EURO 2004

EURO 2004
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UEFA Euro 2004 Campeonato da Europa de Futebol 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)
Runners-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

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, as 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.^{citation needed}

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 Dragão
Capacity: 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 Coimbra
Capacity: 30,970		Capacity: 30,210

Braga		Guimarães
Estádio Municipal de Braga		Estádio D. Afonso Henriques
Capacity: 30,154		Capacity: 30,146

Faro/Loulé	Porto	Leiria
Estádio Algarve	Estádio do Bessa Século XXI	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa
Capacity: 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 did not need to be used. The same procedure was also used at Euro 2008.

Group A

Main article: UEFA Euro 2004 Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Portugal	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6
Greece	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
Spain	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
Russia	3	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
France	3	2	1	0	7	4	+3	7
England	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6
Croatia	3	0	2	1	4	6	−2	2
Switzerland	3	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
Sweden	3	1	2	0	8	3	+5	5
Denmark	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5
Italy	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
Bulgaria	3	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 Republic	3	3	0	0	7	4	+3	9
Netherlands	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2	4
Germany	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
Latvia	3	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.).

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

24 June - Lisbon (Estádio da Luz)

Portugal (pen.)	2 (6)
		30 June – Lisbon (Estádio José Alvalade)
England	2 (5)
		Portugal	2
26 June - Loulé (Estádio do Algarve)
		Netherlands	1
Sweden	0 (4)
				4 July – Lisbon (Estádio da Luz)
Netherlands (pen.)	0 (5)
				Portugal	0
25 June - Lisbon (Estádio José Alvalade)
				Greece	1
France	0
		1 July - Porto (Estádio do Dragão)
Greece	1
		Greece (a.e.t.)	1
27 June - Porto (Estádio do Dragão)
		Czech Republic	0
Czech Republic	3

Denmark	0

Quarter-finals

2004-06-24 19:45	Portugal	2 – 2 (a.e.t.)	England	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Urs Meier (Switzerland)
	Postiga 83' Rui Costa 110'		Owen 3' Lampard 115'

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

2004-06-25 19:45	France	0 – 1	Greece	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Attendance: 45,390 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
			Charisteas 65'

2004-06-26 19:45	Sweden	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Netherlands	Estádio do Algarve, Faro-Loulé Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)

		Penalties
	Källström Larsson Ibrahimović Ljungberg Wilhelmsson Mellberg	4 – 5	van Nistelrooy Heitinga Reiziger Cocu Makaay Robben

2004-06-27 19:45	Czech Republic	3 – 0	Denmark	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 41,092 Referee: Valentin Ivanov (Russia)
	Koller 49' Baroš 63' 65'

Semi-finals

2004-06-30 19:45	Portugal	2 – 1	Netherlands	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Attendance: 46,679 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
	Ronaldo 26' Maniche 58'		Andrade 63' (o.g.)

2004-07-01 19:45	Greece	1 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Czech Republic	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 42,449 Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)
	Dellas 105+1' (s.g.)

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