Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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.

Competition schedule
The match schedule of the tournament.

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

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.

Venues
Six venues were used during the tournament, four of them outside of Sydney at cities around Australia. Olympic stadium hosted the Final.

Match officials

 * Africa
 * 🇹🇳 Mourad Daami
 * 🇸🇳 Falla N'Doye
 * Felix Tangawarima


 * Asia
 * 🇨🇳 Lu Jun
 * Saad Mane


 * North and Central America
 * 🇯🇲 Peter Prendergast
 * 🇲🇽 Felipe Ramos


 * South America
 * Mario Sánchez Yantén
 * 🇧🇷 Carlos Simon


 * Europe
 * 🇫🇷 Stéphane Bré
 * 🇩🇪 Herbert Fandel
 * 🇸🇰 Ľuboš Micheľ


 * 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.

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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.

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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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
 * Iván Zamorano


 * 4 goals


 * 🇨🇲 Patrick M'Boma
 * Reinaldo Navia
 * David Suazo


 * 3 goals


 * 🇨🇲 Lauren
 * 🇯🇵 Naohiro Takahara
 * Victor Agali
 * 🇪🇸 Gabri
 * 🇪🇸 José Mari
 * 🇺🇸 Peter Vagenas


 * 2 goals


 * 🇧🇷 Alex
 * 🇧🇷 Edu
 * 🇨🇿 Lukáš Došek
 * 🇮🇹 Gianni Comandini
 * Khalaf Al-Mutairi
 * Faraj Saeed
 * 🇸🇰 Andrej Porázik
 * Siyabonga Nomvethe
 * 🇪🇸 Xavi
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Albright
 * 🇺🇸 Josh Wolff


 * 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 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)