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Template:Infobox Football European Championship The UEFA Euro 2004 (or just Euro 2004) was the twelfth edition of UEFA's quadriennial European Football Championship and was held in Portugal, for the first time, between June 12 and July 4, 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, Lisbon and Porto.

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 quarterfinals by unfancied Greece, and the Portuguese hosts managed a winning streak towards the final, following their opening defeat, by beating Spain, England and The 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.[2]

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:

Venues

Estádio Municipal de Braga
Location: Braga
Capacity: 30,000
Club: SC Braga 		Estádio D. Afonso Henriques
Location: Guimarães
Capacity: 30,000
Club: Vitória SC
Estádio Municipal de Braga Estádio Municipal de Guimarães
Estádio do Dragão
Location: Porto
Capacity: 52,000
Club: FC Porto 		Estádio do Bessa Século XXI
Location: Porto
Capacity: 30,000
Club: Boavista FC
Estádio do Dragão Estádio Bessa XXI
Estádio Municipal de Aveiro
Location: Aveiro
Capacity: 30,000
Club: Beira-Mar 		Estádio Cidade de Coimbra
Location: Coimbra
Capacity: 30,000
Club: Académica 		Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa
Location: Leiria
Capacity: 30,000
Club: UD Leiria
Estádio Municipal de Aveiro Estádio Cidade de Coimbra Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa
Estádio da Luz
Location: Lisbon
Capacity: 65,000
Club: SL Benfica 		Estádio José Alvalade
Location: Lisbon
Capacity: 52,000
Club: Sporting CP 		Estádio Algarve
Location: Faro/Loulé
Capacity: 30,000
Club: N/D
Estádio da Luz Estádio José Alvalade XXI Estádio do Algarve

Match officials

Twelve referees were selected for the tournament:[3]

First round

Notes

  • Tie-breakers [4]
    • 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

Main article: 2004 UEFA European Football Championship - Group A
Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
 Portugal 6 3 2 0 1 4 2 +2
 Greece 4 3 1 1 1 4 4 0
 Spain 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 0
 Russia 3 3 1 0 2 2 4 −2

Group B

Main article: 2004 UEFA European Football Championship - Group B
Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
 France 7 3 2 1 0 7 4 +3
 England 6 3 2 0 1 8 4 +4
 Croatia 2 3 0 2 1 4 6 −2
  Switzerland 1 3 0 1 2 1 6 −5

Group C

Main article: 2004 UEFA European Football Championship - Group C
Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
 Sweden 5 3 1 2 0 8 3 +5
 Denmark 5 3 1 2 0 4 2 +2
 Italy 5 3 1 2 0 3 2 +1
 Bulgaria 0 3 0 0 3 1 9 −8

Group D

Main article: 2004 UEFA European Football Championship - Group D
Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
 Czech Republic 9 3 3 0 0 7 4 +3
 Netherlands 4 3 1 1 1 6 4 +2
 Germany 2 3 0 2 1 2 3 −1
 Latvia 1 3 0 1 2 1 5 −4

Knockout stages

Main article: 2004 European Football Championship 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 (AET), and penalty shoot outs are indicated by (PSO).

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
24 June - Lisbon (Estádio da Luz)
 
 
Portugal Portugal (pen) 2 (6)
 
30 June – Lisbon (Estádio José Alvalade)
 
England England 2 (5)
 
Portugal Portugal2
 
26 June - Loulé (Estádio do Algarve)
 
Netherlands Netherlands 1
 
Sweden Sweden 0 (4)
 
4 July – Lisbon (Estádio da Luz)
 
Netherlands Netherlands (pen) 0 (5)
 
Portugal Portugal 0
 
25 June - Lisbon (Estádio José Alvalade)
 
Greece Greece1
 
France France 0
 
1 July - Porto (Estádio do Dragão)
 
Greece Greece 1
 
Greece Greece (aet) 1
 
27 June - Porto (Estádio do Dragão)
 
Czech Republic Czech Republic 0
 
Czech Republic Czech Republic 3
 
 
Denmark Denmark 0
 

Quarter-finals

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

Portugal 2 – 2 (AET)
(6-5 PSO)		 England
Postiga 83'
Rui Costa 110'		 Owen 3'
Lampard 115'
Estádio da Luz, Lisbon
Attendance: 65,000
Referee: Urs Meier (Switzerland)

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France 0 – 1 Greece
  Charisteas 65'
Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon
Attendance: 45,390
Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
Sweden 0 – 0 (AET)
(4 – 5 PSO)		 Netherlands
   
Estádio do Algarve, Faro-Loulé
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)

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Czech Republic 3 – 0 Denmark
Koller 49'
Baroš 63' 65'		  
Estádio do Dragão, Porto
Attendance: 41,092
Referee: Valentin Ivanov (Russia)

Semi-finals

Portugal 2 – 1 Netherlands
Ronaldo 26'
Maniche 58'		 Andrade 63' (o.g.)
Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon
Attendance: 46,679
Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
Greece 1 – 0 (AET) Czech Republic
Dellas 105+1' (s.g.)  
Estádio do Dragão, Porto
Attendance: 42,449
Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)

Final

Portugal 0–1 Greece
  Charisteas 57'
Estádio da Luz, lisbon
Attendance: 62,865
Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)

Result

 Euro 2004 Champions 

Greece
First title

Statistics

Top scoring players

Euro 2004 Top Scorers [5]

5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 goal (continued)
Own goals

Top scoring teams

10 goals
8 goals
7 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal

Fastest goal

2 Minutes : Dmitri Kirichenko (Russia vs Greece)

Awards

UEFA Team of the Tournament
Goalkeepers Defenders Midfielders Forwards
Czech Republic Petr Čech England Sol Campbell Germany Michael Ballack Czech Republic Milan Baroš
Greece Antonios Nikopolidis England Ashley Cole Greece Theodoros Zagorakis Greece Angelos Charisteas
Greece Traianos Dellas Czech Republic Pavel Nedvěd Sweden Henrik Larsson
Sweden Olof Mellberg Portugal Maniche England Wayne Rooney
Portugal Ricardo Carvalho England Frank Lampard Denmark Jon Dahl Tomasson
Greece Yourkas Seitaridis France Zinedine Zidane Netherlands Ruud van Nistelrooy
Italy Gianluca Zambrotta Portugal Luís Figo Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo
Golden Boot
UEFA Player of the Tournament

See also

References

  1. ^ Euro 2004 Build-up in Pictures
  2. ^ Greek national team - see nickname
  3. ^ UEFA Euro 2004 referees
  4. ^ Euro 2004 Tiebreakers - Explained
  5. ^ Euro 2004 Top Scorers - Stan James
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