UEFA Euro 2000

UEFA Euro 2000
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Football without frontiers
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) Netherlands Patrick Kluivert
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Savo Milošević
(5 goals each)
Best player France Zinedine Zidane

The 2000 UEFA European Football Championship, also known as Euro 2000, was the 11th UEFA European Football Championship, which is held every four years and organised by UEFA, association football's governing body in Europe.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3]

The finals saw the first major UEFA competition contested in the King Baudouin Stadium (formerly the Heysel Stadium) since the events of the 1985 European Cup Final and the Heysel Stadium disaster, with the opening game being played in the rebuilt stadium.

Summary

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,[4] and a 3–2 win over England, in which they came back from 2–0 down.[5] Romania was the other qualifier from the group, beating England with a late penalty in their last group game.[6]

Belgium had a surprise exit in the group stage, winning the tournament's first game against Sweden,[7] but losing to Turkey and Italy.[8][9] They finished third 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.[10] Also in Group D, Denmark's three losses with eight goals conceded and none scored set a new record for the worst team performance in the group stages of a Euros. Group C was memorable for the match between FR 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.[11] FR Yugoslavia managed to go through as well, despite losing because Norway and Slovenia played to a draw.[12]

France and Italy before the final on 2 July

Italy and Portugal maintained their perfect records in the quarter-finals, beating Romania and Turkey, respectively, and the Netherlands started a goal-avalanche against FR 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 normal 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.[13] France won the tournament, defeating Italy 2–1 in the final with a golden goal by David Trezeguet after equalising with a last-minute goal, and became the first team to win the European championship while being world champion.[14]

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.[15]

Qualification

Nationale-Nederlanden building in Rotterdam with "breakthrough" featuring Edgar Davids.

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 play-off matches to determine the last four qualifiers. Belgium and the Netherlands automatically qualified for the tournament as co-hosts.

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams participated in the tournament:

Country Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament[upper-alpha 1]
 Belgium Co-hosts18 January 19983 (1972, 1980, 1984)
 Netherlands Co-hosts18 January 19985 (1976, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996)
 Italy Group 1 winner9 October 19994 (1968, 1980, 1988, 1996)
 Norway Group 2 winner8 September 19990 (debut)
 Germany[upper-alpha 2] Group 3 winner9 October 19997 (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996)
 France Group 4 winner9 October 19994 (1960, 1984, 1992, 1996)
 Sweden Group 5 winner8 September 19991 (1992)
 Spain Group 6 winner8 September 19995 (1964, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996)
 Romania Group 7 winner9 October 19992 (1984, 1996)
 FR Yugoslavia[upper-alpha 3] Group 8 winner9 October 19994 (1960, 1968, 1976, 1984)
 Czech Republic[upper-alpha 4] Group 9 winner9 June 19994 (1960, 1976, 1980, 1996)
 Portugal Best runner-up9 October 19992 (1984, 1996)
 Denmark Play-offs17 November 19995 (1964, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996)
 England Play-offs17 November 19995 (1968, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996)
 Slovenia Play-offs17 November 19990 (debut)
 Turkey Play-offs17 November 19991 (1996)
  1. Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
  2. From 1972 to 1988, Germany competed in the European Championship final tournament as West Germany.
  3. From 1960 to 1992, the FR Yugoslavia competed as SFR Yugoslavia. FR Yugoslavia qualified in 1992 but was banned by the United Nations from all international sport.
  4. From 1960 to 1992, the Czech Republic competed as Czechoslovakia.

Final draw

The composition of pots 1 to 3 was based on the teams' UEFA coefficient at the end of 1999.[16][17] The finals draw took place on 12 December 1999.[18][19]

Seeded Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3
Group A
Pos Team
A1  Germany
A2  Romania
A3  Portugal
A4  England
Group B
Pos Team
B1  Belgium
B2  Sweden
B3  Turkey
B4  Italy
Group C
Pos Team
C1  Spain
C2  Norway
C3  FR Yugoslavia
C4  Slovenia
Group D
Pos Team
D1  Netherlands
D2  Czech Republic
D3  France
D4  Denmark

Venues

Rotterdam
Amsterdam
Eindhoven
Arnhem
Bruges
Brussels
Liège
Charleroi
Netherlands Rotterdam Netherlands Amsterdam
Feijenoord Stadion
Capacity: 51,000[20][note 1]
Amsterdam Arena
Capacity: 52,000[20]
Netherlands Eindhoven Netherlands Arnhem
Philips Stadion
Capacity: 33,000[20]
GelreDome
Capacity: 30,000[20]
Belgium Brussels Belgium Bruges Belgium Liège Belgium Charleroi
King Baudouin Stadium
Capacity: 50,000[20]
Jan Breydel Stadium
Capacity: 30,000[20]
Stade Maurice Dufrasne
Capacity: 30,000[20]
Stade du Pays de Charleroi
Capacity: 30,000[20]

Broadcasting

Team base camps

The 16 national teams each stayed in their own "team base camp" during the tournament.[21]

TeamArrivalLast matchBase campRef
Belgium 5 June 19 June Lichtaart [22][23]
Czech Republic 6 June 21 June Knokke-Heist [24]
Denmark 5 June 21 June Brunssum [25]
England 8 June 20 June Spa
Waterloo
[21][26]
France 7 June 2 July Genval [27]
Germany 8 June 20 June Vaals [28]
Italy 6 June 2 July Grobbendonk [29][30]
Netherlands 6 June 29 June Hoenderloo [23][31]
Norway 7 June 21 June Knokke-Heist [23][32]
Portugal 5 June 28 June Ermelo [23][33]
Romania 7 June 24 June Grimbergen
Arnhem
[34]
Slovenia 6 June 21 June Soestduinen [35][36]
Spain 4 June 25 June Tegelen [37]
Sweden 4 June 19 June Oisterwijk [38]
Turkey 5 June 24 June Delden [39]
FR Yugoslavia 8 June 25 June Edegem [23][40]

Squads

For the list of all squads that played in the tournament, see UEFA Euro 2000 squads.

Match officials

On 15 February 2000, UEFA appointed 12 referees, 16 assistant referees and four fourth officials for the competition, including a referee and an assistant referee from the Confederation of African Football.[41] The event saw assistant referees being allowed to intervene an ongoing game, in particular to help the match official apply the 10-metre rule when deciding free-kicks – as well as warn the referee instantly if he had booked or ejected the wrong player, something that was not possible in previous tournaments.[42] Also, fourth officials were given a larger role in assisting to take command of the match if any decisions are gone unnoticed by the referee or an assistant referee.[42]

The German referee Markus Merk was selected to referee the opening game between Belgium and Sweden.[43]

Referees Assistant referees Fourth officials
Austria Günter Benkö Belarus Yury Dupanau Belgium Michel Piraux
Denmark Kim Milton Nielsen Belgium Roland Van Nylen Greece Kyros Vassaras
Egypt Gamal Al-Ghandour Bulgaria Ivan Lekov Norway Terje Hauge
England Graham Poll Denmark Jens Larsen Slovakia Ľuboš Micheľ
France Gilles Veissière England Philip Sharp
Germany Markus Merk France Jacques Poudevigne
Italy Pierluigi Collina Germany Kurt Ertl
Netherlands Dick Jol Italy Sergio Zuccolini
Portugal Vítor Melo Pereira Mali Dramane Dante
Scotland Hugh Dallas Malta Emanuel Zammit
Spain José García-Aranda Netherlands Jaap Pool
Sweden Anders Frisk Republic of Ireland Eddie Foley
Switzerland Urs Meier Romania Nicolae Grigorescu
Slovakia Igor Šramka
Spain Carlos Martín Nieto
Sweden Leif Lindberg
Turkey Turgay Güdü

Group stage

UEFA Euro 2000 finalists and their results

The teams finishing in the top two positions in each of the four groups progress to the quarter-finals, while the bottom two teams in each group were eliminated.

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

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:[44]

  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 2000 and 1998 World Cup qualifiers (points obtained divided by number of matches played);
  7. fair play conduct in Euro 2000;
  8. drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Portugal 3 3 0 0 7 2 +5 9 Advance to knockout stage
2  Romania 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4
3  England 3 1 0 2 5 6 1 3
4  Germany 3 0 1 2 1 5 4 1
Source: UEFA

12 June 2000 (2000-06-12)
18:00
Germany  1–1  Romania
Scholl  28' Report Moldovan  5'

12 June 2000 (2000-06-12)
20:45
Portugal  3–2  England
Report
Philips Stadion, Eindhoven
Attendance: 31,500
Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)

17 June 2000 (2000-06-17)
18:00
Romania  0–1  Portugal
Report Costinha  90+4'
GelreDome, Arnhem
Attendance: 18,200
Referee: Gilles Veissière (France)

17 June 2000 (2000-06-17)
20:45
England  1–0  Germany
Shearer  53' Report

20 June 2000 (2000-06-20)
20:45
England  2–3  Romania
Report

20 June 2000 (2000-06-20)
20:45
Portugal  3–0  Germany
Conceição  35', 54', 71' Report
Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam
Attendance: 51,504
Referee: Dick Jol (Netherlands)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Italy 3 3 0 0 6 2 +4 9 Advance to knockout stage
2  Turkey 3 1 1 1 3 2 +1 4
3  Belgium (H) 3 1 0 2 2 5 3 3
4  Sweden 3 0 1 2 2 4 2 1
Source: UEFA
(H) Host.

10 June 2000 (2000-06-10)
20:45
Belgium  2–1  Sweden
Report Mjällby  53'
King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 46,700
Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)

11 June 2000 (2000-06-11)
14:30
Turkey  1–2  Italy
Okan  62' Report
GelreDome, Arnhem
Attendance: 22,500
Referee: Hugh Dallas (Scotland)

14 June 2000 (2000-06-14)
20:45
Italy  2–0  Belgium
Report

15 June 2000 (2000-06-15)
20:45
Sweden  0–0  Turkey
Report
Philips Stadion, Eindhoven
Attendance: 28,560
Referee: Dick Jol (Netherlands)

19 June 2000 (2000-06-19)
20:45
Turkey  2–0  Belgium
Şükür  45', 70' Report

19 June 2000 (2000-06-19)
20:45
Italy  2–1  Sweden
Report Larsson  77'

Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Spain 3 2 0 1 6 5 +1 6 Advance to knockout stage
2  FR Yugoslavia 3 1 1 1 7 7 0 4
3  Norway 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 4
4  Slovenia 3 0 2 1 4 5 1 2
Source: UEFA

13 June 2000 (2000-06-13)
18:00
Spain  0–1  Norway
Report Iversen  65'

13 June 2000 (2000-06-13)
20:45
FR Yugoslavia  3–3  Slovenia
Report

18 June 2000 (2000-06-18)
18:00
Slovenia  1–2  Spain
Zahovič  59' Report
Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam
Attendance: 42,500
Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)

18 June 2000 (2000-06-18)
20:45
Norway  0–1  FR Yugoslavia
Report Milošević  8'
Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège
Attendance: 27,250
Referee: Hugh Dallas (Scotland)

21 June 2000 (2000-06-21)
18:00
FR Yugoslavia  3–4  Spain
Report
Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges
Attendance: 24,000
Referee: Gilles Veissière (France)

21 June 2000 (2000-06-21)
18:00
Slovenia  0–0  Norway
Report
GelreDome, Arnhem
Attendance: 22,500
Referee: Graham Poll (England)

Group D

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Netherlands (H) 3 3 0 0 7 2 +5 9 Advance to knockout stage
2  France 3 2 0 1 7 4 +3 6
3  Czech Republic 3 1 0 2 3 3 0 3
4  Denmark 3 0 0 3 0 8 8 0
Source: UEFA
(H) Host.

11 June 2000 (2000-06-11)
18:00
France  3–0  Denmark
Report
Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges
Attendance: 28,100
Referee: Günter Benkö (Austria)

11 June 2000 (2000-06-11)
20:45
Netherlands  1–0  Czech Republic
F. de Boer  89' (pen.) Report
Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam
Attendance: 50,833
Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)

16 June 2000 (2000-06-16)
18:00
Czech Republic  1–2  France
Poborský  35' (pen.) Report
Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges
Attendance: 28,100
Referee: Graham Poll (England)

16 June 2000 (2000-06-16)
20:45
Denmark  0–3  Netherlands
Report
Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam
Attendance: 51,117
Referee: Urs Meier (Switzerland)

21 June 2000 (2000-06-21)
20:45
Denmark  0–2  Czech Republic
Report Šmicer  64', 67'

21 June 2000 (2000-06-21)
20:45
France  2–3  Netherlands
Report
Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam
Attendance: 51,000
Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)

Knockout stage

The knockout stage was a single-elimination tournament with each round eliminating the losers.[44] Any game that was undecided by the end of the regular 90 minutes, was followed by up to thirty minutes of extra time.[44] For the second time the golden goal system was applied, whereby the first team to score during the extra time would become the winner.[44] If no goal was scored there would be a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.[44] For the second time the final was won by a golden goal.[44]

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Bracket

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
25 June – Bruges
 
 
 Spain1
 
28 June – Brussels
 
 France2
 
 France (golden goal)2
 
24 June – Amsterdam
 
 Portugal1
 
 Turkey0
 
2 July – Rotterdam
 
 Portugal2
 
 France (golden goal)2
 
24 June – Brussels
 
 Italy1
 
 Italy2
 
29 June – Amsterdam
 
 Romania0
 
 Italy (p)0 (3)
 
25 June – Rotterdam
 
 Netherlands0 (1)
 
 Netherlands6
 
 
 FR Yugoslavia1
 

Quarter-finals

24 June 2000 (2000-06-24)
18:00
Turkey  0–2  Portugal
Report Nuno Gomes  44', 56'
Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam
Attendance: 42,000
Referee: Dick Jol (Netherlands)

24 June 2000 (2000-06-24)
20:45
Italy  2–0  Romania
Report

25 June 2000 (2000-06-25)
18:00
Netherlands  6–1  FR Yugoslavia
Report Milošević  90+2'

25 June 2000 (2000-06-25)
20:45
Spain  1–2  France
Mendieta  38' (pen.) Report
Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)

Semi-finals

28 June 2000 (2000-06-28)
20:45
France  2–1 (a.e.t.)  Portugal
Report Nuno Gomes  19'

29 June 2000 (2000-06-29)
18:00
Italy  0–0 (a.e.t.)  Netherlands
Report
  Penalties  
3–1
Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam
Attendance: 51,300
Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)

Final

2 July 2000 (2000-07-02)
20:00
France  2–1 (a.e.t.)  Italy
Report Delvecchio  55'
Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam
Attendance: 48,200
Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)

Statistics

Goalscorers

Patrick Kluivert and Savo Milošević were the top goalscorers with five goals each.[45]

4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goal

Awards

UEFA Team of the Tournament
Goalkeepers Defenders Midfielders Forwards
France Fabien Barthez
Italy Francesco Toldo
France Laurent Blanc
France Marcel Desailly
France Lilian Thuram
Italy Fabio Cannavaro
Italy Paolo Maldini
Italy Alessandro Nesta
Netherlands Frank de Boer
France Patrick Vieira
France Zinedine Zidane
Italy Demetrio Albertini
Netherlands Edgar Davids
Portugal Rui Costa
Portugal Luís Figo
Spain Pep Guardiola
France Thierry Henry
Italy Francesco Totti
Netherlands Patrick Kluivert
Portugal Nuno Gomes
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Savo Milošević
Spain Raúl
Golden Boot

UEFA Player of the Tournament

Prize money

Prize money
RankTeamCHFMillion[46]
1 France14.4
2 Italy13.2
3 Netherlands
 Portugal
10.2
5 Romania
 Spain
 Turkey
 FR Yugoslavia
7.8
9 Belgium
 Czech Republic
 England
 Norway
5.4
13 Denmark
 Germany
 Slovenia
 Sweden
4.8

A sum of CHF120 million was awarded to the 16 qualified teams in the competition.[46][47] France, the winners of the tournament, received a total prize money of CHF14.4 million.[46] Below is a complete list of the allocations:[47]

Extra payment based on teams performances:

On 9 July 2000, UEFA refused to hand FR Yugoslavia their prize money of CHF7.8 million, because of alleged ties between the Football Association of FR Yugoslavia and Slobodan Milošević's government.[48] However, no connections were found and the Football Association of FR Yugoslavia later received their money with an additional bonus.[49]

Marketing

Slogan and theme song

The slogan of the competition was "Football without frontiers".[50][51] "Campione 2000" by E-Type was the official anthem of the event.[52]

Match ball

The match ball used at the tournament.

Adidas Terrestra Silverstream was unveiled as the official match ball of the competition on 13 December 1999 at Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Anderlecht's home arena by Alessandro Del Piero, Edwin van der Sar, Zinedine Zidane and Luc Nilis.[53][54]

Mascot

Benelucky, the Euro 2000 mascot

The official mascot for the tournament was Benelucky[55] (a pun on Benelux), named a lion-devil with its hair colour being a combination of the flag colours of both host nations. The lion is the national football emblem of the Netherlands and a devil is the emblem of Belgium (the team being nicknamed "the Red Devils").[56]

Sponsorship

UEFA distinguishes between global sponsors and national sponsors. Global Euro sponsors can come from any country and have exclusive worldwide sponsorship rights for a UEFA Euro championship. National (event) sponsors come from a host country and only have sponsorship rights within that country.[57]

Global sponsorsEvent sponsors
Belgium Netherlands

Notes

  1. Capacity figures are those for matches at UEFA Euro 2000 and are not necessarily the total capacity that the stadium is capable of holding.
  2. Nielsen suffered an injury shortly before half-time and was replaced by fourth official Günter Benkö (Austria).

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