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The 2000 UEFA European Football Championship, also known as Euro 2000, was the 11th UEFA European Championship, a football tournament held every four years and organised by UEFA, the sport's governing body in Europe.
Official in-depth guide to UEFA EURO 2000, including results, stats and video highlights.
- Who Won Euro 2000?
- Who Were The Top Scorers at Euro 2000?
- Where Was Euro 2000 held?
- Who Managed The Winning Team at Euro 2000?
- Who Was The Winning Captain at Euro 2000?
- What Was The Format For Euro 2000?
- How Many Teams Featured at Euro 2000?
- How Did Euro 2000 Qualifying Work?
- Who Was in The Euro 2000 Squad of The Tournament?
- Who Scored The First Goal at Euro 2000?
Powered by the brilliance of Zinédine Zidane, 1998 FIFA World Cup winners France prevailed at EURO 2000, but they rode their luck in the final against Italy on 2 July 2000. Italy led through Marco Delvecchio until Sylvain Wiltord beat Francesco Toldo in added time, and then David Trezeguet volleyed the 'golden goal' winner 13 minutes into extra tim...
Two players finished level on five goals after EURO 2000: Patrick Kluivert (Netherlands) Savo Milošević (Yugoslavia) The top scorer in qualifying was Spain's Raúl González with 11 goals. That haul included four goals in a 9-0 win against Austria on 27 March 1999 and a 19-minute hat-trick in San Marino four days later. A three-time UEFA Champions Le...
Belgium and the Netherlands co-hosted EURO 2000 between 10 June and 2 July 2000, each nation providing four venues. Brussels' Roi Baudouin Stadium staged the opener, with Bruges' Jan Breydel Stadium, Liege's Stade Marcel Dufrasne and Charleroi's Stade du Pays de Charleroi also holding games. As well as the final venue, Rotterdam's Feijenoord Stadiu...
Roger Lemerre had been assistant to Aimé Jacquet as France won the 1998 World Cup but took sole command thereafter and became the first boss of Les Bleus to win a major tournament on foreign soil (France having won EURO '84 and the world title as hosts). He had spent ten years in charge of France's army team before becoming part of the civilian set...
Defensive midfielder Didier Deschamps switched from Juventus to Chelsea between winning the 1998 World Cup and EURO 2000. "A team needs a great general," coach Lemerre said after the EURO 2000 decider. "I hope he will stay on for a long time." As it was, Deschamps retired from international football soon afterwards with a then-record 103 France cap...
Running from 10 June to 2 July 2000, EURO 2000 deployed the same format as EURO '96, with the top two sides in each of the four four-team groups (three points for a win, one for a draw) moving into the knockout phase. Group winners (Portugal, Italy, Spain and Netherlands) faced runners-up from other groups (Romania, Turkey, Yugoslavia and France).
There were 16 teams at the final tournament, while 49 UEFA member countries took part in qualifying (excluding co-hosts Belgium and the Netherlands).
With Belgium and the Netherlands qualifying automatically as hosts, the remaining 49 UEFA member nations entered a qualifying competition which involved nine groups (four of six teams, five of five). The nine group winners and best-ranked runners-up (Portugal) qualified for the finals directly, while the other eight runners-up competed in four play...
France's Zinédine Zidane was named Player of the Tournament, UEFA technical director Andy Roxburgh commenting: "I'm quite certain he has printed somewhere on his head 'made in heaven'. UEFA's technical team also selected a 22-man squad of the finals. GK: Fabien Barthez (France) GK: Francesco Toldo (Italy) DF: Laurent Blanc (France) DF: Lilian Thura...
Belgium's Bart Goor struck in the 43rd minute of the EURO 2000 opener against Sweden to set his side on course for a 2-1 win (though they would miss out on a knockout slot). The winger came to the tournament fresh from winning the first of four domestic league titles with Anderlecht. In the latter part of his career, Goor made headlines by promotin...
The UEFA Euro 2000 final was the final match of Euro 2000, the eleventh European Football Championship, UEFA's top football competition for national teams. The match was played at De Kuip in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on 2 July 2000 and was contested between France and Italy.
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Dec 12, 2015 · Watch the best of the action from the UEFA EURO 2000 final when France beat Italy in Rotterdam thanks to a golden goal from David Trezeguet. ...more.
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Official in-depth guide to matches in the UEFA EURO 2000, including results, stats and video highlights.
Jul 2, 2000 · Italy looked to have secured victory when Alessandro Delvecchio put them ahead early in the second half. But as the massed ranks of Italian defenders formed in front of goalkeeper Francesco...
