Football at the 2028 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

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Sixteen teams are scheduled to compete in the women's football tournament at the 2028 Summer Olympics. Fifteen women's national teams from six confederations will qualify to join the United States, who qualified as the host nation.[1]

Table

In April 2025, the IOC Executive Board approved FIFA's suggestion that the women's tournament be expanded to 16 teams.[2] In December 2025, the FIFA Council approved the final allocation of berths,[3] although CONMEBOL had already completed qualification.

Means of qualification Dates[a] Venue(s)[a] Berth(s) Qualified
Host nation N/a N/a 1  United States
2028 AFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament TBD TBD 2
2028 CAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament TBD TBD 2
2026 CONCACAF W Championship November 2026 TBD 3

2025 Copa América Femenina 11 July – 2 August 2025 Ecuador 2  Brazil
 Colombia
2028 OFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament TBD TBD 1
2027 UEFA Women's Nations League TBD TBD 4


AFC–CONMEBOL play-off TBD TBD 1
Total 16
Notes
  1. ^ a b Dates and venues are those of final tournaments (or final round of qualification tournaments); various qualification stages may precede these matches.

Confederation qualification

As of March 2026, only CAF and OFC had not announced their qualification processes.

AFC

The eight quarterfinalists in the 2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup will play a tournament to select the two AFC teams for the Olympics, plus a third team to enter a playoff against a CONMEBOL team for an additional place. In the tournament, the teams will be divided into two groups of four that will each play a home-and-away double round-robin, with the two group winners to go to the Olympics.[4]

CONCACAF

Main article: 2026 CONCACAF W Championship

The top three teams of the 2026 CONCACAF W Championship tournament — the two finalists plus the winner of the third-place match — will qualify for the Olympics. (This follows a revision on 17 December 2025 of FIFA's earlier allocation of Olympic slots.[5]) In addition the United States, as the Olympic host, is automatically qualified, so that four CONCACAF teams will qualify in all. Should the US finish as one of the top four teams in the tournament — i.e., reach the semifinals — then all four tournament semifinalists will qualify for the Olympics.[6]

Current stage (qualification)

Main article: 2026 CONCACAF W Championship qualification

Group A
Pos Team Pld Pts
1  Puerto Rico 3 9
2  Mexico 2 6
3  U.S. Virgin Islands 2 3
4  Saint Lucia (E) 3 0
5  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (E) 2 0
Updated to match(es) played on 5 March 2026.
Source: CONCACAF
(E) Eliminated

Group B
Pos Team Pld Pts
1  Jamaica 2 6
2  Nicaragua 3 6
3  Guyana 3 6
4  Antigua and Barbuda (E) 2 0
5  Dominica (E) 2 0
Updated to match(es) played on 5 March 2026.
Source: CONCACAF
(E) Eliminated

Group C
Pos Team Pld Pts
1  Guatemala 3 9
2  Costa Rica 2 6
3  Bermuda (E) 3 3
4  Grenada (E) 2 0
5  Cayman Islands (E) 2 0
Updated to match(es) played on 6 March 2026.
Source: CONCACAF
(E) Eliminated

Group D
Pos Team Pld Pts
1  Dominican Republic 3 7
2  Haiti 2 6
3  Suriname (E) 3 4
4  Anguilla (E) 2 0
5  Belize (E) 2 0
Updated to match(es) played on 6 March 2026.
Source: CONCACAF
(E) Eliminated

Group E
Pos Team Pld Pts
1  Cuba 3 7
2  Panama 2 6
3  Aruba 2 3
4  Saint Kitts and Nevis (E) 3 1
5  Curaçao (E) 2 0
Updated to match(es) played on 7 March 2026.
Source: CONCACAF
(E) Eliminated

Group F
Pos Team Pld Pts
1  El Salvador 2 6
2  Trinidad and Tobago 2 4
3  Honduras (E) 2 1
4  Barbados (E) 2 0
Updated to match(es) played on 4 March 2026.
Source: CONCACAF
(E) Eliminated

CONMEBOL

Main article: 2025 Copa América Femenina

CONMEBOL has two Olympic slots, plus one team will enter a playoff against an AFC team for an additional place. To date the two finalists of the 2025 Copa América Femenina, Colombia and Brazil, have earned Olympic qualification, with Argentina to play in the play-off.[7]

Group stage

Group A Group B
Pos Team Pld Pts
1  Argentina 4 12
2  Uruguay 4 7
3  Chile 4 6
4  Ecuador (H) 4 4
5  Peru 4 0
Source: CONMEBOL
(H) Hosts
Pos Team Pld Pts
1  Brazil 4 10
2  Colombia 4 8
3  Paraguay 4 6
4  Venezuela 4 4
5  Bolivia 4 0
Source: CONMEBOL

Knockout stage

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
28 July – Quito (RPD)
 
 
 Argentina0 (4)
 
2 August – Quito (RPD)
 
 Colombia (p)0 (5)
 
 Colombia4 (4)
 
29 July – Quito (RPD)
 
 Brazil (p)4 (5)
 
 Brazil5
 
 
 Uruguay1
 
 
Fifth place match
 
  
 
28 July – Quito (IDV)
 
 
 Chile0
 
 
 Paraguay1
 
 
Third place match
 
  
 
1 August – Quito (RPD)
 
 
 Argentina (p)2 (5)
 
 
 Uruguay2 (4)
 

UEFA

On December 17, 2025, UEFA was allocated four slots for the 2028 Olympics.[8] The Olympic qualifiers will be the four semifinalists of the 2027 UEFA Nations League.[9]

AFC–CONMEBOL play-off

One team from AFC and Argentina, as third-place team in the 2025 Copa América Femenina, will meet to determine the final Olympic qualifier.[3] As of February 2026, no further details have been provided.

References

  1. ^ "LA28 Reveals Medal Event Program and Athlete Quota". LA28. 9 April 2025. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
  2. ^ "FIFA celebrates historic step for women's football at LA28 Olympic Games". FIFA. April 9, 2025. Retrieved July 30, 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Regulations for the Preliminary Competition of the Olympic Football Tournaments – GAMES OF THE XXXIV OLYMPIAD LOS ANGELES 2028" (PDF). FIFA. 17 December 2025. Retrieved 26 December 2025.
  4. ^ "AFC unveils breakthrough reforms to strengthen Women's National Team Competitions". Asian Football Confederation. 2024-09-12. Retrieved 2026-03-17.
  5. ^ "FIFA Council approves record-breaking FIFA World Cup 2026 financial contribution". FIFA. 2025-12-17. Retrieved 2026-03-17.
  6. ^ "FIFA sets women's soccer allocations for 2028 LA Olympics". Just Women's Sports. 2025-12-18. Retrieved 2026-03-17.
  7. ^ "Arranca la CONMEBOL Copa América Femenina 2025™: todo lo que hay que saber del torneo" [The CONMEBOL Copa América Femenina 2025™ kicks off: everything you need to know about the tournament] (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 11 July 2025. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  8. ^ "FIFA Council approves record-breaking FIFA World Cup 2026 financial contribution". FIFA. 2025-12-17. Archived from the original on 2026-03-14. Retrieved 2026-03-17.
  9. ^ "FIFA sets women's soccer allocations for 2028 LA Olympics". Just Women's Sports. 2025-12-18. Retrieved 2026-03-17.
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