UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying

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Qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2000 final tournament, took place throughout 1998 and 1999. Forty-nine teams were divided into nine groups. All teams played against each other, within their groups, in a home-and-away basis. The winner of each group and the best runner-up qualified automatically for the final tournament. The rest of the runners-up played an additional set of playoff matches amongst each other.

Belgium and the Netherlands qualified automatically as co-hosts of the event.

Contents 1 Qualification seeding 1.1 Group 1 1.2 Group 2 1.3 Group 3 1.4 Group 4 1.5 Group 5 1.6 Group 6 1.7 Group 7 1.8 Group 8 1.9 Group 9 2 Best runner-up 3 Play-offs 4 Qualified teams 5 Notes 6 References

Qualification seeding

The draw was made on 18 January 1998, in Ghent, Belgium. Germany were seeded first as holders. The other seedings were determined by points per game in the qualifiers for 1996 European Championship and the 1998 World Cup. Other points to note:

• France did not have to qualify for the 1998 FIFA World Cup as hosts. Only their record in UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying was used.
• England did not have to qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 as hosts. Only their record in World Cup 1998 was used.
• Bosnia and Herzegovina had never competed in the European Championships, so only their World Cup record was used.
• Yugoslavia were banned from UEFA Euro 1996, so only their World Cup record was used.
• This was the first qualifying competition for Andorra.

Pirmais grozs	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
Germany  Spain  Romania  Russia  England  Scotland  Yugoslavia  Italy  Norway	Bulgaria  Croatia  Denmark  Portugal  Austria  France  Czech Republic  Turkey  Greece	Republic of Ireland  Switzerland  Sweden  Lithuania  Ukraine  Slovakia  Finland  Israel  Georgia	Poland  Hungary  Northern Ireland  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Latvia  Macedonia  Cyprus  Wales  Iceland	Belarus  Slovenia  Armenia  Albania  Faroe Islands  Luxembourg  Moldova  Azerbaijan  Estonia  Malta  Liechtenstein  San Marino  Andorra

Group 1

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Italy 8 4 3 1 13 5 +8 15  Denmark 8 4 2 2 11 8 +3 14  Switzerland 8 4 2 2 9 5 +4 14  Wales 8 3 0 5 7 16 −9 9  Belarus 8 0 3 5 4 10 −6 3

Belarus  – 0–0 0–0 0–1 1–2 Denmark  1–0 – 1–2 2–1 1–2 Italy  1–1 2–3 – 2–0 4–0 Switzerland  2–0 1–1 0–0 – 2–0 Wales  3–2 0–2 0–2 0–2 –

Group 2

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Norway 10 8 1 1 21 9 +12 25  Slovenia 10 5 2 3 12 14 −2 17  Greece 10 4 3 3 13 8 +5 15  Latvia 10 3 4 3 13 12 +1 13  Albania 10 1 4 5 8 14 −6 7  Georgia 10 1 2 7 8 18 −10 5

Albania  – 2–1 0–0 3–3 1–2 0–1 Georgia  1–0 – 1–2 2–2 1–4 1–1 Greece  2–0 3–0 – 1–2 0–2 2–2 Latvia  0–0 1–0 0–0 – 1–2 1–2 Norway  2–2 1–0 1–0 1–3 – 4–0 Slovenia  2–0 2–1 0–3 1–0 1–2 –

Group 3

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Germany 8 6 1 1 20 4 +16 19  Turkey 8 5 2 1 15 6 +9 17  Finland 8 3 1 4 13 13 +0 10  Northern Ireland 8 1 2 5 4 19 −15 5  Moldova 8 0 4 4 7 17 −10 4

Finland  – 1–2 3–2 4–1 2–4 Germany  2–0 – 6–1 4–0 0–0 Moldova  0–0 1–3 – 0–0 1–1 Northern Ireland  1–0 0–3 2–2 – 0–3 Turkey  1–3 1–0 2–0 3–0 –

Group 4

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  France 10 6 3 1 17 10 +7 21  Ukraine 10 5 5 0 14 4 +10 20  Russia 10 6 1 3 22 12 +10 19  Iceland 10 4 3 3 12 7 +5 15  Armenia 10 2 2 6 8 15 −7 8  Andorra 10 0 0 10 3 28 −25 0

Andorra  – 0–3 0–1 0–2 1–2 0–2 Armenia  3–1 – 2–3 0–0 0–3 0–0 France  2–0 2–0 – 3–2 2–3 0–0 Iceland  3–0 2–0 1–1 – 1–0 0–1 Russia  6–1 2–0 2–3 1–0 – 1–1 Ukraine  4–0 2–0 0–0 1–1 3–2 –

Group 5

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Sweden 8 7 1 0 10 1 +9 22  England 8 3 4 1 14 4 +10 13  Poland 8 4 1 3 12 8 +4 13  Bulgaria 8 2 2 4 6 8 −2 8  Luxembourg 8 0 0 8 2 23 −21 0

Bulgaria  – 1–1 3–0 0–3 0–1 England  0–0 – 6–0 3–1 0–0 Luxembourg  0–2 0–3 – 2–3 0–1 Poland  2–0 0–0 3–0 – 0–1 Sweden  1–0 2–1 2–0 2–0 –

Group 6

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Spain 8 7 0 1 42 5 +37 21  Israel 8 4 1 3 25 9 +16 13  Austria 8 4 1 3 19 20 −1 13  Cyprus 8 4 0 4 12 21 −9 12  San Marino 8 0 0 8 1 44 −43 0

Austria  – 3–1 1–1 7–0 1–3 Cyprus  0–3 – 3–2 4–0 3–2 Israel  5–0 3–0 – 8–0 1–2 San Marino  1–4 0–1 0–5 – 0–6 Spain  9–0 8–0 3–0 9–0 –

Group 7

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Romania 10 7 3 0 25 3 +22 24  Portugal 10 7 2 1 32 4 +28 23  Slovakia 10 5 2 3 12 9 +3 17  Hungary 10 3 3 4 14 10 +4 12  Azerbaijan 10 1 1 8 6 26 −20 4  Liechtenstein 10 1 1 8 2 39 −37 4

Azerbaijan  – 0–4 4–0 1–1 0–1 0–1 Hungary  3–0 – 5–0 1–3 1–1 0–1 Liechtenstein  2–1 0–0 – 0–5 0–3 0–4 Portugal  7–0 3–0 8–0 – 0–1 1–0 Romania  4–0 2–0 7–0 1–1 – 0–0 Slovakia  3–0 0–0 2–0 0–3 1–5 –

Group 8

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Yugoslavia 8 5 2 1 18 8 +10 17  Republic of Ireland 8 5 1 2 14 6 +8 16  Croatia 8 4 3 1 13 9 +4 15  Macedonia 8 2 2 4 13 14 −1 8  Malta 8 0 0 8 6 27 −21 0

Croatia  – 3–2 2–1 1–0 2–2 Macedonia  1–1 – 4–0 1–1 2–4 Malta  1–4 1–2 – 2–3 0–3 Republic of Ireland  2–0 1–0 5–0 – 2–1 Yugoslavia  0–0 3–1 4–1 1–0 –

Group 9

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Czech Republic 10 10 0 0 26 5 +21 30  Scotland 10 5 3 2 15 10 +5 18  Bosnia and Herzegovina 10 3 2 5 14 17 −3 11  Lithuania 10 3 2 5 8 16 −8 11  Estonia 10 3 2 5 15 17 −2 11  Faroe Islands 10 0 3 7 4 17 −13 3

Bosnia and Herzegovina  – 1–3 1–1 1–0 2–0 1–2 Czech Republic  3–0 – 4–1 2–0 2–0 3–2 Estonia  1–4 0–2 – 5–0 1–2 0–0 Faroe Islands  2–2 0–1 0–2 – 0–1 1–1 Lithuania  4–2 0–4 1–2 0–0 – 0–0 Scotland  1–0 1–2 3–2 2–1 3–0 –

Best runner-up

The best runner-up of the entire group phase qualified automatically for the final tournament. To determine the best runner-up, a comparison was made between all of them. Only matches played against teams that finished first, third and fourth were regarded. Matches played against fifth and sixth placed teams were discarded, because some groups had more teams than others. After the best runner-up was found, all the others (eight of them) entered a random playoff to determine four more teams to qualify.

Legend
Country that advanced to the final tournament
Countries that advanced to the play-offs

Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
7	Portugal	6	4	1	1	11	3	+8	13
3	Turkey	6	4	1	1	12	5	+7	13
9	Scotland	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10
1	Denmark	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	10
8	Republic of Ireland	6	3	1	2	6	4	+2	10
4	Ukraine	6	2	4	0	6	4	+2	10
6	Israel	6	2	1	3	12	9	+3	7
5	England	6	1	4	1	5	4	+1	7
2	Slovenia	6	2	1	3	6	12	−6	7

Portugal qualified automatically as best runner-up, beating Turkey on goal difference.

Play-offs

The remaining eight runners-up entered a random playoff, disputed in two legs, home and away. Four more teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Scotland	1–2	England	0–2	1–0
Israel	0–8	Denmark	0–5	0–3
Slovenia	3–2	Ukraine	2–1	1–1
Republic of Ireland	1–1 (a)	Turkey	1–1	0–0

Qualified teams

Belgium  Netherlands  Italy  Norway

Germany  France  Sweden  Spain

Romania  Yugoslavia  Czech Republic  Portugal

England  Denmark  Slovenia  Turkey

Notes

• As of 2012, this is the last time that Croatia, Greece and Russia fail to qualify for the final tournament.

References

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