UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying
Qualification for the 2004 UEFA European Championship took place between September 2002 and November 2003. Fifty teams were divided into ten groups, with each team playing the others in their group twice, once at home and once away. The top team in each group automatically qualified for Euro 2004, and the ten group runners-up were paired off against each other to determine another five places in the finals. Portugal qualified automatically as hosts of the event. Qualified teams. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Tiebreakers. If two or more teams were equal on points on  completion of the group matches, the following criteria were applied to determine the rankings: Seedings. The draw occurred on 25 January 2002 in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal. As holders, UEFA seeded France first in the seeding. The other seedings were determined by points per game in the qualifiers for UEFA Euro 2000 and 2002 FIFA World Cup. Since Belgium and Netherlands qualified automatically for UEFA Euro 2000 as co-hosts, the coefficient factored only their 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying record. France qualified automatically for 2002 FIFA World Cup as 1998 FIFA World Cup Champions, meaning the coefficient used  only UEFA Euro 2000 qualification record. Teams in bold eventually qualified for the final tournament, teams in bold italic qualified for the final tournament through the play-offs, and teams in "italic" participated in the play-offs but did not qualify for the final tournament.