UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying
Tournament details | |
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Dates | 4 June 1998 – 17 November 1999 |
Teams | 49 |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 228 |
Goals scored | 652 (2.86 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() |
UEFA European Qualifiers |
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Qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2000 final tournament, took place throughout 1998 and 1999. Forty-nine teams were divided into nine groups. All teams played against each other, within their groups, on a home-and-away basis. The winner of each group and the best runner-up qualified automatically for the final tournament. The rest of the runners-up played an additional set of playoff matches amongst each other.
Both Belgium and the Netherlands qualified automatically as co-hosts of the event.[1][2]
Qualified teams
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Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances in tournament[A] |
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![]() | Co-host | 14 July 1995 | 3 (1972, 1980, 1984) |
![]() | 5 (1976, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996) | ||
![]() | Group 9 winner | 9 June 1999 | 4 (1960, 1976, 1980, 1996) |
![]() | Group 2 winner | 8 September 1999 | 0 (debut) |
![]() | Group 5 winner | 8 September 1999 | 1 (1992) |
![]() | Group 6 winner | 8 September 1999 | 5 (1964, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996) |
![]() | Group 1 winner | 9 October 1999 | 4 (1968, 1980, 1988, 1996) |
![]() | Group 3 winner | 9 October 1999 | 7 (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996) |
![]() | Group 4 winner | 9 October 1999 | 4 (1960, 1984, 1992, 1996) |
![]() | Group 7 winner | 9 October 1999 | 2 (1984, 1996) |
![]() | Group 8 winner | 9 October 1999 | 4 (1960, 1968, 1976, 1984) |
![]() | Best runner-up | 9 October 1999 | 2 (1984, 1996) |
![]() | Play-off winner | 17 November 1999 | 5 (1964, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996) |
![]() | Play-off winner | 17 November 1999 | 5 (1968, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996) |
![]() | Play-off winner | 17 November 1999 | 0 (debut) |
![]() | Play-off winner | 17 November 1999 | 1 (1996) |
- ^ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
- ^ From 1960 to 1980, the Czech Republic competed as Czechoslovakia.
- ^ From 1972 to 1988, Germany competed as West Germany.
- ^ From 1960 to 1984, FR Yugoslavia competed as Yugoslavia.
Qualification seeding
[edit]The draw occurred on 18 January 1998, in Ghent, Belgium. The 49 participating teams were divided into five drawing pots based on the newly introduced 1997-edition of the UEFA national team coefficient ranking, which calculated an average of the team's points per game achieved combined in the Euro 1996 and 1998 World Cup qualifiers. The seeding list was however subject to some few minor modifications:[3][4]
- Germany were seeded first and not fifth as the defending champions (title holders).
- Netherlands (ranked 11th) and Belgium (ranked 18th) were not seeded, as they did not participate in the qualifying tournament due to already having qualified automatically for the final tournament as hosts. Consequently, all teams ranked below them moved up one or two seeding places higher than their rankings.
Nine groups were formed by drawing one team from each of the five pots. The remaining four teams from pot five, were subsequently drawn into four of the groups (randomly selected); meaning that the four groups with six teams featured two teams from pot five.
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Note: The UEFA national team coefficient ranking automatically had taken into account in its ranking calculation, that France automatically qualified as hosts for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, meaning that the coefficient for France only factored their UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying record. Similarly, the coefficient considered only the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification record for England, FR Yugoslavia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. England automatically qualified as hosts of UEFA Euro 1996 while FR Yugoslavia were suspended due to UN sanctions. Bosnia and Herzegovina made their European qualification debut. Andorra made their qualification debut after being admitted to UEFA in November 1996.
Summary
[edit]Tiebreakers
[edit]If two or more teams finished level on points after completion of the group matches, the following tie-breakers were used to determine the final ranking:[6]
- Higher number of points obtained in the matches played among the teams in question;
- Superior goal difference in matches played among the teams in question;
- Higher number of goals scored away from home in the matches played among the teams in question;
- Superior goal difference in all group matches;
- Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
- Higher number of away goals scored in all group matches;
- Fair play conduct in all group matches (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card, 4 points for a yellow card followed by a direct red card).
Groups
[edit]Group 1
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 15 | Qualify for final tournament | — | 2–3 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 1–1 | |
2 | ![]() | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 14[a] | Advance to play-offs | 1–2 | — | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | |
3 | ![]() | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 14[a] | 0–0 | 1–1 | — | 2–0 | 2–0 | ||
4 | ![]() | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 16 | −9 | 9 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | — | 3–2 | ||
5 | ![]() | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | — |
Notes:
Group 2
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 9 | +12 | 25 | Qualify for final tournament | — | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 1–0 | |
2 | ![]() | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 14 | −2 | 17 | Advance to play-offs | 1–2 | — | 0–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | |
3 | ![]() | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 8 | +5 | 15 | 0–2 | 2–2 | — | 1–2 | 2–0 | 3–0 | ||
4 | ![]() | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 12 | +1 | 13 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | — | 0–0 | 1–0 | ||
5 | ![]() | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 14 | −6 | 7 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 3–3 | — | 2–1 | ||
6 | ![]() | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 18 | −10 | 5 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | — |
Group 3
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 4 | +16 | 19 | Qualify for final tournament | — | 0–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 6–1 | |
2 | ![]() | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 6 | +9 | 17 | Advance to play-offs | 1–0 | — | 1–3 | 3–0 | 2–0 | |
3 | ![]() | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 10 | 1–2 | 2–4 | — | 4–1 | 3–2 | ||
4 | ![]() | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 19 | −15 | 5 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 1–0 | — | 2–2 | ||
5 | ![]() | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 17 | −10 | 4 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | — |
Group 4
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 10 | +7 | 21 | Qualify for final tournament | — | 0–0 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | |
2 | ![]() | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 4 | +10 | 20 | Advance to play-offs | 0–0 | — | 3–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | |
3 | ![]() | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 12 | +10 | 19 | 2–3 | 1–1 | — | 1–0 | 2–0 | 6–1 | ||
4 | ![]() | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 15 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | — | 2–0 | 3–0 | ||
5 | ![]() | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 15 | −7 | 8 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 0–0 | — | 3–1 | ||
6 | ![]() | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 28 | −25 | 0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–3 | — |
Group 5
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | 22 | Qualify for final tournament | — | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | |
2 | ![]() | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 4 | +10 | 13[a] | Advance to play-offs | 0–0 | — | 3–1 | 0–0 | 6–0 | |
3 | ![]() | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 8 | +4 | 13[a] | 0–1 | 0–0 | — | 2–0 | 3–0 | ||
4 | ![]() | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 8 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–3 | — | 3–0 | ||
5 | ![]() | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 23 | −21 | 0 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 0–2 | — |
Notes:
Group 6
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 42 | 5 | +37 | 21 | Qualify for final tournament | — | 3–0 | 9–0 | 8–0 | 9–0 | |
2 | ![]() | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 9 | +16 | 13[a] | Advance to play-offs | 1–2 | — | 5–0 | 3–0 | 8–0 | |
3 | ![]() | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 20 | −1 | 13[a] | 1–3 | 1–1 | — | 3–1 | 7–0 | ||
4 | ![]() | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 21 | −9 | 12 | 3–2 | 3–2 | 0–3 | — | 4–0 | ||
5 | ![]() | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 44 | −43 | 0 | 0–6 | 0–5 | 1–4 | 0–1 | — |
Notes:
Group 7
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 25 | 3 | +22 | 24 | Qualify for final tournament | — | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 7–0 | |
2 | ![]() | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 4 | +28 | 23 | 0–1 | — | 1–0 | 3–0 | 7–0 | 8–0 | ||
3 | ![]() | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 17 | 1–5 | 0–3 | — | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | ||
4 | ![]() | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 10 | +4 | 12 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 0–1 | — | 3–0 | 5–0 | ||
5 | ![]() | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 26 | −20 | 4[a] | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–4 | — | 4–0 | ||
6 | ![]() | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 39 | −37 | 4[a] | 0–3 | 0–5 | 0–4 | 0–0 | 2–1 | — |
Notes:
Group 8
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 8 | +10 | 17 | Qualify for final tournament | — | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 4–1 | |
2 | ![]() | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 6 | +8 | 16 | Advance to play-offs | 2–1 | — | 2–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 | |
3 | ![]() | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 9 | +4 | 15 | 2–2 | 1–0 | — | 3–2 | 2–1 | ||
4 | ![]() | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | −1 | 8 | 2–4 | 1–1 | 1–1 | — | 4–0 | ||
5 | ![]() | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 27 | −21 | 0 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 1–4 | 1–2 | — |
Group 9
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 5 | +21 | 30 | Qualify for final tournament | — | 3–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 2–0 | |
2 | ![]() | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 10 | +5 | 18 | Advance to play-offs | 1–2 | — | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 2–1 | |
3 | ![]() | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 17 | −3 | 11[a] | 1–3 | 1–2 | — | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | ||
4 | ![]() | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 16 | −8 | 11[a] | 0–4 | 0–0 | 4–2 | — | 1–2 | 0–0 | ||
5 | ![]() | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 17 | −2 | 11[a] | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 1–2 | — | 5–0 | ||
6 | ![]() | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 17 | −13 | 3 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 0–2 | — |
Notes:
Ranking of second-placed teams
[edit]The best runner-up of the entire group phase qualified automatically for the final tournament. To determine the best runner-up, a comparison was made between all of them. As some groups had five teams and others had six, matches played against fifth and sixth placed teams were discarded, despite the fact that only discarding matches against sixth-place teams would’ve been sufficient enough. After the best runner-up was found, all the others entered a random playoff to determine the last four qualifiers.
Portugal qualified automatically as best runner-up, beating Turkey on goal difference.
Pos | Grp | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | 7 | ![]() | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 13 | Qualify for final tournament |
2 | 3 | ![]() | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 13 | Advance to play-offs |
3 | 9 | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 10 | |
4 | 1 | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 10 | |
5 | 4 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 10 | |
6 | 8 | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 10 | |
7 | 6 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 7 | |
8 | 5 | ![]() | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 7 | |
9 | 2 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 12 | −6 | 7 |
Rules for classification: Counting only matches against teams ranked first to fourth in the group, 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Drawing of lots.
Play-offs
[edit]The remaining eight runners-up entered a random playoff, disputed in two legs, home and away.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Scotland ![]() | 1–2 | ![]() | 0–2 | 1–0 |
Israel ![]() | 0–8 | ![]() | 0–5 | 0–3 |
Slovenia ![]() | 3–2 | ![]() | 2–1 | 1–1 |
Republic of Ireland ![]() | 1–1 (a) | ![]() | 1–1 | 0–0 |
Goalscorers
[edit]There were 652 goals scored in 228 matches, for an average of 2.86 goals per match.
11 goals
9 goals
8 goals
7 goals
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
Alban Bushi
Tigran Yesayan
Christian Mayrleb
Pavel Nedvěd
Vladimír Šmicer
Andres Oper
Sergei Terehhov
Jonatan Johansson
Joonas Kolkka
Mixu Paatelainen
Predrag Mijatović
Dejan Stanković
Youri Djorkaeff
Shota Arveladze
Marco Bode
Ulf Kirsten
Christian Ziege
Nikos Machlas
Filippo Inzaghi
Christian Vieri
Marians Pahars
Andrejs Štolcers
Valdas Ivanauskas
Saša Ćirić
Artim Šakiri
Tomasz Iwan
Luís Figo
Paulo Madeira
Niall Quinn
Ionel Ganea
Dorinel Munteanu
Don Hutchison
Julen Guerrero
Henrik Larsson
Stéphane Chapuisat
Kubilay Türkyilmaz
Arif Erdem
2 goals
Igli Tare
Armen Shahgeldyan
Harald Cerny
Eduard Glieder
Andi Herzog
Hannes Reinmayr
Gurban Gurbanov
Zaur Tagizade
Valyantsin Byalkevich
Zvonimir Boban
Mario Stanić
Davor Vugrinec
Panayiotis Engomitis
Michalis Konstantinou
Pavel Kuka
Martin Jørgensen
Brian Steen Nielsen
Ebbe Sand
Stig Tøfting
Steve McManaman
Michael Owen
Martin Reim
Uni Arge
Albert Nađ
Dragan Stojković
Christophe Dugarry
Sylvain Wiltord
Zaza Janashia
Georgios Georgiadis
Vassilios Tsiartas
Béla Illés
Ríkharður Daðason
Eyjólfur Sverrisson
Eyal Berkovic
Najwan Ghrayib
Avi Nimni
Alessandro Del Piero
Diego Fuser
Vitālijs Astafjevs
Mihails Zemļinskis
Tomas Ramelis
Risto Božinov
David Carabott
Igor Oprea
Øyvind Leonhardsen
Kjetil Rekdal
Jerzy Brzęczek
Sylwester Czereszewski
Pauleta
Abel Xavier
Gary Breen
Roy Keane
Gheorghe Hagi
Laurențiu Roșu
Aleksandr Panov
Allan Johnston
Peter Dubovský
Martin Fabuš
Vladimír Labant
Róbert Tomaschek
Milenko Ačimovič
Fran
César Martín
Fernando Morientes
Niclas Alexandersson
Johan Mjällby
Oktay Derelioğlu
Andriy Husin
Serhiy Popov
Andriy Shevchenko
Serhiy Skachenko
1 goal
Bledar Kola
Devi Muka
Altin Rraklli
Jesús Julián Lucendo
Justo Ruiz
Juli Sánchez
Garnik Avalyan
Karapet Mikaelyan
Artur Petrosyan
Martin Amerhauser
Martin Hiden
Mirbağır İsayev
Vyacheslav Lychkin
Vasili Baranov
Sergei Gurenko
Sergej Barbarez
Meho Kodro
Muhamed Konjić
Marko Topić
Daniel Borimirov
Rumen Hristov
Georgi Markov
Ivaylo Petkov
Hristo Stoichkov
Ivaylo Yordanov
Alen Bokšić
Dario Šimić
Zvonimir Soldo
Marios Christodoulou
Costas Costa
Siniša Gogić
Vassos Melanarkitis
Miroslav Baranek
Michal Horňák
Karel Poborský
Tomáš Řepka
Pavel Verbíř
Søren Frederiksen
Jan Heintze
Allan Nielsen
Ole Tobiasen
Morten Wieghorst
Gareth Southgate
Argo Arbeiter
Sergei Hohlov-Simson
Urmas Kirs
Raio Piiroja
Maksim Smirnov
Kristen Viikmäe
Hans Fróði Hansen
John Petersen
Sami Hyypiä
Jari Litmanen
Janne Salli
Hannu Tihinen
Ljubinko Drulović
Darko Kovačević
Dejan Savićević
Nicolas Anelka
Alain Boghossian
Vincent Candela
Lilian Laslandes
Frank Leboeuf
Emmanuel Petit
Robert Pires
David Trezeguet
Zinedine Zidane
Archil Arveladze
Mikheil Kavelashvili
Temur Ketsbaia
Jens Jeremies
Oliver Neuville
Mehmet Scholl
Kostas Frantzeskos
Nikos Liberopoulos
Dimitris Mavrogenidis
Demis Nikolaidis
Andreas Niniadis
Marinos Ouzounidis
Pál Dárdai
Gábor Egressy
Miklós Fehér
Ferenc Horváth
János Hrutka
István Pisont
József Sebők
Thomas Sowunmi
Steinar Dagur Adolfsson
Eiður Guðjohnsen
Þórður Guðjónsson
Brynjar Gunnarsson
Hermann Hreiðarsson
Rúnar Kristinsson
Lárus Sigurðsson
Yossi Abukasis
Walid Badir
Tal Banin
Alon Hazan
Nir Sivilia
Enrico Chiesa