Football at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's tournament

The men's football tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada was held at the Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium in Hamilton from July 12 to 26.^[1]

Football – Men's tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games
Venue	Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium
Dates	12–26 July
Competitors	144 from 8 nations
Medalists
Uruguay    Mexico    Brazil
«2011 2019»

For the football competition in these Games, the men competed in an eight-team tournament. The teams were grouped into two pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams in each group advanced to a single elimination bracket. The men's competition was an under-22 event, with each team supplemented with up to three over age players.^[2]

Mexico were the defending champions from the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara. The gold medal was won by Uruguay.

Qualification

A total of eight men's teams qualified to compete at the games. Hosts Canada and Mexico qualified automatically. The winners of the regional Caribbean and Central American championships also qualified. Teams placing between 3rd and 6th at the South American Championship also qualified.^[2][3]

Summary

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	—	—	1	Canada
Qualified automatically	—	—	1	Mexico
Central American Qualifier[4]	July 17–29, 2014	El Salvador	1	Panama
Caribbean Qualifier	September 12–19, 2014	Trinidad and Tobago	1	Trinidad and Tobago
South American Qualifier[5][6]	January 14 – February 7, 2015	Uruguay	4	Uruguay  Brazil  Peru  Paraguay
Total			8

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Appearance	Previous best performance
Brazil	11th	Gold medal (1963, 1975, 1979, 1987)
Canada (hosts)	7th	Fourth place (1967, 1999)
Mexico	14th	Gold medal (1967, 1975, 1999, 2011)
Panama	1st	Debut
Paraguay	5th	Fourth place (1951)
Peru	1st	Debut
Trinidad and Tobago	9th	Bronze medal (1967)
Uruguay	6th	Gold medal (1983)

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament	Uruguay 1 – Guillermo de Amores 2 – Sebastián Gorga 3 – Federico Ricca 4 – Mauricio Lemos 5 – Andrés Schetino 6 – Fabricio Formiliano 7 – Facundo Castro 8 – Juan Cruz Mascia 9 – Junior Arias 10 – Michael Santos 11 – Ignacio González 12 – Gastón Olveira 13 – Erick Cabaco 14 – Gastón Faber 15 – Fernando Gorriarán 16 – Nicolás Albarracín 17 – Mathías Suárez 18 – Brian Lozano (HC – Fabián Coito)	Mexico 1 – Gibrán Lajud 2 – Carlos Guzmán 3 – Hedgardo Marín 4 – Luis Alberto López 5 – José Abella 6 – José Van Rankin 7 – Jonathan Espericueta 8 – Uvaldo Luna 9 – Marco Bueno 10 – Ángel Zaldívar 11 – Carlos Cisneros 12 – Luis Cárdenas 13 – Jordan Silva 14 – Kevin Escamilla 15 – Michael Pérez 16 – Alfonso Tamay 17 – Martín Eduardo Zúñiga 18 – Daniel Álvarez (HC – Raúl Gutiérrez)	Brazil 1 – Jacsson 2 – Gilberto 3 – Bressan 4 – Luan 5 – Bruno Paulista 6 – Vinícius Freitas 7 – Barreto 8 – Dodô 9 – Erik 10 – Lucas Piazon 11 – Clayton 12 – Andrey 13 – Tinga 14 – Gustavo Henrique 15 – Euller 16 – Rômulo 17 – Eurico 18 – Luciano (HC – Rogério Micale)

Rosters

Main article: Football at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's team rosters

At the start of tournament, all eight participating countries had to submit up to 18 players on their rosters.

•  Brazil
•  Canada
•  Mexico
•  Panama
•  Paraguay
•  Peru
•  Trinidad and Tobago
•  Uruguay

Competition format

Tim Hortons Field (Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium), was the venue for the football competitions

In the first round of the competition, teams were divided into two groups of four teams, played in round-robin format with each of the teams playing all other teams in the group once. Teams were awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss. The teams were ranked as follows:^[7]

1. Points
2. Goal difference
3. Goals scored
4. Head-to-head points
5. Drawing of lots

Following the completion of the group games, the top two teams in each group advanced to the semifinals, with the winners of one group playing the runners-up of another group. The winners of the semifinals advanced to the gold medal match and the losers advanced to the bronze medal match.^[7]

All games were played in two 45-minute halves. In the medal round, if the match ended in a draw after 90 minutes, extra time was played (two 15-minute halves), followed by penalty kicks competition if the match still remained tied.^[7]

First round

The official detailed schedule and draw was revealed on April 24, 2015.^[8]

All times were Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	3	2	1	0	11	4	+7	7	Medal round
2	Panama	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1	5
3	Peru	3	1	0	2	3	6	−3	3
4	Canada (H)	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

Source: Toronto 2015
(H) Hosts

July 12, 2015 (2015-07-12)

17:35

Panama	2–1	Peru
Aguilar 47' Escobar 90' (pen.)	Report	Maldonado 54'

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: Jeffrey Solís (Costa Rica)

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July 12, 2015 (2015-07-12)

20:35

Canada	1–4	Brazil
Babouli 58'	Report	Luciano 7' Rômulo 38' Clayton 47' Erik 89'

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: José Peñaloza (Mexico)

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July 16, 2015 (2015-07-16)

17:35

Peru	0–4	Brazil
	Report	Luan 3' Clayton 20' Rômulo 26' Dodô 30'

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: Raúl Castro (Honduras)

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July 16, 2015 (2015-07-16)

20:35

Panama	0–0	Canada
	Report

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: Valdin Legister (Jamaica)

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July 20, 2015 (2015-07-20)

17:35

Brazil	3–3	Panama
Luciano 24', 25' Clayton 37'	Report	Aguilar 40', 51' Escobar 56' (pen.)

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: José Peñaloza (Mexico)

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July 20, 2015 (2015-07-20)

20:35

Canada	0–2	Peru
	Report	Rodas 12' James 68' (o.g.)

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: Adrian Skeete (Barbados)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mexico	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	7	Medal round
2	Uruguay	3	2	0	1	5	1	+4	6
3	Paraguay	3	1	1	1	6	3	+3	4
4	Trinidad and Tobago	3	0	0	3	3	13	−10	0

Source: Toronto 2015

July 13, 2015 (2015-07-13)

17:35

Trinidad and Tobago	0–4	Uruguay
	Report	Formiliano 6' Ricca 20' Albarracín 31' Lozano 69'

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: Oscar Reyna (Guatemala)

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July 13, 2015 (2015-07-13)

20:35

Paraguay	1–1	Mexico
Cardozo 71'	Report	Zúñiga 15'

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: Mathieu Bourdeau (Canada)

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July 17, 2015 (2015-07-17)

17:35

Mexico	1–0	Uruguay
Silva 90+1'	Report

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: Marcos Brea (Cuba)

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July 17, 2015 (2015-07-17)

20:35

Paraguay	5–1	Trinidad and Tobago
Ferreira 63', 71' Ramírez 65' Alegre 76' Aranda 79'	Report	Garcia 53'

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: Javier Santos (Puerto Rico)

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July 21, 2015 (2015-07-21)

17:35

Trinidad and Tobago	2–4	Mexico
John 7' Henry 39'	Report	Espericueta 60' Álvarez 68' Bueno 90' Zúñiga 90+3'

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: Sherwim Moore (Guyana)

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July 21, 2015 (2015-07-21)

20:35

Uruguay	1–0	Paraguay
Gorriarán 52'	Report

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: Oscar Reyna (Guatemala)

Medal round

	Semifinals				Gold medal match
	July 23 – Hamilton
	Brazil	1
					July 26 – Hamilton
	Uruguay	2
					Uruguay	1
	July 23 – Hamilton
					Mexico	0
	Mexico	2
	Panama	1
					Bronze medal match
					July 25 – Hamilton
					Brazil (a.e.t.)	3
					Panama	1

Semifinals

July 23, 2015 (2015-07-23)

17:35

Brazil	1–2	Uruguay
Clayton 75'	Report	Schettino 86' Santos 87'

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: José Peñaloza (Mexico)

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July 23, 2015 (2015-07-23)

20:35

Mexico	2–1	Panama
Zaldívar 2' Cisneros 61'	Report	Núñez 59'

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: Javier Santos (Puerto Rico)

Bronze medal match

July 25, 2015 (2015-07-25)

13:05

Brazil	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Panama
Luciano 76' (pen.), 115' (pen.) Lucas Piazon 99'	Report	Núñez 45+2'

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: Valdin Legister (Jamaica)

Gold medal match

July 26, 2015 (2015-07-26)

13:05

Uruguay	1–0	Mexico
Lozano 11'	Report

Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: Óscar Reyna (Guatemala)

Team details

Uruguay Mexico GK 1 Guillermo de Amores DF 2 Sebastián Gorga DF 3 Federico Ricca DF 6 Fabricio Formiliano DF 17 Mathías Suárez MF 11 Ignacio González MF 14 Gaston Faber MF 16 Nicolás Albarracín  66' FW 8 Juan Cruz Mascia  46' FW 18 Brian Lozano FW 10 Michael Santos  90' Substitutes: MF 7 Facundo Castro  46' MF 5 Andrés Schettino  66' FW 9 Junior Arias  90' Manager: Fabián Coito GK 1 Gibrán Lajud DF 5 José Abella DF 3 Hedgardo Marín DF 4 Luis López  86' DF 13 Jordan Silva MF 6 Josecarlos Van Rankin MF 11 Carlos Cisneros  54' MF 7 Jonathan Espericueta MF 18 Daniel Álvarez  63' FW 9 Marco Bueno FW 10 Ángel Zaldívar Substitutes: MF 15 Michael Pérez  54' MF 16 Alfonso Tamay  63' FW 17 Martín Zúñiga  86' Manager: Raúl Gutiérrez

2015 Pan American Games winners
Uruguay Second title

Competition summary

Goalscorers

Luciano, top scorer

5 goals

• Luciano

4 goals

• Clayton

3 goals

• Jorman Aguilar

2 goals

• Rômulo
• Martín Zúñiga
• Fidel Escobar
• Josiel Núñez
• Sebastián Ferreira
• Brian Lozano

1 goal

• Dodô
• Erik
• Luan
• Lucas Piazon
• Molham Babouli
• Daniel Álvarez
• Marco Bueno
• Carlos Cisneros
• Jonathan Espericueta
• Jordan Silva
• Ángel Zaldívar
• Derlis Alegre
• Arturo Aranda
• Ángel Cardozo
• Iván Ramírez
• Gonzalo Maldonado
• Elsar Rodas
• Nathaniel Garcia
• Shackeil Henry
• Ricardo John
• Nicolás Albarracín
• Fabricio Formiliano
• Fernando Gorriarán
• Federico Ricca
• Michael Santos
• Andrés Schettino

1 own goal

• Manjrekar James (playing against Peru)

Final standings

The Uruguay team posing with their gold medals

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
	Uruguay	5	4	0	1	8	2	+6	12	Gold medal
	Mexico	5	3	1	1	8	5	+3	10	Silver medal
	Brazil	5	3	1	1	15	7	+8	10	Bronze medal
4	Panama	5	1	2	2	7	9	−2	5	Fourth place
5	Paraguay	3	1	1	1	6	3	+3	4	Eliminated in First round
6	Peru	3	1	0	2	3	6	−3	3
7	Canada (H)	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1
8	Trinidad and Tobago	3	0	0	3	3	13	−10	0

Source: Toronto 2015
(H) Hosts