Football 7-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Football 7-a-side
at the XV Paralympic Games
Football 7-a-side; at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue	Deodoro Olympic Park
Dates	September 2016
Competitors	112 (8 teams) from 8 nations
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Football 7-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics^[1] will be held in Rio de Janeiro at the Deodoro Olympic Park, from 8 September to 16 September. Football 7-a-side is played by athletes with cerebral palsy, a condition characterized by impairment of muscular coordination. 112 footballers are expected to compete for one set of medals.^[2]

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

Qualifying

Eight teams will contest the competition, which is for male athletes only. An NPC can enter a single squad, consisting of fourteen players, two more per team than in 2012.

Qualification is by a series of tournaments, and was one of the first events for which entries were completed. Iran (IRI) won the Asian qualification tournament, but in line with the rules of the process, were not awarded a place as the Asian tournament had fewer than the necessary 5 teams to be a valid qualifier. The extra place thus created was allocated to the highest place unqualified team after the CPISRA World Championship.

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Berths^[3]	Qualified
Host nation	2 October 2009	Copenhagen	1	Brazil (BRA)
2014 CPISRA Football 7-a-side European Championships	23 July 2014 – 2 August 2014	Maia, Portugal	1	Ukraine (UKR)
2014 Asian Para Games	October 19–23, 2014	Incheon, South Korea	1	~~Iran (IRI)~~ Iran fail to qualify as field in qualification event insufficiently large.
Football 7-a-side at the 2015 Parapan American Games	September 2015	Toronto, Canada	1	Argentina (ARG)
2015 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships	16 June - 28 June 2015	Burton, United Kingdom^[4]	5	Great Britain (GBR)
				Ireland (IRL)
				Russia (RUS)
				United States (USA)
				Netherlands (NED)
Total			8