UEFA Euro 2004

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UEFA Euro 2004 UEFA Campeonato da Europa de Futebol Portugal 2004
Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
Dates	12 June – 4 July
Teams	16
Venue(s)	10 (in 8 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Greece (1st title)
Second place	Portugal
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	77  (2.48 per match)
Attendance	1,156,473  (37,306 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Milan Baroš (5 goals)
Best player	Theodoros Zagorakis

The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship (or just Euro 2004) was the twelfth edition of the UEFA European Football Championship, a quadrennial football tournament for European nations, and was held in Portugal, for the first time, between 12 June and 4 July 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, Porto and Lisbon.

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 quarter-finals by unfancied Greece, and the Portuguese hosts managed a winning streak towards the final, following their opening defeat, by beating Spain, England and 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.

Contents 1 Qualifying 2 Teams 3 Venues 4 Match officials 5 Mascot 6 Squads 7 Results 7.1 First round 7.1.1 Tie-breaking criteria 7.1.2 Group A 7.1.3 Group B 7.1.4 Group C 7.1.5 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 Fastest goal 8.3 Awards 9 See also 10 References 11 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] Teams

The sixteen teams that participated in the final tournament were:

Bulgaria  Croatia  Czech Republic  Denmark  England  France  Germany  Greece

Italy  Latvia  Netherlands  Portugal  Russia  Spain  Sweden  Switzerland

UEFA Euro 2004 finalists.

[edit] Venues

Lisbon	Lisbon	Porto
Estádio da Luz	Estádio José Alvalade	Estádio do Dragão
Capacity: 65,647	Capacity: 52,466	Capacity: 52,002
Aveiro	Braga Guimarães Porto Aveiro Coimbra Leiria Lisbon Faro Loulé	Coimbra
Estádio Municipal de Aveiro		Estádio Cidade de Coimbra
Capacity: 30,970		Capacity: 30,210
Braga		Guimarães
Estádio Municipal de Braga		Estádio D. Afonso Henriques
Capacity: 30,154		Capacity: 30,146
Faro/Loulé	Porto	Leiria
Estádio Algarve	Estádio do Bessa Século XXI	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa
Capacity: 30,002	Capacity: 28,263	Capacity: 23,850

[edit] Match officials

Twelve referees were selected for the tournament:^[2]

Kim Milton Nielsen Mike Riley Gilles Veissière Markus Merk

Pierluigi Collina Terje Hauge Lucílio Batista Valentin Ivanov

Ľuboš Micheľ Manuel Mejuto González Anders Frisk Urs Meier

[edit] Mascot

The tournament's official mascot was a boy named Kinas (derived from quinas (English: inescutcheons), one of the symbols of the Portuguese national flag) who wore a Portuguese kit (red shirt and green shorts) and was constantly playing with a football.

[edit] Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 2004 UEFA European Football Championship squads.

[edit] Results

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

[edit] First round

[edit] Tie-breaking criteria

For teams that finish level on points, the following tie-breakers are used:^[3]

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.

If two teams playing in the final group game have identical records going into that match, and the match ends in a draw, then a penalty shootout would be played, rather than using the above criteria. Euro 2004 marked the introduction of this procedure, although it was not required to be used. The same procedure will be used at Euro 2008, if need be.

[edit] Group A

Main article: UEFA Euro 2004 Group A

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

12 June 2004
Portugal	1 – 2	Greece
Spain	1 – 0	Russia
16 June 2004
Greece	1 – 1	Spain
Russia	0 – 2	Portugal
20 June 2004
Spain	0 – 1	Portugal
Russia	2 – 1	Greece

[edit] Group B

Main article: UEFA Euro 2004 Group B

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

13 June 2004
Switzerland	0 – 0	Croatia
France	2 – 1	England
17 June 2004
England	3 – 0	Switzerland
Croatia	2 – 2	France
21 June 2004
Croatia	2 – 4	England
Switzerland	1 – 3	France

[edit] Group C

Main article: UEFA Euro 2004 Group C

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

14 June 2004
Denmark	0 – 0	Italy
Sweden	5 – 0	Bulgaria
18 June 2004
Bulgaria	0 – 2	Denmark
Italy	1 – 1	Sweden
22 June 2004
Italy	2 – 1	Bulgaria
Denmark	2 – 2	Sweden

[edit] Group D

Main article: UEFA Euro 2004 Group D

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

15 June 2004
Czech Republic	2 – 1	Latvia
Germany	1 – 1	Netherlands
19 June 2004
Latvia	0 – 0	Germany
Netherlands	2 – 3	Czech Republic
23 June 2004
Netherlands	3 – 0	Latvia
Germany	1 – 2	Czech Republic

[edit] Knockout stage

Main article: UEFA Euro 2004 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 (a.e.t.), and penalty shoot outs are indicated by (pen.).

	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 (a.e.t.)	1
	27 June - Porto (Estádio do Dragão)
					Czech Republic	0
	Czech Republic	3
	Denmark	0

[edit] Quarter-finals

2004-06-24 19:45	Portugal	2 – 2 (a.e.t.)	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	Penalties Beckham Owen Lampard Terry Hargreaves Cole Vassell

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2004-06-25 19:45	France	0 – 1	Greece	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Attendance: 45,390 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
			Charisteas  65'

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2004-06-26 19:45	Sweden	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Netherlands	Estádio do Algarve, Faro-Loulé Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)

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

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2004-06-27 19:45	Czech Republic	3 – 0	Denmark	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 41,092 Referee: Valentin Ivanov (Russia)
	Koller  49' Baroš  63'  65'

[edit] Semi-finals

2004-06-30 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.)

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2004-07-01 19:45	Greece	1 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Czech Republic	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 42,449 Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)
	Dellas  105+1' (s.g.)

[edit] Final

Main article: UEFA Euro 2004 Final

2004-07-04 19:45	Portugal	0 – 1	Greece	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 62,865 Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)
			Charisteas  57'

Euro 2004 Champions
Greece First title

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Goalscorers

Euro 2004 Top Scorers ^[4]

5 goals Milan Baroš 4 goals Ruud van Nistelrooy Wayne Rooney 3 goals Jon Dahl Tomasson Frank Lampard Zinedine Zidane Angelos Charisteas Henrik Larsson 2 goals Marek Heinz Jan Koller Thierry Henry Antonio Cassano Cristiano Ronaldo Maniche Rui Costa Zlatan Ibrahimović

1 goal Martin Petrov Dado Pršo Igor Tudor Milan Rapaić Niko Kovač Vladimír Šmicer Jesper Grønkjær Michael Owen Paul Scholes Steven Gerrard David Trézéguet Michael Ballack Torsten Frings Angelos Basinas Giorgos Karagounis Traianos Dellas Zisis Vryzas Simone Perrotta Maris Verpakovskis Roy Makaay

1 goal (continued) Wilfred Bouma Hélder Postiga Nuno Gomes Fernando Morientes Juan Carlos Valerón Fredrik Ljungberg Marcus Allbäck Mattias Jonson Dmitri Bulykin Dmitri Kirichenko Johann Vonlanthen Own goals Igor Tudor (playing against France) Jorge Andrade (playing against the Netherlands)

[edit] Fastest goal

2 minutes: Dmitri Kirichenko (Russia vs Greece)

[edit] Awards

UEFA Team of the Tournament

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Petr Čech	Sol Campbell	Michael Ballack	Milan Baroš
Antonios Nikopolidis	Ashley Cole	Theodoros Zagorakis	Angelos Charisteas
	Traianos Dellas	Pavel Nedvěd	Henrik Larsson
	Olof Mellberg	Maniche	Wayne Rooney
	Ricardo Carvalho	Frank Lampard	Jon Dahl Tomasson
	Yourkas Seitaridis	Zinedine Zidane	Ruud van Nistelrooy
	Gianluca Zambrotta	Luís Figo	Cristiano Ronaldo

Golden Boot

• Milan Baroš

UEFA Player of the Tournament

• Theodoros Zagorakis

[edit] See also

• Vive O 2004!, the official album for UEFA Euro 2004

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official results archive
• BBC coverage

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