Rio 2016 Summer Olympics Women Football Schedule

The women football sport will feature for the 6th time in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics since its debut in the Atlanta Summer Olympics of 1996 in Atlanta.

There will be 26 matches for the women Summer Olympics football matches in total and these matches will take place from the 3rd August to the 19th August in seven cities across Brazil.

Football is the only sport in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics that will be hosted in venues outside Rio. Read more about these 2016 Summer Olympics venues out of Rio

These 26 matches will include 18 group matches. The women football matches for the Rio Summer Olympics are divided into 3 groups which are a continuous from the 2016 Summer Olympics men football groups. These three groups are Group E, Group F and Group G.

The group matches will commence on the 3rd of August and end on the 9th August. After resting for 2 days, the matches will continue to the quarter final stage with 8 matches played in a single day; 12th August. Only 4 teams will lose out at the group stage with eight teams progressing to the quarter finals.

4 more teams will lose out as 4 successful teams proceed to the Semis of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics women football sport.

On the 19th August, only two matches will take place, the first of the two final matches will be for the Bronze medals competition among the losers of the semis and the final match will be played at the Maracana Stadium in Rio to determine the Gold and Silver medals winners of the football sport in the 2016 Summer Olympics.

See the schedule below for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics Women football sport.

Match	Date	Group	Gender	Time	City	Venue	Team 1	Team 2
Match 1	3rd August	Group E Matches	Women	1.00 PM	Rio de Janeiro	Olympics Stadium	South Africa	Sweden
Match 2	3rd August	Group F Matches	Women	3.00 PM	São Paulo	Arena Corinthians	Australia	Canada
Match 3	3rd August	Group E Matches	Women	4.00 PM	Rio de Janeiro	Olympics Stadium	Brazil	China PR
Match 4	3rd August	Group F Matches	Women	6.00 PM	São Paulo	Arena Corinthians	Germany	Zimbabwe
Match 5	3rd August	Group G Matches	Women	7.00 PM	Belo Horizonte	Mineirão Stadium	New Zealand	USA
Match 6	3rd August	Group G Matches	Women	10.00 PM	Belo Horizonte	Mineirão Stadium	Colombia	France
Match 7	6th August	Group F Matches	Women	3.00 PM	São Paulo	Arena Corinthians	Canada	Zimbabwe
Match 8	6th August	Group G Matches	Women	5.00 PM	Belo Horizonte	Mineirão Stadium	France	USA
Match 9	6th August	Group F Matches	Women	6.00 PM	São Paulo	Arena Corinthians	Australia	Germany
Match 10	6th August	Group E Matches	Women	7.00 PM	Rio de Janeiro	Olympics Stadium	China PR	South Africa
Match 11	6th August	Group G Matches	Women	8.00 PM	Belo Horizonte	Mineirão Stadium	Colombia	New Zealand
Match 12	6th August	Group E Matches	Women	10.00 PM	Rio de Janeiro	Olympics Stadium	Sweden	Brazil
Match 13	9th August	Group F Matches	Women	4.00 PM	Brasília	EstádioNacional de BrasíliaManéGarrincha	Canada	Germany
Match 14	9th August	Group F Matches	Women	4.00 PM	SãoSalvado	ItaipavaArena Fonte	Australia	Zimbabwe
Match 15	9th August	Group G Matches	Women	06.00 PM	Manaus	Arena da Amazônia	Colombia	USA
Match 16	9th August	Group G Matches	Women	7.00 PM	SãoSalvado	ItaipavaArena Fonte	France	New Zealand
Match 17	9th August	Group E Matches	Women	9.00 PM	Manaus	Arena da Amazônia	Brazil	South Africa
Match 18	9th August	Group E Matches	Women	10.00 PM	Brasília	EstádioNacional de BrasíliaManéGarrincha	China PR	Sweden
QF 1	12th August	Group E Winner/3rd Best Placed Team of Group E/F	Women	1.00 PM	Brasília	EstádioNacional de BrasíliaManéGarrincha
QF 2	12th August	Group F Winner/Group G Runners-Up	Women	7.00 PM	São Paulo	Arena Corinthians
QF 3	12th August	Runners Up of Group E/Group F	Women	4.00 PM	SãoSalvado	ItaipavaArena Fonte
QF 4	12th August	Group E Winner/3rd Best Placed Team of Group G/E	Women	10.00 PM	Belo Horizonte	Mineirão Stadium
SF 1	16th August	Winner of QF 1/QF 4	Women	1.00 PM	Rio de Janeiro	MaracanaStadium
SF 2	16th August	Winner of QF 3/QF 3	Women	4.00 PM	Belo Horizonte	Mineirão Stadium
Match 25	13th August	Loser of S1/Loser of S2	Women	1.00 PM	São Paulo	Arena Corinthians
Gold Match	13th August	Winner Group S1/Winner of S2	Women	5.30 PM	Rio de Janeiro	MaracanaStadium