Rio 2016 Summer Olympics Men Football Schedule

At the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, the football matches will commence of the 3rd of August, that is 2 days before the 2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremony scheduled for the 5th of August. This is just a day away. The the men football group matches will kick off on the 4th of August; it’s the women football matches that will kick off on the 3rd of August (read more about Rio 2016 Summer Olympics Women Football Schedule).

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The men football sport at the Summer Olympics has 16 qualified teams which are divided into 4 groups as follows:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Brazil (Host)	Colombia	Germany	Algeria
Denmark	Japan	Fiji	Argentina
Iraq	Nigeria	Mexico	Honduras
South Africa	Sweden	South Korea	Portugal

Men football groups

The men football matches at the 2016 Summer Olympics will kick off on the 4th of August. The first match will be Iraq versus Denmark at the Brasilia’s

On the same day at the same stadium host Brazil will fight it out with South Africa.

On this day of the 4th of August all the 16 teams will play their first group matches in each of the 4 different cities in Brazil.

Three days later all the teams will gain play their second group matches; on the 7th of August, while the final group matches will be played on the 10th of August.

Once the group matches are over, only 8 teams will proceed to the quarter finals scheduled for the 13ths of August. These 8 teams will be the group leader and the runners-up.

The quarter final will be a knock out stage where the loser will fail to get to the semifinal scheduled for 17th of August.

There will a bronze match against the losers of the semifinals while the gold match to be played at the Rio’s Maracana Stadium will to determine the gold and silver medalist of the men football sport at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Below is the entire schedule of the of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics Men 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