# Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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The men's football tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held in Sydney and four other cities in Australia from 15 to 30 September. It was the 22nd edition of the men's Olympic football tournament.
The final, played at the Olympic Stadium in Sydney, Australia, attracted the Olympic Games Football attendance record of 104,098 which broke the previous record of 101,799 set at the Rose Bowl for the gold medal match of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Cameroon won the gold medal with a victory over Spain, the country's first Olympic gold in history.

## Competition schedule

The match schedule of the tournament.
| 13 Wed | 14 Thu | 15 Fri | 16 Sat | 17 Sun | 18 Mon | 19 Tue | 20 Wed | 21 Thu | 22 Fri | 23 Sat | 24 Sun | 25 Mon | 26 Tue | 27 Wed | 28 Thu | 29 Fri | 30 Sat |
| G | G | | G | G | | G | G | | | ¼ | | ½ | | | | B | F |

## Qualification

The following 16 teams qualified for the 2000 Olympic men's football tournament:
| Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified |
| Host nation | 1 | Australia |
| CAF Preliminary Competition | 3 | Cameroon Morocco Nigeria |
| AFC Preliminary Competition | 3 | Kuwait Japan South Korea |
| CONCACAF Preliminary Competition | 2 | Honduras (winner) United States (runner-up) |
| 2000 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 | Brazil (winner) Chile (runner-up) |
| 2000 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship | 4 | Italy (winner) Czech Republic (runner-up) Spain (third-place) Slovakia (fourth-place) |
| OFC–CAF play-off | 1 | South Africa |
| Total | 16 | |
Four countries competed for the first time in 2000: the Czech Republic and Slovakia (previously champions together as Czechoslovakia at the 1980 Summer Olympics), South Africa and Honduras.

## Venues

Six venues were used during the tournament, four of them outside of Sydney at cities around Australia. Olympic stadium hosted the Final.
| Sydney | Sydney | Melbourne |
| Olympic Stadium | Sydney Football Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground |
| Capacity: 110,000 | Capacity: 42,500 | Capacity: 98,000 |
| Brisbane | Canberra | Adelaide |
| Brisbane Cricket Ground | Bruce Stadium | Hindmarsh Stadium |
| Capacity: 37,000 | Capacity: 25,011 | Capacity: 20,000 |
| AdelaideBrisbaneCanberraMelbourneSydney |||

## Match officials
### Africa

* Mourad Daami
* Falla N'Doye
* Felix Tangawarima

### Asia

* Lu Jun
* Saad Mane

### North and Central America

* Peter Prendergast
* Felipe Ramos

### South America

* Mario Sánchez Yantén
* Carlos Simon

### Europe

* Stéphane Bré
* Herbert Fandel
* Ľuboš Micheľ

### Oceania

* Simon Micallef
* Bruce Grimshaw

## Seeding

The draw for the tournament took place on 3 June 2000. Australia, South Korea, the United States and Brazil were seeded for the draw and placed into groups A–D, respectively. The remaining teams were drawn from four pots with teams from the same region kept apart.
| Pot 1: Host, Top-Seeded teams from Americas and Asia | Pot 2: Europe | Pot 3: Africa | Pot 4: Non-top seeded teams from Americas and Asia |
| Australia (assigned to A1)  South Korea (assigned to B1)  United States (assigned to C1)  Brazil (assigned to D1) | Czech Republic  Italy  Slovakia  Spain | Cameroon  Morocco  Nigeria  South Africa | Chile  Honduras  Japan  Kuwait |

## Group stage
### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Italy | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 7 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 5 |
| Honduras | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 4 |
| Australia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 0 |

### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Chile | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 6 |
| Spain | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 6 |
| South Korea | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 6 |
| Morocco | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | −6 | 0 |

### Group C

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| United States | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 5 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 5 |
| Kuwait | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 3 |
| Czech Republic | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 2 |

### Group D

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Brazil | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 6 |
| Japan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 6 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 |
| Slovakia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |

## Knockout stage

Note: Extra time periods were played under the golden goal rule.
| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| 23 September – Adelaide | 23 September – Adelaide | | | |
| United States (p) | 2 (5) | | | |
| United States (p) | 2 (5) | 26 September – Sydney | 26 September – Sydney | | |
| Japan | 2 (4) | 26 September – Sydney | 26 September – Sydney | |
| Japan | 2 (4) | United States | 1 | |
| 23 September – Sydney | 23 September – Sydney | | United States | 1 | |
| 23 September – Sydney | 23 September – Sydney | Spain | 3 | |
| Italy | 0 | Spain | 3 | |
| Italy | 0 | | | | 30 September – Sydney Olympic | 30 September – Sydney Olympic |
| Spain | 1 | | | | 30 September – Sydney Olympic | 30 September – Sydney Olympic |
| Spain | 1 | | | | Spain | 2 (3) |
| 23 September – Brisbane | 23 September – Brisbane | | | | | Spain | 2 (3) |
| 23 September – Brisbane | 23 September – Brisbane | | | | Cameroon (p) | 2 (5) |
| Brazil | 1 | | | | Cameroon (p) | 2 (5) |
| Brazil | 1 | 26 September – Melbourne | 26 September – Melbourne | | | |
| Cameroon (a.e.t.) | 2 | 26 September – Melbourne | 26 September – Melbourne | | | |
| Cameroon (a.e.t.) | 2 | Cameroon | 2 | | | |
| 23 September – Melbourne | 23 September – Melbourne | | Cameroon | 2 | | | |
| 23 September – Melbourne | 23 September – Melbourne | Chile | 1 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Chile | 4 | Chile | 1 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Chile | 4 | | | | 29 September – Sydney | 29 September – Sydney |
| Nigeria | 1 | | | | 29 September – Sydney | 29 September – Sydney |
| Nigeria | 1 | | | | United States | 0 |
| | | | | | Chile | 2 |

### Gold medal match

Team details :
| Spain | Cameroon |

## Final ranking

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Cameroon (CMR) | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 12 |
| 2 | Spain (ESP) | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 13 |
| 3 | Chile (CHI) | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 6 | +8 | 12 |
| 4 | United States (USA) | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 11 | −2 | 6 |
| 5 | Italy (ITA) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 7 |
| 6 | Japan (JPN) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 7 |
| 7 | Brazil (BRA) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 8 | Nigeria (NGR) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 5 |
| 9 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 6 |
| 10 | Honduras (HON) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 4 |
| 11 | South Africa (RSA) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Kuwait (KUW) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 3 |
| 13 | Slovakia (SVK) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |
| 14 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 2 |
| 15 | Australia (AUS) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 0 |
| 16 | Morocco (MAR) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | −6 | 0 |

## Statistics
### Goalscorers

With six goals, Iván Zamorano of Chile is the top goalscorer in the tournament. In total, 103 goals were scored by 62 different players, with six of them credited as own goals.

#### 6 goals

* Iván Zamorano

#### 4 goals

* Patrick Mboma
* Reinaldo Navia
* David Suazo

#### 3 goals

* Lauren
* Naohiro Takahara
* Victor Agali
* Gabri
* José Mari
* Peter Vagenas

#### 2 goals

* Alex
* Edu
* Lukáš Došek
* Gianni Comandini
* Khalaf Al-Mutairi
* Faraj Saeed
* Andrej Porázik
* Siyabonga Nomvethe
* Xavi
* Chris Albright
* Josh Wolff

#### 1 goal

* Hayden Foxe
* Kasey Wehrman
* Ronaldinho
* Nicolas Alnoudji
* Samuel Eto'o
* Modeste M'bami
* Pablo Contreras
* Rafael Olarra
* Rodrigo Tello
* Marek Heinz
* Roman Lengyel
* Julio César de León
* Massimo Ambrosini
* Andrea Pirlo
* Junichi Inamoto
* Hidetoshi Nakata
* Atsushi Yanagisawa
* Lee Dong-gook
* Lee Chun-soo
* Jamal Mubarak
* Bader Najem
* El Houssaine Ouchla
* Bright Igbinadolor
* Pius Ikedia
* Garba Lawal
* Juraj Czinege
* Ján Šlahor
* Quinton Fortune
* Steve Lekoelea
* Benni McCarthy
* Miguel Ángel Angulo
* Jesús Lacruz
* Raúl Tamudo
* Toni Velamazán
* Danny Califf
* Landon Donovan

#### 1 own goal

* Patrice Abanda (playing against Chile)
* Jaime Rosales (playing against Australia)
* Gianni Comandini (playing against Honduras)
* Samuel Okunowo (playing against Italy)
* Marián Čišovský (playing against Brazil)
* Iván Amaya (playing against Cameroon)