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.

Qualification seeding

Qualified – directly

Qualified – after Play-offs

Did not qualify – Play-offs

Did not qualify – First Round

Did not enter

Not a UEFA member

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.^[1]^[2] 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.
FR Yugoslavia were banned from UEFA Euro 1996, so only their World Cup record was used.
This was the first qualifying competition for Andorra.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
Germany Spain Romania Russia England Scotland FR 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

Summary

Winner of each group and the best runner-up qualified directly for the UEFA Euro 2000

The Runners-up advanced to the second round (play-offs)

Other teams were eliminated after the first round

Hosts

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6	Group 7	Group 8	Group 9
Italy	Norway	Germany	France	Sweden	Spain	Romania	FR Yugoslavia	Czech Republic
Denmark	Slovenia	Turkey	Ukraine	England	Israel	Portugal	Republic of Ireland	Scotland
Switzerland Wales Belarus	Greece Latvia Albania Georgia	Finland Northern Ireland Moldova	Russia Iceland Armenia Andorra	Poland Bulgaria Luxembourg	Austria Cyprus San Marino	Slovakia Hungary Azerbaijan Liechtenstein	Croatia Macedonia Malta	Bosnia and Herzegovina Lithuania Estonia Faroe Islands

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams finished level on points after completion of the group matches, the following tie-breakers were used to determine the final ranking:^[3]

Higher number of points obtained in the matches played among the teams in question;
Superior goal difference in matches played among the teams in question;
Higher number of goals scored away from home in the matches played among the teams in question;
Superior goal difference in all group matches;
Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
Higher number of away goals scored in all group matches;
Fair play conduct in all group matches (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card, 4 points for a yellow card followed by a direct red card).

Groups

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	8	4	3	1	13	5	+8	15	Qualify for final tournament	—	2–3	2–0	4–0	1–1
2	Denmark	8	4	2	2	11	8	+3	14	Advance to play-offs	1–2	—	2–1	1–2	1–0
3	Switzerland	8	4	2	2	9	5	+4	14		0–0	1–1	—	2–0	2–0
4	Wales	8	3	0	5	7	16	−9	9		0–2	0–2	0–2	—	3–2
5	Belarus	8	0	3	5	4	10	−6	3		0–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Norway	10	8	1	1	21	9	+12	25	Qualify for final tournament	—	4–0	1–0	1–3	2–2	1–0
2	Slovenia	10	5	2	3	12	14	−2	17	Advance to play-offs	1–2	—	0–3	1–0	2–0	2–1
3	Greece	10	4	3	3	13	8	+5	15		0–2	2–2	—	1–2	2–0	3–0
4	Latvia	10	3	4	3	13	12	+1	13		1–2	1–2	0–0	—	0–0	1–0
5	Albania	10	1	4	5	8	14	−6	7		1–2	0–1	0–0	3–3	—	2–1
6	Georgia	10	1	2	7	8	18	−10	5		1–4	1–1	1–2	2–2	1–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	8	6	1	1	20	4	+16	19	Qualify for final tournament	—	0–0	2–0	4–0	6–1
2	Turkey	8	5	2	1	15	6	+9	17	Advance to play-offs	1–0	—	1–3	3–0	2–0
3	Finland	8	3	1	4	13	13	0	10		1–2	2–4	—	4–1	3–2
4	Northern Ireland	8	1	2	5	4	19	−15	5		0–3	0–3	1–0	—	2–2
5	Moldova	8	0	4	4	7	17	−10	4		1–3	1–1	0–0	0–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	10	6	3	1	17	10	+7	21	Qualify for final tournament	—	0–0	2–3	3–2	2–0	2–0
2	Ukraine	10	5	5	0	14	4	+10	20	Advance to play-offs	0–0	—	3–2	1–1	2–0	4–0
3	Russia	10	6	1	3	22	12	+10	19		2–3	1–1	—	1–0	2–0	6–1
4	Iceland	10	4	3	3	12	7	+5	15		1–1	0–1	1–0	—	2–0	3–0
5	Armenia	10	2	2	6	8	15	−7	8		2–3	0–0	0–3	0–0	—	3–1
6	Andorra	10	0	0	10	3	28	−25	0		0–1	0–2	1–2	0–2	0–3	—

Source: UEFA

Group 5

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	8	7	1	0	10	1	+9	22	Qualify for final tournament	—	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–0
2	England	8	3	4	1	14	4	+10	13	Advance to play-offs	0–0	—	3–1	0–0	6–0
3	Poland	8	4	1	3	12	8	+4	13		0–1	0–0	—	2–0	3–0
4	Bulgaria	8	2	2	4	6	8	−2	8		0–1	1–1	0–3	—	3–0
5	Luxembourg	8	0	0	8	2	23	−21	0		0–1	0–3	2–3	0–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group 6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	8	7	0	1	42	5	+37	21	Qualify for final tournament	—	3–0	9–0	8–0	9–0
2	Israel	8	4	1	3	25	9	+16	13	Advance to play-offs	1–2	—	5–0	3–0	8–0
3	Austria	8	4	1	3	19	20	−1	13		1–3	1–1	—	3–1	7–0
4	Cyprus	8	4	0	4	12	21	−9	12		3–2	3–2	0–3	—	4–0
5	San Marino	8	0	0	8	1	44	−43	0		0–6	0–5	1–4	0–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group 7

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

Source: UEFA

Group 8

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FR Yugoslavia	8	5	2	1	18	8	+10	17	Qualify for final tournament	—	1–0	0–0	3–1	4–1
2	Republic of Ireland	8	5	1	2	14	6	+8	16	Advance to play-offs	2–1	—	2–0	1–0	5–0
3	Croatia	8	4	3	1	13	9	+4	15		2–2	1–0	—	3–2	2–1
4	Macedonia	8	2	2	4	13	14	−1	8		2–4	1–1	1–1	—	4–0
5	Malta	8	0	0	8	6	27	−21	0		0–3	2–3	1–4	1–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group 9

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czech Republic	10	10	0	0	26	5	+21	30	Qualify for final tournament	—	3–2	3–0	2–0	4–1	2–0
2	Scotland	10	5	3	2	15	10	+5	18	Advance to play-offs	1–2	—	1–0	3–0	3–2	2–1
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10	3	2	5	14	17	−3	11		1–3	1–2	—	2–0	1–1	1–0
4	Lithuania	10	3	2	5	8	16	−8	11		0–4	0–0	4–2	—	1–2	0–0
5	Estonia	10	3	2	5	15	17	−2	11		0–2	0–0	1–4	1–2	—	5–0
6	Faroe Islands	10	0	3	7	4	17	−13	3		0–1	1–1	2–2	0–1	0–2	—

Source: UEFA

Ranking of second-placed teams

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.

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

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	7	Portugal	6	4	1	1	11	3	+8	13	Qualify for final tournament
2	3	Turkey	6	4	1	1	12	5	+7	13	Advance to play-offs
3	9	Scotland	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10
4	1	Denmark	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	10
5	4	Ukraine	6	2	4	0	6	4	+2	10
6	8	Republic of Ireland	6	3	1	2	6	4	+2	10
7	6	Israel	6	2	1	3	12	9	+3	7
8	5	England	6	1	4	1	5	4	+1	7
9	2	Slovenia	6	2	1	3	6	12	−6	7

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Drawing of lots.

Play-offs

The remaining eight runners-up entered a random playoff, disputed in two legs, home and away.

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

Top goalscorers

11 goals

Raúl

9 goals

Zlatko Zahovič

8 goals

João Pinto

References

↑ "Football: Andorra and Bosnia join the long march to Euro 2000". independent. 17 January 1998. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
↑ "European Championship 2000 Preliminary Competition". englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
↑ "European Championship 2000". rsssf.com. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 17 January 2004. Retrieved 17 July 2017.

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