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Encyclopedia > UEFA Euro 2000

The 2000 UEFA European Championship, or Euro 2000, was the 11th edition of the UEFA European Championship, a competition between the national football teams of Europe held every four years and organised by UEFA, football's governing body in Europe. Image File history File links Euro2000logo. ... The UEFA European Championship is the main national football competition of the UEFA nations. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... UEFA logo The Union of European Football Associations, almost always referred to by the acronym UEFA (pronounced you-AY-fuh), is the administrative and controlling body for European football. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ...


The finals of Euro 2000 were co-hosted (the first time this happened) by Belgium and the Netherlands between June 10 and July 2, 2000. 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. June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Qualifying for the 2000 UEFA European Championship final tournament, took place throughout 1998 and 1999. ...


Belgium, however had a surprise exit from the tournament.


The Euro 2000 winner was France, who beat Italy 2-1 in the final after a golden goal by France's David Trézéguet. The Golden goal was a method used in football (soccer) to decide the result of games in elimination matches which end in a draw after the end of ordinary time (90 minutes). ... David with the French jersey David Trézéguet (born 15 October 1977 in Rouen, France) is a French-Argentine football striker. ...

Contents


Qualification

The following teams participated in the tournament:

  • Czech Republic Czech Republic
  • Denmark Denmark
  • England England
  • France France
  • Germany Germany
  • Italy Italy
  • Norway Norway
  • Portugal Portugal
  • Romania Romania
  • Slovenia Slovenia
  • Spain Spain
  • Sweden Sweden
  • Turkey Turkey
  • Serbia and Montenegro Yugoslavia

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For details concerning the qualifying phase, check 2000 European Football Championship (qualifying) Qualifying for the 2000 UEFA European Championship final tournament, took place throughout 1998 and 1999. ...


Stadiums

The Netherlands

City Stadium Capacity
Amsterdam Amsterdam Arena 50,000
Rotterdam Feijenoord Stadion 50,000
Eindhoven Philips Stadion 33,000
Arnhem Gelredome 30,000

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Belgium

City Stadium Capacity
Brussels King Baudouin Stadium 50,000
Brugge Jan Breydel Stadion 30,000
Liège Stade Maurice Dufrasne 30,000
Charleroi Stade du Pays de Charleroi 30,000

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Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 2000 European Football Championship (squads). Below are the rosters for the 2000 European Football Championship tournament in Belgium and the Netherlands. ...


First round

All times local (CET).


Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts
Portugal 3 3 0 0 7 2 9
Romania 3 1 1 1 4 4 4
England 3 1 0 2 5 6 3
Germany 3 0 1 2 1 5 1
12 June
Germany 1 - 1 Romania Sclessin (1800)
(HT: 1-1) Ref: Kim Milton Nielsen (Den)
Scholl 28' Moldovan 5'
Portugal 3 - 2 England Philips (2045)
(HT: 2-2) Ref: Anders Frisk (Swe)
Figo 22' Scholes 3'
João Vieira Pinto 37' McManaman 18'
Nuno Gomes 59'
17 June
Romania 0 - 1 Portugal Gelredome (1800)
(HT: 0-0) Ref: Gilles Veissière (Fra)
Costinha 90'
England 1 - 0 Germany Pays de Charleroi (2045)
(HT: 0-0) Ref: Pierluigi Collina (Ita)
Shearer 53'
20 June
England 2 - 3 Romania Pays de Charleroi (2045)
(HT: 2-1) Ref: Urs Meier (Swi)
Shearer (pen) 41' Chivu 22'
Owen 45' Munteanu 48'
Ganea (pen) 89'
Portugal 3 - 0 Germany Feijenoord (2045)
(HT: 1-0) Ref: Dick Jol (Net)
Conceição 35'
Conceição 54'
Conceição 71'

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Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts
Italy 3 3 0 0 6 2 9
Turkey 3 1 1 1 3 2 4
Belgium 3 1 0 2 2 5 3
Sweden 3 0 1 2 2 4 1
10 June
Belgium 2 - 1 Sweden King Baudouin (2045)
(HT: 1-0) Ref: Markus Merk (Ger)
Goor 43' Mjällby 53'
E. Mpenza 46'
11 June
Turkey 1 - 2 Italy Gelredome (1430)
(HT: 0-0) Ref: Hugh Dallas (Sco)
Okan Buruk 62' Conte 52'
Inzaghi (pen) 70'
14 June
Italy 2 - 0 Belgium King Baudouin (2045)
(HT: 1-0) Ref: Garcia Aranda (Spa)
Totti 6'
Fiore 66'
15 June
Sweden 0 - 0 Turkey Philips (2045)
(HT: 0-0) Ref: Dick Jol (Ned)
19 June
Turkey 2 - 0 Belgium King Baudouin (2045)
(HT: 1-0) Ref: Kim Milton Nielsen (Den)
Hakan Sükür 45'
Hakan Sükür 70'
Italy 2 - 1 Sweden Philips (2045)
(HT: 1-0) Ref: Vítor Pereira (Por)
Di Biagio 39' Larsson 77'
Del Piero 88'

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Group C

Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts
Spain 3 2 0 1 6 5 6
Yugoslavia 3 1 1 1 7 7 4
Norway 3 1 1 1 1 1 4
Slovenia 3 0 2 1 4 5 2
13 June
Spain 0 - 1 Norway Feijenoord (1830)
(HT: 0-0) Ref: Gamal Al-Ghandour (Egy)
Iversen 65'
Yugoslavia 3 - 3 Slovenia Pays de Charleroi (2045)
(HT: 0-1) Ref: Vítor Pereira (Por)
Miloševic' 67' Zahovic 23'
Drulovic' 70' Pavlin 52'
Miloševic' 73' Zahovic 57'
18 June
Slovenia 1 - 2 Spain ArenA (1800)
(HT: 0-1) Ref: Markus Merk (Ger)
Zahovic 59' Raúl 4'
Etxeberría 60'
Norway 0 - 1 Yugoslavia Sclessin (2045)
(HT: 0-1) Ref: Hugh Dallas (Sco)
Miloševic' 8'
21 June
Yugoslavia 3 - 4 Spain Jan Breydel (1800)
(HT: 1-1) Ref: Gilles Veissière (Fra)
Miloševic' 30' Alfonso Pérez 38'
Govedarica 50' Munitis 51'
Komljenovic' 75' Mendieta (pen) 90'
Alfonso Pérez 90'
Slovenia 0 - 0 Norway Gelredome (1800)
(HT: 0-0) Ref: Graham Poll (Eng)

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Group D

Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts
Netherlands 3 3 0 0 7 2 9
France 3 2 0 1 7 4 6
Czech Republic 3 1 0 2 3 3 3
Denmark 3 0 0 3 0 8 0
11 June
France 3 - 0 Denmark Jan Breydel (1800)
(HT: 1-0) Ref: Günter Benkö (Aut)
Blanc 16'
Henry 64'
Wiltord 90'
Netherlands 1 - 0 Czech Republic ArenA (2045)
(HT: 0-0) Ref: Pierluigi Collina (Ita)
F. de Boer (pen) 89'
16 June
Czech Republic 1 - 2 France Jan Breydel (1800)
(HT: 1-1) Ref: Graham Poll (Eng)
Poborský (pen) 35' Henry 7'
Djorkaeff 60'
Denmark 0 - 3 Netherlands Feijenoord (2045)
(HT: 0-0) Ref: Urs Meier (Swi)
Kluivert 57'
R. de Boer 66'
Zenden 77'
21 June
Denmark 0 - 2 Czech Republic Sclessin (2045)
(HT: 0-0) Ref: Gamal Al-Ghandour (Egy)
Šmicer 64'
Šmicer 67'
France 2 - 3 Netherlands ArenA (2045)
(HT: 2-1) Ref: Anders Frisk (Swe)
Dugarry 8' Kluivert 14'
Trézéguet 31' F. de Boer 51'
Zenden 59'

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Quarter-finals

24 June
Turkey 0 - 2 Portugal ArenA (1800)
(HT: 0-1) Ref: Dick Jol (Net)
Nuno Gomes 44'
Nuno Gomes 56'
Italy 2 - 0 Romania King Baudouin (2045)
(HT: 2-0) Ref: Vítor Pereira (Por)
Totti 33'
Inzaghi 43'
25 June
Netherlands 6 - 1 Yugoslavia Feijenoord (1800)
(HT: 2-0) Ref: Garcia Aranda (Spa)
Kluivert 24' Miloševic' 90'
Kluivert 38'
Govedarica (og) 51'
Kluivert 54'
Overmars 78'
Overmars 90'
Spain 1 - 2 France Jan Breydel (2045)
(HT: 1-2) Ref: Pierluigi Collina (Ita)
Mendieta (pen) 38' Zidane 32'
Djorkaeff 44'

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Semi-finals

28 June
France 2 - 1 Portugal King Baudouin (2045)
(HT: 0-1) Ref: Günter Benkö (Aut)
(FT: 1-1)
Henry 51' Nuno Gomes 19'
Zidane (pen) 117'
Match ended on Zidane's golden goal
29 June
Italy 0 - 0 Netherlands ArenA (1800)
(HT: 0-0) Ref: Markus Merk (Ger)
(FT: 0-0)
(ET: 0-0)
Italy won 3-1 on penalties
Di Biagio - goal 1-0 save - F. de Boer
Pessotto - goal 2-0 miss - Stam
Totti - goal 3-1 goal - Kluivert
Maldini - save 3-1 save - Bosvelt

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Final

2 July
France 2 - 1 Italy De Kuip Stadium, Rotterdam, Attendance: 50,000
(HT: 0-0) Ref: Anders Frisk (Swe)
(FT: 1-1)
Wiltord 90' Delvecchio 55'
Trézéguet 103'
Match ended on Trézéguet's golden goal
EURO 2000 CHAMPIONS:

France (Second Title)

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Tournemant Statistics

Top Scorers

5 Goals

4 Goals Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Netherlands. ... Patrick Kluivert (born July 1, 1976 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch international football striker who currently plays for Valencia in the Spanish First Division. ... Large flag of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ...

3 Goals Image File history File links Portugal_flag_large. ... Nuno Gomes was born Nuno Miguel Soares Pereira Ribeiro on 5 July 1976 in Oporto. ...

2 Goals Image File history File links Portugal_flag_large. ... Sérgio Paulo Marceneiro da Conceição is a Portuguese football player, born on November 15th, 1974 in Coimbra. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... Thierry Daniel Henry (born August 17, 1977 in Les Ulis, France) is a French football player. ... Large Flag of Slovenia, originally from flags of the CIA World Factbook, 2004. ... Zlatko Zahovič (born February 1, 1971) is a Slovenian football player. ...

Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic. ... Vladimír Šmicer (born May 24, 1973 in Děčín) is a Czech football (soccer) midfielder and forward, who currently plays for Girondins Bordeaux in the French Ligue 1. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Alan Shearer, OBE (born August 13, 1970 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is a successful and widely-admired English professional footballer, currently in the twilight of his career at hometown club Newcastle United. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... Youri Djorkaeff Youri Djorkaeff (born March 9, 1968 in Lyon) is a French football (soccer) player, who usually plays as a forward or as an attacking midfielder. ... David with the French jersey David Trézéguet (born 15 October 1977 in Rouen, France) is a French-Argentine football striker. ... Sylvain Wiltord (born May 10, 1974 in Neuilly-sur-Marne) is a French football (soccer) forward. ... Zinedine Zidane playing for Real Madrid Zinédine Yazid Zidane (born June 23, 1972, in Marseille, France), nicknamed Zizou, is a French football player for Real Madrid and formerly France. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... Filippo Inzaghi Filippo Pippo Inzaghi (born August 9, 1973, in Piacenza, Italy) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre forward. ... Francesco Totti (born 27 September 1976 in Rome) is an Italian football player, who currently plays for AS Roma in Serie A and the Italian national team. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Netherlands. ... Frank de Boer (born May 15, 1970 in Hoorn, Netherlands) is a Dutch football defender. ... Marc Overmars (born March 29, 1973 in Emst) is a former Dutch football player. ... Boudewijn Zenden (born August 15, 1976 in Maastricht; commonly known as Bolo Zenden) is a Dutch footballer; a left midfielder and occasionally a defender. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Spain. ... Gaizka Mendieta Gaizka Mendieta Zabala (born March 27, 1974 in Bilbao) is a Spanish football (soccer) midfielder, who currently plays for Middlesbrough of the English Premiership. ... Image File history File links The Flag of Turkey I have created this file by Metapost then resized and converted to PNG by GIMP, following the ratios given in Turkish law. ... Hakan Şükür The title given to this article lacks diacritics because of certain past technical limitations, and the article has not been renamed yet. ...

Fastest Goal

3 Minutes : Paul Scholes (England vs Portugal) Paul Scholes (born November 16, 1974, in Oldham, Greater Manchester) is an English football player who has spent his whole career at Manchester United. ...


Average Goals

2.74 Per Game


The Winning Squad

France
Number Player Club in 2000
Goalkeepers
16 Fabien Barthez Monaco
1 Bernard Lama Paris Saint-Germain
22 Ulrich Ramé Bordeaux
Defenders
5 Laurent Blanc Inter Milan
2 Vincent Candela Roma
8 Marcel Desailly Chelsea
18 Frank Leboeuf Chelsea
3 Bixente Lizarazu Bayern Munich
15 Lilian Thuram Parma
Midfielders
7 Didier Deschamps Chelsea
6 Youri Djorkaeff Kaiserslautern
19 Christian Karembeu Real Madrid
14 Johan Micoud Bordeaux
17 Emmanuel Petit Arsenal
11 Robert Pires Marseille
4 Patrick Vieira Arsenal
10 Zinedine Zidane Juventus
Forwards
12 Thierry Henry Arsenal
20 David Trézéguet Monaco
13 Sylvain Wiltord Bordeaux
9 Nicolas Anelka Real Madrid
21 Christophe Dugarry Bordeaux
Coach: Roger Lemèrre

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External sites

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European Football Championship
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Italy 1980 | France 1984 | West Germany 1988 | Sweden 1992
England 1996 | Belgium/Netherlands 2000 | Portugal 2004 | Austria/Switzerland 2008 | 2012
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North America: CONCACAFGold Cup
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