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Football 5-a-side at the XVI Paralympic Games
Football 5-a-side pictogram of the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Venue	Aomi Urban Sports Park
Dates	29 August – 4 September 2021
Competitors	96 from 8 nations
Medalists
Brazil  Argentina  Morocco
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Football 5-a-side at the 2020 Summer Paralympics was held at the Aomi Urban Sports Park in Tokyo.

The 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They kept the 2020 name and were held from 24 August to 5 September 2021.

Qualifying

There are 8 men's teams who compete in the competition. Each team must have a maximum of fifteen squad members: eight outfield players, two goalkeepers with the other members being one guide, one coach with an assistant coach, along with a doctor and physiotherapist.Iran the finalists of Football 5-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics withdraw due to Financial problems of players and Political reasons.

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified
2018 IBSA World Blind Football Championship	5–16 June 2018	Madrid	1	Brazil (BRA)
2019 Americas Regional Championships	2–10 June 2019	São Paulo	1	Argentina (ARG)
2019 European Championships	15–24 September 2019	Rome	2	France (FRA)  Spain (ESP)
2019 Asia Regional Championships	30 September – 6 October 2019	Pattaya	2	Iran (IRI)  China (CHN)  Thailand (THA)
2019 Africa Regional Championships	22 November – 1 December 2019	Enugu	1	Morocco (MAR)
Host country allocation	7 September 2013	Buenos Aires	1	Japan (JPN)
Total			8

Schedule

Squads

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Brazil (BRA) Cássio [pt] Damião [pt] Gledson da Paixão Barros Jardiel Jefinho [pt] Luan [pt] Matheus Bumussa Nonato [pt] Ricardinho [pt] Tiago [pt]	Argentina (ARG) Federico Accardi [es] Ángel Deldo Maximiliano Espinillo [es] Nahuel Heredia Darío Lencina Germán Muleck [es] Froilán Padilla [es] Marcelo Panizza Braian Pereyra Nicolás Véliz [es]	Morocco (MAR) Abdellali Ait Al-Hakem Elhabib Ait Bajja Samir Bara Imad Berka Kamal Boughlam Said El-Mselek Houssam Ghilli Ayoub Hadimi Abderrazak Hattab Zouhair Snisla

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	3	3	0	0	11	0	+11	9	Semi finals
2	China	3	2	0	1	3	3	0	6
3	Japan	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3	5th–6th place match
4	France	3	0	0	3	0	9	−9	0	7th–8th place match

Japan	4–0	France
Kuroda 4', 9' Kawamura 19', 27' (pen.)	Report

Brazil	3–0	China
Mendes 15', 36' Reis 25' (pen.)	Report

China	1–0	France
Zhu Ruiming 37'	Report

Brazil	4–0	Japan
Mendes 5' Tiago Paraná 25' Alves 36', 39'	Report

Japan	0–2	China
	Report	Zhu Ruiming 12', 18'

France	0–4	Brazil
	Report	Mendes 16', 26' (pen.) Soares 35', 39'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9	Semi finals
2	Morocco	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	4
3	Spain	3	1	1	1	2	3	−1	4	5th–6th place match
4	Thailand	3	0	0	3	0	6	−6	0	7th–8th place match

Argentina	2–1	Morocco
Espinillo 3', 15'	Report	Snisla 9'

Spain	1–0	Thailand
Martin 40'	Report

Thailand	0–2	Morocco
	Report	Snisla 6', 20'

Spain	0–2	Argentina
	Report	Espinillo 8', 40'

Argentina	3–0	Thailand
Espinillo 13' Deldo 20' Veliz 38'	Report

Morocco	1–1	Spain
Snisla 18'	Report	Martin 30'

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	2 September
	China	0
					4 September
	Argentina	2
					Argentina	0
	2 September
					Brazil	1
	Brazil	1
	Morocco	0
					Bronze medal match
					4 September
					China	0
					Morocco	4

7th–8th classification matches

France	2–3	Thailand
Youme 29', 31'	Report	Buadee 9' Kupan 17', 27'

5th–6th classification matches

Japan	1–0	Spain
Kuroda 20'	Report

Semi-finals

China	0–2	Argentina
	Report	Espinillo 18', 22'

Brazil	1–0	Morocco
Berka 28' (o.g.)	Report

Bronze medal match

China	0–4	Morocco
	Report	Snisla 4', 8', 18', 30'

Gold medal match

Argentina	0–1	Brazil
	Report	Mendes 33'

Final rankings

Rank	Team
	Brazil
	Argentina
	Morocco
4	China
5	Japan
6	Spain
7	Thailand
8	France

See also

• Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics

References

1. "2020 Summer Paralympics Qualification Guide" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 12 April 2021.
2. "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". Olympic.org (Press release). Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 24 March 2020.
3. "Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics: New dates confirmed for 2021". BBC Sport. 30 March 2020.
4. "IBSA Blind Football Rulebook 2017–2021" (PDF). www.ibsasport.org. International Blind Sports Federation. 29 August 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 August 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
5. "Brazil recapture Copa America". International Paralympic Committee. 10 June 2019.
6. Rowbottom, Mike (22 September 2019). "Spain and France book Tokyo 2020 place at Blind Football European Championships". insidethegames.biz.
7. Pavitt, Michael (5 October 2019). "Iran earn Tokyo 2020 qualification by reaching Blind Football Asian Championships final". insidethegames.biz.
8. "Morocco retains African title and qualified for Tokyo 2020". ibsasport.org. International Blind Sports Federation. 2 December 2019. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 2 December 2019.

External links

• Results book Archived 4 September 2021 at the Wayback Machine

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