Football at the 2011 Pan American Games

Football at the 2011 Pan American Games was held in Zapopan, Mexico from October 18 to October 28. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to send their full women's national teams and men's U-22 teams to participate. In addition teams are allowed to enter a maximum of eighteen athletes.

For these games, the men and women competed in an 8-team tournament, a reduction of 4 teams for men and 2 for women, who competed with 10 teams, from the previous edition of the games.

Schedule
The competition was spread out across eleven days, with the men and women competing on alternating dates.