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Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| tourney_name | Men's Olympic Football Tournament |
| year | 2000 |
| image | Olympic rings without rims.svg |
| size | 150px |
| country | Australia |
| dates | 13–30 September |
| num_teams | 16 |
| confederations | 6 |
| venues | 6 |
| cities | 5 |
| count | 1 |
| champion_other | |
| second_other | |
| third_other | |
| fourth_other | |
| matches | 32 |
| goals | 103 |
| attendance | 1034500 |
| top_scorer | CHI Iván Zamorano |
| (6 goals) | |
| prevseason | 1996 |
| nextseason | 2004 |
(6 goals)
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, the country's first Olympic gold in history.
Competition schedule
The match schedule of the tournament.
| 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 |
Qualification
The following 16 teams qualified for the 2000 Olympic men's football tournament:
| Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified | Total | 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host nation | 1 | |||
| CAF Preliminary Competition | 3 | |||
| AFC Preliminary Competition | 3 | |||
| CONCACAF Preliminary Competition | 2 | (winner) | ||
| (runner-up) | ||||
| 2000 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 | (winner) | ||
| (runner-up) | ||||
| 2000 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship | 4 | (winner) | ||
| (runner-up) | ||||
| (third-place) | ||||
| (fourth-place) | ||||
| OFC–CAF play-off | 1 |
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
Main article: Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads
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 | Brisbane | Canberra | Adelaide | {{location map+ | float=center | Australia | width=450 | caption= | places= |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Stadium | Sydney Football Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | ||||||||
| Capacity: 110,000 | Capacity: 42,500 | Capacity: 98,000 | ||||||||
| [[File:Womens-long-jump-final.jpg | 200px]] | [[File:Allianz Stadium - 13 October 2012.jpg | 200px]] | |||||||
| Brisbane Cricket Ground | Bruce Stadium | Hindmarsh Stadium | ||||||||
| Capacity: 37,000 | Capacity: 25,011 | Capacity: 20,000 | ||||||||
| [[File:The Gabba Panorama.jpg | 200px]] | [[File:BruceStadium19032005.JPG | 200px]] | [[File:HindmarshStadium.JPG | 200px]] |
Match officials
;Africa
- TUN Mourad Daami
- SEN Falla N'Doye
- ZIM Felix Tangawarima
;Asia
- CHN Lu Jun
- KUW Saad Mane
;North and Central America
- JAM Peter Prendergast
- MEX Felipe Ramos ;South America
- CHI Mario Sánchez Yantén
- BRA Carlos Simon
;Europe
- FRA Stéphane Bré
- GER Herbert Fandel
- SVK Ľuboš Micheľ
;Oceania
- AUS Simon Micallef
- NZL Bruce Grimshaw
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
Agali Yakubu León
Ambrosini
Wehrman Aghahowa Agali
Group B
José Mari Xavi
M'Boma Lauren Mubarak
Wolff Došek
Lengyel Saeed
Albright Donovan
Group D
Čišovský Alex
Nomvethe Lekoelea
Inamoto
Šlahor
Knockout stage
Note: Extra time periods were played under the golden goal rule.
|23 September – Adelaide| |2 (5)||2 (4) |23 September – Sydney||0||1 |23 September – Brisbane||1| |2 |23 September – Melbourne||4||1 |26 September – Sydney||1||3 |26 September – Melbourne||2||1 |30 September – Sydney Olympic||2 (3)| |2 (5) |29 September – Sydney||0||2
Quarter-finals
Vagenas Takahara Agoos Donovan Wolff Victorine Inamoto Morioka Nakata Myojin
M'Bami
Zamorano Navia Tello
Semi-finals
Angulo José Mari
Lauren
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Report 2 Gabri Eto'o Capdevila Amaya Albelda Eto'o Geremi Lauren Womé
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|---|
| SPA Iñaki Sáez |
|---|
| Cameroon Jean-Paul Akono |
|---|
|}
Final ranking
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
- CHI Iván Zamorano
;4 goals
- CMR Patrick Mboma
- CHI Reinaldo Navia
- HON David Suazo
;3 goals
- CMR Lauren
- JPN Naohiro Takahara
- NGR Victor Agali
- ESP Gabri
- ESP José Mari
- USA Peter Vagenas
;2 goals
- BRA Alex
- BRA Edu
- CZE Lukáš Došek
- ITA Gianni Comandini
- KUW Khalaf Al-Mutairi
- KUW Faraj Saeed
- SVK Andrej Porázik
- RSA Siyabonga Nomvethe
- ESP Xavi
- USA Chris Albright
- USA Josh Wolff
;1 goal
- AUS Hayden Foxe
- AUS Kasey Wehrman
- BRA Ronaldinho
- CMR Nicolas Alnoudji
- CMR Samuel Eto'o
- CMR Modeste M'bami
- CHI Pablo Contreras
- CHI Rafael Olarra
- CHI Rodrigo Tello
- CZE Marek Heinz
- CZE Roman Lengyel
- HON Julio César de León
- ITA Massimo Ambrosini
- ITA Andrea Pirlo
- JPN Junichi Inamoto
- JPN Hidetoshi Nakata
- JPN Atsushi Yanagisawa
- KOR Lee Dong-gook
- KOR Lee Chun-soo
- KUW Jamal Mubarak
- KUW Bader Najem
- MAR El Houssaine Ouchla
- NGR Bright Igbinadolor
- NGR Pius Ikedia
- NGR Garba Lawal
- SVK Juraj Czinege
- SVK Ján Šlahor
- RSA Quinton Fortune
- RSA Steve Lekoelea
- RSA Benni McCarthy
- ESP Miguel Ángel Angulo
- ESP Jesús María Lacruz
- ESP Raúl Tamudo
- ESP Toni Velamazán
- USA Danny Califf
- USA Landon Donovan
;1 own goal
- CMR Patrice Abanda (playing against Chile)
- HON Jaime Rosales (playing against Australia)
- ITA Gianni Comandini (playing against Honduras)
- NGR Samuel Okunowo (playing against Italy)
- SVK Marián Čišovský (playing against Brazil)
- ESP Iván Amaya (playing against Cameroon)
References
Bibliography
References
- "Football at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games". Sports Reference.
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