Football 7-a-side at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

This article is about the 2012 Summer Paralympics event for athletes with cerebral palsy and similar impairments. For the event at those Games for blind and partially sighted athletes, see Football 5-a-side at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. For the able-bodied event at the 2012 Olympic Games, see Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Football 7-a-side at the 2012 Summer Paralympics^[1] was held in London at the Olympic Hockey Centre, from 1 September to 9 September. Football 7-a-side is played by athletes with cerebral palsy, a condition characterized by impairment of muscular coordination. 96 footballers are expected to compete for one set of medals.^[2]

Football 7-a-side at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue	Olympic Hockey Centre
Dates	1 – 9 September 2012
Competitors	96 (8 teams)
Medalists
Russia  Russia Ukraine  Ukraine Iran  Iran
←2008 2016→

For these games, the men competed in an 8-team tournament.

Qualifying

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Berths[3]	Qualified
Host nation			1	Great Britain (GBR)
2010 CPISRA Football 7-a-side European Championships	15–28 August 2010	Glasgow,  United Kingdom	1	Ukraine (UKR)
2010 Asian Para Games	12–19 December 2010	Guangzhou,  China	1	Iran (IRI)
2010 CPISRA Football 7-a-side Americas Championships	17–27 October 2010	Buenos Aires,  Argentina	1	Brazil (BRA)
2011 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships	17 June – 1 July 2011	Drenthe,  Netherlands[4]	4	Russia (RUS)
				Netherlands (NED)
				Argentina (ARG)
				United States (USA)
Total			8

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia (RUS)	3	3	0	0	19	1	+18	9	Qualified for the medal round
2	Iran (IRI)	3	2	0	1	13	5	+8	6
3	Netherlands (NED)	3	1	0	2	5	13	−8	3	Qualified for the classification round
4	Argentina (ARG)	3	0	0	3	2	20	−18	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

2012-09-01

9:00

Russia	8–0	Argentina
Kuligin 9', 49' Murvanadze 21', 30' Ramonov 35' Kuvaev 38', 58' Larionov 54'	Report

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 4,074

Referee: Stephen Conroy (GBR)

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2012-09-01

11:15

Netherlands	1–4	Iran
Straatman 52'	Report	Mehri 4' Akbari 27' Karimizadeh 30' Ansari 60+6'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 4,405

Referee: Ross Haswell (GBR)

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2012-09-03

14:00

Argentina	1–8	Iran
Fernández Romano 47'	Report	Gholamhosseinpour 2', 60+3' Mehri 6', 58' Atashafrouz 13', 14' Bakhshi 18' Heidari 29'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 10,561

Referee: Garry Polkey (GBR)

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2012-09-03

16:15

Russia	8–0	Netherlands
Larionov 23' Ramonov 30', 50', 54' Van Altena 34' (o.g.) Murvanadze 36', 39' Potekhin 60+3'	Report

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 10,561

Referee: Kevin Wright (GBR)

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2012-09-05

9:00

Iran	1–3	Russia
Mehri 36' (pen.)	Report	Kuligin 18' Larionov 37' Ramonov 46'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 4,276

Referee: Keith Stroud (GBR)

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2012-09-05

11:15

Argentina	1–4	Netherlands
Morana 6'	Report	Lokhoff 11', 54' Visker 19', 45'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 4,405

Referee: Scott Henry (GBR)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ukraine (UKR)	3	2	1	0	17	2	+15	7	Qualified for the medal round
2	Brazil (BRA)	3	2	1	0	12	1	+11	7
3	Great Britain (GBR)	3	1	0	2	5	10	−5	3	Qualified for the classification round
4	United States (USA)	3	0	0	3	0	21	−21	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

2012-09-01

14:00

Ukraine	9–0	United States
Shkvarlo 1', 7', 41' Trushev 10' Shevchyk 16', 30', 39', 48' Dutko 32'	Report

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 11,780

Referee: Hayley Ives (GBR)

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2012-09-01

16:15

Great Britain	0–3	Brazil
	Report	Almeida 10' Silva 13' Dos Santos 24'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 13,247

Referee: Barry Huizinga (NED)

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2012-09-03

9:00

United States	0–8	Brazil
	Report	Almeida 5', 19' Guimarães 20', 39' da Silva 33', 55' Tostes 49', 57'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 4,529

Referee: David Davies (GBR)

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2012-09-03

11:15

Ukraine	7–1	Great Britain
Antoniuk 1', 47' Shevchyk 9', 10' Devlysh 15', 54' Ponomaryov 58'	Report	Diallo 41'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 9,329

Referee: Álvaro Azeredo (BRA)

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2012-09-05

14:00

Brazil	1–1	Ukraine
Dos Santos Ribeiro 9'	Report	Dotsenko 35'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 9,994

Referee: Tom Nield (GBR)

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2012-09-05

16:15

United States	0–4	Great Britain
	Report	Richmond 20' Fletcher 44' Diallo 53' Paterson 60+2'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 12,274

Referee: Álvaro Azeredo Quelhas (BRA)

Knockout stage

Classification round

5th–8th place semi-finals

2012-09-07

9:00

Netherlands	5–0	United States
Straatman 16', 33' Visker 35' Swinkels 39' (pen.) Kooij 59'	Report

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 3,848

Referee: Alex Kirkley (GBR)

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2012-09-07

11:30

Great Britain	3–4 (a.e.t.)	Argentina
Diallo 14' Dimbylow 27' Patrick-Heselton 78'	Report	Lugrin 29' Vivot 40', 69', 73'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 9,942

Referee: Barry Huizinga (NED)

7th–8th place match

2012-09-09

8:30

United States	1–3 (a.e.t.)	Great Britain
Renteria 20'	Report	Barker 29' Diallo 70' Fletcher 74'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 10,561

Referee: Barry Huizinga (NED)

5th–6th place match

2012-09-09

11:00

Netherlands	3–0	Argentina
Visker 9', 12', 18'	Report

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 7,490

Referee: Álvaro Azeredo Quelhas (BRA)

Medal round

Semi-finals

2012-09-07

14:00

Russia	3–1	Brazil
Larionov 23' Potekhin 34' Kuligin 48'	Report	Silva de Oliveira 26'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 7,383

Referee: Ross Haswell (GBR)

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2012-09-07

17:30

Ukraine	2–1	Iran
Dotsenko 37' Shkvarlo 57'	Report	Bakhshi 51'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 2,900

Referee: Stephen Conroy (GBR)

Bronze medal match

2012-09-09

13:30

Brazil	0–5	Iran
	Report	Atashafrouz 17', 23' Mehri 20', 60+1' Bakhshi 57'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 11,197

Referee: Kevin Wright (GBR)

Gold medal match

2012-09-09

16:00

Russia	1–0	Ukraine
Ramonov 44'	Report

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 13,360

Referee: Keith Stroud (GBR)

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Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Russia Aleksandr Lekov Vladislav Raretckii Aslanbek Sapiev Alexey Tumakov Lasha Murvanadze Aleksei Chesmin Ivan Potekhin (captain) Eduard Ramonov Viacheslav Larionov Zaurbek Pagaev Andrei Kuvaev Aleksandr Kuligin	Ukraine Kostyantyn Symashko Ihor Kosenko Vitaliy Trushev Yevhen Zinoviev Taras Dutko Anatolii Shevchyk Oleksiy Hetun Volodymyr Antonyuk (captain) Ivan Shkvarlo Ivan Dotsenko Denys Ponomaryov Oleksandr Devlysh	Iran Mehran Nikoee Majd Moslem Khazaeipirsarabi Ehsan Gholamhosseinpour Bousheh Morteza Heidari Bahman Ansari Hashem Rastegarimobin Sadegh Hassani Baghi Farzad Mehri Jasem Bakhshi Moslem Akbari (captain) Rasoul Atashafrouz Abdolreza Karimizadeh

See also

• Football 5-a-side at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
• Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics