The Football competition in the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (Singapore 2010) will comprise Men and Women events.
The six teams per event will be divided into two groups of three for the preliminaries. Each team will play every other team in the group once.
Women's Event
Chile (CHI), Equatorial Guinea (GEQ), Papua New Guinea (PNG), Iran (IRI), Trinidad and Tobago (TRI), and Turkey (TUR) will compete in the Women's event.
Group A Group B
A1 TUR B1 CHI
A2 IRI B2 TRI
A3 PNG B3 GEQ
Men's Event
Bolivia (BOL), Montenegro (MNE), Singapore (SIN), Vanuatu (VAN), Zimbabwe (ZIM) and a team from Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) will compete in the Men's event.
Group C Group D
C1 VAN D1 SIN
C2 BOL D2 ZIM
C3 CONCACAF D3 MNE
In conducting the draw, the Guest of Honour - Mr Kwek Leng Joo, Board Member and Chairman of the Marketing Advisory Committee of SYOGOC, picked out the team names and Mr Lim Kia Tong, Vice President of Football Association of Singapore (FAS) picked out the corresponding team grouping. Mr John Schmacher, Manager of Olympics and Youth Events, FIFA presided over the draw. The ceremony was also witnessed by officials from FIFA, SYOGOC and the participating National Federations.
The first match of the Singapore 2010 Football competition will take place on 12 August 2010 at 6pm between the Women's Football teams of Turkey and Iran. Please refer to Annex A for details on the match fixtures.
The Football Team Draw determined team groupings and match fixtures for the 12 participating teams in the Singapore 2010 Football competition. (In photo) Team representatives from the participating National Federations take a group photo after the event.
Singapore 2010 – Blazing the Trail
Singapore will be hosting the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) from 14 to 26 August 2010. The Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games will receive some 5,000 athletes and officials from the 205 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), along with an estimated 1,200 media representatives, 20,000 local and international volunteers, and more than 370,000 spectators. Young athletes - aged between 14 and 18 years - will compete in 26 sports and take part in a Culture and Education Programme.
The Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games aims to inspire youth around the world to embrace, embody and express the Olympic values of Excellence, Friendship and Respect. It will create a lasting sports, culture and education legacy for Singapore and youths from around the world, as well as enhance and elevate the sporting culture locally and regionally.
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