Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament – Group B
Football at the Olympics
Group B of the men's football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics was played from 22 to 28 July 2021 in Kashima's Kashima Stadium, Sapporo's Sapporo Dome and Yokohama's International Stadium Yokohama.[1] The group consistsed of Honduras, New Zealand, Romania and South Korea.[2] The top two teams, South Korea and New Zealand, advanced to the knockout stage.[3]
Fair play points would have been used as a tiebreaker if the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:[3]
first yellow card: minus 1 point;
indirect red card (second yellow card): minus 3 points;
direct red card: minus 4 points;
yellow card and direct red card: minus 5 points;
Only one of the above deductions is applied to a player in a single match.
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^ ab"Tactical Starting Line-up: Match 3, NZL vs KOR" (PDF). Olympics.com. 22 July 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
^ ab"Tactical Starting Line-up: Match 4, HON vs ROU" (PDF). Olympics.com. 22 July 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
^ ab"Tactical Starting Line-up: Match 11, NZL vs HON" (PDF). Olympics.com. 25 July 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
^ ab"Tactical Starting Line-up: Match 12, ROU vs KOR" (PDF). Olympics.com. 25 July 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
^ ab"Tactical Starting Line-up: Match 19, ROU vs NZL" (PDF). Olympics.com. 28 July 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 October 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
^ ab"Tactical Starting Line-up: Match 20, KOR vs HON" (PDF). Olympics.com. 28 July 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 October 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
External links
Men's Olympic Football Tournament Tokyo 2020, FIFA.com