UEFA Euro 2000 Champions, matches, fact and achievements

UEFA Euro 2000 was the 11th UEFA European Championship, a football tournament held every four years and organized by UEFA, the sport’s governing body in Europe.

Champions: France (2nd title)
Runners-up: Italy
UEFA Player of the Tournament: Zinedine Zidane
Golden Boot: Savo Milošević and Patrick Kluivert

UEFA Euro 2000 Group stage
Group A

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points
1. (Qualified)	Portugal	3	3	0	0	7	2	+5	9
2. (Qualified)	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

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points
1. (Qualified)	Italy	3	3	0	0	6	2	+4	9
2. (Qualified)	Turkey	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
3	Belgium (Host)	3	1	0	2	2	5	−3	3
4	Sweden	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1

Group C

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points
1. (Qualified)	Spain	3	2	0	1	6	5	+1	6
2. (Qualified)	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

Note: Head-to-head result: Norway 0–1 FR Yugoslavia.
Group D

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points
1. (Qualified)	Netherlands (Host)	3	3	0	0	7	2	+5	9
2. (Qualified)	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

UEFA Euro 2000 Quarter finals

Date	Team A	Result	Team B	Venue
24 June 2000	Portugal	2–0	Turkey	Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam
24 June 2000	Italy	2–0	Romania	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels
25 June 2000	Netherlands	6–1	FR Yugoslavia	Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam
25 June 2000	Spain	1–2	France	Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges

UEFA Euro 2000 Semi finals
28 June 2000 20:45, King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels

France	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Portugal
Henry 51′ Zidane 117′ (pen.)		Nuno Gomes 19′

29 June 2000 18:00, Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam

Italy	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Netherlands
Di Biagio Pessotto Totti Maldini	Penalties 3–1	F. de Boer Stam Kluivert Bosvelt

UEFA Euro 2000 Final match
2 July 2000 20:00, De Kuip, Rotterdam

France	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Italy
Wiltord 90+4′ Trezeguet 103′		Delvecchio 55′

UEFA Euro 2000 top goal scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Savo Milošević	FR Yugoslavia	5
2	Patrick Kluivert	Netherlands	5
3	Nuno Gomes	Portugal	4
4	Thierry Henry	France	3
5	Sérgio Conceição	Portugal	3
6	Zlatko Zahovič	Slovenia	3

UEFA Euro 2000 most assist provider list

Rank	Player	Team	Assist
1	Ljubinko Drulović	FR Yugoslavia	4
2	David Beckham	England	3
3	Dennis Bergkamp	Netherlands	3
4	Luís Figo	Portugal	3
5	Demetrio Albertini	Italy	2

UEFA Euro 2000 Team of the Tournament

Goalkeeper	Defender	Midfielder	Forward
Fabien Barthez	Laurent Blanc	Patrick Vieira	Savo Milošević
Francesco Toldo	Marcel Desailly	Zinedine Zidane	Thierry Henry
	Lilian Thuram	Demetrio Albertini	Francesco Totti
	Fabio Cannavaro	Edgar Davids	Patrick Kluivert
	Paolo Maldini	Rui Costa	Nuno Gomes
	Alessandro Nesta	Luís Figo	Raúl
	Frank de Boer	Pep Guardiola

Summary
The finals tournament was played between June 10 and July 2, 2000, and was co-hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands, marking the first time the tournament was held in more than one nation. Spain and Austria also bid to host the event. The finals tournament featured 16 nations; except for the hosts, Belgium and the Netherlands, all finalists had to qualify through a qualifying tournament. France won the tournament by defeating Italy 2–1 in the final, with the winning goal scored via a golden goal.
The finals saw the first major UEFA competition contested at 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.
Euro 2000 was a high-scoring championship with many exciting matches and an elite standard of play, often labeled by football writers as one of the greatest international tournaments.

Qualification
Qualification for the tournament took place throughout 1998 and 1999. Forty-nine teams were divided into nine groups, with each team playing 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.

UEFA Euro 2000 Venues

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