Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
The men's football tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held in Sydney and four other cities in Australia from 15 to 30 September. It was the 22nd edition of the men's Olympic football tournament.
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Australia |
Dates | 15–30 September |
Teams | 16 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 6 (in 5 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | |
Runners-up | |
Third place | |
Fourth place | |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 103 (3.22 per match) |
Attendance | 1,034,500 (32,328 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | (6 goals) |
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Qualification | ||
men | women | |
Tournament | ||
men | women | |
Squads | ||
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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, with Cameroon winning the gold.[1]
Qualification
The following 16 teams qualified for the 2000 Olympic men's football tournament:
Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified |
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Host nation | 1 | |
AFC Preliminary Competition | 3 | |
CAF Preliminary Competition | 4 | |
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition | 2 | |
2000 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 | |
1999 OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament | 0 | Eliminated in playoffs to 4th
placed African country South Africa |
2000 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship | 4 | |
Total | 16 |
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.
- http://www.rsssf.com/tableso/ol2000q.html#Oceania - OFC Results
Squads
Venues
Six venues were used during the tournament, four of them outside of Sydney at cities around Australia. Stadium Australia hosted the Final.
Sydney | Melbourne | Sydney |
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Stadium Australia | Melbourne Cricket Ground | Sydney Football Stadium |
Capacity: 110,000 | Capacity: 98,000 | Capacity: 42,500 |
Brisbane | Canberra | Adelaide |
Brisbane Cricket Ground | Bruce Stadium | Hindmarsh Stadium |
Capacity: 37,000 | Capacity: 25,011 | Capacity: 20,000 |
Match officials
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Seeding
Pot 1: Africa | Pot 2: Americas | Pot 3: Europe | Pot 4: Rest of the World |
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Group stage
Group A
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 7 | |
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 5 | |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 4 | |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 0 |
Group B
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 6 | |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 6 | |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 6 | |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | −6 | 0 |
South Korea | 1–0 | |
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Lee Chun-soo |
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South Korea | 1–0 | |
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Lee Dong-gook |
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Group C
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 5 | |
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 5 | |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 3 | |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 2 |
United States | 2–2 | |
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Albright Wolff |
Report | Jankulovski Došek |
United States | 1–1 | |
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Vagenas |
Report | M'Boma |
Czech Republic | 1–1 | |
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Došek |
Report | Lauren |
Group D
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 6 | |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 6 | |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |
South Africa | 1–2 | |
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Nomvethe |
Report | Takahara |
Slovakia | 2–1 | |
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Czinege Šlahor |
Report | McCarthy |
Knockout stage
Note: Extra time periods were played under the golden goal rule.
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | ||||||||
23 September – Adelaide | ||||||||||
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26 September – Sydney | ||||||||||
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23 September – Sydney | ||||||||||
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30 September – Sydney Olympic | ||||||||||
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2 (3) | ||||||||||
23 September – Brisbane | ||||||||||
2 (5) | ||||||||||
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26 September – Melbourne | ||||||||||
2 | ||||||||||
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23 September – Melbourne | ||||||||||
2 | Bronze medal match | |||||||||
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29 September – Sydney | ||||||||||
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Quarter-finals
United States | 2–2 (a.e.t.) | |
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Wolff Vagenas |
Report | Yanagisawa Takahara |
Penalties | ||
Vagenas Agoos Donovan Wolff Victorine |
5–4 |
Bronze medal match
United States | 0–2 | |
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Report | Zamorano |
Gold medal match
Spain | 2–2 (a.e.t.) | |
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Xavi Gabri |
Report 1 Report 2 |
Amaya Eto'o |
Penalties | ||
Xavi Capdevila Amaya Albelda |
3–5 |
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Final ranking
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 12 | |
2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 13 | |
3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 6 | +8 | 12 | |
4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 11 | −2 | 6 | |
5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 7 | |
6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 7 | |
7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 5 | |
9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 6 | |
10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 4 | |
11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | |
12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 3 | |
13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 | |
14 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 2 | |
15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 0 | |
16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | −6 | 0 |
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
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Hayden Foxe Kasey Wehrman Ronaldinho Nicolas Alnoudji Samuel Eto'o Modeste M'bami Pablo Contreras Rafael Olarra Rodrigo Tello Marek Heinz Roman Lengyel Julio César de León Massimo Ambrosini Andrea Pirlo Junichi Inamoto Hidetoshi Nakata Atsushi Yanagisawa Lee Dong-gook Lee Chun-soo Bader Najem El Houssaine Ouchla Bright Igbinadolor Pius Ikedia Garba Lawal Juraj Czinege Ján Šlahor Quinton Fortune Steve Lekoelea Benni McCarthy Miguel Ángel Angulo Jesús Lacruz Raúl Tamudo Toni Velamazán Danny Califf Landon Donovan
- 1 own goal
Patrice Abanda (playing against Chile) Jaime Rosales (playing against Australia) Alessandro Nesta (playing against Honduras) Samuel Okunowo (playing against Italy) Marián Čišovský (playing against Brazil) Iván Amaya (playing against Cameroon)
References
- "Football at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
- Higham 2012, p. 99.
Bibliography
- Higham, James (2012). Sport Tourism Destinations. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7506-5937-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)