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.
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 | |
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, 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.Match officials
;Africa;Asia
;North and Central America
;South America
;Europe
;Oceania
- Simon Micallef
- Bruce Grimshaw
Seeding
Group stage
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Knockout stage
Note: Extra time periods were played under the golden goal rule.Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Gold medal match
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
- Iván Zamorano
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- Alex
- Edu
- Lukáš Došek
- Gianni Comandini
- Faraj Saeed
- Andrej Porázik
- Siyabonga Nomvethe
- Xavi
- Chris Albright
- Josh Wolff
- 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