UEFA Euro 2004

UEFA Euro 2004
UEFA Campeonato da Europa de Futebol
Portugal 2004 Tournament details Host country PortugalDates 12 June– 4 JulyTeams 16 Venue(s) 10 (in 8 host cities) Final positions Champions Greece(1st title) Second place PortugalTournament statistics Matches played 31 Goals scored 77 (2.48 per match) Attendance 1,156,473 (37,306 per match) Top scorer(s) Milan Baroš(5 goals) Best player Theodoros Zagorakis

The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship (or just Euro 2004) was the twelfth edition of the UEFA European Football Championship, a quadrennial football tournament for European nations, and was held in Portugal, for the first time, between 12 June and 4 July 2004. Like in the previous two editions, in England and Netherlands/Belgium, sixteen teams contested the final tournament after going through a qualification round which began in 2002. The tournament took place in ten venues located in eight cities — Aveiro, Braga, Coimbra, Guimarães, Faro/Loulé, Leiria, Porto and Lisbon.

During the tournament there were several surprises: the German, Italian and Spanish national football teams were knocked out during the group stage; the title-holders France were eliminated in the quarter-finals by unfancied Greece, and the Portuguese hosts managed a winning streak towards the final, following their opening defeat, by beating Spain, England and Netherlands along the way. For the first time, the final featured the same teams as the opening match, with the hosts losing both of them also for the first time. Portugal was beaten by Greece on both occasions. Greece's triumph was even more outstanding considering that in their only other appearance, back in 1980, they did not win a single game.

During the opening ceremony, the Portuguese portrayed a ship, symbolizing the voyages of the Portuguese explorers, sailing through a sea which gave place to the flags of all competing countries.[1] Such was the enthusiasm that overtook the Greek fans that the ship became the symbol of the Greek victory, as Greeks chanted for the "Pirate Ship" (πειρατικό), as the Greek National Team was instantly named.

1 Qualifying
2 Teams
3 Venues
4 Match officials
5 Mascot
6 Squads
7 Results
- 7.1 First round
- 7.2 Knockout stage
8 Statistics
9 See also
10 References
11 External links

Qualifying

Main article: UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying

Qualification for the tournament took place from September 2002 to November 2003. Fifty teams were divided into ten groups of five and each team played two matches against each other, on a home-and-away basis. The first-placed teams from each group qualified automatically and the runners-up took part in a two-match play-off to select the remaining five teams that would join the host nation in the final tournament.

Teams

The sixteen teams that participated in the final tournament were:

UEFA Euro 2004 finalists.

Venues

Lisbon Lisbon Porto Estádio da Luz Estádio José Alvalade Estádio do DragãoCapacity: 65,647 Capacity: 52,466 Capacity: 52,002 Aveiro

Braga Guimarães Porto Aveiro Coimbra Leiria Lisbon Faro Loulé Coimbra Estádio Municipal de Aveiro Estádio Cidade de CoimbraCapacity: 30,970 Capacity: 30,210 Braga Guimarães Estádio Municipal de Braga Estádio D. Afonso HenriquesCapacity: 30,154 Capacity: 30,146 Faro/Loulé Porto Leiria Estádio Algarve Estádio do Bessa Século XXI Estádio Dr. Magalhães PessoaCapacity: 30,002 Capacity: 28,263 Capacity: 23,850

Match officials

Twelve referees were selected for the tournament:[2]

Mascot

Kinas, the UEFA Euro 2004 offical mascot.

The tournament's official mascot was a boy named Kinas (derived from quinas (English: inescutcheons), one of the symbols of the Portuguese national flag) who wore a Portuguese kit (red shirt and green shorts) and was constantly playing with a football.

Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 2004 UEFA European Football Championship squads.

Results

All times are Western European Summer Time (UTC+1).

First round

Tie-breaking criteria

For teams that finish level on points, the following tie-breakers are used:[3]

greater number of points in the matches between the teams in question;
greater goal difference in matches between the teams in question;
greater number of goals scored in matches between the teams in question;
greater goal difference in all group games;
greater number of goals scored in all group games;
higher coefficient derived from Euro 2004 and 2002 World Cup qualifiers (points obtained divided by number of matches played);
fair play conduct in Euro 2004;
drawing of lots.

If two teams playing in the final group game have identical records going into that match, and the match ends in a draw, then a penalty shootout would be played, rather than using the above criteria. Euro 2004 marked the introduction of this procedure, although it was not required to be used. The same procedure will be used at Euro 2008, if need be.

Group A

Main article: UEFA Euro 2004 Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Portugal3 2 0 1 4 2 +2 6 Greece3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4 Spain3 1 1 1 2 2 0 4 Russia3 1 0 2 2 4 −2 3

12 June 2004 Portugal 1 – 2 Greece Spain 1 – 0 Russia 16 June 2004 Greece 1 – 1 Spain Russia 0 – 2 Portugal 20 June 2004 Spain 0 – 1 Portugal Russia 2 – 1 Greece

Group B

Main article: UEFA Euro 2004 Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts France3 2 1 0 7 4 +3 7 England3 2 0 1 8 4 +4 6 Croatia3 0 2 1 4 6 −2 2 Switzerland3 0 1 2 1 6 −5 1

13 June 2004 Switzerland 0 – 0 Croatia France 2 – 1 England 17 June 2004 England 3 – 0 Switzerland Croatia 2 – 2 France 21 June 2004 Croatia 2 – 4 England Switzerland 1 – 3 France

Group C

Main article: UEFA Euro 2004 Group C

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Sweden3 1 2 0 8 3 +5 5 Denmark3 1 2 0 4 2 +2 5 Italy3 1 2 0 3 2 +1 5 Bulgaria3 0 0 3 1 9 −8 0

14 June 2004 Denmark 0 – 0 Italy Sweden 5 – 0 Bulgaria 18 June 2004 Bulgaria 0 – 2 Denmark Italy 1 – 1 Sweden 22 June 2004 Italy 2 – 1 Bulgaria Denmark 2 – 2 Sweden

Group D

Main article: UEFA Euro 2004 Group D

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Czech Republic3 3 0 0 7 4 +3 9 Netherlands3 1 1 1 6 4 +2 4 Germany3 0 2 1 2 3 −1 2 Latvia3 0 1 2 1 5 −4 1

15 June 2004 Czech Republic 2 – 1 Latvia Germany 1 – 1 Netherlands 19 June 2004 Latvia 0 – 0 Germany Netherlands 2 – 3 Czech Republic 23 June 2004 Netherlands 3 – 0 Latvia Germany 1 – 2 Czech Republic

Knockout stage

Main article: UEFA Euro 2004 knockout stage

The knockout stage was a single-elimination tournament involving the eight teams that qualified from the group stage of the tournament. There were three rounds of matches, with each round eliminating half of the teams entering that round. The successive rounds were: Quarter-finals, Semi-finals, Final. For each game in the knockout stage, a draw was followed by up to thirty minutes of extra time (two fifteen minute halves); if a team scored in the first half of extra time and were still leading after 15 minutes extra time, the team leading would win on a silver goal, if no player scored in the first half of extra time, the full half-hour would be played. If scores were still level after 30 minutes extra time there would be a penalty shootout (at least five penalties each, and more if necessary) to determine who progressed to the next round. Scores after extra time are indicated by (a.e.t.), and penalty shoot outs are indicated by (pen.).