2012 Summer Olympics Football

Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics will be held in London and several other cities in the United Kingdom, from 25 July to 11 August. The finals will be played at Wembley Stadium.

Currently there are six stadiums that will host matches:

Wembley Stadium with a capacity of 90,000

Old Trafford with a capacity of 76,212

St Jame's Park with a capacity of 52,387

Hampden Park with a capacity of 52,103

City of Coventry Stadium 32,609



For these games, the men will compete in a 16-team tournament, and the women in a 12-team tournament. Football preliminaries will actually commence two days before the Opening Ceremony of the Games on 27 July.

Tota; number of teams :28



The aim of Football, to score more goals than the opposition, is both simple and universally known. Teams of 11 players compete across two 45-minutes halves, with extra time and penalty shootouts used to decide drawn matches during the knockout stages of the competition.