UEFA Euro 2000

The **2000 UEFA European Football Championship**, or **Euro 2000**, was the 11th UEFA European Football Championship.  The championship is held every four years and organized by UEFA.  UEFA is association football's governing body in Europe.

The finals of Euro 2000 were co-hosted (the first time this happened) by Belgium and the Netherlands, between 10 June and 2 July 2000. Spain and Austria also bid to host the event. The final tournament had 16 nations. Except for Belgium and the Netherlands, the finalists had to go through a qualifying round to reach the final stage. France won the tournament.  They defeated Italy 2–1 in the final, by a golden goal.

The finals were in the King Baudouin Stadium.

## Qualified teams

The following 16 teams were in the tournament:
|scope="col"|Country|scope="col"|Qualified as|scope="col"|Date of qualification|scope="col"|Previous appearances in tournament<sup>**1**, **2**</sup>|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|<span style="display:none">00</span>Co-hosts||3 (_1972_, 1980, 1984)||||||
|<span style="display:none">01</span>Co-hosts||5 (1976, 1980, **1988**, 1992, 1996)||||||
|<span style="display:none">02</span>Group 1 winner||4 (***1968***, _1980_, 1988, 1996)||||||
|<span style="display:none">03</span>Group 2 winner||0 (debut)||||||
|<span style="display:none">04</span>Group 3 winner||7 (**1972**,<sup>4</sup> 1976,<sup>4</sup> **1980**,<sup>4</sup> 1984,<sup>4</sup> _1988_,<sup>4</sup> 1992, **1996**)||||||
|<span style="display:none">05</span>Group 4 winner||4 (_1960_, ***1984***, 1992, 1996)||||||
|<span style="display:none">06</span>Group 5 winner||1 (_1992_)||||||
|<span style="display:none">07</span>Group 6 winner||5 (***1964***, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996)||||||
|<span style="display:none">08</span>Group 7 winner||1 (1996)||||||
|<span style="display:none">10</span>Group 8 winner||4 (1960, 1968, 1976, 1984, 1992<sup>5</sup>)||||||
|<span style="display:none">11</span>Group 9 winner||4 (1960,<sup>3</sup> **1976**,<sup>3</sup> 1980,<sup>3</sup> 1996)||||||
|<span style="display:none">12</span>Best runner-up||2 (1984, 1996)||||||
|<span style="display:none">13</span>Play-offs||5 (1964, 1984, 1988, **1992**, 1996)||||||
|<span style="display:none">14</span>Play-offs||5 (1968, 1980, 1988, 1992, _1996_)||||||
|<span style="display:none">15</span>Play-offs||0 (debut)||||||
|<span style="display:none">16</span>Play-offs||1 (1996)||||||

- <div id="1"><sup>1</sup> **Bold** indicates champion for that year</div>
- <div id="2"><sup>2</sup> _Italic_ indicates host for that year</div>
- <div id="3"><sup>3</sup> as Czechoslovakia</div>
- <div id="4"><sup>4</sup> as West Germany</div>
- <div id="5"><sup>5</sup> Did not qualify but replaced Yugoslavia, who were under sanctions by the UN Security Council Resolution 757 and banned from appearing. Denmark were group 4 runners-up.</div>

### Final rankings

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=210|Team|width=30 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=30 abbr="Won"|W|width=30 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=30 abbr="Lost"|L|width=30 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=30 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=30 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=30 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left||6|5|0|1|13|7|+6|**15**||||||||||
|2|align=left||6|4|1|1|9|4|+5|**13**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in the Semi-finals**|||||||||||||||||||
|3|align=left||5|4|1|0|13|3|+10|**13**||||||||||
|4|align=left||5|4|0|1|10|4|+6|**12**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in the Quarter-finals**|||||||||||||||||||
|5|align=left||4|2|0|2|7|7|0|**6**||||||||||
|6|align=left||4|1|3|0|3|4|-1|**4**||||||||||
|7|align=left||4|2|0|2|4|6|-2|**4**||||||||||
|8|align=left||4|1|1|2|8|13|–5|**4**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in the Group stage**|||||||||||||||||||
|9|align=left||3|1|1|1|3|3|0|**4**||||||||||
|10|align=left||3|1|1|1|1|1|0|**4**||||||||||
|11|align=left||3|1|1|1|5|6|–1|**4**||||||||||
|12|align=left||3|1|1|1|2|5|–3|**4**||||||||||
|13|align=left||3|0|2|1|4|5|–1|**2**||||||||||
|14|align=left||3|0|1|2|2|4|–2|**1**||||||||||
|15|align=left||3|0|1|2|1|5|–4|**1**||||||||||
|16|align=left||3|0|0|3|0|8|–8|**0**||||||||||
<small><li>Rankings are based on performance, not team skill. Also, these rankings are unofficial and are **not based on head-to-head record**.</li></small>

### Goalscorers

- 5 goals
- Patrick Kluivert
- Savo Milošević

- 4 goals

- Nuno Gomes

- 3 goals

- Thierry Henry
- Sérgio Conceição
- Zlatko Zahovič

- 2 goals

- Vladimír Šmicer
- Alan Shearer
- Youri Djorkaeff
- David Trézéguet
- Sylvain Wiltord

- Zinedine Zidane
- Filippo Inzaghi
- Francesco Totti
- Frank de Boer
- Marc Overmars

- Boudewijn Zenden
- Gaizka Mendieta
- Alfonso Pérez
- Hakan Şükür

- 1 goal

- Bart Goor
- Émile Mpenza
- Karel Poborský
- Steve McManaman
- Michael Owen
- Paul Scholes
- Laurent Blanc
- Christophe Dugarry
- Mehmet Scholl
- Antonio Conte
- Alessandro Del Piero
- Marco Delvecchio

- Luigi Di Biagio
- Stefano Fiore
- Ronald de Boer
- Steffen Iversen
- Costinha
- Luís Figo
- João Pinto
- Cristian Chivu
- Ionel Ganea
- Viorel Moldovan
- Dorinel Munteanu

- Miran Pavlin
- Joseba Etxeberria
- Pedro Munitis
- Raúl
- Henrik Larsson
- Johan Mjällby
- Okan Buruk
- Ljubinko Drulović
- Dejan Govedarica
- Slobodan Komljenović

- Own goal
- Dejan Govedarica (playing against the Netherlands)

## Awards

- UEFA Team of the Tournament
|width="25%"|Goalkeepers|width="25%"|Defenders|width="25%"|Midfielders|width="25%"|Forwards|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Fabien Barthez Francesco Toldo|Laurent Blanc Marcel Desailly Lilian Thuram Fabio Cannavaro Paolo Maldini Alessandro Nesta Frank de Boer|Patrick Vieira Zinedine Zidane Demetrio Albertini Edgar Davids Rui Costa Luís Figo Josep Guardiola|Thierry Henry Francesco Totti Patrick Kluivert Nuno Gomes Savo Milošević Raúl|||||

- Golden Boot
- Patrick Kluivert
- Savo Milošević
(5 goals)

**UEFA Player of the Tournament**
- Zinedine Zidane

## Mascot

The mascot for the tournament was _Benelucky_.  The name is a pun on Benelux.  He is a lion-devil with hair colour a combination of the flag colours of both host nations. The lion is the national football emblem of the Netherlands and a devil is for Belgium, the team being nicknamed "the Red Devils".

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: UEFA Euro 2000
- **other titles**: UEFA Europees Voetbalkampioenschap
België/Nederland 2000
UEFA Championnat Européen du Football
Belgique/Pays Bas 2000
UEFA Fußball-Europameisterschaft
Belgien/Niederlande 2000
- **size**: 120px
- **country**: Belgium
- **country2**: Netherlands
- **dates**: 10 June – 2 July
- **num teams**: 16
- **venues**: 8
- **cities**: 8
- **champion**: France
- **count**: 2
- **second**: Italy
- **matches**: 31
- **goals**: 85
- **attendance**: 1122833
- **top scorer**: Patrick Kluivert
  Savo Milošević
(5 goals)
- **player**: Zinedine Zidane
- **prevseason**: UEFA Euro 1996, 1996
- **nextseason**: UEFA Euro 2004, 2004