| Tourney Name: | Men's Olympic Football Tournament |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Size: | 150px |
| Country: | Australia |
| Dates: | 13–30 September |
| Num Teams: | 16 |
| Confederations: | 6 |
| Venues: | 6 |
| Cities: | 5 |
| Count: | 1 |
| Matches: | 32 |
| Goals: | 103 |
| Attendance: | 1034500 |
| Top Scorer: | Iván Zamorano (6 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 1996 |
| Nextseason: | 2004 |
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] the country's first Olympic gold in history.
The match schedule of the tournament.
| 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 |
The following 16 teams qualified for the 2000 Olympic men's football tournament:
| Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host nation | 1 | ||
| 3 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 2 | (winner) (runner-up) | ||
| 2 | (winner) (runner-up) | ||
| 4 | (winner) (runner-up) (third-place) (fourth-place) | ||
| 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.
See main article: Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads.
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 | |
Mourad Daami
Falla N'Doye
Simon Micallef
Bruce GrimshawThe 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.
| width=20% | Pot 1: Host, Top-Seeded teams from Americas and Asia | width=25% | Pot 2: Europe | width=25% | Pot 3: Africa | width=25% | Pot 4: Non-top seeded teams from Americas and Asia |
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Note: Extra time periods were played under the golden goal rule.
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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.
Alex Edu
Lukáš Došek
Gianni Comandini
Andrej Porázik
Xavi
Chris Albright Josh Wolff Hayden Foxe Kasey Wehrman Ronaldinho
Nicolas Alnoudji Samuel Eto'o Modeste M'bami Marek Heinz Roman Lengyel Massimo Ambrosini Andrea Pirlo
Junichi Inamoto Hidetoshi Nakata Atsushi Yanagisawa
Lee Dong-gook Lee Chun-soo
El Houssaine Ouchla Juraj Czinege Ján Šlahor Miguel Ángel Angulo Jesús Lacruz Raúl Tamudo Toni Velamazán Danny Califf Landon Donovan Patrice Abanda (playing against Chile) Gianni Comandini (playing against Honduras) Marián Čišovský (playing against Brazil) Iván Amaya (playing against Cameroon)
