Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Short description Template:FootballAt2000SummerOlympics
The men's football tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held in Sydney and four other cities in Australia from 13 to 30 September. It was the 22nd edition of the men's Olympic football tournament.
The final, played at the Olympic Stadium in Sydney, Australia, attracted the Olympic Games Football attendance record of 104,098 which broke the previous record of 101,799 set at the Rose Bowl for the gold medal match of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Cameroon won the gold medal with a victory over Spain,[1] the country's first Olympic gold in history.
Competition schedule
The match schedule of the tournament. Template:Olympic schedule legend
| 13 Wed | 14 Thu | 15 Fri | 16 Sat | 17 Sun | 18 Mon | 19 Tue | 20 Wed | 21 Thu | 22 Fri | 23 Sat | 24 Sun | 25 Mon | 26 Tue | 27 Wed | 28 Thu | 29 Fri | 30 Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | G | G | G | G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F |
Qualification
The following 16 teams qualified for the 2000 Olympic men's football tournament:
| Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified |
|---|---|---|
| Host nation | 1 | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia |
| CAF Preliminary Competition | 3 | File:Flag of Cameroon.svg Cameroon File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria |
| AFC Preliminary Competition | 3 | File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan File:Flag of South Korea (1997–2011).svg South Korea |
| CONCACAF Preliminary Competition | 2 | File:Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg Honduras (winner) File:Flag of the United States.svg United States (runner-up) |
| 2000 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 | File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil (winner) File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile (runner-up) |
| 2000 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship | 4 | File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy (winner) File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic (runner-up) File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain (third-place) File:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia (fourth-place) |
| OFC–CAF play-off | 1 | File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa |
| Total | 16 |
.svg){kind=link}
.svg){kind=link}
.svg){kind=link}
Four countries competed for the first time in 2000: the Czech Republic and Slovakia (previously champions together as Czechoslovakia at the 1980 Summer Olympics), South Africa and Honduras.
Squads
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".
Venues
Six venues were used during the tournament, four of them outside of Sydney at cities around Australia. Olympic stadium hosted the Final.
| Sydney | Melbourne | |
|---|---|---|
| Olympic Stadium | Sydney Football Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground |
| Capacity: 110,000 | Capacity: 42,500 | Capacity: 98,000 |
| File:Womens-long-jump-final.jpg | File:Allianz Stadium - 13 October 2012.jpg | |
| Brisbane | Canberra | Adelaide |
| Brisbane Cricket Ground | Bruce Stadium | Hindmarsh Stadium |
| Capacity: 37,000 | Capacity: 25,011 | Capacity: 20,000 |
| File:The Gabba Panorama.jpg | File:BruceStadium19032005.JPG | File:HindmarshStadium.JPG |
| Script error: No such module "Location map/multi". | ||
Match officials
- Africa
- Asia
- North and Central America
- South America
- Europe
- Oceania
Seeding
The draw for the tournament took place on 3 June 2000. Australia, South Korea, the United States and Brazil were seeded for the draw and placed into groups A–D, respectively. The remaining teams were drawn from four pots with teams from the same region kept apart.
| Pot 1: Host, Top-Seeded teams from Americas and Asia | Pot 2: Europe | Pot 3: Africa | Pot 4: Non-top seeded teams from Americas and Asia |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Group stage
Group A
Script error: No such module "sports table".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Group B
Script error: No such module "sports table".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Group C
Script error: No such module "sports table".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Group D
Script error: No such module "sports table".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Knockout stage
Note: Extra time periods were played under the golden goal rule.
Script error: No such module "RoundN".
Quarter-finals
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Semi-finals
Script error: No such module "football box".
Script error: No such module "football box".
Bronze medal match
Script error: No such module "football box".
Gold medal match
Script error: No such module "football box".
Final ranking
Script error: No such module "sports table".
Statistics
Goalscorers
With six goals, Iván Zamorano of Chile is the top goalscorer in the tournament. In total, 103 goals were scored by 62 different players, with six of them credited as own goals.
- 6 goals
- 4 goals
<templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/>
- 3 goals
<templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/>
- 2 goals
<templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/>
- Template:Flagicon Alex
- Template:Flagicon Edu
- Template:Flagicon Lukáš Došek
- Template:Flagicon Gianni Comandini
- Template:Flagicon Khalaf Al-Mutairi
- Template:Flagicon Faraj Saeed
- Template:Flagicon Andrej Porázik
- Template:Flagicon Siyabonga Nomvethe
- Template:Flagicon Xavi
- Template:Flagicon Chris Albright
- Template:Flagicon Josh Wolff
- 1 goal
<templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/>
- Template:Flagicon Hayden Foxe
- Template:Flagicon Kasey Wehrman
- Template:Flagicon Ronaldinho
- Template:Flagicon Nicolas Alnoudji
- Template:Flagicon Samuel Eto'o
- Template:Flagicon Modeste M'bami
- Template:Flagicon Pablo Contreras
- Template:Flagicon Rafael Olarra
- Template:Flagicon Rodrigo Tello
- Template:Flagicon Marek Heinz
- Template:Flagicon Roman Lengyel
- Template:Flagicon Julio César de León
- Template:Flagicon Massimo Ambrosini
- Template:Flagicon Andrea Pirlo
- Template:Flagicon Junichi Inamoto
- Template:Flagicon Hidetoshi Nakata
- Template:Flagicon Atsushi Yanagisawa
- Template:Flagicon Lee Dong-gook
- Template:Flagicon Lee Chun-soo
- Template:Flagicon Jamal Mubarak
- Template:Flagicon Bader Najem
- Template:Flagicon El Houssaine Ouchla
- Template:Flagicon Bright Igbinadolor
- Template:Flagicon Pius Ikedia
- Template:Flagicon Garba Lawal
- Template:Flagicon Juraj Czinege
- Template:Flagicon Ján Šlahor
- Template:Flagicon Quinton Fortune
- Template:Flagicon Steve Lekoelea
- Template:Flagicon Benni McCarthy
- Template:Flagicon Miguel Ángel Angulo
- Template:Flagicon Jesús María Lacruz
- Template:Flagicon Raúl Tamudo
- Template:Flagicon Toni Velamazán
- Template:Flagicon Danny Califf
- Template:Flagicon Landon Donovan
- 1 own goal
<templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/>
- Template:Flagicon Patrice Abanda (playing against Chile)
- Template:Flagicon Jaime Rosales (playing against Australia)
- Template:Flagicon Gianni Comandini (playing against Honduras)
- Template:Flagicon Samuel Okunowo (playing against Italy)
- Template:Flagicon Marián Čišovský (playing against Brazil)
- Template:Flagicon Iván Amaya (playing against Cameroon)
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Bibliography
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
External links
- Olympic Football Tournaments Sydney 2000 - Men, FIFA.com
- RSSSF Summary
- FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)
Template:Summer Olympics football tournament winners Script error: No such module "Navbox".
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with broken file links
- Pages using football kit with incorrect pattern parameters
- Association football templates needing maintenance
- Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Men's football at the Summer Olympics
- Men's events at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- 2000 in men's international association football
- 2000 in youth association football
- Men's international association football competitions hosted by Australia
- Youth international association football competitions hosted by Australia