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| 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) |
| Runners-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 |
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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, association 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. Spain and Austria also bid to host the event.[1] 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.
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One of the biggest surprises of the tournament was Portugal, winning Group A with three wins, including a 3–0 win against Germany with Sérgio Conceição scoring a hat-trick, and 3–2 win over England in which they came back from 2–0 down. Romania was the other qualifier from the group beating England with a late penalty in their last group game.
Belgium had a surprise exit in the group stage, winning the tournament's first game against Sweden but losing to Turkey and Italy. They finished 3rd in group B behind Italy and Turkey. The other co-host and favourite, the Netherlands, progressed as expected from Group D along with World Cup winners France. The Netherlands won the group by beating France in their last group match. Group C was memorable for the match between Yugoslavia and Spain. Spain needed a win to ensure progression but found themselves trailing 3–2 after Slobodan Komljenović scored in the 75th minute. The Spanish side rescued their tournament by scoring twice in injury time to record a 4–3 victory. Yugoslavia managed to go through as well despite losing because Norway and Slovenia played to a draw.
Italy and Portugal maintained their perfect records in the quarter-finals, beating Romania and Turkey, respectively, and the Netherlands started a goal-avalanche against Yugoslavia, winning 6–1. Spain fell 2–1 to France; Raul missed a late penalty that ended Spanish hopes.
Italy eliminated the 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 regular time) to carry the Italians to the final.
In the other semi-final, Portugal 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.[2] France won the tournament, defeating Italy 2–1 in the final after a golden goal by David Trezeguet after going back on score thanks to a last-minute goal, and became the first team to win the European championship while being world champion.
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.[3]
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:
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| Rotterdam | Amsterdam | Brussels | Bruges |
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| Feijenoord Stadion Capacity: 49,000 |
Amsterdam ArenA Capacity: 52,140 |
King Baudouin Stadium Capacity: 50,000 |
Jan Breydel Stadium Capacity: 29,000 |
| 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 |
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.
| Referees | Assistant referees | Fourth officials |
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| Günter Benkö | Yury Dupanov | Michel Piraux |
| Kim Milton Nielsen | Roland Van Nylen | Kyros Vassaras |
| Gamal Al-Ghandour | Ivan Lekov | Terje Hauge |
| Graham Poll | Jens Larsen | Ľuboš Micheľ |
| Gilles Veissière | Philip Sharp | |
| Markus Merk | Jacques Poudevigne | |
| Pierluigi Collina | Kurt Ertl | |
| Dick Jol | Sergio Zuccolini | |
| Vítor Melo Pereira | Dramane Dante | |
| Hugh Dallas | Emanuel Zammit | |
| José García Aranda | Jaap Pool | |
| Anders Frisk | Eddie Foley | |
| Urs Meier | Nicolae Grigorescu | |
| Igor Sramka | ||
| Carlos Martín Nieto | ||
| Leif Lindberg | ||
| Turgay Güdü |
The composition of Pots 1 to 3 was based on the teams' UEFA coefficient at the end of 1999.
| Seeded | Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 |
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| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 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 | ||
| Germany | 1 – 1 | Romania |
| Portugal | 3 – 2 | England |
| 17 June 2000 | ||
| Romania | 0 – 1 | Portugal |
| England | 1 – 0 | Germany |
| 20 June 2000 | ||
| England | 2 – 3 | Romania |
| Portugal | 3 – 0 | Germany |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 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 | ||
| Belgium | 2 – 1 | Sweden |
| 11 June 2000 | ||
| Turkey | 1 – 2 | Italy |
| 14 June 2000 | ||
| Italy | 2 – 0 | Belgium |
| 15 June 2000 | ||
| Sweden | 0 – 0 | Turkey |
| 19 June 2000 | ||
| Turkey | 2 – 0 | Belgium |
| Italy | 2 – 1 | Sweden |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 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 | ||
| Spain | 0 – 1 | Norway |
| Yugoslavia | 3 – 3 | Slovenia |
| 18 June 2000 | ||
| Slovenia | 1 – 2 | Spain |
| Norway | 0 – 1 | Yugoslavia |
| 21 June 2000 | ||
| Yugoslavia | 3 – 4 | Spain |
| Slovenia | 0 – 0 | Norway |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 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 | ||
| France | 3 – 0 | Denmark |
| Netherlands | 1 – 0 | Czech Republic |
| 16 June 2000 | ||
| Czech Republic | 1 – 2 | France |
| Denmark | 0 – 3 | Netherlands |
| 21 June 2000 | ||
| Denmark | 0 – 2 | Czech Republic |
| France | 2 – 3 | Netherlands |
| 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 | |||||||||
| 24 June 2000 18:00 |
Turkey | 0 – 2 | Portugal | Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Dick Jol (Netherlands) |
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| Report | Nuno Gomes 44', 56' |
| 24 June 2000 20:45 |
Italy | 2 – 0 | Romania | King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 42,500 Referee: Vítor Melo Pereira (Portugal) |
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| Totti 33' Inzaghi 43' |
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| 25 June 2000 18:00 |
Netherlands | 6 – 1 | Yugoslavia | Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam Attendance: 50,000 Referee: José Garcia Aranda (Spain) |
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| Kluivert 24', 38', 54' Govedarica 51' (o.g.) Overmars 78', 90' |
Report | Milošević 90+1' |
| 25 June 2000 20:45 |
Spain | 1 – 2 | France | Jan Breydel Stadion, Bruges Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy) |
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| Mendieta 38' (pen.) | Report | Zidane 32' Djorkaeff 44' |
| 28 June 2000 20:45 |
Portugal | 1 – 2 (a.e.t.) | France | King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Günter Benkö (Austria) |
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| Nuno Gomes 19' | Report | Henry 51' Zidane 117' (pen.) |
| 29 June 2000 18:00 |
Italy | 0 – 0 (a.e.t.) | Netherlands | Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Markus Merk (Germany) |
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| Di Biagio Pessotto Totti Maldini |
3 –1 | F. de Boer Stam Kluivert Bosvelt |
| 2 July 2000 20:00 |
France | 2 – 1 (a.e.t.) | Italy | Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden) |
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| Wiltord 90+4' Trezeguet 103' |
Report | Delvecchio 55' |
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