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 13 to 30 September. It was the 22nd edition of the men's Olympic football tournament.
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| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | Australia |
| Dates | 13–30 September |
| Teams | 16 (from 6 confederations) |
| Venue | 6 (in 5 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Cameroon (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Spain |
| Third place |  Chile |
| Fourth place |  United States |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 32 |
| Goals scored | 103 (3.22 per match) |
| Attendance | 1,034,500 (32,328 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | 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
The match schedule of the tournament.
| 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 |
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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 |  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.
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
- South America
- Europe
- 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 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
Group B
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 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 |
| South Korea | 1–0 | Morocco |
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Lee Chun-soo  53' |
Report |
| South Korea | 1–0 | Chile |
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| Lee Dong-gook 28' |
Report |
Group C
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 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 |
| United States | 2–2 | Czech Republic |
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| Albright 21' Wolff 44' |
Report | Jankulovski 28' Došek 52' (pen.) |
| United States | 1–1 | Cameroon |
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| Vagenas 64' |
Report | M'Boma 16' |
| Czech Republic | 1–1 | Cameroon |
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| Došek 74' |
Report | Lauren 24' |
Group D
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 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 |
| South Africa | 1–2 | Japan |
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| Nomvethe 31' |
Report | Takahara 45+1', 79' |
Knockout stage
Note: Extra time periods were played under the golden goal rule.
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | ||||||||
| 23 September – Adelaide | ||||||||||
| United States (p) | 2 (5) | |||||||||
| 26 September – Sydney | ||||||||||
| Japan | 2 (4) | |||||||||
| United States | 1 | |||||||||
| 23 September – Sydney | ||||||||||
| Spain | 3 | |||||||||
| Italy | 0 | |||||||||
| 30 September – Sydney Olympic | ||||||||||
| Spain | 1 | |||||||||
| Spain | 2 (3) | |||||||||
| 23 September – Brisbane | ||||||||||
| Cameroon (p) | 2 (5) | |||||||||
| Brazil | 1 | |||||||||
| 26 September – Melbourne | ||||||||||
| Cameroon (a.e.t.) | 2 | |||||||||
| Cameroon | 2 | |||||||||
| 23 September – Melbourne | ||||||||||
| Chile | 1 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
| Chile | 4 | |||||||||
| 29 September – Sydney | ||||||||||
| Nigeria | 1 | |||||||||
| United States | 0 | |||||||||
| Chile | 2 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze medal match
| United States | 0–2 | Chile |
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| Report | Zamorano 69' (pen.), 84' |
Gold medal match
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Final ranking
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Cameroon |
6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 12 |
| 2 | Spain |
6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 13 |
| 3 | Chile |
6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 6 | +8 | 12 |
| 4 | United States |
6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 11 | −2 | 6 |
| 5 | Italy |
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 7 |
| 6 | Japan |
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 7 |
| 7 | Brazil |
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 8 | Nigeria |
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 5 |
| 9 | South Korea |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 6 |
| 10 | Honduras |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 4 |
| 11 | South Africa |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 |  Kuwait |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 3 |
| 13 | Slovakia |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |
| 14 | Czech Republic |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 2 |
| 15 |  Australia |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 0 |
| 16 | Morocco |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | −6 | 0 |
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
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 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)