UEFA Euro 2000

UEFA Euro 2000

UEFA Championnat Européen du Football Belgique/Pays Bas 2000 (French) UEFA Europees Voetbalkampioenschap België/Nederland 2000 (Dutch) UEFA Fußball-Europameisterschaft Belgien/Niederlande 2000 (German)
UEFA Euro 2000 official logo
Tournament details
Host countries	Belgium  Netherlands
Dates	10 June – 2 July
Teams	16
Venue(s)	8 (in 8 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	France (2nd title)
Runner-up	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	85 (2.74 per match)
Attendance	1,122,833 (36,220 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Patrick Kluivert Savo Milošević (5 goals)
Best player	Zinedine Zidane

The 2000 UEFA European Football Championship, or Euro 2000, was the 11th UEFA European Football Championship, which is held every four years and organized by UEFA, football's governing body in Europe.

The finals of Euro 2000 were co-hosted (the first time this happened) by Belgium and the Netherlands between 10 June and 2 July 2000. The final tournament was contested by 16 nations. With the exception of the national teams of the hosts, Belgium and the Netherlands, the finalists had to go through a qualifying round to reach the final stage. France won the tournament, by defeating Italy 2-1 in the final, via a golden goal.

The final saw the first major UEFA competition contested in the King Baudouin Stadium (formerly the Heysel Stadium) since events of the 1985 European Cup Final and Heysel Stadium disaster, with the opening game being played in the rebuilt stadium.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Qualification 3 Mascot 4 Venues 5 Match officials 6 Squads 7 Results 7.1 First round 7.1.1 Group A 7.1.2 Group B 7.1.3 Group C 7.1.4 Group D 7.2 Knockout stage 7.2.1 Quarter-finals 7.2.2 Semi-finals 7.2.3 Final 8 Statistics 8.1 Goalscorers 8.2 Average goals 8.3 UEFA Team of the Tournament 9 Trivia 10 See also 11 References 12 External links

Overview

Belgium had a surprise exit in the group stage, winning the tournament's first game against Sweden but losing to Turkey and Italy. Italy also eliminated co-host and favourites Netherlands in the semi-finals, despite going down to ten men and facing two penalty kicks.

Italian goalkeeper Francesco Toldo, who had been drafted into the starting XI as Gianluigi Buffon missed the tournament through injury, made two saves in the penalty shootout (in addition to his penalty save in regulation time) to carry the Italians to the final.

One of the biggest surprises of the tournament was Portugal, winning their group with three wins, including a 3-0 win against Germany with Sérgio Conceição scoring a hat-trick. They reached the semi-finals, when they lost in extra-time to France after Zinedine Zidane converted a controversial penalty kick. Several Portuguese players challenged the awarding of the penalty for a handball and were given lengthy suspensions for shoving the referee.^[1] France won the tournament, defeating Italy 2-1 in the final after a golden goal by David Trezeguet.

In Britain, Match of the Day named Stefano Fiore's goal against Belgium the Goal of the Tournament, ahead of Patrick Kluivert's against France and Zinedine Zidane's against Spain.^[2]

Qualification

Qualification for the tournament took place throughout 1998 and 1999. Forty-nine teams were divided into nine groups and each played the others in their group, on a home-and-away basis. The winner of each group and the best runner-up qualified automatically for the final tournament. The eight other runners-up played an additional set of playoff matches to determine the last four qualifiers. Belgium and the Netherlands automatically qualified for the tournament as co-hosts.

The following 16 teams participated in the tournament:

Belgium (host)  Czech Republic  Denmark  England  France  Germany  Italy  Netherlands (host)

Norway (first appearance)  Portugal  Romania  Slovenia (first appearance)  Spain  Sweden  Turkey  Yugoslavia

Mascot

The official mascot for the tournament was Benelucky (a pun on Benelux), a lion-devil with its hair colour being a combination of the flag colours of both host nations.

Venues

Rotterdam	Amsterdam	Brussels	Bruges
Feijenoord Stadion Capacity: 51,177	Amsterdam ArenA Capacity: 52,140	King Baudouin Stadium Capacity: 50,122	Jan Breydel Stadium Capacity: 30,000
Eindhoven	Arnhem	Liège	Charleroi
Philips Stadion Capacity: 33,500	Gelredome Capacity: 30,082	Stade Maurice Dufrasne Capacity: 30,023	Stade du Pays de Charleroi Capacity: 30,000

Match officials

Austria Günter Benkö Denmark Kim Milton Nielsen Egypt Gamal Al-Ghandour England Graham Poll France Gilles Veissière Germany Markus Merk Italy Pierluigi Collina

Netherlands Dick Jol Portugal Vítor Melo Pereira Scotland Hugh Dallas Spain José García Aranda Sweden Anders Frisk Switzerland Urs Meier

Squads

Results

First round

All times local (CEST/UTC+2)

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Portugal	3	3	0	0	7	2	+5	9
Romania	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
England	3	1	0	2	5	6	−1	3
Germany	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

12 June 2000 18:00	Germany	1 – 1	Romania	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)
	Scholl  28'	(Report)	Moldovan  5'

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12 June 2000 20:45	Portugal	3 – 2	England	Philips Stadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
	Figo  22' João Pinto  37' Nuno Gomes  59'	(Report)	Scholes  3' McManaman  18'

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17 June 2000 18:00	Romania	0 – 1	Portugal	Gelredome, Arnhem Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Gilles Veissière (France)
		(Report)	Costinha  90+4'

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17 June 2000 20:45	England	1 – 0	Germany	Stade du Pays de Charleroi, Charleroi Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)
	Shearer  53'	(Report)

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20 June 2000 20:45	England	2 – 3	Romania	Stade du Pays de Charleroi, Charleroi Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Urs Meier (Switzerland)
	Shearer  41' (pen.) Owen  45'	(Report)	Chivu  22' Munteanu  48' Ganea  89' (pen.)

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20 June 2000 20:45	Portugal	3 – 0	Germany	Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam Attendance: 44,000 Referee: Dick Jol (Netherlands)
	Conceição  35'  54'  71'	(Report)

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	3	0	0	6	2	+4	9
Turkey	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
Belgium	3	1	0	2	2	5	−3	3
Sweden	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1

10 June 2000 20:45	Belgium	2 – 1	Sweden	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)
	Goor  43' É. Mpenza  46'	(Report)	Mjällby  53'

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11 June 2000 14:30	Turkey	1 – 2	Italy	Gelredome, Arnhem Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Hugh Dallas (Scotland)
	Okan  62'	(Report)	Conte  52' Inzaghi  70' (pen.)

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14 June 2000 20:45	Italy	2 – 0	Belgium	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 46,000 Referee: José Garcia Aranda (Spain)
	Totti  6' Fiore  66'	(Report)

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15 June 2000 20:45	Sweden	0 – 0	Turkey	Philips Stadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 24,500 Referee: Dick Jol (Netherlands)
		(Report)

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19 June 2000 20:45	Turkey	2 – 0	Belgium	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)
	Hakan Şükür  45'  70'	(Report)

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19 June 2000 20:45	Italy	2 – 1	Sweden	Philips Stadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Vítor Melo Pereira (Portugal)
	Di Biagio  39' Del Piero  88'	(Report)	Larsson  77'

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain	3	2	0	1	6	5	+1	6
Yugoslavia	3	1	1	1	7	7	0	4
Norway	3	1	1	1	1	1	0	4
Slovenia	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2

13 June 2000 18:00	Spain	0 – 1	Norway	Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Gamal Al-Ghandour (Egypt)
		(Report)	Iversen  65'

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13 June 2000 20:45	Yugoslavia	3 – 3	Slovenia	Stade du Pays de Charleroi, Charleroi Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Vítor Melo Pereira (Portugal)
	Milošević  67'  73' Drulović  70'	(Report)	Zahovič  23'  57' Pavlin  52'

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18 June 2000 18:00	Slovenia	1 – 2	Spain	Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)
	Zahovič  59'	(Report)	Raúl  4' Etxeberria  60'

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18 June 2000 20:45	Norway	0 – 1	Yugoslavia	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Hugh Dallas (Scotland)
		(Report)	Milošević  8'

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21 June 2000 18:00	Yugoslavia	3 – 4	Spain	Jan Breydel Stadion, Bruges Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Gilles Veissière (France)
	Milošević  30' Govedarica  50' Komljenović  75'	(Report)	Alfonso  38'  90+5' Munitis  51' Mendieta  90' (pen.)

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21 June 2000 18:00	Slovenia	0 – 0	Norway	Gelredome, Arnhem Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Graham Poll (England)
		(Report)

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Netherlands	3	3	0	0	7	2	+5	9
France	3	2	0	1	7	4	+3	6
Czech Republic	3	1	0	2	3	3	0	3
Denmark	3	0	0	3	0	8	−8	0

11 June 2000 18:00	France	3 – 0	Denmark	Jan Breydel Stadion, Bruges Attendance: 29,000 Referee: Günter Benkö (Austria)
	Blanc  16' Henry  64' Wiltord  90'	(Report)

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11 June 2000 20:45	Netherlands	1 – 0	Czech Republic	Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)
	F. de Boer  89' (pen.)	(Report)

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16 June 2000 18:00	Czech Republic	1 – 2	France	Jan Breydel Stadion, Bruges Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Graham Poll (England)
	Poborský  35' (pen.)	(Report)	Henry  7' Djorkaeff  60'

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16 June 2000 20:45	Denmark	0 – 3	Netherlands	Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Urs Meier (Switzerland)
		(Report)	Kluivert  57' R. de Boer  66' Zenden  77'

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21 June 2000 20:45	Denmark	0 – 2	Czech Republic	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Gamal Al-Ghandour (Egypt)
		(Report)	Šmicer  64'  67'

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21 June 2000 20:45	France	2 – 3	Netherlands	Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
	Dugarry  8' Trezeguet  31'	(Report)	Kluivert  14' F. de Boer  51' Zenden  59'

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	24 June – Amsterdam
	Turkey	0
					28 June – Brussels
	Portugal	2
					Portugal	1
	25 June – Bruges
					France (a.e.t.)	2
	Spain	1
									2 July – Rotterdam
	France	2
									France (a.e.t.)	2
	25 June – Rotterdam
									Italy	1
	Netherlands	6
					29 June – Amsterdam
	Yugoslavia	1
					Netherlands	0 (1)
	24 June – Brussels
					Italy (pen.)	0 (3)
	Italy	2
	Romania	0

Quarter-finals

24 June 2000 18:00	Turkey	0 – 2	Portugal	Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Dick Jol (Netherlands)
		(Report)	Nuno Gomes  44'  56'

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24 June 2000 20:45	Italy	2 – 0	Romania	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 42,500 Referee: Vítor Melo Pereira (Portugal)
	Totti  33' Inzaghi  43'	(Report)

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25 June 2000 18:00	Netherlands	6 – 1	Yugoslavia	Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam Attendance: 50,000 Referee: José Garcia Aranda (Spain)
	Kluivert  24'  38'  54' Govedarica  51' (o.g.) Overmars  78'  90'	(Report)	Milošević  90+1'

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25 June 2000 20:45	Spain	1 – 2	France	Jan Breydel Stadion, Bruges Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)
	Mendieta  38' (pen.)	(Report)	Zidane  32' Djorkaeff  44'

Semi-finals

28 June 2000 20:45	Portugal	1 – 2 (a.e.t.)	France	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Günter Benkö (Austria)
	Nuno Gomes  19'	(Report)	Henry  51' Zidane  117'  (pen.)

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29 June 2000 18:00	Italy	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Netherlands	Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)
		(Report)

		Penalties
	Di Biagio Pessotto Totti Maldini	3 –1	F. de Boer Stam Kluivert Bosvelt

Final

2 July 2000 20:00	France	2 – 1 (asdet)	Italy	Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
	Wiltord  90+4' Trezeguet  103'	(Report)	Delvecchio  55'

Euro 2000 Champions
France Second title

Statistics

Goalscorers

5 goals Patrick Kluivert Savo Milošević 4 goals Nuno Gomes 3 goals Thierry Henry Sérgio Conceição Zlatko Zahovič 2 goals Vladimír Šmicer Alan Shearer Youri Djorkaeff David Trézéguet Sylvain Wiltord Zinedine Zidane Filippo Inzaghi Francesco Totti Frank de Boer Marc Overmars Boudewijn Zenden

Gaizka Mendieta Alfonso Pérez Hakan Şükür 1 goal Bart Goor Émile Mpenza Karel Poborský Steve McManaman Michael Owen Paul Scholes Laurent Blanc Christophe Dugarry Mehmet Scholl Antonio Conte Alessandro Del Piero Marco Delvecchio Luigi Di Biagio Stefano Fiore Ronald de Boer Steffen Iversen

Costinha Luís Figo João Pinto Cristian Chivu Ionel Ganea Viorel Moldovan Dorinel Munteanu Miran Pavlin Joseba Etxeberria Pedro Munitis Raúl Henrik Larsson Johan Mjällby Okan Buruk Ljubinko Drulović Dejan Govedarica Slobodan Komljenović Own goal Dejan Govedarica (playing against the Netherlands)

Average goals

2.74 goals per game

UEFA Team of the Tournament

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Fabien Barthez Francesco Toldo	Laurent Blanc Lilian Thuram Marcel Desailly Fabio Cannavaro Paolo Maldini Alessandro Nesta Frank de Boer	Demetrio Albertini Patrick Vieira Josep Guardiola Rui Costa Edgar Davids Luís Figo Zinedine Zidane	Thierry Henry Savo Milošević Raúl Patrick Kluivert Nuno Gomes Francesco Totti

UEFA Player of the Tournament

• Zinedine Zidane

Trivia

Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (June 2008)

• The official song of the event, Campione 2000, by the Swedish musician E-Type, is a popular European football chant. Campione means "champion" in Italian. After the event, it still continues to be a favourite football chant.
• Three of the four teams in Group D had won the European Championship previously, and the other one – the Czech Republic – came into existence after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, who were champions in 1976.
• France are the only reigning world champions to have won the European Championship. West Germany are the only other team to have held both trophies at the same time, winning the Euro first in 1972.

See also

• The Official Euro 2000 Album

References

External links

• EURO 2000 Official History

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