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Qualification for championships (UEFA)
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Qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2000 final tournament, took place throughout 1998 and 1999. Forty-nine teams were divided into nine groups. All teams played against each other, within their groups, in a home-and-away basis. The winner of each group and the best runner-up qualified automatically for the final tournament. The rest of the runners-up played an additional set of playoff matches amongst each other.
Belgium and the Netherlands qualified automatically as co-hosts of the event.
Contents
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Qualification seeding 1
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Groups 2
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Group 1 2.1
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Group 2 2.2
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Group 3 2.3
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Group 4 2.4
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Group 5 2.5
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Group 6 2.6
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Group 7 2.7
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Group 8 2.8
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Group 9 2.9
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Best runner-up 3
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Play-offs 4
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Qualified teams 5
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Top goalscorers 6
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References 7
Qualification seeding
Qualified — directly
Qualified — after Play offs
Did not qualify — Play offs
Did not qualify — First Round
Did not enter
Not a UEFA member
The draw was made on 18 January 1998, in Ghent, Belgium. Germany were seeded first as holders. The other seedings were determined by points per game in the qualifiers for 1996 European Championship and the 1998 World Cup.[1][2] Other points to note:
Summary
Winner of each group and the best runner-up qualified directly for the
UEFA Euro 2000
The Runners-up advanced to the second round (play-offs)
Other teams were eliminated after the first round
Hosts
Groups
Group 1
Group 2
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Team
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Pld
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W
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D
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L
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GF
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GA
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GD
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Pts
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Norway
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10
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8
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1
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1
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21
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9
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+12
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25
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Slovenia
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10
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5
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2
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3
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12
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14
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−2
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17
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Greece
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10
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4
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3
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3
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13
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8
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+5
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15
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Latvia
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10
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3
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4
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3
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13
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12
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+1
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13
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Albania
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10
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1
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4
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5
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8
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14
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−6
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7
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Georgia
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10
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1
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2
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7
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8
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18
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−10
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5
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Albania
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–
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2–1
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0–0
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3–3
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1–2
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0–1
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1–0
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–
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1–2
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2–2
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1–4
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1–1
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Greece
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2–0
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3–0
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–
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1–2
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0–2
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2–2
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Latvia
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0–0
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1–0
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0–0
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–
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1–2
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1–2
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Norway
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2–2
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1–0
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1–0
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1–3
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–
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4–0
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Slovenia
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2–0
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2–1
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0–3
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1–0
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1–2
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Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Group 9
Best runner-up
The best runner-up of the entire group phase qualified automatically for the final tournament. To determine the best runner-up, a comparison was made between all of them. Only matches played against teams that finished first, third and fourth were regarded. Matches played against fifth and sixth placed teams were discarded, because some groups had more teams than others. After the best runner-up was found, all the others (eight of them) entered a random playoff to determine four more teams to qualify.
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Legend
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Country that advanced to the final tournament
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Countries that advanced to the play-offs
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Portugal qualified automatically as best runner-up, beating Turkey on goal difference.
Play-offs
The remaining eight runners-up entered a random playoff, disputed in two legs, home and away.
Four more teams qualified for the final tournament.
Qualified teams
Top goalscorers
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11 goals
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9 goals
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8 goals
References
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^ "Football: Andorra and Bosnia join the long march to Euro 2000". independent.co.uk. 17 January 1998. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
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^ "European Championship 2000 Preliminary Competition". englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
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