2004 UEFA European Football Championship

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2004 UEFA European Championship - Portugal UEFA Campeonato da Europa de Futebol Portugal 2004
Image:Euro2004 logo.JPG
Teams	16 (from 50 entrants)
Host(s)	Portugal
Champions	Greece (1 title(s))
Matches played	31
Goals scored	77 (2.48 per match)
Attendance	1,156,473 (37,306 per match)
Top scorer(s)	5 - Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Milan Baroš

The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly called Euro 2004, was held in Portugal between June 12 and July 4 2004. The UEFA European Championship is a quadrennial football competition between national teams organised by UEFA, the governing body in Europe. This was the first time that the competition was held in Portugal, and UEFA considered the tournament "the best ever". This was mostly due to the high level of football played, big surprises (Germany, Italy and Spain were knocked out during the group stage, title-holders France were sent home by unfancied Greece, and hosts Portugal managed a winning streak towards the final following their opening defeat, beating England and Netherlands).

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.

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

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. 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, into the early morning hours.

[edit] The Road to Victory for Greece

Greece made it to Euro 2004 after surpassing Spain in their qualifying group. In the final tournament Greece were drawn in to Group A with Spain, Portugal, and Russia. Greece were one of the lowest ranked teams in the tournament and were not expected to even make an impact. In the opening match against Portugal, Greece achieved a surprise victory by beating Portugal 2-1. After this win, the team was nicknamed "the pirate ship" by Greek sportscaster George Helakis. The nickname was inspired by the opening ceremony, which was held just before the game, and involved a ship floating on the football field (a homage to Portugal's history of exploration). Greece were portrayed as the pirates who surprised the opponents and "stole" the win from their hands, a theme that would repeat itself throughout the tournament. Four days later, Greece stunned Spain in front of a majority Spanish crowd to a 1-1 draw after being down 1-0 at the half. Charisteas scored on a beautiful goal that went between the legs of Casillas, the Spanish goalkeeper. In the last group game, Greece went down quickly 2-0 to Russia (who were already eliminated). Greece pulled one back on a goal by Vryzas which was wonderfully set up by a Papadopoulos header. Without that goal, Greece would have been eliminated. Because Greece and Spain both had a 0 goal differential, Greece took second place in the group over Spain on goals scored (4 for Greece, while only 2 for Spain). In the quarterfinals Greece faced off with the reigning champions France. At 65 minutes, Greece took the lead when captain Zagorakis flicked the ball high in the air as Lizarazu flew by, retained possession and then sent a perfect cross to Charisteas for the header. Greece held on to win, knocking France out of the Euro 2004 and becoming the first team ever to defeat both the hosts and defending champions in the same tournament. Greece reached the semifinals for the first time to face the Czech Republic, who were the only team to defeat all their opponents to this point, including a convincing 3-0 win over Denmark in the Quarterfinals. After 90 minutes the game ended 0-0. In the first half of extra time, a close range header from Dellas off a corner ended the Czech campaign, putting Greece in the final of Euro 2004. For the first time in history (a recurring theme in this tournament), the final was a repeat of the opening game with Greece and hosts Portugal facing off in a rematch. In the 57th minute Angelos Charisteas gave Greece the lead with a header off of a corner by Basinas. Greece held on to win Euro 2004, undoubtedly one of the biggest shocks in football history, rivaling that of Uruguay's Maracanazo victory over heavily-favored Brazil in the final match of the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Captain Zagorakis was named the man of the tournament.

Image:Euro2004OpeningCeremony.jpg

Image:Greeks celebrating Euro 2004 victory dsc06432.jpg

[edit] Qualifying

Qualification for the tournament took place from September 2002 to November 2003. Fifty teams were divided into ten groups of five teams and each played the others in their group, on a home-and-away basis. The 1st placed teams automatically qualified, and the ten group runners-up took part in play-offs to select another five teams. Including the host nation, Portugal - who qualified automatically - 16 nations competed in the tournament.

For details of qualifying matches see 2004 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying.

[edit] Teams

The participants in the Euro 2004 final tournament were:

Image:Euro2004 finalists.png

[edit] Squads

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

[edit] 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	Braga Guimarães Porto Aveiro Coimbra Leiria Lisbon Faro Loulé
Image:Estadio Braga.JPG	Image:Estádio de Guimarães.JPG
Estádio do Dragão Location: Porto Capacity: 52,000 Club: FC Porto	Estádio do Bessa Século XXI Location: Porto Capacity: 30,000 Club: Boavista FC
Image:Estadio do Dragao 20050805.jpg
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
Image:Nt-Aveiro-Estadio Beira-Mar.jpg		Image:Estadio de Leiria.jpg
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
Image:Estadio da Luz.jpg	Image:Estádio Alvalade XXI.jpg	Image:EstadioAlgarve.JPG

[edit] First round

[edit] Notes

All times local (UTC + 01:00)
Half-time scores are in brackets
Abbreviations:
- Pld: games played
- W: won
- D: drawn
- L: lost
- GF: goals for
- GA: goals against
- GD: goal difference
- Pts: points
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.

[edit] Group A

Main article: 2004 UEFA European Football Championship - Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Image:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal	6	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2
Image:Flag of Greece.svg Greece	4	3	1	1	1	4	4	0
Image:Flag of Spain.svg Spain	4	3	1	1	1	2	2	0
Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg Russia	3	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2

[edit] Group B

Main article: 2004 UEFA European Football Championship - Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Image:Flag of France.svg France	7	3	2	1	0	7	4	+3
Image:Flag of England (bordered).svg England	6	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4
Image:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia	2	3	0	2	1	4	6	−2
Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland	1	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5

[edit] Group C

Main article: 2004 UEFA European Football Championship - Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden	5	3	1	2	0	8	3	+5
Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark	5	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2
Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy	5	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1
Image:Flag of Bulgaria (bordered).svg Bulgaria	0	3	0	0	3	1	9	−8

[edit] Group D

Main article: 2004 UEFA European Football Championship - Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Czech Republic	9	3	3	0	0	7	4	+3
Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands	4	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2
Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	2	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1
Image:Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia	1	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4

[edit] 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 finals		Semi finals		Final

24 June - Lisbon (Estádio da Luz)

Image:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal (pen)	2 (6)
		30 June – Lisbon (Estádio José Alvalade)
Image:Flag of England (bordered).svg England	2 (5)
		Image:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal	2
26 June - Loulé (Estádio do Algarve)
		Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands	1
Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden	0 (4)
				4 July – Lisbon (Estádio da Luz)
Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands (pen)	0 (5)
				Image:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal	0
25 June - Lisbon (Estádio José Alvalade)
				Image:Flag of Greece.svg Greece	1
Image:Flag of France.svg France	0
		1 July - Porto (Estádio do Dragão)
Image:Flag of Greece.svg Greece	1
		Image:Flag of Greece.svg Greece (aet)	1
27 June - Porto (Estádio do Dragão)
		Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Czech Republic	0
Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Czech Republic	3

Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark	0

[edit] Quarter-finals

June 24, 2004 19:45
	Portugal Image:Flag of Portugal.svg	2–2 (AET) (6-5 PSO)	Image:Flag of England (bordered).svg England	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Urs Meier (Switzerland)
	Postiga 83' Rui Costa 110'		Owen 3' Lampard 115'

		Penalties
	Deco: scored Simão: scored Rui Costa: missed Ronaldo: scored Maniche: scored Postiga: scored Ricardo: scored	6–5	Beckham: missed Owen: scored Lampard: scored Terry: scored Hargreaves: scored Cole: scored Vassell: Ricardo saved

June 25, 2004 19:45
	France Image:Flag of France.svg	0–1	Image:Flag of Greece.svg Greece	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Attendance: 45,390 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
			Charisteas 65'

June 26, 2004 19:45
	Sweden Image:Flag of Sweden.svg	0–0 (AET) (4-5 PSO)	Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands	Estádio do Algarve, Faro-Loulé Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)

		Penalties
	Källström: scored Larsson: scored Ibrahimović: missed Ljungberg: scored Wilhelmsson: scored Mellberg: van der Sar saved	4–5	van Nistelrooij: scored Heitinga: scored Reiziger: scored Cocu: hit the post Makaay: scored Robben: scored

June 27, 2004 19:45
	Czech Republic Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg	3–0	Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 41,092 Referee: Valentin Ivanov (Russia)
	Koller 49' Baroš 63', 65'

[edit] Semi-finals

June 30, 2004 19:45
	Portugal Image:Flag of Portugal.svg	2–1	Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Attendance: 46,679 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
	Ronaldo 26' Maniche 58'		Andrade (own goal) 63'

July 1, 2004 19:45
	Greece Image:Flag of Greece.svg	1–0 (AET)	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Czech Republic	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 42,449 Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)
	Dellas 105'+1' (SG)

[edit] Final

July 4, 2004 19:45
	Portugal Image:Flag of Portugal.svg	0–1	Image:Flag of Greece.svg Greece	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 62,865 Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)
			Charisteas 57'

Euro 2004 Champions
Image:Flag of Greece.svg Greece First title

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Top scoring players

5 goals

Image:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Milan Baroš

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own Goals

Image:Flag of Croatia.svg Igor Tudor for France
Image:Flag of Portugal.svg Jorge Andrade for Netherlands

[edit] Top scoring teams

10 goals

8 goals

7 goals

4 goals

3 goals

Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy

2 goals

1 goal

[edit] UEFA Team of the Tournament

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