Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

2000 Men's Olympic Football Tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Australia
Dates	15–30 September
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Cameroon (1st title)
Runners-up	Spain
Third place	Chile
Fourth place	United States
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	103 (3.22 per match)
Attendance	1,034,500 (32,328 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Iván Zamorano (6 goals)
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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.

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.

Qualification

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

Means of qualification	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	1	Australia
AFC Preliminary Competition	3	Kuwait Japan South Korea
CAF Preliminary Competition	4	Cameroon Morocco Nigeria South Africa
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition	2	Honduras (winner) United States (runner-up)
2000 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	2	Brazil (winner) Chile (runner-up)
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	Italy (winner) Czech Republic (runner-up) Spain (third-place) Slovakia (fourth-place)
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

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. Stadium Australia hosted the Final.

Sydney	Melbourne	Sydney
Stadium Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground	Sydney Football Stadium
Capacity: 110,000	Capacity: 98,000	Capacity: 42,500
	File:MCG stadium.jpg
Brisbane	Canberra	Adelaide
Brisbane Cricket Ground	Bruce Stadium	Hindmarsh Stadium
Capacity: 37,000	Capacity: 25,011	Capacity: 20,000
Adelaide Brisbane Canberra Melbourne Sydney

Match officials

Africa

• Mourad Daami
• Falla N'Doye
• Felix Tangawarima

Asia

• Lu Jun
• Saad Mane

North and Central America

• Peter Prendergast
• Felipe Ramos

South America

• Mario Sánchez Yantén
• 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

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Knockout stage

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

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	23 September – Adelaide
	United States (p)	2 (5)
					26 September – Sydney
	Japan	2 (4)
					Spain	3
	23 September – Sydney
					United States	1
	Italy	0
									30 September – Sydney Olympic
	Spain	1
									Spain	2 (3)
	23 September – Brisbane
									Cameroon (p)	2 (5)
	Brazil	1
					26 September – Melbourne
	Cameroon (aet)	2
					Chile	1
	23 September – Melbourne
					Cameroon	2			Bronze medal match
	Chile	4
									29 September – Sydney
	Nigeria	1
									United States	0
									Chile	2

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Final ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Cameroon (CMR)	6	3	3	0	11	8	+3	12
2	Spain (ESP)	6	4	1	1	12	6	+6	13
3	Chile (CHI)	6	4	0	2	14	6	+8	12
4	United States (USA)	6	1	3	2	9	11	−2	6
5	Italy (ITA)	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2	7
6	Japan (JPN)	4	2	1	1	6	5	+1	7
7	Brazil (BRA)	4	2	0	2	6	6	0	6
8	Nigeria (NGR)	4	1	2	1	8	10	−2	5
9	South Korea (KOR)	3	2	0	1	2	3	−1	6
10	Honduras (HON)	3	1	1	1	6	7	−1	4
11	South Africa (RSA)	3	1	0	2	5	5	0	3
12	Kuwait (KUW)	3	1	0	2	6	8	−2	3
13	Slovakia (SVK)	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3
14	Czech Republic (CZE)	3	0	2	1	5	6	−1	2
15	Australia (AUS)	3	0	0	3	3	6	−3	0
16	Morocco (MAR)	3	0	0	3	1	7	−6	0

Source:

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

• Iván Zamorano

4 goals

• Patrick M'Boma
• Reinaldo Navia
• David Suazo

3 goals

• Lauren
• Naohiro Takahara
• Khalaf Al-Mutairi
• Victor Agali
• Gabri
• José Mari
• Peter Vagenas

2 goals

• Alex
• Edu
• Lukáš Došek
• Gianni Comandini
• Faraj Saeed
• Andrej Porázik
• Siyabonga Nomvethe
• Xavi
• Chris Albright
• Josh Wolff

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)

Bibliography

• Higham, James (2012). Sport Tourism Destinations. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7506-5937-6. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

External links

• Olympic Football Tournaments Sydney 2000 - Men, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Summary
• FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)