Football 7-a-side at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Football 7-a-side at the XIII Paralympic Games
Venue	Olympic Green Hockey Field
Dates	8–16 September 2008
Competitors	8 teams
Medalists
Ukrain   Ukraine   Russia   Russia   Iran   Iran
«2004	2012»

7-a-side football at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held at the Olympic Green Hockey Field from September 8 to September 16. One event was contested, a men's team competition.

Classfication

The sport of 7-a-side football is for people with cerebral palsy; athletes classified as CP5 through CP8 may take part. The classification system grades player by the extent of their disability, with lower numbers corresponding to more severe impairment. At least one CP5 or CP6 player, and no more than three CP8 players, may be on the field at a given time.

Qualification

Match	Qualification Criteria	Amount	Nations
2006/2007 Zonal Qualify Tournament (Team qualify with this must reach top 10 in world championship, otherwise the slots will allocate to highest rank and not qualifed team in the world championship)	2006 European CPISRA Football 7-a-side Championship	1	Ukraine (UKR)
	2006 FESPIC Games	1	Iran (IRI)
	2007 Para-Pan America Games	1	Brazil (BRA)
2007 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championship	Top 4 in the team not qualifed	4	Russia (RUS)
			Netherlands (NED)
			Great Britain (GBR) 1
			Ireland (IRL)2
Host Nation	Auto-qualification if take part in either 2007 World Championship or 2006/07 Zonal Championship	1	China (CHN)
Total		8

1. The slot was won by team Scotland but is allocated to the unified team of Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
2. The rank of the united team of England and Wales is higher than Ireland, but only one team can represent Great Britain, so the Republic of Ireland qualified as following best non-qualified team.

Competition format

The eight teams were divided into two even groups for a single round robin group stage. The top two teams of each group qualified for the semifinal, while the lower two teams from each group competed for 5th through 8th places. Games consisted of two 30-minute halves. A victory ceremony was held just after the finish of the gold medal match, at 18:00 on September 16.

Results

Group stage

Group A

Team	P	W	D	L	G	GA	GD	Score
Russia (RUS)	3	3	0	0	21	1	+20	9
Brazil (BRA)	3	2	0	1	9	3	+6	6
Netherlands (NED)	3	1	0	2	9	14	-5	3
China (CHN)	3	0	0	3	1	22	-21	0

2008-09-08 9:00	Russia	6 – 0	China	Olympic Green Hockey Field

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2008-09-08 11:15	Brazil	1 – 0	Netherlands	Olympic Green Hockey Field

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2008-09-10 13:30	Russia	12 – 1	Netherlands	Olympic Green Hockey Field

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2008-09-10 15:45	Brazil	8 – 0	China	Olympic Green Hockey Field

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2008-09-12 9:00	Russia	3 – 0	Brazil	Olympic Green Hockey Field

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2008-09-12 11:15	Netherlands	8 – 1	China	Olympic Green Hockey Field

Group B

Team	P	W	D	L	G	GA	GD	Score
Ukraine (UKR)	3	3	0	0	19	1	+18	9
Iran (IRI)	3	2	0	1	7	6	+1	6
Ireland (IRL)	3	0	1	2	3	12	-9	1
Great Britain (GBR)	3	0	1	2	2	12	-10	1

2008-09-08 13:30	Iran	4 – 2	Ireland	Olympic Green Hockey Field

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2008-09-08 15:45	Ukraine	8 – 1	Great Britain	Olympic Green Hockey Field Attendance: 5,141 Referee: KOU Yadong (China)

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2008-09-10 9:00	Iran	3 – 0	Great Britain	Olympic Green Hockey Field Attendance: 5,500

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2008-09-10 11:15	Ukraine	7 – 0	Ireland	Olympic Green Hockey Field Attendance: 6,763

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2008-09-12 13:30	Iran	0 – 4	Ukraine	Olympic Green Hockey Field

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2008-09-12 15:45	Great Britain	1 – 1	Ireland	Olympic Green Hockey Field

5th-8th classfication

2008-09-14 9:00	Netherlands	4 – 2	Great Britain	Olympic Green Hockey Field

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2008-09-14 11:30	China	1 – 4	Ireland	Olympic Green Hockey Field

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2008-09-16 9:00	Great Britain	10 – 2	China	Olympic Green Hockey Field A Attendance: 4235 Referee: Fang Aijun (China)
	Dimbylow  1' Barker  18' Robertson  20' Gordon  28' G. Paterson  31+' Ellis  39' Barker  41' J. Paterson  48' Barker  54' Barker  61'	(Report)	Fan  40' Fan  60'

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2008-09-16 11:30	Netherlands	4 – 2	Ireland	Olympic Green Hockey Field A Attendance: 7142 Referee: Kou Yadong (China)
	Voogd  5' van de Ven  24' Lokhoff  31+' Lokhoff  38'	(Report)	O'Riordan  7' Messett  11' Messett 16'

Semifinal

2008-09-14 14:00	Brazil	0 – 6	Ukraine	Olympic Green Hockey Field

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2008-09-14 16:30	Russia	5 – 0	Iran	Olympic Green Hockey Field

Bronze medal match

2008-09-16 14:00	Brazil	0 – 4	Iran	Olympic Green Hockey Field A Attendance: 11266 Referee: Jorge Eduardo Barbisan (Argentina)
		(Report)	Karimzadeh  5' Karimzadeh  17' Karimzadeh  21' Karimzadeh 44' Malekzadeh 47' Mahini 54' Akbari 61' Akbari  64'

Final

2008-09-16 16:30	Ukraine	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Russia	Olympic Green Hockey Field A Attendance: 11267 Referee: Guido Gonzalez (Ecuador)
	Antonyuk  69' Antonyuk  71'	(Report)	Borisov 19' Potekhin 24' Kuvaev 31' Murvanadze  74'

Medallists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Ukraine (UKR) Volodymyr Antonyuk (captain) Kostyantyn Symashko Vitaliy Trushev Serhiy Vakulenko Taras Dutko Anatolii Shevchyk Oleksandr Devlysh Ivan Shkvarlo Andriy Tsukanov Denys Ponomaryov Mykola Mikhovych Ihor Kosenko Coach: Sergiy Ovcharenko	Russia (RUS) Ivan Potekhin (captain) Alexander Lekov Lasha Murvanadze Pavel Borisov Aleksey Tumakov Alexey Chesmin Andrey Kuvaev Oleg Smirnov Andrey Lozhechnikov Georgy Nadzharyan Mamuka Dzimistarishvili Stanislav Kolykhalov Coach: Avtandil Baramidze	Iran (IRI) Ardeshir Mahini (captain) Esmaeil Malekzadeh Bahman Ansari Morteza Heidari Ehsan Gholam-Hosseinpour Moslem Akbari Abdolreza Karimzadeh Habibollah Heidari-Mehr Gholamreza Najafi Hadi Safari Rasoul Atash-Afrouz Coach: Alireza Raadi

References

• "Schedules and Results - Football 7-a-side". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRMP/ENG/Schedule/FT.shtml. Retrieved 2008-09-19. 

External links

• Official site of the 2008 Summer Paralympics
• IPC
• CPISRA