UEFA Euro 2004

UEFA Euro 2004
Campeonato da Europa de Futebol 2004
Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
Teams	16
Venue(s)	10 (in 8 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Greece (1st title)
Runners-up	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 tournament 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. As in the previous two tournaments, 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 recovered from their opening defeat to reach the final, eliminating 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, as Portugal were 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 Summary 7.1 Group stage 7.2 Quarter-finals and semi-finals 7.3 Final 8 Results 8.1 First round 8.1.1 Tie-breaking criteria 8.1.2 Group A 8.1.3 Group B 8.1.4 Group C 8.1.5 Group D 8.2 Knockout stage 8.2.1 Quarter-finals 8.2.2 Semi-finals 8.2.3 Final 9 Statistics 9.1 Goalscorers 9.2 Fastest goal 9.3 Awards 10 See also 11 References 12 External links

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:

Bulgaria  Croatia  Czech Republic  Denmark  England  France  Germany  Greece

Italy  Latvia  Netherlands  Portugal  Russia  Spain  Sweden  Switzerland

UEFA Euro 2004 finalists.

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

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

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.

Squads

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

Summary

Group stage

Group A opened with a shock as Greece, ranked outsiders from start, defeated the hosts 2-1. Giorgos Karagounis put them ahead after only seven minutes and Angelos Basinas made it 2-0 from the penalty spot on 51 minutes. An injury time goal from Cristiano Ronaldo proved no more than a consolation. The Greeks then drew with Spain before losing to Russia in their last game. Greece and Spain finished with identical records but the Greeks were given second place on the basis of more goals scored. Portugal, meanwhile, recovered from their opening-game defeat and took first place in Group A.

France, the holders, and England ended their Group B encounter in furious fashion as the French scored twice in injury time to go from 1-0 down to 2-1 winners; Zinedine Zidane scored in the first minute of injury time and two minutes later, an error by the English defence gave a France penalty and Zidane fired in the winner. England's other two games were memorable for the performances of their young star Wayne Rooney. Only 18 at the time, Rooney's goal-scoring ability proved instrumental in victories over Switzerland (3-0) and Croatia (4-2). England and France qualified from the group.

Group C featured a bizarre three-way tie between Sweden, Denmark, and Italy for first spot. All matches between the three sides had ended in draws and all three had beaten Bulgaria. Italy were ultimately eliminated on goal difference after Sweden and Denmark drew 2-2. The Italians went so far as to accuse Sweden and Denmark of fixing their match as both sides knew that a 2-2 result would advance them both over Italy but UEFA disregarded such an idea.^[3]

The Czech Republic were only team to finish the groups stages perfectly; they defeated Latvia, Holland, and Germany. It was another disappointing European campaign for Germany, which failed to advance from the group stage once again. Holland claimed the runner-up place in Group D.

Quarter-finals and semi-finals

In the first quarter-final between England and Portugal, the English opened the scoring after only two minutes through Michael Owen. Portugal's constant attacking pressure from then on resulted in Hélder Postiga's 83rd minute equaliser. A controversial incident came in the dying minutes when Sol Campbell appeared to have given England the lead again, but his header was ruled out for a foul. The sides exchanged goals in extra-time, sending the match to penalty kicks and Portugal won 6-5; Portugal's goalkeeper Ricardo saved a penalty from Darius Vassell and then scored the winning goal.

The Greeks, meanwhile, continued to stun everybody. Firm defensive play and an Angelos Charisteas goal on 65 minutes helped the them defeat France 1-0 and send them through to the semi-finals. This victory made Greece the first team to defeat both the holders and the hosts in the same tournament. Sweden and the Netherlands played out an exciting encounter but neither side could find a breakthrough and the match ended goalless after extra-time. The Dutch progressed after winning the penalty shootout 5-4, their first ever victory on penalties. The last quarter-final saw the Czechs dispatch Denmark as a two-goal effort from Milan Baroš helped seal a 3-0 win.

Portugal and Holland faced each other in the first semi-final. Ronaldo put the hosts into the lead from a corner kick midway through the first half and just before the hour mark a spectacular goal from Maniche made it 2-0 for Portugal. An own goal from Jorge Andrade gave Holland a glimmer of hope. Portugal came close to scoring a third goal that was only stopped by Philip Cocu's blocking attempt. The game ended 2-1 to Portugal and the hosts, after their opening day failure, were through to the final of their European Championship. The Czech Republic looked likely candidates to face the hosts in the final but they would have to see off the upstart Greeks to do so. The Czechs had several chances, including a shot from Tomáš Rosický that struck the bar. The game remained goalless until the dying moments of the first half of extra-time when Traianos Dellas headed home the winner, the first and only silver goal in a European Championship.

Final

The final was repeat of the opening game of the tournament and Portugal were hoping to avenge their opening day loss. Portugal furiously attacked and dominated the possession but once again, sturdy defending and goalkeeping from Greece kept the Portuguese hosts off the scoreboard. Just before the hour mark, Greece earned a corner kick from which Charisteas scored. Portugal continued to press after the goal but even with 5 minutes of injury-time added, they could not find an equalizer. Greece won the match 1-0 and were European Champions, a title that they were given a 100-1 chance of winning.

Results

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

First round

Tie-breaking criteria

For teams that finish level on points, the following tie-breakers are used:^[4]

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 did not need to be used. The same procedure was also used at Euro 2008.

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

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

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

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

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.

	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

Quarter-finals

24 June 2004 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
	Deco Simão Rui Costa Ronaldo Maniche Postiga Ricardo	6–5	Beckham Owen Lampard Terry Hargreaves Cole Vassell

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

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26 June 2004 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	van Nistelrooy Heitinga Reiziger Cocu Makaay Robben

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27 June 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

30 June 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.)

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1 July 2004 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.)

Final

Main article: UEFA Euro 2004 Final

4 July 2004 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

Statistics

Goalscorers

Euro 2004 Top Scorers ^[5]

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

Fastest goal

2 minutes: Dmitri Kirichenko (Russia vs Greece)

Awards

UEFA Team of the Tournament

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

Golden Boot

• Milan Baroš

UEFA Player of the Tournament

• Theodoros Zagorakis

See also

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

References

External links

• Official results archive
• BBC coverage

UEFA Euro 2004 stages Group A Group B Group C Group D Knockout stage Final
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