UEFA Euro 2004

UEFA Euro 2004

Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
Dates	12 June – 4 July
Teams	16
Venue(s)	10 (in 8 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Greece (1st title)
Runner-up	Portugal
Tournament 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
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The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship (or just Euro 2004) was the twelfth tournament of the UEFA European Football Championship, a football tournament held all four years for European nations. It was held in Portugal between 12 June and 4 July 2004. The UEFA Euro was given to Portugal in 1999. Winner was Greece after a 1:0 versus Portugal.The qualification was held in 10 groups of five in the years 2002 and 2003.

Countries that directly qualified for UEFA Euro 2004

The qualification was held in 10 groups of five in the years 2002 and 2003.

• Group 1:France
• Group 2:Denmark
• Group 3:Czech Republic
• Group 4:Sweden
• Group 5:Germany
• Group 6:Greece
• Group 7:England
• Group 8:Bulgaria
• Group 9:Italy
• Group10:Switzerland

Play offs

The teams on the second place of the groups held a Play off round.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Scotland	1–6	NED	1–0	0–6
Croatia	2–1	SVN	1–1	1–0
Russia	1–0	WAL	0–0	1–0
Latvia	3–2	TUR	1–0	2–2
Spain	5–1	NOR	2–1	3–0

Venues

The venues of the UEFA Euro

Lisbon	Lisbon	Porto
Estádio da Luz	Estádio José Alvalade	Estádio do Dragão
38°45′9.64″N 9°11′4.85″W	38°45′40.30″N 9°9′38.82″W	41°9′42.33″N 8°35′2.16″W
Capacity: 65,647	Capacity: 50,466	Capacity: 50,476
Aveiro		Coimbra
Estádio Municipal de Aveiro		Estádio Cidade de Coimbra
Capacity: 30,970		Capacity: 30,210
40°38′51″N 8°35′37″W		40°12′12″N 8°24′28″W
Braga		Guimarães
Estádio Municipal de Braga		Estádio D. Afonso Henriques
41°33′44.64″N 8°25′50.88″W		41°26′45″N 8°18′4″W
Capacity: 30,154		Capacity: 30,146
Faro/Loulé	Porto	Leiria
Estádio Algarve	Estádio do Bessa Século XXI	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa
37°5′18″N 7°58′29″W	41°9′44″N 8°38′34″W	39°44′45″N 8°48′47″W
Capacity: 30,002	Capacity: 28,263	Capacity: 23,850

Referees

Twelve referees were selected for the tournament:

Kim Milton Nielsen Mike Riley Gilles Veissière Markus Merk

Pierluigi Collina Terje Hauge Lucílio Batista Valentin Ivanov

Ľuboš Micheľ Manuel Mejuto González Anders Frisk Urs Meier

Results

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

First round

Tie-breaking criteria

For teams that finish equal in points, the following rules 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 reached divided by number of matches played);
7. fair play conduct in Euro 2004;
8. drawing

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
POR	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6
GRE	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
ESP	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
RUS	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3

12 June 2004
Portugal	1 – 2	GRE
Spain	1 – 0	RUS
16 June 2004
Greece	1 – 1	ESP
Russia	0 – 2	POR
20 June 2004
Spain	0 – 1	POR
Russia	2 – 1	GRE

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
FRA	3	2	1	0	7	4	+3	7
ENG	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6
CRO	3	0	2	1	4	6	−2	2
SUI	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

13 June 2004
Switzerland	0 – 0	CRO
France	2 – 1	ENG
17 June 2004
England	3 – 0	SUI
Croatia	2 – 2	FRA
21 June 2004
Croatia	2 – 4	ENG
Switzerland	1 – 3	FRA

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
SWE	3	1	2	0	8	3	+5	5
DEN	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5
ITA	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
BUL	3	0	0	3	1	9	−8	0

14 June 2004
Denmark	0 – 0	ITA
Sweden	5 – 0	BUL
18 June 2004
Bulgaria	0 – 2	DEN
Italy	1 – 1	SWE
22 June 2004
Italy	2 – 1	BUL
Denmark	2 – 2	SWE

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
CZE	3	3	0	0	7	4	+3	9
NED	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2	4
GER	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
LVA	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

15 June 2004
Czech Republic	2 – 1	LVA
Germany	1 – 1	NED
19 June 2004
Latvia	0 – 0	GER
Netherlands	2 – 3	CZE
23 June 2004
Netherlands	3 – 0	LVA
Germany	1 – 2	CZE

Knock out stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	24 June – Lisbon (Estádio da Luz)
	POR	2 (6)
					30 June – Lisbon (Estádio José Alvalade)
	ENG	2 (5)
					POR	2
	26 June – Loulé (Estádio do Algarve)
					NED	1
	SWE	0 (4)
									4 July – Lisbon (Estádio da Luz)
	NED (pen.)	0 (5)
									POR	0
	25 June – Lisbon (Estádio José Alvalade)
									GRE	1
	FRA	0
					1 July – Porto (Estádio do Dragão)
	GRE	1
					GRE (a.e.t.)	1
	27 June – Porto (Estádio do Dragão)
					CZE	0
	CZE	3
	DEN	0

Statistics

Best scorer

• Milan Baros(Czech Republic)

UEFA Team of the tournament

Goalkeeper:

• Petr Čech
• Antonios Nikopolidis

Defenders

• Sol Campbell
• Ashley Cole
• Traianos Dellas
• Olof Mellberg
• Ricardo Carvalho
• Giourkas Seitaridis
• Gianluca Zambrotta

Midfielders

• Michael Ballack
• Luís Figo
• Frank Lampard
• Maniche
• Pavel Nedvěd
• Theodoros Zagorakis
• Zinedine Zidane

Forwards

• Milan Baroš
• Angelos Charisteas
• Henrik Larsson
• Cristiano Ronaldo
• Wayne Rooney
• Jon Dahl Tomasson
• Ruud van Nistelrooy