Football 5-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

This article is about the 2016 Summer Paralympics event for blind and partially sighted athletes. For the event at those Games for athletes with cerebral palsy and similar impairments, see Football 7-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. For the able-bodied event at the Olympic Games, see Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Football 5-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics^[1] was held in Rio at the Olympic Tennis Centre, from 9 to 17 September. Football 5-a-side was played by athletes with visual impairment, with a ball with a noise making device inside.

Football 5-a-side at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue	Olympic Tennis Centre
Dates	9–17 September 2016
Competitors	96 (8 teams) from 8 nations
Medalists
Brazil  Iran  Argentina
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For these games, the men competed in an 8-team tournament. Brazil were hosts, reigning three times Paralympic champions, and the favorites since they won both in Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012; they were also the defending world and PanAmerican champions.^[2]

Classification

The International Paralympic Committee recognizes three classifications for the purposes of this event, all involving various degrees of limited sight, ranging from total lack of sight to the ability to make out shapes at short distances – B1, B2 and B3. However, the event is made fair and open to all abilities within the broader classification by the use of eyemasks by all players.

Medallists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Brazil (BRA) Luan de Lacerda [pt] Cássio Lopes dos Reis [pt] Damião Robson Tiago da Silva Jeferson da Conceição Raimundo Nonato Marcos Felipe Ricardo Alves Maurício Tchopi Dumbo [pt] Vinícius Tranchezzi [pt]	Iran (IRI) Meysam Shojaeiyan Amir Pourrazavi Mohammadreza Mehninasab Hossein Rajabpour Mohammad Heidari Sadegh Rahimighasr Behzad Zadaliasghari Ahmadreza Shahhosseini Rasool Baseri Akbar Shoushtari	Argentina (ARG) Darío Lencina Ángel Deldo Federico Accardi Froilán Padilla Silvio Velo Lucas Rodríguez [es] David Peralta [es] Nicolás Véliz [es] Germán Muleck Maximiliano Espinillo

Qualification

Eight teams will contest the competition, which is for male athletes only.

An NPC can enter a single squad, consisting of eight players, plus 2 sighted goalkeepers – goalkeepers are not included in the athlete quota of 64; both goalkeepers however, in line with Paralympic practice on able bodied guides and competitors' in other events, are eligible for medals.^[3]

Football 5-a-side at 2016 Summer Paralympics – Qualification

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Berths[4]	Qualified
Host nation	2 October 2009	Copenhagen,  Denmark	1	Brazil (BRA)
2014 IBSA World Blind Football Championship[5]	13–25 November 2014	Tokyo,  Japan	1	Argentina (ARG)
2015 Asian Championship[6]	30 August-8 September 2015	Tokyo,  Japan	2	Iran (IRI)  China (CHN)
2015 IBSA Football 5-a-side European Championships[7]	22–29 August 2015	Hereford,  United Kingdom	2	Turkey (TUR)  Spain (ESP)
2015 Parapan American Games	8–15 August 2015	Toronto,  Canada	1	Mexico (MEX)
2015 IBSA Football 5-a-side African Championships	16–25 October 2015	Douala,  Cameroon	1	Morocco (MAR)
Total			8

Squads

Main article: Football 5-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's team squads

Tournament

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil (H)	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7	Semi finals
2	Iran	3	1	2	0	2	0	+2	5
3	Turkey	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2	2	5th–6th place match
4	Morocco	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1	7th–8th place match

Source: Paralympic.org
(H) Hosts

9 September 2016

9:00

Brazil	3–1	Morocco
Ricardinho 31' Jefinho 36' Nonato 36'	Report	Hattab 13'

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 2,569

Referee: Mariano Travaglino (Argentina)

9 September 2016

16:00

Turkey	0–0	Iran
	Report

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 2,811

Referee: Lucio Morgado (Brazil)

11 September 2016

9:00

Morocco	0–2	Iran
	Report	Rajabpour 13' Zadaliasghari 14'

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 2,374

Referee: Mariano Travaglino (Argentina)

11 September 2016

16:00

Brazil	2–0	Turkey
Ricardinho 13' Cássio 37' (pen.)	Report

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 2,596

Referee: François Carcouët (France)

13 September 2016

9:00

Brazil	0–0	Iran
	Report

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 2,355

Referee: Mariano Travaglino (Argentina)

13 September 2016

16:00

Morocco	1–1	Turkey
Snisla 27'	Report	Öcal 25'

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 1,933

Referee: Germi Guimaraes (Brazil)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina	3	2	1	0	3	0	+3	7	Semi finals
2	China	3	2	1	0	3	0	+3	7
3	Spain	3	1	0	2	1	2	−1	3	5th–6th place match
4	Mexico	3	0	0	3	0	5	−5	0	7th–8th place match

Source: Paralympic.org

9 September 2016

11:00

Spain	0–1	China
	Report	Wang Z. 43'

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 2,569

Referee: Germi Guimaraes (Brazil)

9 September 2016

20:00

Argentina	2–0	Mexico
Espinillo 2' Velo 15'	Report

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 3,065

Referee: Germi Guimaraes (Brazil)

11 September 2016

11:00

Argentina	1–0	Spain
Véliz 29'	Report

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 2,374

Referee: Lucio Morgado (Brazil)

11 September 2016

20:00

China	2–0	Mexico
Wei 4' Wang Y. 9'	Report

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 3,099

Referee: Germi Guimaraes (Brazil)

13 September 2016

11:00

China	0–0	Argentina
	Report

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 2,355

Referee: François Carcouët (France)

13 September 2016

20:00

Mexico	0–1	Spain
	Report	Acosta 14'

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 3,080

Referee: Rafael Glock (Brazil)

Knockout stage

Classification round

7th–8th place match

15 September 2016

09:00

Morocco	0–2	Mexico
	Report	Lanzagorta 42' De la Cruz 49'

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 971

Referee: Christian Jung (Germany)

5th–6th place match

15 September 2016

11:00

Turkey	0–0	Spain
	Report
Penalties
Sümer Şatay Öcal	1–0	El Haddaqui Muñoz Garrido

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 971

Referee: Stuart Winton (Great Britain)

Medal round

	Semifinals				Gold Medal Match
	15 September 16:00
	Brazil	2
					17 September 17:00
	China	1
					Brazil	1
	15 September 20:00
					Iran	0
	Argentina	0(1)
	Iran	0(2)
					Bronze medal
					17 September 14:00
					China	0(0)
					Argentina	0(1)

Semi-finals

15 September 2016

16:00

Brazil	2–1	China
Jefinho 20', 30'	Report	Wang Y. 14'

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 3,026

Referee: Mariano Travaglino (Argentina)

15 September 2016

20:00

Argentina	0–0	Iran
	Report
Penalties
Espinillo Velo Véliz	1–2	Rahimighasr Shahhosseini

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 2,907

Referee: Lucio Morgado (Brazil)

Bronze medal match

17 September 2016

14:00

China	0–0	Argentina
	Report
Penalties
Wei Liu Wang Y.	0–1	Espinillo Velo

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 2,900

Referee: Germi Guimaraes (Brazil)

Gold medal match

17 September 2016

17:00

Brazil	1–0	Iran
Ricardinho 12'	Report

Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 3,118

Referee: Mariano Travaglino (Argentina)

Final rankings

Rank	Team
	Brazil
	Iran
	Argentina
4.	China
5.	Turkey
6.	Spain
7.	Mexico
8.	Morocco

Source: Paralympic.org

See also

• Football 7-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
• Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics