A number of the world’s greatest ladies’s nationwide groups have the prospect to select up main {hardware} this summer time on the Olympic Video games, that are happening throughout France, together with the official match host metropolis of Paris.
Canada are available because the reigning gold medalists however have confronted main worldwide scandal after being mired in their very own spygate, whereas the U.S. ladies’s nationwide workforce will purpose to enhance upon their bronze medal end three years in the past. The four-time gold medalists are one of the crucial compelling storylines at this 12 months’s Olympic Video games, aiming to rebound from their earliest-ever exit on the Ladies’s World Cup a 12 months in the past with a refreshed squad and a new head coach in Emma Hayes.
The favorites for the gold medal, although, are Spain. A 12 months after successful their first-ever Ladies’s World Cup title, La Roja haven’t slowed on the pitch since. This marks the primary time Spain will participate within the ladies’s soccer competitors on the Olympics and they’re in pole place to come back out of it with a medal.
The Olympics are primarily a extra frenzied model of the World Cup, with simply 12 groups qualifying for the Olympics whereas 32 are in a position to compete on the World Cup. The groups that can compete within the medal matches can have simply 17 days to play six video games, far fewer than the month that FIFA allocates for a seven-game journey to the World Cup closing and third-place match.
Roster sizes additionally go from 23 on the World Cup to 18 on the Olympics, plus 4 alternates. Match organizers up to date the foundations round alternates for the 2024 Olympics, permitting groups so as to add an alternate to a game-day squad instead of a rostered participant with a short lived harm so long as groups give six hours or extra of discover.
This is a look on the Olympics’ ladies’s soccer standings and schedule.
All instances U.S./Japanese
Semifinals
Tuesday, Aug. 6
USWNT vs. Germany, 12 p.m. (Peacock, NBCOlympics.com)
Brazil vs. Spain, 3 p.m. (Peacock, NBCOlympics.com)
Bronze medal match
Friday, Aug. 9
Loser of semifinal 1 vs. Loser of semifinal 2, 9 a.m. (Peacock, NBCOlympics.com)
Gold medal match
Saturday, Aug. 10
Winner of semifinal 1 vs. Winner of semifinal 2, 11 a.m. (Peacock, NBCOlympics.com)
Standings
Group stage
All instances Japanese
Thursday, July 25
Spain 2, Japan 1
Canada 2, New Zealand1
Nigeria 0, Brazil 1
Germany 3, Australia 0
USWNT 3, Zambia 0
France 3, Colombia 2
Sunday, July 28
New Zealand 0, Colombia 2
Brazil 1, Japan 2
Spain 1, Nigeria 0
Australia 6, Zambia 5
USWNT 4, Germany 1
France 1, Canada 2
Wednesday, July 31
Canada 1, Colombia 0
France 2, New Zealand 0
Germany 4, Zambia 1
USWNT 2, Australia 1
Japan 3, Nigeria 1
Spain 2, Brazil 0
Quarterfinals
Saturday, Aug. 3
USWNT 1, Japan 0
Spain 2, Colombia 2 (Spain win in PKs, 4-2)
Germany 0, Canada 0 (Germany win in PKs, 4-2)
Brazil 1, France 0
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