European Football Championship

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The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly called EURO 2004, was held in Portugal between 12 June and 4 July 2004. The UEFA European Championship is a quadrennial football competition between national teams organised by UEFA, the sports governing body in Europe. This was the first time that the competition was held in Portugal.

Qualifying for EURO 2004 took place from September 2002 to November 2003. Fifty teams were divided into ten groups and each team played the others in their group twice, once at home and once away. The top teams automatically qualified for EURO 2004, and the ten group runners-up took part in play-offs to determine another five teams. Together with the host nation of Portugal, who did not need to go through the qualifying process (as is usual), 16 nations competed in EURO 2004.

The final was played on July 4, and was almost a replay of the opening game: the host Portugal versus Greece. Greece won 1-0 with a single goal from a corner via Angelos Charisteas' head on the 57th minute. The success of Greece, who had never won a single match in their previous appearances in any finals tournament, was extremely unexpected (Bloomberg reports that UK bookmakers gave them 100-1 odds at winning prior to the tournament), but their organisation and solid defensive play took their opponents and the rest of the football world by surprise.

Qualification

Portugal qualified automatically, as it was the host of the competition. The 15 teams that qualified alongside Portugal were:

• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• England
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Italy
• Latvia
• Netherlands
• Russia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland

For details of qualifying matches check 2004 UEFA European Championship (qualifying).

Team squads

See 2004 UEFA European Championship (team squads) for details.

Stadiums

The locations of the stadiums within Portugal (Large)

(stadium name, city – spectator capacity)

• Estádio Algarve, Faro–Loulé – 30,000
• Estádio Cidade de Coimbra, Coimbra – 30,000
• Estádio D. Afonso Henriques (King Afonso Henriques Stadium), Guimarães – 30,000
• Estádio da Luz, Lisbon – 65,000
• Estádio do Bessa Século XXI, Porto – 30,000
• Estádio do Dragão (Dragon Stadium), Porto – 52,000
• Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa, Leiria – 30,000
• Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon – 52,000
• Estádio Municipal de Aveiro, Aveiro – 30,000
• Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga – 30,000

First round

Notes

• All times local (UTC + 0100)
• Abbreviations:
  • Pld: games played
  • W: won
  • D: drawn
  • L: lost
  • GF: goals for
  • GA: goals against
  • Pts: points
  • HT: half-time
  • FT: full time
  • ET: extra time
  • Ref: referee
  • pen: penalty kick
  • s/o: sent off
  • og: own goal
• Tie-breakers
  • For teams which finish level on points, the following tie-breakers are used:
  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 2004 and 2002 World Cup qualifiers (points obtained divided by number of matches played);
  7. fair play conduct in EURO 2004;
  8. drawing of lots.

Group A

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Portugal	3	2	0	1	4	2	6
Greece	3	1	1	1	4	4	4
Spain	3	1	1	1	2	2	4
Russia	3	1	0	2	2	4	3

Group B

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
France	3	2	1	0	7	4	7
England	3	2	0	1	8	4	6
Croatia	3	0	2	1	4	6	2
Switzerland	3	0	1	2	1	6	1

Group C

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Sweden	3	1	2	0	8	3	5
Denmark	3	1	2	0	4	2	5
Italy	3	1	2	0	3	2	5
Bulgaria	3	0	0	3	1	9	0

Italy, Denmark and Sweden are separated by goals scored in games involving those teams. Sweden finished first having scored 3 goals, Denmark second with 2 goals, and Italy finished third with only 1 goal in their games with Sweden and Denmark

Group D

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Czech Rep.	3	3	0	0	7	4	9
Netherlands	3	1	1	1	6	4	4
Germany	3	0	2	1	2	3	2
Latvia	3	0	1	2	1	5	1

Quarter-finals

Games in the knock-out stage that are level after 90 minutes go to silver goal extra time: if a team is leading at the end of the first half of extra time then the game ends. If the teams remain level after extra time, a penalty shoot-out will determine the winner.

Semi-finals

Final

4 July
	Portugal	0 - 1	Greece		Luz (1945)
		(HT: 0–0)			Ref: Markus Merk (Ger)
			Charisteas 57'
	Match stats
	EURO 2004 champions: GREECE (squad)

Top scoring players

5 goals

• Milan Baroš

4 goals

• Wayne Rooney
• Ruud van Nistelrooy

3 goals

• Jon Dahl Tomasson
• Frank Lampard
• Zinedine Zidane
• Angelos Charisteas
• Henrik Larsson

2 goals

• Marek Heinz - Jan Koller
• Thierry Henry
• Antonio Cassano
• Cristiano Ronaldo - Maniche - Rui Costa
• Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Top scoring teams

10 goals

• Czech Republic
• England

8 goals

• Portugal
• Sweden

7 goals

• France
• Greece

External links

• EURO 2004 official website (http://www.euro2004.com/competitions/euro/)
• UEFA official website (http://www.uefa.com/)

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