UEFA Euro 2004

UEFA Euro 2004

Tournament details
Host nation	Portugal
Dates	June 12 – July 4
Teams	16 (from 51 associations)
Venues	10 (in 8 host cities)
Champions	Greece (1 title)
Tournament statistics
Matches	31
Goals scored	77 (2.48 per match)
Attendance	( per match)
Top scorer(s)	Milan Baroš (5)
Best Player	Theodoros Zagorakis

The UEFA Euro 2004 (or just Euro 2004) was the twelfth edition of UEFA's quadriennial European Football Championship and was held in Portugal, for the first time, between June 12 and July 4, 2004. Like in the previous two editions, in England and Netherlands/Belgium, sixteen teams contested the final tournament after going through a qualification round which began in 2002. The tournament took place in ten venues located in eight cities — Aveiro, Braga, Coimbra, Guimarães, Faro/Loulé, Leiria, Lisbon and Porto.

During the tournament there were several surprises: the German, Italian and Spanish national football teams were knocked out during the group stage; the title-holders France were eliminated in the quarterfinals by unfancied Greece, and the Portuguese hosts managed a winning streak towards the final, following their opening defeat, by beating Spain, England and The Netherlands along the way. For the first time, the final featured the same teams as the opening match, with the hosts losing both of them also for the first time. Portugal was beaten by Greece on both occasions. Greece's triumph was even more outstanding considering that in their only other appearance, back in 1980, they did not win a single game.

During the opening ceremony, the Portuguese portrayed a ship, symbolizing the voyages of the Portuguese explorers, sailing through a sea which gave place to the flags of all competing countries.^[1] Such was the enthusiasm that overtook the Greek fans that the ship became the symbol of the Greek victory, as Greeks chanted for the "Pirate Ship" (πειρατικό), as the Greek National Team was instantly named.^[2]

Qualifying

Main article: UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying

Qualification for the tournament took place from September 2002 to November 2003. Fifty teams were divided into ten groups of five and each team played two matches against each other, on a home-and-away basis. The first-placed teams from each group qualified automatically and the runners-up took part in a two-match play-off to select the remaining five teams that would join the host nation in the final tournament.

Teams

The sixteen teams that participated in the final tournament were:

UEFA Euro 2004 finalists.

Venues


Estádio Municipal de Braga Location: Braga Capacity: 30,000 Club: SC Braga	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques Location: Guimarães Capacity: 30,000 Club: Vitória SC	Braga Guimarães Porto Aveiro Coimbra Leiria Lisbon Faro Loulé

Estádio do Dragão Location: Porto Capacity: 52,000 Club: FC Porto	Estádio do Bessa Século XXI Location: Porto Capacity: 30,000 Club: Boavista FC

Estádio Municipal de Aveiro Location: Aveiro Capacity: 30,000 Club: Beira-Mar	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra Location: Coimbra Capacity: 30,000 Club: Académica	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa Location: Leiria Capacity: 30,000 Club: UD Leiria

Estádio da Luz Location: Lisbon Capacity: 65,000 Club: SL Benfica	Estádio José Alvalade Location: Lisbon Capacity: 52,000 Club: Sporting CP	Estádio Algarve Location: Faro/Loulé Capacity: 30,000 Club: S.C. Farense/Louletano D.C.

Match officials

Twelve referees were selected for the tournament:^[3]

First round

Notes

Tie-breakers ^[4]
- For teams which finish level on points, the following tie-breakers are used:
1. greater number of points in the matches between the teams in question;
2. greater goal difference in matches between the teams in question;
3. greater number of goals scored in matches between the teams in question;
4. greater goal difference in all group games;
5. greater number of goals scored in all group games;
6. higher coefficient derived from EURO 2004 and 2002 World Cup qualifiers (points obtained divided by number of matches played);
7. fair play conduct in EURO 2004;
8. drawing of lots.

Group A

Main article: 2004 UEFA European Football Championship - Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Portugal	6	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2
Greece	4	3	1	1	1	4	4	0
Spain	4	3	1	1	1	2	2	0
Russia	3	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2

Group B

Main article: 2004 UEFA European Football Championship - Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
France	7	3	2	1	0	7	4	+3
England	6	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4
Croatia	2	3	0	2	1	4	6	−2
Switzerland	1	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5

Group C

Main article: 2004 UEFA European Football Championship - Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Sweden	5	3	1	2	0	8	3	+5
Denmark	5	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2
Italy	5	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1
Bulgaria	0	3	0	0	3	1	9	−8

Group D

Main article: 2004 UEFA European Football Championship - Group D

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

Knockout stages

Main article: 2004 European Football Championship knockout stage

The knockout stage was a single-elimination tournament involving the eight teams that qualified from the group stage of the tournament. There were three rounds of matches, with each round eliminating half of the teams entering that round. The successive rounds were: Quarter-finals, Semi-finals, Final. For each game in the knockout stage, a draw was followed by up to thirty minutes of extra time (two fifteen minute halves); if a team scored in the first half of extra time and were still leading after 15 minutes extra time, the team leading would win on a silver goal, if no player scored in the first half of extra time, the full half-hour would be played. If scores were still level after 30 minutes extra time there would be a penalty shootout (at least five penalties each, and more if necessary) to determine who progressed to the next round. Scores after extra time are indicated by (AET), and penalty shoot outs are indicated by (PSO).

Quarter finals		Semi finals		Final

24 June - Lisbon (Estádio da Luz)

Portugal (pen)	2 (6)
		30 June – Lisbon (Estádio José Alvalade)
England	2 (5)
		Portugal	2
26 June - Loulé (Estádio do Algarve)
		Netherlands	1
Sweden	0 (4)
				4 July – Lisbon (Estádio da Luz)
Netherlands (pen)	0 (5)
				Portugal	0
25 June - Lisbon (Estádio José Alvalade)
				Greece	1
France	0
		1 July - Porto (Estádio do Dragão)
Greece	1
		Greece (aet)	1
27 June - Porto (Estádio do Dragão)
		Czech Republic	0
Czech Republic	3

Denmark	0

Quarter-finals

All times are Western European Summer Time ([[UTC+1]]) .

June 24, 2004 19:45
	Portugal	2 – 2 (AET) (6-5 PSO)	England	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Urs Meier (Switzerland)
	Postiga 83' Rui Costa 110'		Owen 3' Lampard 115'

		Penalties
	Simão Deco Rui Costa Ronaldo Maniche Postiga Ricardo	6–5	Beckham Owen Lampard Terry Hargreaves Cole Vassell

June 25, 2004 19:45
	France	0 – 1	Greece	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Attendance: 45,390 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
			Charisteas 65'

June 26, 2004 19:45
	Sweden	0 – 0 (AET) (4 – 5 PSO)	Netherlands	Estádio do Algarve, Faro-Loulé Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)

		Penalties
	Källström Larsson Ibrahimović Ljungberg Wilhelmsson Mellberg	4 – 5	van Nistelrooij Heitinga Reiziger Cocu Makaay Robben

June 27, 2004 19:45
	Czech Republic	3 – 0	Denmark	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 41,092 Referee: Valentin Ivanov (Russia)
	Koller 49' Baroš 63' 65'

Semi-finals

All times are Western European Summer Time ([[UTC+1]])

June 30, 2004 19:45
	Portugal	2 – 1	Netherlands	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Attendance: 46,679 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
	Ronaldo 26' Maniche 58'		Andrade 63' (o.g.)

July 1, 2004 19:45
	Greece	1 – 0 (AET)	Czech Republic	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 42,449 Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)
	Dellas 105+1' (s.g.)