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The 2016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament will be an international football competition organised by UEFA to determine the final women's national team from Europe to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Brazil. The tournament will be played between 2 and 9 March 2016 in the Netherlands. Four teams will participate in the tournament: Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The winner will qualify for the last available Olympic spot from Europe, joining France and Germany, who have already qualified, as the three UEFA representatives.〔 ==Background== Same as the qualification process for previous Olympics, UEFA uses the FIFA Women's World Cup to determine which women's national teams from Europe qualify for the Olympic football tournament. The three teams from UEFA that progress the furthest in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup played in Canada, other than ineligible England, will qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Brazil.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Germany and Norway drawn together )〕 If teams in contention for the Olympic spots are eliminated in the same round, ties are not broken by their overall tournament record, and play-offs or a mini-tournament to decide the spots will be held provisionally in February/March 2016.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=European contenders impress in Canada )〕 England are ineligible for the Olympics as they are not an Olympic nation, although Great Britain did compete in 2012 as the host nation. The Football Association had originally declared on 2 March 2015 its intention to enter and run teams on behalf of the British Olympic Association at the 2016 Olympics should England qualify.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Football Association wants Great Britain sides at Rio Olympics )〕 Following strong objections from the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish football associations, and a commitment from FIFA that they would not allow entry of a British team unless all four Home Nations agreed, the Football Association announced on 30 March 2015 that they would not seek entry into the Olympic tournament.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rio 2016: FA scraps plans for Great Britain football teams )〕 After Norway were eliminated by England in the round of 16 on 22 June 2015, it was confirmed that two of the three spots would go to quarter-finalists France and Germany because there could not be more than three eligible European teams in the quarter-finals. Eventually no other eligible European team reached the quarter-finals, so the four European teams eliminated in the round of 16 (Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland) will compete in the UEFA play-off tournament to decide the last spot. The last time a play-off was necessary to decide a European spot in the Olympic women's football tournament was when Sweden defeated Denmark over two legs to claim a place in the 2008 Olympics. Same as this time, had England been eligible to enter, they would have qualified as one of the top three UEFA teams in the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, rendering the play-off unnecessary.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Olympic play-off dates set )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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