UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying

UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying

Tournament details
Dates	4 June 1998 – 17 November 1999
Teams	49
Tournament statistics
Matches played	228
Goals scored	652 (2.86 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Raúl (11 goals)
← 1996 2004 →

Qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2000 final tournament, took place throughout 1998 and 1999. Forty-nine teams were divided into nine groups. All teams played against each other, within their groups, on a home-and-away basis. The winner of each group and the best runner-up qualified automatically for the final tournament. The rest of the runners-up played an additional set of playoff matches amongst each other.

Belgium and the Netherlands qualified automatically as co-hosts of the event.

Qualified teams[]

  Qualified

  Did not qualify

  Did not enter

  Not a UEFA member

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament[A]
Belgium	Co-host	14 July 1995	3 (1972, 1980, 1984)
Netherlands			5 (1976, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996)
Czech Republic[B]	Group 9 winner	9 June 1999	4 (1960, 1976, 1980, 1996)
Norway	Group 2 winner	8 September 1999	0 (debut)
Sweden	Group 5 winner		1 (1992)
Spain	Group 6 winner		5 (1964, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996)
Italy	Group 1 winner	9 October 1999	4 (1968, 1980, 1988, 1996)
Germany[C]	Group 3 winner		7 (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996)
France	Group 4 winner		4 (1960, 1984, 1992, 1996)
Romania	Group 7 winner		2 (1984, 1996)
FR Yugoslavia[D]	Group 8 winner		4 (1960, 1968, 1976, 1984)[E]
Portugal	Best runner-up		2 (1984, 1996)
Denmark	Play-off winner	17 November 1999	5 (1964, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996)
England			5 (1968, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996)
Slovenia			0 (debut)
Turkey			1 (1996)

Qualification seeding[]

The draw occurred on 18 January 1998, in Ghent, Belgium. Germany were seeded first as holders while the other seedings were determined on a team's points per game in the qualifiers for UEFA Euro 1996 and the 1998 FIFA World Cup.^[1][2]

Since France automatically qualified as hosts for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, the coefficient factored only their UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying record. Similarly, the coefficient considered only the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification record for England, FR Yugoslavia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. England automatically qualified as hosts of UEFA Euro 1996 while FR Yugoslavia were suspended due to UN sanctions. Bosnia and Herzegovina made their European qualification debut. Andorra made their qualification debut after being admitted to UEFA in November 1996.

Teams in bold eventually qualified for the final tournament, teams in bold italic qualified for the final tournament through the play-offs, and teams in italic participated in the play-offs but did not qualify for the final tournament.

Pot 1 Team Coeff Rank  Germany (title holders) 2.35 5  Spain 2.60 1  Romania 2.45 2  Russia 2.39 3  England 2.37 4  Scotland 2.30 6  FR Yugoslavia 2.30 7  Italy 2.28 8  Norway 2.22 9	Pot 2 Team Coeff Rank  Bulgaria 2.22 10  Croatia 2.11 11  Denmark 2.11 12  Portugal 2.10 13  Austria 2.05 14  France 2.00 15  Czech Republic 1.85 16  Turkey 1.81 17  Greece 1.78 18	Pot 3 Team Coeff Rank  Republic of Ireland 1.75 19   Switzerland 1.69 20  Sweden 1.67 21  Lithuania 1.65 22  Ukraine 1.65 23  Slovakia 1.50 24  Finland 1.44 25  Israel 1.34 26  Georgia 1.34 27
Pot 4 Team Coeff Rank  Poland 1.28 28  Hungary 1.25 29  Northern Ireland 1.20 30  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.12 31  Latvia 1.10 32  Macedonia 1.00 33  Cyprus 0.94 34  Wales 0.38 35  Iceland 0.78 36	Pot 5 Team Coeff Rank  Belarus 0.75 37  Slovenia 0.67 38  Armenia 0.65 39  Albania 0.60 40  Faroe Islands 0.60 41  Luxembourg 0.55 42  Moldova 0.50 43  Azerbaijan 0.22 44  Estonia 0.20 45  Malta 0.20 46  Liechtenstein 0.05 47  San Marino 0.00 48  Andorra NR 49

Summary[]

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6	Group 7	Group 8	Group 9
Italy	Norway	Germany	France	Sweden	Spain	Romania	FR Yugoslavia	Czech Republic
Denmark	Slovenia	Turkey	Ukraine	England	Israel	Portugal	Republic of Ireland	Scotland
Switzerland Wales Belarus	Greece Latvia Albania Georgia	Finland Northern Ireland Moldova	Russia Iceland Armenia Andorra	Poland Bulgaria Luxembourg	Austria Cyprus San Marino	Slovakia Hungary Azerbaijan Liechtenstein	Croatia Macedonia Malta	Bosnia and Herzegovina Lithuania Estonia Faroe Islands

Tiebreakers[]

If two or more teams finished level on points after completion of the group matches, the following tie-breakers were used to determine the final ranking:^[3]

1. Higher number of points obtained in the matches played among the teams in question;
2. Superior goal difference in matches played among the teams in question;
3. Higher number of goals scored away from home in the matches played among the teams in question;
4. Superior goal difference in all group matches;
5. Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
6. Higher number of away goals scored in all group matches;
7. Fair play conduct in all group matches (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card, 4 points for a yellow card followed by a direct red card).

Groups[]

Group 1[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	8	4	3	1	13	5	+8	15	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–3	2–0	4–0	1–1
2	Denmark	8	4	2	2	11	8	+3	14[a]	Advance to play-offs		1–2	—	2–1	1–2	1–0
3	Switzerland	8	4	2	2	9	5	+4	14[a]			0–0	1–1	—	2–0	2–0
4	Wales	8	3	0	5	7	16	−9	9			0–2	0–2	0–2	—	3–2
5	Belarus	8	0	3	5	4	10	−6	3			0–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	—

Group 2[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Norway	10	8	1	1	21	9	+12	25	Qualify for final tournament		—	4–0	1–0	1–3	2–2	1–0
2	Slovenia	10	5	2	3	12	14	−2	17	Advance to play-offs		1–2	—	0–3	1–0	2–0	2–1
3	Greece	10	4	3	3	13	8	+5	15			0–2	2–2	—	1–2	2–0	3–0
4	Latvia	10	3	4	3	13	12	+1	13			1–2	1–2	0–0	—	0–0	1–0
5	Albania	10	1	4	5	8	14	−6	7			1–2	0–1	0–0	3–3	—	2–1
6	Georgia	10	1	2	7	8	18	−10	5			1–4	1–1	1–2	2–2	1–0	—

Group 3[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	8	6	1	1	20	4	+16	19	Qualify for final tournament		—	0–0	2–0	4–0	6–1
2	Turkey	8	5	2	1	15	6	+9	17	Advance to play-offs		1–0	—	1–3	3–0	2–0
3	Finland	8	3	1	4	13	13	0	10			1–2	2–4	—	4–1	3–2
4	Northern Ireland	8	1	2	5	4	19	−15	5			0–3	0–3	1–0	—	2–2
5	Moldova	8	0	4	4	7	17	−10	4			1–3	1–1	0–0	0–0	—

Group 4[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	10	6	3	1	17	10	+7	21	Qualify for final tournament		—	0–0	2–3	3–2	2–0	2–0
2	Ukraine	10	5	5	0	14	4	+10	20	Advance to play-offs		0–0	—	3–2	1–1	2–0	4–0
3	Russia	10	6	1	3	22	12	+10	19			2–3	1–1	—	1–0	2–0	6–1
4	Iceland	10	4	3	3	12	7	+5	15			1–1	0–1	1–0	—	2–0	3–0
5	Armenia	10	2	2	6	8	15	−7	8			2–3	0–0	0–3	0–0	—	3–1
6	Andorra	10	0	0	10	3	28	−25	0			0–1	0–2	1–2	0–2	0–3	—

Group 5[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	8	7	1	0	10	1	+9	22	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–0
2	England	8	3	4	1	14	4	+10	13[a]	Advance to play-offs		0–0	—	3–1	0–0	6–0
3	Poland	8	4	1	3	12	8	+4	13[a]			0–1	0–0	—	2–0	3–0
4	Bulgaria	8	2	2	4	6	8	−2	8			0–1	1–1	0–3	—	3–0
5	Luxembourg	8	0	0	8	2	23	−21	0			0–1	0–3	2–3	0–2	—

Group 6[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	8	7	0	1	42	5	+37	21	Qualify for final tournament		—	3–0	9–0	8–0	9–0
2	Israel	8	4	1	3	25	9	+16	13[a]	Advance to play-offs		1–2	—	5–0	3–0	8–0
3	Austria	8	4	1	3	19	20	−1	13[a]			1–3	1–1	—	3–1	7–0
4	Cyprus	8	4	0	4	12	21	−9	12			3–2	3–2	0–3	—	4–0
5	San Marino	8	0	0	8	1	44	−43	0			0–6	0–5	1–4	0–1	—

Group 7[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Romania	10	7	3	0	25	3	+22	24	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–1	0–0	2–0	4–0	7–0
2	Portugal	10	7	2	1	32	4	+28	23			0–1	—	1–0	3–0	7–0	8–0
3	Slovakia	10	5	2	3	12	9	+3	17			1–5	0–3	—	0–0	3–0	2–0
4	Hungary	10	3	3	4	14	10	+4	12			1–1	1–3	0–1	—	3–0	5–0
5	Azerbaijan	10	1	1	8	6	26	−20	4[a]			0–1	1–1	0–1	0–4	—	4–0
6	Liechtenstein	10	1	1	8	2	39	−37	4[a]			0–3	0–5	0–4	0–0	2–1	—

Group 8[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FR Yugoslavia	8	5	2	1	18	8	+10	17	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–0	0–0	3–1	4–1
2	Republic of Ireland	8	5	1	2	14	6	+8	16	Advance to play-offs		2–1	—	2–0	1–0	5–0
3	Croatia	8	4	3	1	13	9	+4	15			2–2	1–0	—	3–2	2–1
4	Macedonia	8	2	2	4	13	14	−1	8			2–4	1–1	1–1	—	4–0
5	Malta	8	0	0	8	6	27	−21	0			0–3	2–3	1–4	1–2	—

Group 9[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czech Republic	10	10	0	0	26	5	+21	30	Qualify for final tournament		—	3–2	3–0	2–0	4–1	2–0
2	Scotland	10	5	3	2	15	10	+5	18	Advance to play-offs		1–2	—	1–0	3–0	3–2	2–1
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10	3	2	5	14	17	−3	11[a]			1–3	1–2	—	2–0	1–1	1–0
4	Lithuania	10	3	2	5	8	16	−8	11[a]			0–4	0–0	4–2	—	1–2	0–0
5	Estonia	10	3	2	5	15	17	−2	11[a]			0–2	0–0	1–4	1–2	—	5–0
6	Faroe Islands	10	0	3	7	4	17	−13	3			0–1	1–1	2–2	0–1	0–2	—

Ranking of second-placed teams[]

The best runner-up of the entire group phase qualified automatically for the final tournament. To determine the best runner-up, a comparison was made between all of them. Only matches played against teams that finished first, third and fourth were regarded. Matches played against fifth and sixth placed teams were discarded, because some groups had more teams than others. After the best runner-up was found, all the others (eight of them) entered a random playoff to determine four more teams to qualify.

Portugal qualified automatically as best runner-up, beating Turkey on goal difference.

Pos	Grp	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	7	Portugal	6	4	1	1	11	3	+8	13	Qualify for final tournament
2	3	Turkey	6	4	1	1	12	5	+7	13	Advance to play-offs
3	9	Scotland	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10
4	1	Denmark	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	10
5	4	Ukraine	6	2	4	0	6	4	+2	10
6	8	Republic of Ireland	6	3	1	2	6	4	+2	10
7	6	Israel	6	2	1	3	12	9	+3	7
8	5	England	6	1	4	1	5	4	+1	7
9	2	Slovenia	6	2	1	3	6	12	−6	7

Play-offs[]

The remaining eight runners-up entered a random playoff, disputed in two legs, home and away.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Scotland	1–2	England	0–2	1–0
Israel	0–8	Denmark	0–5	0–3
Slovenia	3–2	Ukraine	2–1	1–1
Republic of Ireland	1–1 (a)	Turkey	1–1	0–0

Goalscorers[]

There were 652 goals scored in 228 matches, for an average of 2.86 goals per match.

11 goals

9 goals

8 goals

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

References[]

External links[]

• UEFA Euro 2000 at UEFA.com