Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament


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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.

2000 Men's Olympic Football Tournament
Tournament details
Host countryAustralia
Dates13–30 September
Teams16 (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 played32
Goals scored103 (3.22 per match)
Attendance1,034,500 (32,328 per match)
Top scorer(s)Chile Iván Zamorano
(6 goals)

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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] the country's first Olympic gold in history.

Competition schedule

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The match schedule of the tournament.

Legend
G Group stage ¼ Quarter-finals ½ Semi-finals 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
G G G G G G ¼ ½ B F

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

Means of qualification Berths Qualified
Host nation 1   Australia
CAF Preliminary Competition 3   Cameroon
  Morocco
  Nigeria
AFC Preliminary Competition 3   Kuwait
  Japan
  South Korea
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition 2   Honduras (winner)
  United States (runner-up)
2000 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament 2   Brazil (winner)
  Chile (runner-up)
2000 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship 4   Italy (winner)
  Czech Republic (runner-up)
  Spain (third-place)
  Slovakia (fourth-place)
OFC–CAF play-off 1   South Africa
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.

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
     

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
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Italy 3 2 1 0 5 2 +3 7
  Nigeria 3 1 2 0 7 6 +1 5
  Honduras 3 1 1 1 6 7 −1 4
  Australia 3 0 0 3 3 6 −3 0
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Chile 3 2 0 1 7 3 +4 6
  Spain 3 2 0 1 6 3 +3 6
  South Korea 3 2 0 1 2 3 −1 6
  Morocco 3 0 0 3 1 7 −6 0
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  United States 3 1 2 0 6 4 +2 5
  Cameroon 3 1 2 0 5 4 +1 5
  Kuwait 3 1 0 2 6 8 −2 3
  Czech Republic 3 0 2 1 5 6 −1 2
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Brazil 3 2 0 1 5 4 +1 6
  Japan 3 2 0 1 4 3 +1 6
  South Africa 3 1 0 2 5 5 0 3
  Slovakia 3 1 0 2 4 6 −2 3

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

Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsGold medal match
          
23 September – Adelaide
  United States (p)2 (5)
26 September – Sydney
  Japan2 (4)
  United States1
23 September – Sydney
  Spain3
  Italy0
30 September – Sydney Olympic
  Spain1
  Spain2 (3)
23 September – Brisbane
  Cameroon (p)2 (5)
  Brazil1
26 September – Melbourne
  Cameroon (a.e.t.)2
  Cameroon2
23 September – Melbourne
  Chile1 Bronze medal match
  Chile4
29 September – Sydney
  Nigeria1
  United States0
  Chile2
Team details

Spain

Cameroon

GK 1 Daniel Aranzubia   90+1'
DF 2 Jesús Lacruz
DF 4 Carlos Marchena
DF 12 Carles Puyol
DF 14 Iván Amaya
MF 6 David Albelda   19'
MF 8 Xavi
MF 16 Toni Velamazán   26'
FW 7 Miguel Ángel Angulo   75'
FW 9 José Mari   55'   90+1'
FW 17 Raúl Tamudo   49'
Substitutes:
MF 10 Gabri   70'   26'
MF 11 Jordi Ferrón   49'
DF 3 Joan Capdevila   75'
Manager:
  Iñaki Sáez
GK 18 Carlos Kameni
DF 3 Pierre Womé
DF 5 Patrice Abanda   25'
DF 13 Aaron Nguimbat   46'
DF 17 Serge Branco   91'
MF 4 Serge Mimpo
MF 7 Nicolas Alnoudji   111'
MF 8 Geremi
MF 12 Lauren
FW 10 Patrick M'Boma
FW 9 Samuel Eto'o
Substitutes:
MF 11 Daniel Kome   46'
MF 15 Joël Epalle   91'
FW 2 Albert Meyong   111'
Manager:
  Jean-Paul Akono
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

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
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal
  1. ^ "Football at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
  2. ^ Higham 2012, p. 99.