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2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

FieldValue
tourney_nameCONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
year2012
cityVancouver
countryCanada
datesJanuary 19–29, 2012
num_teams8
confederations1
venues1
cities1
champion_other
count3
second_other
matches15
goals81
attendance120898
top_scorerCAN Christine Sinclair (9 goals)
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nextseason[2016](2016-concacaf-women-s-olympic-qualifying-championship)

The 2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament was an association football competition used to determine the two participants who would compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics. It was held at BC Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from January 19–29, 2012.

Qualification

Main article: 2012 CONCACAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament qualification

Thirteen teams, eight from the Caribbean and five from Central America, competed to join automatic qualifiers Canada, Mexico and the United States in the eight-team final tournament.

Caribbean qualification took place as two groups of four teams that competed from June 29 to July 9. Cuba and Haiti qualified from group A with seven points each, and were joined by the Dominican Republic from group B who won their group with nine points.

UNCAF's two slots were determined by a five-team group that competed from September 30 to October 8. Costa Rica won the group without dropping any points, and were joined by Guatemala who only lost to Costa Rica.

Squads

Main article: 2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament squads

Group stage

Draw for the group stage was held on October 24, with schedules announced two days later.

The United States' 14–0 victory over the Dominican Republic on January 20 set a tournament record for the largest margin of victory.

Times listed are Pacific Standard Time (PST) – UTC−8.

Group A

Acosta

Sinclair Parker

Tancredi

Pierre-Louis Valentin

Schmidt Kyle Ugalde

Group B

Domínguez
Garza

Lloyd
Buehler
O'Reilly
Heath
Rodriguez
Cheney

Díaz
Ruiz
Guajardo

Cheney
Rodriguez
Lloyd
Lindsey
Leroux
Rapinoe
Morgan

Monterroso
Martínez

O'Reilly

Knockout stage

Bracket

|January 27 – Vancouver||3||1 |January 27 – Vancouver||3||0 |January 29 – Vancouver||0||4

Semi-finals

Lloyd
Morgan

Tancredi

Final

The Canada versus USA Final set a record for CONCACAF Women's Olympic qualification with 25,427 in attendance, the second time the record was broken this tournament. Previously, the Canada versus Mexico semifinal set the record with 22,954 spectators. Wambach

Goalscorers

;9 goals

  • CAN Christine Sinclair

;6 goals

  • USA Carli Lloyd
  • USA Amy Rodriguez
  • USA Abby Wambach

;5 goals

  • USA Sydney Leroux

;4 goals

  • USA Heather O'Reilly
  • USA Alex Morgan

;3 goals

  • CRC Wendy Acosta
  • GUA Wendy Pineda
  • MEX Maribel Dominguez
  • MEX Anisa Guajardo

;2 goals

  • CAN Melissa Tancredi
  • GUA Maria Monterroso
  • MEX Marylin Diaz
  • MEX Jennifer Ruiz
  • USA Lauren Cheney
  • USA Tobin Heath

;1 goal

  • CAN Christina Julien
  • CAN Kaylyn Kyle
  • CAN Kelly Parker
  • CAN Sophie Schmidt
  • CRC Fernanda Barrantes
  • CRC Saudy Rosales
  • GUA Ana Lucía Martínez
  • HAI Kimberly Boulos
  • HAI Manoucheka Pierre-Louis
  • HAI Nadia Valentin
  • MEX Dinora Garza
  • MEX Verónica Pérez
  • MEX Luz del Rosario Saucedo
  • USA Rachel Buehler
  • USA Lori Lindsey
  • USA Megan Rapinoe

;Own goal

  • CRC Marianne Ugalde (playing against Canada)

References

References

  1. (November 3, 2010). "Olympic qualifying, Pan Ams berths allocated". concacaf.com.
  2. (May 17, 2011). "Vancouver awarded women's CONCACAF Olympic qualifier". Cbc.ca.
  3. (October 8, 2011). "Guatemala earns last place in Vancouver". CONCACAF.
  4. (October 24, 2011). "Olympic women's qualifying groups set". CONCACAF.
  5. (October 26, 2011). "2012 CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying schedule announced". CanadaSoccer.com.
  6. "Americans set record with 14–0 win". CONCACAF.
  7. (January 28, 2012). "Canada headed to London after emotional win". The Canadian Soccer Association.
  8. MacMahon, Martin. "Canada no match for USA". Sportsnet.
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