Football 7-a-side at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was held in London at the Olympic Hockey Centre, from 1 September to 9 September. Football 7-a-side is played by athletes with cerebral palsy, a condition characterized by impairment of muscular coordination. 96 footballers are expected to compete for one set of medals."Football 7-a-side" , The official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, accessed 20 May 2011.
For these games, the men competed in an 8-team tournament.
Qualifying Means of qualification Date Venue BerthsFootball 7-a-Side Qualification Criteria - FT, International Paralympic Committee (IPC), February 2011 Qualified Host nation 1 2010 CPISRA Football 7-a-side European Championships 15–28 August 2010 Glasgow, 1 2010 Asian Para Games 12–19 December 2010 Guangzhou, 1 2010 CPISRA Football 7-a-side Americas Championships 17–27 October 2010 Buenos Aires, 1 2011 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships 17 June – 1 July 2011 Drenthe, Draw for the CPISRA football 7-a-side world championships 2011 , Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association (CPISRA) 4 Total 8
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
Classification round
5th–8th place semi-finals
7th–8th place match
5th–6th place match
Medal round
Semi-finals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Medalists Men's team Aleksandr LekovVladislav RaretckiiAslanbek SapievAlexey TumakovLasha MurvanadzeAleksei ChesminIvan Potekhin (captain)Eduard RamonovViacheslav LarionovZaurbek PagaevAndrei KuvaevAleksandr Kuligin Kostyantyn SymashkoIhor KosenkoVitaliy TrushevYevhen ZinovievTaras DutkoAnatolii ShevchykOleksiy HetunVolodymyr Antonyuk (captain)Ivan ShkvarloIvan DotsenkoDenys PonomaryovOleksandr Devlysh Mehran Nikoee MajdMoslem KhazaeipirsarabiEhsan Gholamhosseinpour BoushehMorteza HeidariBahman AnsariHashem RastegarimobinSadegh Hassani BaghiFarzad MehriJasem BakhshiMoslem Akbari (captain)Rasoul AtashafrouzAbdolreza Karimizadeh
See also Football 5-a-side at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics
References
External links "Football 7-a-side" , The official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association (CPISRA)