The 2008 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament was the 2nd edition of the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international football tournament organised by CONCACAF to determine which two women's national teams from the North, Central American and Caribbean region qualify for the Olympic football tournament. A total of six teams played in the tournament. The top two teams of the tournament – United States and Canada – qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Beijing, China as the CONCACAF representatives.

Qualification

The six berths were allocated to the three regional zones as follows: Three teams from the North American Zone (NAFU), i.e., Canada, the hosts Mexico, and the United States, who all qualified automatically One team from the Central American Zone (UNCAF) Two teams from the Caribbean Zone (CFU)

Regional qualification tournaments were held to determine the three teams joining Canada, Mexico, and the United States at the final tournament.

Qualified teams The following six teams qualified for the final tournament.

TeamQualificationAppearancePrevious best performancesPrevious women's Olympic appearancesNorth American Zone (NAFU) Automatic 2nd Third Place (2004) 0 Automatic 2nd Runner-up (2004) 1 Automatic 2nd Winner (2004) 3Central American Zone (UNCAF) Group winner 2nd Fourth Place (2004) 0Caribbean Zone (CFU) Final round winner 2nd Group stage (2004) 0 Final round 3rd place 1st N/A 0

Venue The sole venue was the Estadio Olímpico Benito Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

Ciudad JuárezEstadio Olímpico Benito JuárezCapacity: 19,703

Draw The six teams were drawn into two groups of three teams. Defending CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship champion and 2004 Olympic gold medalist United States were seeded in Group A.

Squads

Group stage The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.

All times are local, CST (UTC−6).

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of regular time (two periods of 45 minutes), extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner. In the case of the third place match, as it is played just before the final, extra time is skipped and a penalty shoot-out takes place.

Bracket

Semi-finals Winners qualify for 2008 Summer Olympics.

Third place play-off

Final

Goalscorers 4 goals

Natasha Kai Juana López Melissa Tancredi

3 goals

Abby Wambach

2 goals

Carli Lloyd Tania Morales Heather O'Reilly Teresa Worbis

1 goal

Jonelle Filigno Randee Hermus Kara Lang Jodi Ann Robinson Christine Sinclair Cristín Granados Amara Wilson Omolyn Davis María Gordillo Mónica Ocampo Kennya Cordner Maylee Attin-Johnson Lauren Cheney Tobin Heath

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20160713230217/http://www.concacaf.com/article/womens-olympic-qualifying-2008-recap

External links Olympic Qualifying – Women, CONCACAF.com , CONCACAF.com