page_title: UEFA Euro 2004
section_title: Group stage
hierarchical_section_title: UEFA Euro 2004 / Group stage
caption_attribution_description: UEFA Euro 2004 final team ranking, showing: Winner (dark blue) Runner-up (light blue) Semifinalists (light green) Quarterfinalists (yellow) Group stage (red) Yellow square is host nation (Portugal).
context_page_description: The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2004 or simply Euro 2004, was the 12th edition of the UEFA European Championship, a quadrennial football competition contested by the men's national teams of UEFA member associations. The final tournament was hosted for the first time in Portugal, from 12 June to 4 July 2004. A total of thirty-one matches were played in ten venues across eight cities – Aveiro, Braga, Coimbra, Guimarães, Faro/Loulé, Leiria, Lisbon, and Porto.
  As in 1996 and 2000, the final tournament was contested by 16 teams – the hosts plus the 15 teams that came through the qualification round, which began in September 2002. Latvia secured their first participation in a major tournament after overcoming Turkey in the play-offs, while Greece returned to the European Championship after 24 years.
  The tournament was rich in surprises and upsets: Germany, Spain, and Italy were eliminated in the group stage, while defending champions France were knocked out in the quarter-finals by Greece. Portugal recovered from an opening defeat against Greece to reach the final, eliminating England and the Netherlands along the way.
context_section_description: UEFA announced the match schedule for the final tournament on 10 March 2003, in Porto, Portugal. In a change from the previous tournament schedule, where two quarter-final matches were played per day, over two days, the quarter-finals at the Euro 2004 were to be played over four consecutive days, with one match per day.
  All times are local, WEST (UTC+1).
caption: UEFA Euro 2004 finalists and their result
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