The men's football tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held in
Sydney
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and four other cities in
Australia
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Olympic Stadium
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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
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of the
1984 Summer Olympics
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in
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, with Cameroon winning the gold.
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
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and
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1980 Summer Olympics
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),
South Africa
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and
Honduras
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.
Squads
Venues
Six venues were used during the tournament, four of them outside of Sydney at cities around Australia.
Olympic stadium
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hosted the Final.
Match officials
;Africa
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Mourad Daami
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Stéphane Bré
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Bré has officiated the 2000 Olympic tournament in Sy ...
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Herbert Fandel
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Ľuboš Micheľ
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At a young age, Micheľ refereed a number of games in Lebanon.
Micheľ became a FIFA referee at the age of 25.
Micheľ was selected to referee the 2003 ...
;Oceania
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Simon Micallef
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golden goal
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rule.
Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Final ranking
Statistics
Goalscorers
With six goals,
Iván Zamorano
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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
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Iván Zamorano
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;4 goals
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Patrick M'Boma
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Club career
Born in Douala, Cameroon, Mboma sta ...
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Reinaldo Navia
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Navia was a member of the Chile national squad that competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics at Sydney, making an offensive duo with the historic Chilean striker I ...
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David Suazo
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Suazo played more than 300 league games and scored over 980 league goals in Italy during a span of 7 years ...
;3 goals
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Lauren
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Naohiro Takahara
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Victor Agali
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Career
In 1997, Agali joined French club Olympique de Marseille. Finding it hard to establish a first team place, he quickly m ...
Peter Vagenas
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Vagenas graduated from Saint Francis High School in La Cañada Flintridge, class of 1996, where he played for coach Glen Ap ...
;2 goals
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Alex
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Gianni Comandini
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Andrej Porázik
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Xavi
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Josh Wolff
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Hayden Foxe
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Kasey Wehrman
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Born in Cloncurry, having impressed as a youth player with the Queensland Academy of Sport, Wehrman signed with National ...
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Ronaldinho
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Samuel Eto'o
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Modeste M'bami
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Pablo Contreras
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Rafael Olarra
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Olarra began his career in Audax Italiano. He then spent time with Universidad de Chile, where he made a name for himself and be ...
Marek Heinz
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Heinz started his football career in his native Czech Republic, where he played for Lázně Bohdaneč and Sigma Olomouc before moving to Ge ...
Julio César de León
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Massimo Ambrosini
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Andrea Pirlo
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Junichi Inamoto
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Hidetoshi Nakata
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Atsushi Yanagisawa
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Lee Dong-gook
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Pius Ikedia
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Garba Lawal
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Quinton Fortune
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Benni McCarthy
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Miguel Ángel Angulo
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Raúl Tamudo
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Danny Califf
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Jaime Rosales
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(playing against Australia)
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Alessandro Nesta
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(playing against Honduras)
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Marián Čišovský
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