UEFA Euro 2004 Champions, matches, fact and achievements

UEFA Euro 2004 was the 12th edition of the UEFA European Championship. Greece won the title for the first time in history by defeating Portugal in the final.
As in the 1996 and 2000 tournaments, the final tournament was contested by 16 teams: the hosts and 15 teams that advanced through the qualifying tournament, which began in September 2002. Latvia secured their first participation in a major tournament by overcoming Turkey in the play-offs, while Greece returned to the European Championship after a 24-year absence.

Champions: Greece (1st title)
Runners-up: Portugal
UEFA Player of the Tournament:  Theodoros Zagorakis
Golden Boot:  Milan Baroš, 5 goal

UEFA Euro 2004 Group stage
Group A

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points
1. (Qualified)	Portugal (Host)	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6
2. (Qualified)	Greece	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
3	Spain	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
4	Russia	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3

Note: Tied on head-to-head result (Greece 1–1 Spain) and overall goal difference (0). Overall goals for was used as the tiebreaker.
Group B

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points
1. (Qualified)	France	3	2	1	0	7	4	+3	7
2. (Qualified)	England	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6
3	Croatia	3	0	2	1	4	6	−2	2
4	Switzerland	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

Group C

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points
1. (Qualified)	Sweden	3	1	2	0	8	3	+5	5
2. (Qualified)	Denmark	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5
3	Italy	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
4	Bulgaria	3	0	0	3	1	9	−8	0

Group D

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points
1. (Qualified)	Czech Republic	3	3	0	0	7	4	+3	9
2. (Qualified)	Netherlands	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2	4
3	Germany	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
4	Latvia	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

UEFA Euro 2004 Quarter finals

Date	Team A	Result	Team B	Stadium
24 June 2004	Portugal	2–2 (a.e.t.) 6–5 (penalties)	England	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon
25 June 2004	France	0–1	Greece	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon
26 June 2004	Sweden	0–0 (a.e.t.) 4–5 (penalties)	Netherlands	Estádio Algarve, Faro/Loulé
27 June 2004	Czech Republic	3–0	Denmark	Estádio do Dragão, Porto

UEFA Euro 2004 Semi finals
30 June 2004 19:45, Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Portugal	2 – 1	Netherlands
C. Ronaldo 26′ Maniche 58′		Andrade 63′ (o.g.)

1 July 2004 19:45, Estádio do Dragão, Porto

Greece	1 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Czech Republic
T. Dellas 105+1′

UEFA Euro 2004 final match
4 July 2004 19:45, Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Portugal	0 – 1	Greece
		A. Charisteas 57′

UEFA Euro 2004 top goal scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Milan Baroš	Czech Republic	5
2	Wayne Rooney	England	4
3	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Netherlands	4
4	Jon Dahl Tomasson	Denmark	3
5	Frank Lampard	England	3
6	Zinedine Zidane	France	3
7	Angelos Charisteas	Greece	3
8	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	3

Most assist provider list

Rank	Player	Team	Assist
1	Karel Poborský	Czech Republic	4
2	Arjen Robben	Netherlands	3
3	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2
4	Deco	Portugal	2
5	Vasilios Tsiartas	Greece	2

UEFA Euro 2004 Team of the Tournament

Goalkeeper	Defender	Midfielder	Forward
Petr Čech	Sol Campbell	Pavel Nedvěd	Milan Baroš
Antonios Nikopolidis	Ashley Cole	Frank Lampard	Jon Dahl Tomasson
	Traianos Dellas	Zinedine Zidane	Wayne Rooney
	Giourkas Seitaridis	Michael Ballack	Angelos Charisteas
	Gianluca Zambrotta	Theodoros Zagorakis	Ruud van Nistelrooy
	Ricardo Carvalho	Luís Figo	Cristiano Ronaldo
	Olof Mellberg	Maniche	Henrik Larsson

Qualification
The draw for the qualifying round was held on January 25, 2002, at the Europarque Congress Centre in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal. Fifty teams were divided into ten groups of five, with each team playing two matches against all its opponents on a home-and-away basis. Qualification matches took place from September 2002 to November 2003. The first-placed teams from each group qualified automatically for the final tournament, while the ten runners-up participated in a two-legged play-off to determine the remaining five teams that would join the host nation in the final tournament.

Summary
The tournament was rich in surprises and upsets: traditional powerhouses Germany, Spain, and Italy were eliminated in the group stage, while defending champions France were knocked out in the quarter-finals by Greece. Portugal recovered from an opening defeat against Greece to reach the final, eliminating England and the Netherlands along the way. For the first time in a major European football tournament, the last match featured the same teams as the opening match. Portugal was again defeated by Greece, with a goal from Angelos Charisteas. Greece’s triumph was unexpected, considering they had only qualified for two other major tournaments: UEFA Euro 1980, where they managed just one point, and the 1994 FIFA World Cup, where they lost all three matches. As winners, Greece earned the right to represent Europe at the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup.
During the opening ceremony, one of the tableaux depicted a ship—symbolizing the voyages of Portuguese explorers—sailing through a sea that transformed into the flags of all competing countries. In the closing ceremony, Portuguese-Canadian singer Nelly Furtado performed her single and the official tournament theme song, “Força.”

UEFA Euro 2004 Venues

Stadium	Capacity	City
Estádio da Luz	64,642	Lisbon
Estádio José Alvalade	50,095	Lisbon
Estádio do Dragão	50,033	Porto
Estádio Municipal de Aveiro	32,830	Aveiro
Estádio Algarve	30,305	Faro/Loulé
Estádio Municipal de Braga	30,286	Braga
Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	30,000	Guimarães
Estádio Cidade de Coimbra	29,622	Coimbra
Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa	28,642	Leiria
Estádio do Bessa	28,263	Porto