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
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| Capacity: **65,000**
| Capacity: **52,000**
| Capacity: **52,000**
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! Aveiro
! Coimbra
! Braga
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| Estádio Municipal de Aveiro
| Estádio Cidade de Coimbra
| Estádio Municipal de Braga
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| Capacity: **30,000**
| Capacity: **30,000**
| Capacity: **30,000**
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! Guimarães
! Faro/Loulé
! Porto
! Leiria
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| Estádio D. Afonso Henriques
| Estádio do Algarve
| Estádio do Bessa Século XXI
| Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa
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| Capacity: **30,000**
| Capacity: **30,000**
| Capacity: **30,000**
| Capacity: **30,000**
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## 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).*

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

#### Group A
#### Group B
#### Group C
#### Group D
## Knock out stage
## Statistics
### 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
## References
## Other websites
* UEFA Euro 2004 history at UEFA.com
* UEFA Euro 2004 coverage at BBC Sport
* Official website (archived)