UEFA Euro 2004 facts for kids

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UEFA Euro 2004

Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
Dates	12 June – 4 July
Teams	16
Venue(s)	10 (in 8 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Greece (1st title)
Runners-up	Portugal
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	77 (2.48 per match)
Attendance	1,156,473 (37,306 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Milan Baroš (5 goals)
Best player	Theodoros Zagorakis
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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.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Scotland	1–6	Netherlands	1–0	0–6
Croatia	2–1	Slovenia	1–1	1–0
Russia	1–0	Wales	0–0	1–0
Latvia	3–2	Turkey	1–0	2–2
Spain	5–1	Norway	2–1	3–0

Venues

Braga Guimarães Porto Aveiro Coimbra Leiria Lisbon Faro/Loulé	Lisbon	Lisbon	Porto
	Estádio da Luz	Estádio José Alvalade	Estádio do Dragão
	Capacity: 65,000	Capacity: 52,000	Capacity: 52,000
	Aveiro	Coimbra	Braga
	Estádio Municipal de Aveiro	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra	Estádio Municipal de Braga
	Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 30,000
Guimarães	Faro/Loulé	Porto	Leiria
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:

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:

1. greater number of points in the matches between the teams in question;
2. greater goal difference in matches between the teams in question;
3. greater number of goals scored in matches between the teams in question;
4. greater goal difference in all group games;
5. greater number of goals scored in all group games;
6. higher coefficient derived from Euro 2004 and 2002 World Cup qualifiers (points reached divided by number of matches played);
7. fair play conduct in Euro 2004;
8. drawing

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Portugal	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6
Greece	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
Spain	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
Russia	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3

12 June 2004
Portugal	1 – 2	Greece
Spain	1 – 0	Russia
16 June 2004
Greece	1 – 1	Spain
Russia	0 – 2	Portugal
20 June 2004
Spain	0 – 1	Portugal
Russia	2 – 1	Greece

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
France	3	2	1	0	7	4	+3	7
England	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6
Croatia	3	0	2	1	4	6	−2	2
Switzerland	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

13 June 2004
Switzerland	0 – 0	Croatia
France	2 – 1	England
17 June 2004
England	3 – 0	Switzerland
Croatia	2 – 2	France
21 June 2004
Croatia	2 – 4	England
Switzerland	1 – 3	France

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	3	1	2	0	8	3	+5	5
Denmark	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5
Italy	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
Bulgaria	3	0	0	3	1	9	−8	0

14 June 2004
Denmark	0 – 0	Italy
Sweden	5 – 0	Bulgaria
18 June 2004
Bulgaria	0 – 2	Denmark
Italy	1 – 1	Sweden
22 June 2004
Italy	2 – 1	Bulgaria
Denmark	2 – 2	Sweden

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Czech Republic	3	3	0	0	7	4	+3	9
Netherlands	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2	4
Germany	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
Latvia	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

15 June 2004
Czech Republic	2 – 1	Latvia
Germany	1 – 1	Netherlands
19 June 2004
Latvia	0 – 0	Germany
Netherlands	2 – 3	Czech Republic
23 June 2004
Netherlands	3 – 0	Latvia
Germany	1 – 2	Czech Republic

Knock out stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	24 June – Lisbon (Estádio da Luz)
	Portugal	2 (6)
					30 June – Lisbon (Estádio José Alvalade)
	England	2 (5)
					Portugal	2
	26 June – Loulé (Estádio do Algarve)
					Netherlands	1
	Sweden	0 (4)
									4 July – Lisbon (Estádio da Luz)
	Netherlands (pen.)	0 (5)
									Portugal	0
	25 June – Lisbon (Estádio José Alvalade)
									Greece	1
	France	0
					1 July – Porto (Estádio do Dragão)
	Greece	1
					Greece (a.e.t.)	1
	27 June – Porto (Estádio do Dragão)
					Czech Republic	0
	Czech Republic	3
	Denmark	0

Statistics

Top scorers

5 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goals

UEFA Team of the tournament

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
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

Images for kids

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  Opening ceremony at the Estádio do Dragão in Porto

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  Swedish striker Henrik Larsson taking a free kick against the Netherlands in the quarter-finals

• 

  Angelos Charisteas (first from left with white shirt), scoring Greece's winner against Portugal in the final.

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  UEFA Euro 2004 finalists and their result

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  Theodoros Zagorakis, UEFA Player of the Tournament

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  UEFA Euro 2004 mascot, Kinas

See also

In Spanish: Eurocopa 2004 para niños