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.

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,<ref name="SR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the country's first Olympic gold in history.

Competition schedule

The match schedule of the tournament. Template:Olympic schedule legend

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Qualification

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

Means of qualification	Berths	Qualified
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CAF Preliminary Competition	3	Template:Fbu Template:Fbu Template:Fbu
AFC Preliminary Competition	3	Template:Fbu Template:Fbu Template:Fbu
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition	2	Template:Fbu (winner) Template:Fbu (runner-up)
2000 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	2	Template:Fbu (winner) Template:Fbu (runner-up)
2000 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship	4	Template:Fbu (winner) Template:Fbu (runner-up) Template:Fbu (third-place) Template:Fbu (fourth-place)
OFC–CAF play-off	1	Template:Fbu
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

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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

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Match officials

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Africa

Asia

North and Central America

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South America

Europe

Oceania

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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

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

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

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

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Gold medal match

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Team details

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GK	1	Daniel Aranzubia	Template:Yel
CB	12	Carles Puyol
CB	14	Iván Amaya
CB	4	Carlos Marchena
RM	16	Toni Velamazán		Template:Suboff
CM	6	David Albelda	Template:Yel
CM	8	Xavi
LM	7	Miguel Ángel Angulo		Template:Suboff
RF	2	Jesús María Lacruz
CF	17	Raúl Tamudo		Template:Suboff
LF	9	José Mari	Template:Sent off
Substitutes:
MF	10	Gabri	Template:Sent off	Template:Subon
DF	11	Jordi Ferrón		Template:Subon
DF	3	Joan Capdevila		Template:Subon
Manager:
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GK	18	Carlos Kameni
SW	13	Aaron Nguimbat		Template:Suboff
CB	5	Patrice Abanda	Template:Yel
CB	4	Serge Mimpo
RWB	12	Lauren
LWB	17	Serge Branco		Template:Suboff
DM	7	Nicolas Alnoudji		Template:Suboff
RM	8	Geremi
LM	3	Pierre Womé
AM	10	Patrick M'Boma
CF	9	Samuel Eto'o
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MF	11	Daniel Kome		Template:Subon
MF	15	Joël Epalle		Template:Subon
FW	2	Albert Meyong		Template:Subon
Manager:
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Final ranking

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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.