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Tournament details | |
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Host country | Australia |
Dates | 13–30 September |
Teams | 16 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 6 (in 5 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Third place | ![]() |
Fourth place | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 103 (3.22 per match) |
Attendance | 1,034,500 (32,328 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() (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. Cameroon won the gold medal with a victory over Spain.[1]
Competition schedule
The match schedule of the tournament.
G | Group stage | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
13 Wed | 14 Thu | 15 Fri | 16 Sat | 17 Sun | 18 Mon | 19 Tue | 20 Wed | 21 Thu | 22 Fri | 23 Sat | 24 Sun | 25 Mon | 26 Tue | 27 Wed | 28 Thu | 29 Fri | 30 Sat |
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G | G | G | G | G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F |
Qualification
The following 16 teams qualified for the 2000 Olympic men's football tournament:
Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified |
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Host nation | 1 | ![]() |
CAF Preliminary Competition | 3 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
AFC Preliminary Competition | 3 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition | 2 | ![]() ![]() |
2000 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament | 2 | ![]() ![]() |
2000 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship | 4 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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 | |
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Olympic Stadium | Sydney Football Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground |
Capacity: 110,000 | Capacity: 42,500 | Capacity: 98,000 |
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Brisbane | Canberra | Adelaide |
Brisbane Cricket Ground | Bruce Stadium | Hindmarsh Stadium |
Capacity: 37,000 | Capacity: 25,011 | Capacity: 20,000 |
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Match officials
- Africa
- Asia
- North and Central America
- South America
- Europe
- Oceania
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 Asia | Pot 2: Europe | Pot 3: Africa | Pot 4: Non-top seeded teams from Americas and Asia |
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Group stage
Group A
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 7 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 5 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 4 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 0 |
Group B
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 6 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 6 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 6 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | −6 | 0 |
South Korea ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
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Lee Chun-soo ![]() |
Report |
South Korea ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
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Lee Dong-gook ![]() |
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