Football at the 2015 Pan American Games

Association football competitions at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto were held from July 11 to 26 at Tim Hortons Field (renamed Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium due to sponsorship rules) in Hamilton.[1] The men's tournament were an under-22 competition with a maximum of three over-age players allowed, while the women's tournament had no age restrictions.[2] A total of eight teams competed in each respective tournament.[3]

Soccer at the XVII Pan American Games
Football pictogram for the games
VenuesHamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium
DatesJuly 11–26, 2015
Competitors286 from 12 nations
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Squads
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Competition schedule
Tim Hortons Field (Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium), was the venue for the football competitions

The following was the competition schedule for the football competitions:[4]

PPreliminaries ½Semifinals B3rd place play-off FFinal
Event↓/Date →Sat 11Sun 12Mon 13Tue 14Wed 15Thu 16Fri 17Sat 18Sun 19Mon 20Tue 21Wed 22Thu 23Fri 24Sat 25Sun 26
MenPPPPPP½BF
WomenPPPPP½BF

Medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Brazil (BRA)1012
2 Uruguay (URU)1001
3 Mexico (MEX)0112
4 Colombia (COL)0101
Totals (4 nations)2226

Medalists
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's tournament
  Uruguay  Mexico  Brazil
Women's tournament
  Brazil  Colombia  Mexico

Qualification

A total of eight men's teams and eight women's teams qualified to compete at the games.[2][5] Each team can consist of up to 18 athletes.[6]

Men
Event Date Location Vacancies Qualified
Host Nation N/A N/A 1  Canada
Qualified automatically N/A N/A 1  Mexico
Central American Qualifier[7] July 17–29, 2014 El Salvador 1  Panama
Caribbean Qualifier September 12–19, 2014 Trinidad and Tobago 1  Trinidad and Tobago
South American Qualifier (teams placed 3rd to 6th) [8][9] January 14 – February 7, 2015 Uruguay 4  Uruguay
 Brazil
 Peru
 Paraguay
Total8

Women
Event Date Location Vacancies Qualified
Host Nation N/A N/A 1  Canada
Qualified automatically N/A N/A 1  Mexico
Central American Qualifier[10] May 20–26, 2014 Guatemala 1  Costa Rica
Caribbean Qualifier August 19–26, 2014 Trinidad and Tobago 1  Trinidad and Tobago
South American Qualifier September 11 – 28, 2014 Ecuador 4  Brazil
 Colombia
 Ecuador
 Argentina
Total8

Participating nations

A total of twelve nations have qualified football teams. The numbers in parenthesis represents the number of participants entered.

Concerns

There was some concern that, as the event is in close proximity to the Women's World Cup and the men's Gold Cup that full-strength teams would not be fielded, particularly in the women's event which is not age-restricted, which in turn would affect quality of play. A spokesperson for the Canadian Soccer Association confirmed that younger players would make up the Canadian women's side. Six teams in the women's draw participated in the World Cup which finished six days prior to the start of the Pan Am tournament.[11]

References
  1. "Competition Schedule" (PDF). TO2015. 18 August 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  2. "Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games Football (Soccer)" (PDF). Ontario Soccer. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  3. "Football (Soccer)". TO2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  4. "Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Ticket Program Guide" (PDF). TO2015. 20 April 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  5. Milton, Steve (7 January 2015). "Field of teams for Pan Am soccer tournament taking shape". Hamilton Spectator. Hamilton, Canada. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  6. "Sport Technical manual Football (Soccer)". TO2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  7. "Panama U20s seal CONCACAF, Pan Am Games berths". Concacaf. 26 July 2014. Archived from the original on 2 August 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  8. "The Uruguayan U-20 team starts training ahead of the 2015 Sudamericano". Conmebol. Archived from the original on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  9. Milton, Steve (9 February 2015). "Brazil, Uruguay bound for Hamilton's Pan Am soccer stage". Hamilton Spectator. Hamilton, Canada. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  10. "Costa Rica women secure Pan American Games spot". Concacaf. 27 May 2014. Archived from the original on 19 September 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  11. "Top soccer talent unlikely to play in Toronto". cbc. 2015-02-13.
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