Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The football tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics was the 20th official Olympic football tournament. A women's tournament was held for the second time.

Medal winners

	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Cameroon	Spain	Chile
Women	Norway	USA	Germany

Venues

• Olympic Stadium, Sydney
• Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney
• Bruce Stadium, Canberra
• Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide
• Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane
• Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne

Men

Qualification

The following 16 teams qualified for the 2000 Olympic men's football tournament:

Africa (CAF) Cameroon Morocco Nigeria South Africa Asia (AFC) South Korea Kuwait Japan North and Central America (CONCACAF) Honduras United States

South America (CONMEBOL) Brazil Chile Europe (UEFA) Czech Republic Italy Slovakia Spain Hosting nation Australia

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.

Match officials

Africa Mourad Daami Falla N'Doye Felix Tangawarima Asia Jun Lu Saad Mane North and Central America Peter Prendergast Felipe Ramos

South America Mario Sanchez Yanten Carlos Simon Europe Stéphane Bré Herbert Fandel Ľuboš Micheľ Oceania Simon Micallef Bruce Grimshaw

Seeding

Pot 1: Africa	Pot 2: Americas	Pot 3: Europe	Pot 4: Rest of the World
Cameroon Morocco Nigeria South Africa	Brazil Chile Honduras United States	Czech Republic Italy Slovakia Spain	Australia (hosts) Japan South Korea Kuwait

Squads

Main article: Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Men's team squads

First round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
Nigeria	3	1	2	0	7	6	+1	5
Honduras	3	1	1	1	6	7	−1	4
Australia	3	0	0	3	3	6	−3	0

13 September 2000 20:00	Australia	0 – 1	Italy	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Attendance: 93,252 Referee: Peter Prendergast (Jamaica)
		Report	Pirlo  81'

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13 September 2000 18:30	Nigeria	3 – 3	Honduras	Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide Attendance: 13,386 Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)
	Ignabidolor  50' Agali  78' Aiyegbeni  90+1'	Report	Suazo  35', 76' León  60'

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16 September 2000 20:00	Australia	2 – 3	Nigeria	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney Attendance: 38,080 Referee: Carlos Simon (Brazil)
	Foxe  41' Wehrman  44'	Report	Ikedia  16' Aghahowa  22' Agali  64'

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16 September 2000 18:30	Italy	3 – 1	Honduras	Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide Attendance: 18,301 Referee: Lu Jun (China)
	Comandini  12', 22' Ambrosini  18'	Report	Nesta  29' (o.g.)

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19 September 2000 20:00	Australia	1 – 2	Honduras	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney Attendance: 37,788 Referee: Mourad Daami (Tunisia)
	Rosales  51' (o.g.)	Report	Suazo  3', 60'

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19 September 2000 18:30	Italy	1 – 1	Nigeria	Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide Attendance: 18,340 Referee: Felipe Ramos (Mexico)
	Okunowo  65' (o.g.)	Report	Lawal  40'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Chile	3	2	0	1	7	3	+4	6
Spain	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
South Korea	3	2	0	1	2	3	−1	6
Morocco	3	0	0	3	1	7	−6	0

14 September 2000 18:30	South Korea	0 – 3	Spain	Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide Attendance: 14,060 Referee: Felipe Ramos (Mexico)
		Report	Velamazán  10' José Mari  26' Xavi  37'

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14 September 2000 20:00	Morocco	1 – 4	Chile	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Attendance: 22,654 Referee: Saad Mane (Kuwait)
	Ouchla  79'	Report	Zamorano  36', 55' (pen.), 61' (pen.) Navia  71' (pen.)

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17 September 2000 18:30	South Korea	1 – 0	Morocco	Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide Attendance: 12,753 Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)
	Lee Chun-Soo  53'	Report

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17 September 2000 20:00	Spain	1 – 3	Chile	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Attendance: 58,061 Referee: Felix Tangawarima (Zimbabwe)
	Lacruz  54'	Report	Olarra  24' Navia  41', 90'

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20 September 2000 18:30	South Korea	1 – 0	Chile	Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide Attendance: 16,309 Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)
	Lee Dong-Gook  28'	Report

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20 September 2000 20:00	Spain	2 – 0	Morocco	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Attendance: 24,623 Referee: Lu Jun (China)
	José Mari  33' Gabri  90'	Report

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	3	1	2	0	6	4	+2	5
Cameroon	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1	5
Kuwait	3	1	0	2	6	8	−2	3
Czech Republic	3	0	2	1	5	6	−1	2

13 September 2000 20:00	United States	2 – 2	Czech Republic	Bruce Stadium, Canberra Attendance: 24,800 Referee: Carlos Simon (Brazil)
	Albright  21' Wolff  44'	Report	Jankulovski  28' Došek  52' (pen.)

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13 September 2000 19:00	Cameroon	3 – 2	Kuwait	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane Attendance: 26,730 Referee: Bruce Grimshaw (New Zealand)
	Alnoudji  37' Mboma  76' Lauren  86'	Report	Mutairi  63' Mubarak  88'

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16 September 2000 20:00	United States	1 – 1	Cameroon	Bruce Stadium, Canberra Attendance: 22,379 Referee: Mario Sanchez Yanten (Chile)
	Vagenas  64'	Report	Mboma  16'

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16 September 2000 19:00	Czech Republic	2 – 3	Kuwait	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane Attendance: 22,182 Referee: Mourad Daami (Tunisia)
	Heinz  2' Lengyel  91'	Report	Mutairi  56' Saeed  64', 73'

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19 September 2000 20:00	United States	3 – 1	Kuwait	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Attendance: 19,684 Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)
	Califf  40' Albright  63' Donovan  88'	Report	Najem  83'

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19 September 2000 20:00	Czech Republic	1 – 1	Cameroon	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane Attendance: 23,442 Referee: Simon Micallef (Australia)
	Došek  53'	Report	Lauren  24'

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6
Japan	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1	6
South Africa	3	1	0	2	5	5	0	3
Slovakia	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3

14 September 2000 19:00	Brazil	3 – 1	Slovakia	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane Attendance: 24,616 Referee: Simon Micallef (Australia)
	Edu  30' Cisovský  68' (o.g.) Alex  81'	Report	Porazik  26'

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14 September 2000 20:00	South Africa	1 – 2	Japan	Bruce Stadium, Canberra Attendance: 17,500 Referee: Stéphane Bré (France)
	Nomvethe  31'	Report	Takahara  46'  79'

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17 September 2000 19:00	Brazil	1 – 3	South Africa	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane Attendance: 36,328 Referee: Bruce Grimshaw (New Zealand)
	Edu  11'	Report	Fortune  10' Nomvethe  74' Lekoelea  90'

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17 September 2000 20:00	Slovakia	1 – 2	Japan	Bruce Stadium, Canberra Attendance: 15,289 Referee: Falla N'Doye (Senegal)
	Porazik  83'	Report	Nakata  67' Inamoto  74'

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20 September 2000 19:00	Brazil	1 – 0	Japan	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane Attendance: 36,608 Referee: Stéphane Bré (France)
	Alex  5'	Report

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20 September 2000 20:00	Slovakia	2 – 1	South Africa	Bruce Stadium, Canberra Attendance: 14,562 Referee: Mario Sanchez Yanten (Chile)
	Czinege  64' Slahor  72'	Report	McCarthy  75'

Knockout stage

Note: Extra time periods were played under the golden goal rule.

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	23 September - Canberra
	United States (p)	2 (5)
					26 September - Sydney
	Japan	2 (4)
					United States	1
	23 September - Sydney
					Spain	3
	Italy	0
									30 September - Sydney
	Spain	1
									Spain	2 (3)
	23 September - Brisbane
									Cameroon (p)	2 (5)
	Brazil	1
					26 September - Melbourne
	Cameroon (aet)	2
					Cameroon	2			Third place
	23 September - Melbourne
					Chile	1
	Chile	4							United States	0
	Nigeria	1							Chile	2
									29 September - Sydney

Quarter-finals

23 September 2000 18:30	United States	2 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Japan	Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide Attendance: 18,345 Referee: Felix Tangawarima (Zimbabwe)
	Wolff  68' Vagenas  90' (pen.)	Report	Yanagisawa  30' Takahara  72'
		Penalties
	Vagenas Agoos Donovan Wolff Victorine	5 – 4	Nakamura Inamoto Morioka Nakata Myojin

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23 September 2000 19:00	Brazil	1 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Cameroon	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane Attendance: 37,332 Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)
	Ronaldinho  90+4'	Report	Mboma  17' M'bami  113'  (GG)

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23 September 2000 20:00	Italy	0 – 1	Spain	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney Attendance: 38,134 Referee: Carlos Simon (Brazil)
		Report	Gabri  86'

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23 September 2000 20:00	Chile	4 – 1	Nigeria	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Attendance: 44,425 Referee: Saad Mane (Kuwait)
	Contreras  17' Zamorano  18' Navia  42' Tello  65'	Report	Agali  76'

Semi-finals

26 September 2000 20:00	Spain	3 – 1	United States	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney Attendance: 39,800 Referee: Mourad Daami (Tunisia)
	Tamudo  16' Angulo  25' José Mari  87'	Report	Vagenas  42' (pen.)

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26 September 2000 21:00	Chile	1 – 2	Cameroon	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Attendance: 64,338 Referee: Stéphane Bré (France)
	Abanda  78' (o.g.)	Report	Mboma  84' Lauren  89' (pen.)

Bronze medal match

29 September 2000 20:00	Chile	2 – 0	United States	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney Attendance: 26,381 Referee: Simon Micallef (Australia)
	Zamorano  69' (pen.), 84'	Report

Gold medal match

30 September 2000 12:00	Cameroon	2 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Spain	Olympic Stadium, Sydney Attendance: 104,098 Referee: Felipe Ramos (Mexico)
	Amaya  53' (o.g.) Eto'o  58'	Report	Xavi  2' Gabri  45'
		Penalties
	Mboma Eto'o Njitap Lauren Wome	5 – 3	Xavi Capdevila Amaya Albelda

Medal winners

Gold Medal – Cameroon Samuel Eto'o Serge Mimpo Clément Beaud Aaron Nguimbat Joël Epalle Modeste M'bami Patrice Abanda Nicolas Alnoudji Daniel Bekono Serge Branco Lauren Carlos Kameni Patrick Mboma Albert Meyong Daniel Ngom Kome Geremi Patrick Suffo Pierre Womé Coach: Jean-Paul Akono

Silver Medal – Spain David Albelda Iván Amaya Miguel Ángel Angulo Daniel Aranzubia Joan Capdevila Jordi Ferrón Gabriel García Xavier Hernández Jesús María Lacruz Albert Luque Carlos Marchena Felip Ortiz Carles Puyol José María Romero Ismael Ruiz Raúl Tamudo Antonio Velamazán Unai Vergara Coach: Iñaki Sáez

Bronze Medal Chile Pedro Reyes Nelson Tapia Héctor Tapia Iván Zamorano Javier di Gregorio Cristián Álvarez Francisco Arrué Pablo Contreras Sebastián González David Henríquez Manuel Ibarra Claudio Maldonado Reinaldo Navia Rodrigo Núñez Rafael Olarra Patricio Ormazábal David Pizarro Rodrigo Tello Mauricio Rojas Coach: Nelson Acosta

Top scorer

6 goals

• Ivan Zamorano

Women

Qualification

The following eight teams qualified for the 2000 Olympic women's football tournament:

Africa (CAF) Nigeria Asia (AFC) China PR North and Central America (CONCACAF) United States

South America (CONMEBOL) Brazil Europe (UEFA) Germany Norway Sweden Hosting nation Australia

Seeding

Pot 1	Pot 2
Australia (hosts) United States China PR Brazil	Germany Nigeria Norway Sweden

Match officials

Africa Bola Abidoye Asia Im Eun Ju North and Central America Sonia Denoncourt Sandra Hunt

South America Martha Toro Europe Vibeke Karlsen Nicole Petignat Wendy Toms Oceania Tammy Ogsten

First round

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Germany	3	3	0	0	6	1	+5	9
Brazil	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6
Sweden	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1
Australia	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1

13 September 2000 17:00	Australia	0 – 3	Germany	Bruce Stadium, Canberra Attendance: 24,800 Referee: Bola Abidoye (Nigeria)
		Report	Grings 39' Wiegmann 70' Lingor 90+'

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13 September 2000 17:30	Sweden	0 – 2	Brazil	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Attendance: 58,432 Referee: Sandra Hunt (United States)
		Report	Pretinha 21' Kátia 70'

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16 September 2000 17:00	Australia	1 – 1	Sweden	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney Attendance: 33,600 Referee: Sonia Denoncourt (Canada)
	Salisbury 57'	Report	Andersson 66' (pen.)

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16 September 2000 17:30	Germany	2 – 1	Brazil	Bruce Stadium, Canberra Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Martha Toro (Colombia)
	Prinz 33', 41'	Report	Raquel 72'

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19 September 2000 17:30	Australia	1 – 2	Brazil	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney Attendance: 29,400 Referee: Vibeke Karlsen (Norway)
	Hughes 33'	Report	Raquel 56' Kátia 64'

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19 September 2000 17:30	Germany	1 – 0	Sweden	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Wendy Toms (England)
	Hingst 88'	Report

Group F

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	7
Norway	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6
China PR	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
Nigeria	3	0	0	3	3	9	−6	0

14 September 2000 17:30	United States	2 – 0	Norway	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Attendance: 16,043 Referee: Im Eun Ju (South Korea)
	Milbrett 18' Hamm 24'	Report

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14 September 2000 17:30	China PR	3 – 1	Nigeria	Bruce Stadium, Canberra Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Martha Toro (Colombia)
	Zhao 12' Sun 57', 83'	Report	Nkwocha 85' (pen.)

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17 September 2000 17:30	United States	1 – 1	China PR	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Attendance: 32,500 Referee: Nicole Petignat (Switzerland)
	Foudy 38'	Report	Sun 67'

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17 September 2000 17:30	Norway	3 – 1	Nigeria	Bruce Stadium, Canberra Attendance: 9,150 Referee: Tammy Ogston (Australia)
	Mellgren 22' Riise 62' (pen.) Pettersen 90'+	Report	Akide 78'

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20 September 2000 17:30	United States	3 – 1	Nigeria	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Im Eun Ju (South Korea)
	Chastain 26' Lilly 35' MacMillan 56'	Report	Akide 48'

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20 September 2000 17:30	Norway	2 – 1	China PR	Bruce Stadium, Canberra Attendance: 11,532 Referee: Sonia Denoncourt (Canada)
	Pettersen 55' Haugenes 78'	Report	Sun 75' (pen.)

Knockout stages

	Semi-finals				Final
	24 September - Sydney
	Norway	1
	Germany	0
					September 28 - Sydney
					Norway	3
					United States	2
					Third place
	24September - Canberra			September 28 - Sydney
	United States	1		Germany	2
	Brazil	0			Brazil	0

Semi-finals

24 September 2000 17:30	Germany	0 – 1	Norway	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney Attendance: 16,710 Referee: Im Eun Ju (South Korea)
		Report	Wunderlich 80' (o.g.)

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24 September 2000 17:30	United States	1 – 0	Brazil	Bruce Stadium, Canberra Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Nicole Petignat (Switzerland)
	Hamm 60'	Report

Bronze medal match

28 September 2000 17:00	Germany	2 – 0	Brazil	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney Attendance: 11,200 Referee: Im Eun Ju (South Korea)
	Lingor 64' Prinz 79'	Report

Gold medal match

28 September 2000 17:00	Norway	3 – 2 (a.e.t.)	United States	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney Attendance: 22,848 Referee: Sonia Denoncourt (Canada)
	Espeseth 44' Gulbrandsen 78' Mellgren 102'	Report	Milbrett 5', 90+'

Medal winners

Gold Medal – Norway Gro Espeseth Bente Nordby Marianne Pettersen Hege Riise Kristin Bekkevold Ragnhild Gulbrandsen Solveig Gulbrandsen Margunn Haugenes Ingeborg Hovland Christine Bøe Jensen Silje Jørgensen Monica Knudsen Gøril Kringen Anne Tønnessen Unni Lehn Dagny Mellgren Anita Rapp Brit Sandaune Bente Kvitland Coach: Per Mathias Høgmo

Silver Medal – United States Brandi Chastain Joy Fawcett Julie Foudy Mia Hamm Michelle French Kristine Lilly Tiffeny Milbrett Carla Overbeck Cindy Parlow Briana Scurry Lorrie Fair Shannon MacMillan Siri Mullinix Christie Pearce Nikki Serlenga Danielle Slaton Kate Sobrero Sara Whalen Coach: April Heinrichs

Bronze Medal – Germany Ariane Hingst Melanie Hoffmann Steffi Jones Renate Lingor Maren Meinert Sandra Minnert Claudia Müller Birgit Prinz Silke Rottenberg Kerstin Stegemann Bettina Wiegmann Tina Wunderlich Nicole Brandebusemeyer Nadine Angerer Doris Fitschen Jeannette Götte Stefanie Gottschlich Inka Grings Coach: Tina Theune-Meyer

FIFA Fair play award

• Germany

Top scorers

4 goals

• Sun Wen (3 apps)

3 goals

• Tiffeny Milbrett (5 apps)
• Birgit Prinz (5 apps)

2 goals

• Mercy Akide (3 apps)
• Mia Hamm (5 apps)
• Kátia (5 apps)
• Renate Lingor (5 apps)
• Dagny Mellgren (5 apps)
• Marianne Pettersen (5 apps)
• Raquel (5 apps)

References

• Official Olympic Report