As with the other archery events, the women's team was a recurve archery event, held under the World Archery-approved 70-meter distance and rules.

The combined scores from the ranking round were used to seed the teams into a single-elimination bracket, with the top 4 teams receiving a bye into the second round (quarterfinals).

Each match consisted of four sets of 6 arrows, two per archer.

The first team to five set points wins the match.

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.