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 XV Paralympic Games
Venue	Olympic Tennis Centre
Dates	9–17 September 2016
Competitors	96 (8 teams) from 8 nations
Medalists
Brazil  Iran  Argentina

Football 5-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics 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.

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.

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.

Rosters

Main article: Football 5-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics - Team rosters

Medallists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Brazil (BRA) Luan de Lacerda Cássio Lopes dos Reis Damião Roboson de Souza Tiago da Silva Jeferson da Conceição Raimundo Nonato Alves Marcos Alves Felipe Ricardo Alves Mauricio Tchopi Dumbo Vinícius Tranchezzi	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 David Peralta Nicolás Véliz 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.

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

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	2 October 2009	Copenhagen, Denmark	1	Brazil (BRA)
2014 IBSA World Blind Football Championship	13–25 November 2014	Tokyo, Japan	1	Argentina (ARG)
2015 Asian Championiship	30 August-8 September 2015	Tokyo, Japan	2	Iran (IRI)  China (CHN)
2015 IBSA Football 5-a-side European Championships	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 – Team squads

Knockout stage

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)

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