the women's competition.
Both the men's and women's competitions will begin with a group stage. The teams will be divided into groups of four (three groups in the women's tournament, four groups for the men), and the best eight teams will qualify for the quarter-finals. From here, the competitions are played to a knockout format: the two winning semi-finalists will play for the gold medal at Wembley, with the two losing semi-finalists facing off for the bronze.
Refrence:london2012.com
Early history
Football was not on the programme at the first modernOlympic Games in 1896, as international football was in its infancy at the time. However, some sources claim that an unofficial football tournament was organised during the first competition, in which anAthens XI lost to a team representingSmyrna (Izmir), then part of theOttoman Empire. Smyrna went on to be beaten (150) by a team fromDenmark.However, it is in fact unclear whether any competition took place at all; the Olympic historian Bill Mallon has written: "Supposedly a match between a Greek club and a Danish club took place. No such 1896 source supports this and we think this is an error which has been perpetuated in multiple texts. No such match occurred".
Tournaments were played at the1900 and1904 games and theIntercalated Games of1906, but these were contested by various clubs and scratch teams, and although theIOC considers the 1900 and 1904 tournaments to be official Olympic events, they are not recognized byFIFA; neither recognizes the Intercalated Games today. In 1906 teams from Great Britain,Germany,Austria, theNetherlands and France were withdrawn from an unofficial competition and left Denmark, Smyrna (one Armenian, two Frenchmen and eight Britons), Athens and Thessaloniki Music Club to compete. Denmark won the final against Athens 90.
Refrence:Wikipedia.com
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