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 Fri16 Sat17 Sun18 Mon19 Tue20 Wed21 Thu22 Fri23 Sat24 Sun25 Mon26 Tue27 Wed28 Thu29 Fri30 SatG G G G G G ¼ ½ BF
Qualification The following 16 teams qualified for the 2000 Olympic men's football tournament: Means of qualification Berths Qualified 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 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.
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 Olympic Stadium Sydney Football Stadium Melbourne Cricket Ground Capacity: 110,000 Capacity: 42,500 Capacity: 98,000 Brisbane Canberra Adelaide Brisbane Cricket Ground Bruce Stadium Hindmarsh Stadium Capacity: 37,000 Capacity: 25,011 Capacity: 20,000
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 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 AsiaPot 2: EuropePot 3: AfricaPot 4: Non-top seeded teams from Americas and Asia (assigned to A1) (assigned to B1) (assigned to C1) (assigned to D1)
Group stage Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage Note: Extra time periods were played under the golden goal rule.
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Team details GK 1 Daniel Aranzubia CB 12 Carles PuyolCB 14 Iván AmayaCB 4 Carlos MarchenaRM 16 Toni Velamazán CM 6 David Albelda CM 8 XaviLM 2 Jesús María LacruzAM 7 Miguel Ángel Angulo CF 17 Raúl Tamudo CF 9 José Mari Substitutes: MF 10 Gabri DF 11 Jordi Ferrón DF 3 Joan Capdevila Manager:Iñaki Sáez GK 18 Carlos KameniSW 13 Aaron Nguimbat CB 5 Patrice Abanda CB 4 Serge MimpoRWB 12 LaurenLWB 17 Serge Branco DM 7 Nicolas Alnoudji RM 8 GeremiLM 3 Pierre WoméAM 10 Patrick M'BomaCF 9 Samuel Eto'oSubstitutes: MF 11 Daniel Kome MF 15 Joël Epalle FW 2 Albert Meyong Manager: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 Iván Zamorano
4 goals
Patrick Mboma Reinaldo Navia David Suazo
3 goals
Lauren Naohiro Takahara Victor Agali Gabri José Mari Peter Vagenas
2 goals
Alex Edu Lukáš Došek Gianni Comandini Khalaf Al-Mutairi 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 Jamal Mubarak 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 María Lacruz Raúl Tamudo Toni Velamazán Danny Califf Landon Donovan
1 own goal
Patrice Abanda (playing against Chile) Jaime Rosales (playing against Australia) Gianni Comandini (playing against Honduras) Samuel Okunowo (playing against Italy) Marián Čišovský (playing against Brazil) Iván Amaya (playing against Cameroon)
References
Bibliography
External links Olympic Football Tournaments Sydney 2000 - Men, FIFA.com RSSSF Summary FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)