The 2008 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament was the 2nd edition of the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...

tournament organised by

CONCACAF The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football,, ; french: Confédération de football d'Amérique du Nord, d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes, . Dutch uses the English name. abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; types ...

to determine which two women's national teams from the North, Central American and Caribbean region qualify for the

Olympic football tournament Football at the Summer Olympics, referred to as the Olympic Football Tournament, has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition sport, except 1896 (the inaugural Games) and 1932 (in an attempt to promote the new FIFA Wor ...

. A total of six teams played in the tournament. The top two teams of the tournament -

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., ...

and

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by to ...

- qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Beijing, China as the CONCACAF representatives.

Qualification

The six berths were allocated to the three regional zones as follows: *Three teams from the North American Zone (NAFU), i.e.,

, the hosts

Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to the north by the United States; to the so ...

, and the

, who all qualified automatically *One team from the Central American Zone (UNCAF) *Two teams from the Caribbean Zone (CFU) Regional qualification tournaments were held to determine the three teams joining Canada, Mexico, and the United States at the final tournament.

Qualified teams

The following six teams qualified for the final tournament.

Venues

The sole venue was the Estadio Olímpico Benito Juárez, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Draw

The six teams were drawn into two groups of three teams. Defending CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship champion and 2004 Olympic gold medalist United States were seeded in Group A.

Squads

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals. All times are local, CST ( UTC−6).

Group A

---- ----

Group B

---- ----

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of regular time (two periods of 45 minutes),

extra time Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played only ...

is played (two periods of 15 minutes) and followed, if necessary, by a

penalty shoot-out The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pe ...

to determine the winner. In the case of the third place match, as it is played just before the final, extra time is skipped and a penalty shoot-out takes place.

Bracket

Semi-finals

Winners qualify for

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nat ...

Third place play-off

Final

Goalscorers

;4 goals * Natasha Kai * Juana López * Melissa Tancredi ;3 goals *

Abby Wambach Mary Abigail Wambach (born June 2, 1980) is an American retired soccer player, coach, and member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. A six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award, Wambach was a regular on the U.S. women's nati ...

;2 goals *

Carli Lloyd Carli Anne Hollins (; born July 16, 1982) is an American former professional soccer player. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2008 and 2012), two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion (2015 and 2019), two-time FIFA Player of the Year ...

* Tania Morales *

Heather O'Reilly Heather Ann O'Reilly (born January 2, 1985) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Irish club Shelbourne of the Women's National League. She played for the United States women's national soccer team (USWNT), w ...

Teresa Worbis Teresa Guadalupe "Lupita" Worbis Aguilar (born 12 December 1983) is a Mexican architect and a footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga MX Femenil club Puebla. She has been a member of the Mexico women's national team. Early life Worbis c ...

;1 goal * Jonelle Filigno * Randee Hermus *

Kara Lang Kara Elise Lang Romero (born 22 October 1986) is a former Canadian soccer player and current sports analyst, who represented her country in two FIFA World Cups and the Olympic Games, and played club soccer for Vancouver Whitecaps Women. She is ...

* Jodi Ann Robinson *

Christine Sinclair Christine Margaret Sinclair (born June 12, 1983) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a forward and captains both National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) club Portland Thorns FC and the Canadian national team. An Olympic g ...

* Cristin Granados * Amara Wilson *

Omolyn Davis Omolyn Ophilia Davis (born 9 August 1987) is a Jamaican international football defender who last played professionally for CSHVSM of the Kazakhstani championship. She previously played for magicJack MagicJack is an Internet-based tel ...

* María Gordillo *

Mónica Ocampo Mónica Ocampo Medina (born 4 January 1987) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a forward for CF Pachuca and the Mexico women's national team. Club career From 2006 to 2009, Ocampo played with W-League club FC Indiana. In 201 ...

* Kennya Cordner * Maylee Attin-Johnson * Lauren Cheney *

Tobin Heath Tobin Powell Heath (born May 29, 1988) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for OL Reign of the NWSL, as well as the United States national team. Heath has been described as "perhaps the USA's most skillful player" ...

References

* https://web.archive.org/web/20160713230217/http://www.concacaf.com/article/womens-olympic-qualifying-2008-recap

External links

Olympic Qualifying – Women
CONCACAF.com

CONCACAF.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Concacaf Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament 2008 2008 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament,

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

Olympic Qualifying Championship, Women's Concacaf Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship

Concacaf The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football,, ; french: Confédération de football d'Amérique du Nord, d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes, . Dutch uses the English name. abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; types ...

Olympic Qualifying Championship, Women's 2008 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship