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UEFA Euro 2000
Europees Voetbalkampioenschap
België/Nederland 2000

(in Dutch)

Championnat d’Europe de football
Belgique/Pays Bas 2000

(in French)

Fußball-Europameisterschaft
Belgien/Niederlande 2000

(in German)

UEFA Euro 2000 logo.svg 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 deed )
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) Federal Republic of YugoslaviaSavo Milošević
NetherlandsPatrick Kluivert
(5 goals each)
Best player(s) FranceZinedine Zidane
1996 2004 →

International football contest
The 2000 UEFA European Football Championship, besides known as Euro 2000, was the 11th UEFA european Championship, a football tournament held every four years and organised by UEFA, the frolic ‘s governing body in Europe. [ 1 ] The finals tournament was played between 10 June and 2 July 2000, and co-hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands, the first time the tournament had been held in more than one nation. Spain and Austria besides bid to host the event. [ 2 ] The finals tournament was contested by 16 nations ; with the exception of the hosts, Belgium and the Netherlands, the finalists had to go through a qualify tournament to reach the concluding stage. France won the tournament by defeating Italy 2–1 in the final, via a gold goal. [ 3 ] The finals saw the beginning major UEFA competition contested in the King Baudouin Stadium ( once the Heysel Stadium ) since the events of the 1985 european Cup Final and the Heysel Stadium disaster, with the open game being played in the rebuild stadium. A high-scoring tournament with many exciting matches and a identical high standard of play, Euro 2000 is much named by football writers as one of the greatest international tournaments ever. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ]

Bid work [edit ]

Belgium and the Netherlands were selected as co-hosts on 14 July 1995 by the UEFA Executive Committee at a meet in Geneva, Switzerland. [ 8 ] [ 9 ]

vandalism concerns [edit ]

Football vandalism was a significant problem in the Netherlands in the 1990s, specially the ferocious competition between Ajax and Feyenoord. There were concerns that vandalism would overshadow the finals. many instances of ferocity occurred, including several football riots in Rotterdam between 1995 and 1999, which would host the Euro 2000 final. One of the most ill-famed incidents was the Battle of Beverwijk in 1997. Although the ferocity is normally associated with domestic clubs, there were concerns that it could attach to the Dutch national team. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] ferocity did finally occur during the Euro 2000 finals, albeit not involving the dutch team. On 17 June 174 England fans were arrested in Brussels, Belgium, following ferocity with Germans ahead of an England volt Germany couple. [ 12 ]

summary [edit ]

One of the biggest surprises of the tournament was Portugal, winning Group A with three wins, including a 3–0 acquire against Germany, with Sérgio Conceição scoring a hat-trick, [ 13 ] and a 3–2 succeed over England, in which they came back from 2–0 down. [ 14 ] Romania was the early modifier from the group, beating England with a late penalty in their last group game. [ 15 ] Belgium had a surprise exit in the group stage, winning the tournament ‘s foremost game against Sweden, [ 16 ] but losing to Turkey and Italy. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] They finished third gear in Group B, behind Italy and Turkey. The other co-host and favorite, the Netherlands, progressed as expected from Group D, along with World Cup winners France. The Netherlands won the group, by beating France in their death group match. [ 19 ] besides in Group D, Denmark ‘s three losses with eight goals conceded and none scored set a new phonograph 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 succeed 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 doubly in wound clock to record a 4–3 victory. [ 20 ] FR Yugoslavia managed to go through adenine well, despite miss because Norway and Slovenia played to a guide. [ 21 ]
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 ; Raúl missed a former 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 gunfight ( in accession to his penalty save in normal time ) to carry the Italians to the final examination. 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 award of the penalty for a handball and were given drawn-out suspensions for shoving the reviewer. [ 22 ] 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 gear team to win the European backing while being earth champion. [ 23 ] In Britain, Match of the Day named Stefano Fiore ‘s finish against Belgium the Goal of the Tournament, ahead of Patrick Kluivert ‘s against France and Zinedine Zidane ‘s against Spain. [ 24 ]

qualification [edit ]

qualification for the tournament took position 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 footing. The winner of each group and the best runner-up qualified automatically for the final tournament. The eight early runner-up played an extra 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 [edit ]

Final draw [edit ]

The composition of pots 1 to 3 was based on the teams ‘ UEFA coefficient at the end of 1999. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] The finals draw took place on 12 December 1999, 15:00 CET, at the Exhibition Centre in Brussels, Belgium. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ]

  1. ^ Co-hosts Belgium ( coefficient 2.375 ; rank 5th ) and the Netherlands ( coefficient 2.250 ; rank 8th ) were automatically assigned to positions B1 and D1, respectively .
  2. ^ Defending champions Germany ( coefficient 2.278 ; rank 7th ) were automatically assigned to place A1 .
  3. ^ Highest ranked Spain ( coefficient 2.611 ; rank 1st ) were automatically assigned to status C1 .

anterior to the hook, the seed teams in Pot 1 were assigned positions : Germany ( defending champion ) to A1, Belgium ( co-host ) to B1, Spain ( highest coefficient ) to C1, and the Netherlands ( co-host ) to D1. Teams were drawn consecutively from Pots 2 to 4 into a group, with each team then being assigned a specific position ( for the purposes of determining the match schedules in each group ). [ 27 ] The hook resulted in the following groups :

Venues [edit ]

capacity figures are those for matches at UEFA Euro 2000 and are not inevitably the sum capability that the stadium is able of holding. [ 30 ]

team base camps [edit ]

The 16 national teams each stayed in their own “ team base camp ” during the tournament. [ 31 ]

Squads [edit ]

Each national team had to submit a team of 22 players, three of whom must be goalkeepers .

catch officials [edit ]

On 15 February 2000, UEFA appointed 12 referees, 16 assistant referees and four fourth officials for the rival, including a referee and an assistant referee from the Confederation of African Football. [ 51 ] The consequence saw adjunct referees being allowed to intervene an ongoing game, in particular to help the pit official apply the 10-metre dominion when deciding free-kicks – ampere well as warn the referee instantaneously if he had booked or ejected the wrong musician, something that was not possible in previous tournaments. [ 52 ] besides, fourthly officials were given a larger function in assisting to take dominate of the meet if any decisions are gone unnoticed by the reviewer or an assistant referee. [ 52 ] The german referee Markus Merk was selected to referee the open game between Belgium and Sweden. [ 53 ]

Group stage [edit ]

UEFA Euro 2000 finalists and their results The teams finishing in the circus tent 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 [edit ]

If two or more teams finished charge on points after completion of the group matches, the follow tie-breakers were used to determine the final examination ranking : [ 54 ]

  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 [edit ]

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

Group B [edit ]

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

( H ) Host source : UEFA host

Group C [edit ]

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[a]
3  Norway 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 4[a]
4  Slovenia 3 0 2 1 4 5 −1 2
  1. a b tete-a-tete solution : norway 0–1 FR Yugoslavia .

Group D [edit ]

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

( H ) Host source : UEFA host

Knockout phase [edit ]

The smasher phase was a single-elimination tournament with each round eliminating the losers. [ 54 ] Any game that was undecided by the end of the regular 90 minutes, was followed by up to thirty minutes of extra clock time. [ 54 ] For the moment prison term the golden goal system was applied, whereby the first team to score during the supernumerary time would become the winner. [ 54 ] If no goal was scored there would be a penalty shoot-out to determine the achiever. [ 54 ] For the irregular clock the final examination was won by a golden goal. [ 54 ] As with every tournament since UEFA Euro 1984, there was no third plaza play-off. All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

bracket [edit ]

final [edit ]

Statistics [edit ]

Goalscorers [edit ]

There were 85 goals scored in 31 matches, for an average of 2.74 goals per peer. 5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal
source : UEFA [ 56 ]

Awards [edit ]

UEFA Team of the Tournament[57]

Golden Boot
UEFA Player of the Tournament

Prize money [edit ]

A union of CHF 120 million was awarded to the 16 dependent teams in the rival. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] France, the winners of the tournament, received a full respect money of CHF14.4 million. [ 58 ] Below is a complete number of the allocations : [ 59 ] Extra payment based on teams performances :

  • Winner: CHF14.4 million
  • Runner-up: CHF13.2 million
  • Semi-finals: CHF10.2 million
  • Quarter-finals: CHF7.8 million
  • Group stage:
    • Third place: CHF5.4 million
    • Fourth place: CHF4.8 million

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. [ 60 ] however, no connections were found and the Football Association of FR Yugoslavia belated received their money with an extra bonus. [ 61 ]

market [edit ]

Slogan and root song [edit ]

The motto of the competition was “ football without frontiers ”. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] “ Campione 2000 “ by E-Type was the official anthem of the event. [ 64 ]

Match ball [edit ]

The match ball used at the tournament. Adidas Terrestra Silverstream was unveiled as the official couple ball of the contest on 13 December 1999 at Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Anderlecht ‘s home arena by Alessandro Del Piero, Edwin van five hundred Sar, Zinedine Zidane and Luc Nilis. [ 65 ] [ 66 ]

mascot [edit ]

The official mascot for the tournament was Benelucky [ 67 ] ( a pun on Benelux ), a lion-devil hybrid with its mane having the flag color of both horde nations. The leo is the national football emblem of the Netherlands and a monster is the emblem of Belgium ( the team being nicknamed “ the Red Devils ” ). [ 68 ]
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 alone have sponsorship rights within that area .

Broadcasting [edit ]

Notes [edit ]

  1. ^ Nielsen suffered an wound in the 39th infinitesimal and was replaced by fourth official Günter Benkö Austria ) .

References [edit ]