Match programme cover Event 2 1 After Date 2 July 2000 Venue, (Italy) Attendance 48,200 Weather Mostly cloudy 19 °C (66 °F) The final of UEFA Euro 2000 was a match played on 2 July 2000 at in, to determine the winner of. Won the match, defeating 2–1. Gave Italy the lead in the 55th minute and they held on until the final minute of injury time, when crashed a low drive past Italian keeper to take the game into. France won the game just before half-time in extra-time when cut the ball back for to fire the and win the tournament for France. Italy GK 16 RB 15 58' CB 8 CB 5 LB 3 86' CM 4 CM 7 RW 6 76' AM 10 LW 12 CF 21 58' Substitutions: FW 13 58' FW 20 76' MF 11 86' Manager: GK 12 CB 5 42' CB 13 CB 15 RWB 11 LWB 3 CM 4 CM 14 31' 66' AM 18 53' SS 20 90' CF 21 86' Substitutions: FW 10 53' MF 16 66' FW 19 86' Manager: Man of the Match: (Italy) Assistant referees: Leif Lindberg Jens Larsen Fourth official: Match rules. 90 minutes.
30 minutes of if necessary. if scores still level. Maximum of three substitutions.
→ The 2000 UEFA European Football Championship, also known as Euro 2000, was the 11th, which is held every four years and organised by, association football's governing body in Europe. The finals of Euro 2000 were co-hosted (the first time this happened) by Belgium and the Netherlands, between 10 June and 2 July 2000. And also bid to host the event. The final tournament was contested by 16 nations. With the exception of the national teams of the hosts, Belgium and the Netherlands, the finalists had to go through a qualifying round to reach the final stage. France won the tournament, by defeating Italy 2–1 in the final, via a. The finals saw the first major UEFA competition contested in the (formerly the Heysel Stadium) since the events of the and the, with the opening game being played in the rebuilt stadium.
A high-scoring tournament with many exciting matches and a very high standard of play, Euro 2000 is often named by football writers as one of the greatest international tournaments ever. Contents. Bid process Belgium and the Netherlands were selected as co-hosts on 14 July 1995 by the UEFA Executive Committee at a meeting in, Switzerland.
Match Preview: Italy came through a tough test of their defensive mettle after they were reduced to ten men, just after the half-hour, during their semi-final match against the co-hosts Holland; when Gianluca Zambrotta received his second yellow card. Support The Guardian. How misses, a last-minute equaliser and a golden goal broke Italy at Euro 2000. Trauma of the stoppage-time equaliser and golden goal they suffered in the final of Euro.
Hooliganism concerns was a significant problem in the Netherlands in the 1990s, especially the fierce rivalry between. There was concerns that hooliganism would overshadow the finals. Many instances of violence occurred, including several football riots in between 1995 and, which would host the Euro 2000 final. One of the most infamous incidents was the in 1997. Although the violence is normally associated with domestic clubs, there were concerns that it could attach to the Dutch national team.
Violence did eventually occur during the Euro 2000 finals, albeit not involving the Dutch team. On 17 June, 174 England fans were arrested in Brussels, Belgium, following violence with Germans ahead of an England v Germany match. Summary One of the biggest surprises of the tournament was Portugal, winning Group A with three wins, including a 3–0 win against Germany, with scoring a hat-trick, and a 3–2 win over England, in which they came back from 2–0 down. Romania was the other qualifier from the group, beating England with a late penalty in their last group game. Belgium had a surprise exit in the group stage, winning the tournament's first game against Sweden, but losing to Turkey and Italy. They finished third in Group B, behind Italy and Turkey. The other co-host and favourite, the Netherlands, progressed as expected from Group D, along with World Cup winners France.
The Netherlands won the group, by beating France in their last group match. Also in Group D, Denmark's three losses with eight goals conceded and none scored set a new 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 win to ensure progression, but found themselves trailing 3–2, after scored in the 75th minute. The Spanish side rescued their tournament by scoring twice in injury time to record a 4–3 victory. FR Yugoslavia managed to go through as well, despite losing because Norway and Slovenia played to a draw. 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; Raul missed a late penalty that ended Spanish hopes. Italy eliminated the Netherlands in the semi-finals, despite going down to ten men and facing two. Italian goalkeeper, who had been drafted into the starting XI as missed the tournament through injury, made two saves in the penalty shootout (in addition to his penalty save in normal time) to carry the Italians to the final.
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In the other semi-final, Portugal lost in extra time to France after converted a controversial penalty kick. Several Portuguese players challenged the awarding of the penalty for a handball and were given lengthy suspensions for shoving the referee.
France won the tournament, defeating Italy 2–1 in the final with a golden goal by after equalising with a last-minute goal, and became the first team to win the European championship while being world champion. In Britain, named 's goal against Belgium the Goal of the Tournament, ahead of 's against France and Zinedine Zidane's against Spain. Qualification. Main article: Qualification for the tournament took place 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 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.
And automatically qualified for the tournament as co-hosts. Qualified teams Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament Co-host 14 July 1995 3 (, ) Co-host 14 July 1995 5 (, ) winner 9 June 1999 4 (, ) winner 8 September 1999 0 (debut) winner 8 September 1999 1 ( ) winner 8 September 1999 5 (, ) winner 9 October 1999 4 (, ) winner 9 October 1999 7 (, ) winner 9 October 1999 4 (, ) winner 9 October 1999 2 (, ) winner 9 October 1999 4 (, ) 9 October 1999 2 (, ) winner 17 November 1999 5 (, ) winner 17 November 1999 5 (, ) winner 17 November 1999 0 (debut) winner 17 November 1999 1.
Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year. From 1960 to 1980, the competed as. From 1972 to 1988, competed as.
From 1960 to 1984, competed as. qualified in, but was banned by the United Nations from all international sport. Final draw The composition of pots 1 to 3 was based on the teams' UEFA coefficient at the end of 1999.
The finals draw took place on 12 December 1999. Pot 1 Team Coeff Rank 2.278 7 2.611 1 Pot 2 Team Coeff Rank 2.600 2 2.500 3 2.389 4 2.300 6 Pot 3 Team Coeff Rank 2.222 9 2.100 11 2.100 12 2.063 13 Pot 4 Team Coeff Rank 2.000 15 1.938 18 1.938 19 1.000 37. 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. Defending champions Germany (coefficient 2.278; rank 7th) were automatically assigned to position A1.
Highest ranked Spain (coefficient 2.611; rank 1st) were automatically assigned to position C1. Prior to the draw, the seeded 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).
The draw resulted in the following groups: Pos Team A1 A2 A3 A4 Pos Team B1 B2 B3 B4 Pos Team C1 C2 C3 C4 Pos Team D1 D2 D3 D4 Venues Capacity figures are those for matches at UEFA Euro 2000 and are not necessarily the total capacity that the stadium is capable of holding. Belgium Capacity: 50,000 Capacity: 30,000 Capacity: 30,000 Capacity: 30,000 Belgium. UEFA Euro 2000 finalists and their results The teams finishing in the top 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,. Main article: The knockout stage was a with each round eliminating the losers. Any game that was undecided by the end of the regular 90 minutes, was followed by up to thirty minutes of.
For the second time the was applied, whereby the first team to score during the extra time would become the winner. If no goal was scored there would be a to determine the winner. For the second time the final was won by a golden goal. As with every tournament since, there was no. All times are local,.
(against Netherlands) Source: UEFA Awards UEFA Team of the Tournament Goalkeepers Defenders Midfielders Forwards Golden Boot. (5 goals).
(5 goals) UEFA Player of the Tournament. Prize money Prize money Rank Team Million 1 14.4 2 13.2 3 10.2 5 7.8 9 5.4 13 4.8 A sum of 120 million was awarded to the 16 qualified teams in the competition. France, the winners of the tournament, received a total prize money of CHF14.4 million. Below is a complete list of the allocations: 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 their prize money of CHF7.8 million, because of alleged ties between the and 's government. However, no connections were found and the Football Association of FR Yugoslavia later received their money with an additional bonus. Benelucky, the Euro 2000 The official mascot for the tournament was Benelucky (a pun on ), a lion-devil hybrid with its mane having the flag colours of both host nations. The lion is the national football emblem of the Netherlands and a devil is the emblem of Belgium (the team being nicknamed 'the Red Devils'). Sponsorship 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 only have sponsorship rights within that country. Global sponsors Event sponsors Belgium Netherlands.