Olympics Football 2012 is scheduled to be held in London and several other cities in the United Kingdom, from 25 July to 11 August. The finals will be played at Wembley Stadium. Associations affiliated with FIFA are invited to send their full women's national teams and men's U-23 teams to participate. Men's teams are allowed to augment their squad with three players over the age of 23. 504footballers are expected to compete for two sets of gold medals.
For these games, the men will compete in a 16 team tournament, and the women in a 12 team tournament. Football preliminaries will actually commence two days before the Opening Ceremony of the Games on 27 July.
Currently, there are six stadiums that will host matches: The stadiums represent London itself and Southeast England, the English Midlands, Northwest England, Northeast England, Scotland and Wales, leaving only East Anglia and Southwest England unrepresented on the British mainland.
On 24 August 2008, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown caused controversy when he suggested that there should be men and women's UK football teams at the 2012 games. He said that he had approached Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson to coach such a team. The Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish football associations opposed such a move in case it would affect their status within the governing body of football, FIFA.
On 29 May 2009, after last-ditch talks prompted by a FIFA deadline to settle the row, the four associations sent a letter to FIFA stating that while the Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish associations would not participate in a unified UK men's or women's teams at the Olympic Games, they would not prevent England from fielding teams under that banner.
But Gareth Bale, Aaron Ramsey and other non-English players will have the legal right to be considered for Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics, Britain's FIFA Vice-President Jim Boyce has admitted. The deal among the four home nations is being challenged by the British Olympic Association. Boyce, who takes over his new role in June 2011, said there was no legal restriction as to why a player from Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland could be stopped from playing.
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