Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Final

2016 Summer Olympic men's football final

Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro hosted the final
Event	Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
Brazil Germany 1 1
After extra time Brazil won 5–4 on penalties
Date	20 August 2016 (2016-08-20)
Venue	Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referee	Alireza Faghani (Iran)
Attendance	63,707

The 2016 Summer Olympic football gold medal match was a football match to determine the gold medal winners of men's football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The match was the 24th final of the men's football tournament at the Olympics, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA to decide the Olympic champions. The match was held at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 20 August 2016, and it was played between hosts Brazil and Germany.

Background

Since the Olympic men's football was restricted to an under-23 tournament in 1992, Brazil has played in only one gold medal match, losing to Mexico in 2012. Germany, as a unified team or country, played in their first ever Olympic gold medal match. However, the former East Germany senior team won in 1976, before losing to Czechoslovakia in 1980.

The match was the first time the two sides had faced each other in a major tournament since Germany's senior team knocked Brazil's out in the semi-finals of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, also hosted by the latter, beating them 7–1. The senior team had also met in the 2002 FIFA World Cup final, with Brazil prevailing 2–0 in Yokohama.

Venue

Main article: Maracanã Stadium

The match was held at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prior to the 2016 Olympics, the stadium had hosted two FIFA World Cups, in 1950 and 2014 in addition to the 1989 Copa América.

Route to the final

Brazil		Round	Germany
Opponent	Result	Group stage	Opponent	Result
South Africa	0–0	Match 1	Mexico	2–2
Iraq	0–0	Match 2	South Korea	3–3
Denmark	0–4	Match 3	Fiji	10–0
Group A winners Pos Team Pld Pts 1 Brazil (H) 3 5 2 Denmark 3 4 3 Iraq 3 3 4 South Africa 3 2 Source: Rio2016 & FIFA (H) Host		Final standings	Group C runners-up Pos Team Pld Pts 1 South Korea 3 7 2 Germany 3 5 3 Mexico 3 4 4 Fiji 3 0 Source: Rio2016 & FIFA
Opponent	Result	Knockout stage	Opponent	Result
Colombia	2–0	Quarter-finals	Portugal	4–0
Honduras	6–0	Semi-finals	Nigeria	2–0

Match

Action during the match

2016 Summer Olympics Football Final

20 August 2016 (2016-08-20)

17:30

Brazil	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Germany
Neymar 27'	Report (Rio2016) Report (ESPN)	Meyer 59'
Penalties
Renato Augusto Marquinhos Rafinha Luan Neymar	5–4	Ginter Gnabry Brandt Süle Petersen

Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 63,707

Referee: Alireza Faghani (Iran)

Brazil

Germany

GK 1 Weverton RB 2 Zeca  30' CB 4 Marquinhos CB 3 Rodrigo Caio LB 6 Douglas Santos CM 12 Walace CM 5 Renato Augusto RW 9 Gabriel Barbosa  44'  70' AM 7 Luan LW 11 Gabriel Jesus  95' CF 10 Neymar (c) Substitutions: MF 17 Felipe Anderson  70' MF 8 Rafinha  95' Head coach: Rogério Micale

GK 1 Timo Horn RB 2 Jeremy Toljan CB 4 Matthias Ginter CB 5 Niklas Süle  89' LB 3 Lukas Klostermann CM 8 Lars Bender  67' CM 6 Sven Bender  81' RW 11 Julian Brandt AM 7 Max Meyer (c) LW 17 Serge Gnabry CF 9 Davie Selke  49'  76' Substitutions: MF 16 Grischa Prömel  80'  67' FW 18 Nils Petersen  76' Head coach: Horst Hrubesch

Assistant referees: Reza Sokhandan (Iran) Mohammadreza Mansouri (Iran) Fourth official: Malang Diedhiou (Senegal)

Post match

The Brazil squad celebrating victory on the podium following the receiving of their gold medals

Brazil's victory at the 2016 was their first in the men's football tournament and was one of seven gold medals won by Brazil in the 2016 Summer Olympics, where they finished 13th in the medal table.

External links

• Brazil vs Germany - FULL Match - Men's Football Final Rio 2016 | Throwback Thursday