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

File:UEFA Euro 2004 Qualifiers Map.png

  Qualified

  Did not qualify

  Did not enter

  Not a UEFA member

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournamentTemplate:Efn-ua
Portugal		Template:Dts	3 (1984, 1996, 2000)
France	Group 1 winner	Template:Dts	5 (1960, 1984, 1992, 1996, 2000)
Czech RepublicTemplate:Efn-ua	Group 3 winner	Template:Dts	5 (1960, 1976, 1980, 1996, 2000)
Sweden	Group 4 winner	Template:Dts	2 (1992, 2000)
Bulgaria	Group 8 winner	Template:Dts	1 (1996)
Denmark	Group 2 winner	Template:Dts	6 (1964, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000)
GermanyTemplate:Efn-ua	Group 5 winner	Template:Dts	8 (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000)
Greece	Group 6 winner	Template:Dts	1 (1980)
England	Group 7 winner	Template:Dts	6 (1968, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000)
Italy	Group 9 winner	Template:Dts	5 (1968, 1980, 1988, 1996, 2000)
Switzerland	Group 10 winner	Template:Dts	1 (1996)
Croatia		Template:Dts	1 (1996)
Latvia		Template:Dts	0 (debut)
Netherlands		Template:Dts	6 (1976, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000)
Spain		Template:Dts	6 (1964, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000)
RussiaTemplate:Efn-ua		Template:Dts	7 (1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1988, 1992, 1996)

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:

1. Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question.
2. Superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question.
3. Higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question.
4. Higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question.
5. If two or more teams still had an equal ranking, criteria 1) to 4) would be reapplied. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 6) and 7) would apply.
6. Results of all group matches: 1. Superior goal difference 2. Higher number of goals scored 3. Higher number of goals scored away from home 4. Fair play conduct.
7. Drawing of lots.

Seedings

The draw occurred on 25 January 2002 in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal. 50 teams were divided into five drawing pots based on the latest 2001-edition of the UEFA National Team Coefficient ranking, that had calculated an average of the team's points per game achieved combined in the Euro 2000 qualifiers and 2002 World Cup qualifiers. The seeding list was however subject to some few minor modifications:

• France (ranked 11) were seeded first as the defending champions (title holders). Consequently, all teams ranked above them from 1 to 10 moved down one seeding place lower than their rankings.
• Portugal (ranked 4) was not seeded, as they did not participate in the qualifying tournament due to already having qualified automatically for the final tournament as hosts. Consequently, all teams ranked below them moved up one seeding place higher than their ranking position.

Ten groups were formed by drawing one team from each of the five pots.

Pot A Team Coeff Seed France (TH) 2,10 1 Sweden 2,67 2 Spain 2,56 3 Czech Republic 2,50 4 Germany 2,25 5 Republic of Ireland 2,22 6 Romania 2,22 7 Italy 2,19 8 Belgium 2,12 9 Turkey 2,11 10	Pot B Team Coeff Seed Russia 2,10 11 Croatia 2,06 12 Template:Country data FRY 2,00 13 Netherlands 2,00 14 Denmark 2,00 15 Poland 1,89 16 England 1,88 17 Ukraine 1,85 18 Slovenia 1,85 19 Scotland 1,83 20	Pot C Team Coeff Seed Norway 1,75 21 Austria 1,75 22 Slovakia 1,70 23 Israel 1,56 24 Switzerland 1,55 25 Iceland 1,40 26 Bulgaria 1,39 27 Finland 1,37 28 Greece 1,22 29 Hungary 1,11 30
Pot D Team Coeff Seed Cyprus 1,11 31 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,05 32 Belarus 1,00 33 Wales 1,00 34 Estonia 0,95 35 Latvia 0,94 36 Northern Ireland 0,89 37 REDIRECT Template:Country data North Macedonia || align=center| 0,83 || align=center| 38 Georgia 0,83 39 Lithuania 0,72 40	Pot E Team Coeff Seed Armenia 0,65 41 Albania 0,55 42 Template:Country data MLD 0,55 43 Faroe Islands 0,50 44 Azerbaijan 0,45 45 Liechtenstein 0,22 46 Malta 0,05 47 San Marino 0,05 48 Luxembourg 0,00 49 Andorra 0,00 50

Note: The UEFA National Team Coefficient ranking automatically had taken into account in its ranking calculation, that some teams only played one of the two preceding qualification tournaments. 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 had also qualified automatically for the 2002 FIFA World Cup as 1998 FIFA World Cup Champions, meaning the coefficient used only the UEFA Euro 2000 qualification record for France.

Summary

  Group winners qualified directly for UEFA Euro 2004

  Group runners-up advanced to the play-offs

  Other teams were eliminated after the qualifying group stage

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6	Group 7	Group 8	Group 9	Group 10
File:Flag of France (lighter variant).svg France	File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark	File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic	File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden	File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece	File:Flag of England.svg England	File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria	File:Flag of Italy (2003–2006).svg Italy	File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland
File:Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia	File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway	File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands	File:Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia	File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland	File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain	File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey	File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia	File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Wales	File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia
File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel File:Flag of Cyprus (1960–2006).svg Cyprus File:Flag of Malta.svg Malta	File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania File:Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Bosnia and Herzegovina File:Flag of Luxembourg.svg Luxembourg	File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria File:Flag of Moldova (1990–2010).svg Moldova File:Flag of Belarus (1995–2012).svg Belarus	File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary File:Flag of San Marino (1862–2011).svg San Marino	File:Flag of Iceland.svg Iceland File:Flag of Lithuania (1988-2004).svg Lithuania File:Flag of the Faroe Islands.svg Faroe Islands	File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine File:Flag of Armenia.svg Armenia File:Ulster Banner.svg Northern Ireland	File:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia REDIRECT Template:Country data North Macedonia File:Flag of Liechtenstein.svg Liechtenstein	File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia File:Flag of Andorra.svg Andorra	File:Flag of Yugoslavia (1992–2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006).svg Serbia and Montenegro File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland File:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijan	File:Flag of Ireland.svg Republic of Ireland File:Flag of Albania.svg Albania File:Flag of Georgia (1990–2004).svg Georgia

Play-offs

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External links

• UEFA Euro 2004 at UEFA.com