Football at the 2018 Asian Games – Women's tournament
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The women's football tournament at the 2018 Asian Games was held from 16 to 31 August in Palembang, Indonesia.[1] North Korea were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the quarter-finals. The host team was eliminated in the group stage.
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country |  Indonesia |
| Dates | 16–31 August |
| Teams | 11 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 2 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Japan (2nd title) |
| Runners-up |  China |
| Third place |  South Korea |
| Fourth place |  Chinese Taipei |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 23 |
| Goals scored | 132 (5.74 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Wang Shanshan (CHN)(12 goals) |
← 2014 2022 → | |
Competition schedule
| G | Group stage | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| Thu 16 | Fri 17 | Sat 18 | Sun 19 | Mon 20 | Tue 21 | Wed 22 | Thu 23 | Fri 24 | Sat 25 | Sun 26 | Mon 27 | Tue 28 | Wed 29 | Thu 30 | Fri 31 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F | |||||||||||
The tournament was held in two venues in Palembang, the Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium and the Bumi Sriwijaya Stadium.[1]
| Palembang | ||
|---|---|---|
| Gelora Sriwijaya | Bumi Sriwijaya | |
| Capacity: 23,000[2] | Capacity: 7,000[2] | |
The draw for the tournament was held on 5 July 2018.[3] The teams were seeded into four pots based on their performances in the previous Asian Games in 2014. The hosts Indonesia were automatically assigned into position A1.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
The top two teams in each group, and the two third-placed teams among three groups advanced to the quarter-finals.[1]
All times are local, WIB (UTC+7).[4]
Teams in a group were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.[1]
- Highest number of points obtained in all group matches;
- Highest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
- Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
- Highest number of goals scored from all group matches between the teams concerned;
- If two or more teams have equal ranking with the criteria so far, reapply the criteria above only for them. If this re-application gives no more ranking, apply the following criteria.
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Highest number of goals scored in all group matches;
- Kicks from the penalty mark only if two (2) teams are involved and they are both on the field of play.
- Fewer points of yellow/red cards in all group matches (only one of these deductions shall be applied to a player in a single match):
- First yellow card: 1 point;
- Indirect red card (second yellow card): 3 points;
- Direct red card: 3 points;
- Yellow card followed by direct red card: 4 points;
- Drawing of lots
Third-placed teams from the three groups are ranked according to the following criteria, after the results against the fourth-placed teams of groups A and B are excluded in order to rank them with the same numbers of matches.[1]
- Highest number of points obtained in all group matches;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Highest number of goals scored in all group matches;
- Fewer points of yellow/red cards in all group matches (only one of these deductions shall be applied to a player in a single match):
- First yellow card: 1 point;
- Indirect red card (second yellow card): 3 points;
- Direct red card: 3 points;
- Yellow card followed by direct red card: 4 points;
- Drawing of lots
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Korea | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 1 | +21 | 9 | Advance to Knockout stage |
| 2 | Chinese Taipei | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 6 | |
| 3 | Indonesia (H) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 16 | −10 | 3 | |
| 4 | Maldives | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 21 | −21 | 0 |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | +25 | 9 | Advance to Knockout stage |
| 2 | North Korea | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 2 | +22 | 6 | |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 16 | −10 | 3 | |
| 4 | Tajikistan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 38 | −37 | 0 |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | +9 | 6 | Advance to Knockout stage |
| 2 | Vietnam | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 3 | |
| 3 | Thailand | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 |
Ranking of third-placed teams
In order to ensure equality when comparing the third-placed teams of all groups, the results of the matches against the 4th-placed teams in Group A and Group B were ignored due to Group C having only three teams.
| Pos | Grp | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C | Thailand | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | B | Hong Kong | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 | −15 | 0 | |
| 3 | A | Indonesia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | −16 | 0 |
Source: Asian Games 2018 Archived 26 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) fair play points; 5) drawing of lots.
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out (no extra time) is used to decide the winner if necessary.[1]
| Third-placed teams qualify from groups |
1A vs |
1B vs | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | 3B | 3A | |
| A | C | 3C | 3A | |
| B | C | 3B | 3C | |
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | ||||||||
| 24 August – Palembang | ||||||||||
| South Korea | 5 | |||||||||
| 28 August – Palembang | ||||||||||
| Hong Kong | 0 | |||||||||
| South Korea | 1 | |||||||||
| 25 August – Palembang | ||||||||||
| Japan | 2 | |||||||||
| Japan | 2 | |||||||||
| 31 August – Palembang | ||||||||||
| North Korea | 1 | |||||||||
| Japan | 1 | |||||||||
| 24 August – Palembang | ||||||||||
| China | 0 | |||||||||
| Chinese Taipei (p) | 0 (4) | |||||||||
| 28 August – Palembang | ||||||||||
| Vietnam | 0 (3) | |||||||||
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | |||||||||
| 25 August – Palembang | ||||||||||
| China | 1 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
| China | 5 | |||||||||
| 31 August – Palembang | ||||||||||
| Thailand | 0 | |||||||||
| South Korea | 4 | |||||||||
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | |||||||||
There were 132 goals scored in 23 matches, for an average of 5.74 goals per match.
12 goals
6 goals
- Wang Shuang (CHN)
- Moon Mi-ra (KOR)
5 goals
4 goals
- Yuika Sugasawa (JPN)
- Sung Hyang-sim (PRK)
- Kim Yun-mi (PRK)
- Ji So-yun (KOR)
- Son Hwa-yeon (KOR)
3 goals
- Gu Yasha (CHN)
- Yu Hsiu-chin (TPE)
- Yu Jong-im (PRK)
- Rim Se-ok (PRK)
- Kim Un-hwa (PRK)
- Jeon Ga-eul (KOR)
- Lee Min-a (KOR)
2 goals
- Zhuo Li-ping (TPE)
- Michelle Pao (TPE)
- Pan Shin-yu (TPE)
- Ho Mui Mei (HKG)
- Zahra Musdalifah (INA)
- Mayang Zp (INA)
- Mana Iwabuchi (JPN)
- Yuka Momiki (JPN)
- Mina Tanaka (JPN)
- Kim Nam-hui (PRK)
- Ri Hae-yon (PRK)
- Jang Sel-gi (KOR)
- Lee Geum-min (KOR)
1 goal
- Li Jiayue (CHN)
- Li Tingting (CHN)
- Li Ying (CHN)
- Xiao Yuyi (CHN)
- Lee Hsiu-chin (TPE)
- Chan Pi-han (TPE)
- Lin Ya-han (TPE)
- Chun Ching Hang (HKG)
- Heidi Yuen (HKG)
- Cham Ching Man (HKG)
- Chan Wing Sze (HKG)
- Yudith Herlina Sada (INA)
- Jesella Arifya Sari (INA)
- Yui Hasegawa (JPN)
- Rika Masuya (JPN)
- Emi Nakajima (JPN)
- Pak Hye-gyong (PRK)
- Kim Phyong-hwa (PRK)
- Ri Un-yong (PRK)
- Lee Eun-mi (KOR)
- Lim Seon-joo (KOR)
- Natalia Sotnikova (TJK)
- Suchawadee Nildhamrong (THA)
- Pitsamai Sornsai (THA)
- Nguyễn Thị Tuyết Dung (VIE)
- Nguyễn Thị Liễu (VIE)
- Nguyễn Thị Vạn (VIE)
1 own goal
- Chan Wing Sze (HKG) (against China)
- Kay Fung (HKG) (against North Korea)
- Lim Seon-joo (KOR) (against Japan)
- Aminath Shamila (MDV) (against South Korea)
As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
Note: In order to ensure equality, for teams in four-team groups, their match against the fourth-placed teams are excluded when considering the ranking.
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | +12 | 15 | ||
| China | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 1 | +30 | 15 | ||
| South Korea | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 32 | 3 | +29 | 15 | ||
| 4 | Chinese Taipei | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 7 | |
| Eliminated in the Quarter-finals | ||||||||||
| 5 | Vietnam | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 4 | |
| 6 | North Korea | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 4 | +21 | 6 | |
| 7 | Thailand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | −8 | 0 | |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 21 | −15 | 3 | |
| Third place in the group stage | ||||||||||
| 9 | Indonesia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 16 | −10 | 3 | |
| Fourth place in the group stage | ||||||||||
| 10 | Maldives | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 21 | −21 | 0 | |
| 11 | Tajikistan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 38 | −37 | 0 | |
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