UEFA Euro 2004

The **2004 UEFA European Football Championship** (or just **Euro 2004**) was the twelfth tournament of the UEFA European Football Championship, a football tournament held all four years for European nations. It was held in Portugal between 12 June and 4 July 2004. The UEFA Euro was given to Portugal in 1999. Winner was Greece after a 1:0 versus Portugal.The qualification was held in 10 groups of five in the years 2002 and 2003.

## Countries that directly qualified for UEFA Euro 2004

The qualification was held in 10 groups of five in the years 2002 and 2003.
- Group 1:France
- Group 2:Denmark
- Group 3:Czech Republic
- Group 4:Sweden
- Group 5:Germany
- Group 6:Greece
- Group 7:England
- Group 8:Bulgaria
- Group 9:Italy
- Group10:Switzerland

## Play offs

The teams on the second place of the groups held a Play off round.

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## Venues

|Lisbon|Lisbon|Porto||
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|Estádio da Luz|Estádio José Alvalade|Estádio do Dragão||
|Capacity: **65,000**|Capacity: **52,000**|Capacity: **52,000**||
|Estádio Municipal de Aveiro|Estádio Cidade de Coimbra|Estádio Municipal de Braga||
|Capacity: **30,000**|Capacity: **30,000**|Capacity: **30,000**||
|Estádio D. Afonso Henriques|Estádio do Algarve|Estádio do Bessa Século XXI|Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa|
|Capacity: **30,000**|Capacity: **30,000**|Capacity: **30,000**|Capacity: **30,000**|

## Referees

Twelve referees were selected for the tournament:

- Kim Milton Nielsen
- Mike Riley
- Gilles Veissière
- Markus Merk

- Pierluigi Collina
- Terje Hauge
- Lucílio Batista
- Valentin Ivanov

- Ľuboš Micheľ
- Manuel Mejuto González
- Anders Frisk
- Urs Meier

## Results

_All times are Western European Summer Time (UTC+1)._

#### Tie-breaking criteria

For teams that finish equal in points, the following rules are used:
1. greater number of points in the matches between the teams in question;
1. greater goal difference in matches between the teams in question;
1. greater number of goals scored in matches between the teams in question;
1. greater goal difference in all group games;
1. greater number of goals scored in all group games;
1. higher coefficient derived from Euro 2004 and 2002 World Cup qualifiers (points reached divided by number of matches played);
1. fair play conduct in Euro 2004;
1. drawing

#### Group A

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|align=left||3|1|1|1|4|4|0|**4**|||||||||
|align=left||3|1|1|1|2|2|0|**4**|||||||||
|align=left||3|1|0|2|2|4|−2|**3**|||||||||

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|12 June 2004|||||
|****|**1 – 2**|****|||
|****|**1 – 0**|****|||
|16 June 2004|||||
|****|**1 – 1**|****|||
|****|**0 – 2**|****|||
|20 June 2004|||||
|****|**0 – 1**|****|||
|****|**2 – 1**|****|||

#### Group B

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|align=left||3|0|2|1|4|6|−2|**2**|||||||||
|align=left||3|0|1|2|1|6|−5|**1**|||||||||

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|13 June 2004|||||
|****|**0 – 0**|****|||
|****|**2 – 1**|****|||
|17 June 2004|||||
|****|**3 – 0**|****|||
|****|**2 – 2**|****|||
|21 June 2004|||||
|****|**2 – 4**|****|||
|****|**1 – 3**|****|||

#### Group C

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|align=left||3|1|2|0|4|2|+2|**5**|||||||||
|align=left||3|1|2|0|3|2|+1|**5**|||||||||
|align=left||3|0|0|3|1|9|−8|**0**|||||||||

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|14 June 2004|||||
|****|**0 – 0**|****|||
|****|**5 – 0**|****|||
|18 June 2004|||||
|****|**0 – 2**|****|||
|****|**1 – 1**|****|||
|22 June 2004|||||
|****|**2 – 1**|****|||
|****|**2 – 2**|****|||

#### Group D

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|align=left||3|1|1|1|6|4|+2|**4**|||||||||
|align=left||3|0|2|1|2|3|−1|**2**|||||||||
|align=left||3|0|1|2|1|5|−4|**1**|||||||||

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|15 June 2004|||||
|****|**2 – 1**|****|||
|****|**1 – 1**|****|||
|19 June 2004|||||
|****|**0 – 0**|****|||
|****|**2 – 3**|****|||
|23 June 2004|||||
|****|**3 – 0**|****|||
|****|**1 – 2**|****|||

### Top scorers

- 5 goals

- Milan Baroš

- 4 goals
- Wayne Rooney
- Ruud van Nistelrooy

- 3 goals

- Jon Dahl Tomasson
- Frank Lampard

- Zinedine Zidane
- Angelos Charisteas

- Henrik Larsson

- 2 goals

- Marek Heinz
- Jan Koller
- Thierry Henry

- Antonio Cassano
- Rui Costa
- Maniche

- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Zlatan Ibrahimović

- 1 goal

- Martin Petrov
- Niko Kovač
- Dado Pršo
- Milan Rapaić
- Igor Tudor
- Vladimír Šmicer
- Jesper Grønkjær
- Steven Gerrard
- Michael Owen
- Paul Scholes
- David Trezeguet

- Michael Ballack
- Torsten Frings
- Angelos Basinas
- Traianos Dellas
- Giorgos Karagounis
- Zisis Vryzas
- Simone Perrotta
- Māris Verpakovskis
- Wilfred Bouma
- Roy Makaay

- Nuno Gomes
- Hélder Postiga
- Dmitri Bulykin
- Dmitri Kirichenko
- Fernando Morientes
- Juan Carlos Valerón
- Marcus Allbäck
- Mattias Jonson
- Fredrik Ljungberg
- Johan Vonlanthen

- Own goals

- Igor Tudor (playing against France)
- Jorge Andrade (playing against the Netherlands)

### UEFA Team of the tournament

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|Petr Čech Antonios Nikopolidis|Sol Campbell Ricardo Carvalho Ashley Cole Traianos Dellas Olof Mellberg Giourkas Seitaridis Gianluca Zambrotta|Michael Ballack Luís Figo Frank Lampard Maniche Pavel Nedvěd Theodoros Zagorakis Zinedine Zidane|Milan Baroš Angelos Charisteas Henrik Larsson Ruud van Nistelrooy Cristiano Ronaldo Wayne Rooney Jon Dahl Tomasson|||||

## Other websites

- UEFA Euro 2004 history at UEFA.com
- UEFA Euro 2004 coverage at BBC Sport
- Official website (archived)

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: UEFA Euro 2004
- **country**: Portugal
- **dates**: 12 June – 4 July
- **num teams**: 16
- **venues**: 10
- **cities**: 8
- **champion**: Greece
- **count**: 1
- **second**: Portugal
- **matches**: 31
- **goals**: 77
- **attendance**: 1156473
- **top scorer**: Milan Baroš (5 goals)
- **player**: Theodoros Zagorakis
- **prevseason**: UEFA Euro 2000, 2000
- **nextseason**: UEFA Euro 2008, 2008