Football 5-a-side at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

Football 5-a-side at the 2004 Summer Paralympics took place at the Olympic Hockey Centre in Athens.

Football 5-a-side
at the XII Paralympic Games
Paralympic football 5-a-side
VenueOlympic Hockey Centre
Dates18–28 September
Competitors6 teams
Medalists
Andreonni Rego
Fábio Vasconcelos
Sandro Soares
Mizael Oliveira
João Silva
Severino Silva
Anderson Fonseca
Nilson Silva
Marcos Felipe
Damião Ramos
 Brazil
Gonsalo Abbas Hachache
Julio Ramirez
Lucas Rodriguez
Carlos Ivan Figueroa
Diego Cerega
Silvio Velo
Eduardo Diaz
Antonio Mendoza
Oscar Moreno
Dario Lencina
 Argentina
Antonio Martin
Vicente Aguilar
Marcelo Rosado
Gonzalo Largo
Alfredo Cuadrado
Jose Lopez Ramirez
Adolfo Acosta
Carmelo Garrido
Pedro Antonio Garcia Villa
Carlos Alvarez
 Spain

Each team had four blind players and one sighted or visually impaired goalkeeper, with five substitutes allowed. Matches were 25 minutes each way. In the play-off matches, two ten-minute periods of extra time and a penalty shoot-out were added as necessary when the scores were tied. In the final, Brazil beat Argentina 3–2 in a shoot-out.

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