Football at the Summer Youth Olympics | |
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Governing body | FIFA |
Events | 2 (men: 1; womens: 1) |
Games | |
Football was inducted at the Youth Olympic Games at the inaugural edition in 2010 for both boys and girls.
From the 2018 edition in Buenos Aires, FIFA replaced football with futsal. [1]
Year | Host | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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Gold medalist | Score | Silver medalist | Bronze medalist | Score | Fourth place | ||||
2010 [2] Details | Singapore | Bolivia | 5–0 | Haiti | Singapore | 4–1 | Montenegro | ||
2014 Details | Nanjing | Peru | 2–1 | South Korea | Iceland | 4–0 | Cape Verde |
Team | 2010 | 2014 |
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Bolivia | 1st | – |
Cape Verde | – | 4th |
Haiti | 2nd | – |
Honduras | – | 5th |
Iceland | – | 3rd |
Montenegro | 4th | – |
Peru | – | 1st |
Singapore | 3rd | – |
South Korea | – | 2nd |
Vanuatu | 5th | 6th |
Zimbabwe | 6th | – |
Year | Host | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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Gold medalist | Score | Silver medalist | Bronze medalist | Score | Fourth place | ||||
2010 [3] Details | Singapore | Chile | 1–1 5–3 (p) | Equatorial Guinea | Turkey | 3–0 | Iran | ||
2014 Details | Nanjing | China | 5–0 | Venezuela | Mexico | 3–1 | Slovakia |
Team | 2010 | 2014 |
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Chile | 1st | – |
China | – | 1st |
Equatorial Guinea | 2nd | – |
Iran | 4th | – |
Mexico | – | 3rd |
Namibia | – | 6th |
Papua New Guinea | 6th | 5th |
Slovakia | – | 4th |
Trinidad and Tobago | 5th | – |
Turkey | 3rd | – |
Venezuela | – | 2nd |
Organising body | IOC FIFA |
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Region | International |
Number of teams | 10 (finals) (from 6 confederations) |
2018 Summer Youth Olympics |
Year | Host | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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Gold medalist | Score | Silver medalist | Bronze medalist | Score | Fourth place | ||||
2018 Details | Buenos Aires | Brazil | 4–1 | Russia | Egypt | 5–4 | Argentina | ||
2026 Details | Dakar |
Team | 2018 | 2026 |
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Argentina | 4th | |
Brazil | 1st | |
Costa Rica | 8th | |
Egypt | 3rd | |
Iran | 6th | |
Iraq | 5th | |
Panama | 9th | |
Russia | 2nd | |
Senegal | Q | |
Slovakia | 7th | |
Solomon Islands | 10th |
Organising body | IOC FIFA |
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Region | International |
Number of teams | 10 (finals) (from 6 confederations) |
2018 Summer Youth Olympics |
Year | Host | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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Gold medalist | Score | Silver medalist | Bronze medalist | Score | Fourth place | ||||
2018 Details | Buenos Aires | Portugal | 4–1 | Japan | Spain | 11–0 | Bolivia | ||
2026 Details | Dakar |
Team | 2018 | 2026 |
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Bolivia | 4th | |
Cameroon | 6th | |
Chile | 8th | |
Dominican Republic | 9th | |
Japan | 2nd | |
Portugal | 1st | |
Spain | 3rd | |
Thailand | 5th | |
Tonga | 10th | |
Trinidad and Tobago | 7th |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Bolivia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Brazil | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Chile | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Peru | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Portugal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
7 | Equatorial Guinea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Haiti | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Russia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
South Korea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Venezuela | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
13 | Egypt | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Iceland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Mexico | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Singapore | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Spain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Turkey | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (18 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
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