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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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Themen's football tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held inSydney and four other cities inAustralia from 13 to 30 September. It was the 22nd edition of themen's Olympic football tournament.
The final, played at theOlympic Stadium in Sydney, Australia, attracted the Olympic Games Football attendance record of 104,098 which broke the previous record of 101,799 set at theRose Bowl for thegold medal match of the1984 Summer Olympics inLos 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.
| 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 |
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: theCzech Republic andSlovakia (previously champions together asCzechoslovakia at the1980 Summer Olympics),South Africa andHonduras.
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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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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| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Italy | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 7 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 5 |
| Honduras | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 4 |
| Australia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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' |
| 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' |
Note: Extra time periods were played under thegolden 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 | |||||||||
| United States | 2–2 (a.e.t.) | Japan |
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| Wolff 68' Vagenas 90' (pen.) | Report | Yanagisawa 30' Takahara 72' |
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Vagenas Agoos Donovan Wolff Victorine | 5–4 | NakamuraInamotoMorioka NakataMyojin |
| United States | 0–2 | Chile |
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| Report | Zamorano 69' (pen.),84' |
| Spain | 2–2 (a.e.t.) | Cameroon |
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| Xavi 2' Gabri 45+2' | Report 1 Report 2 | Amaya 53' (o.g.) Eto'o 58' |
| Penalties | ||
| Xavi Capdevila Amaya Albelda | 3–5 | M'BomaEto'oGeremiLaurenWomé |
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| 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 |
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.
Hayden FoxeKasey WehrmanRonaldinhoNicolas AlnoudjiSamuel Eto'oModeste M'bamiPablo ContrerasRafael OlarraRodrigo TelloMarek HeinzRoman LengyelJulio César de LeónMassimo AmbrosiniAndrea PirloJunichi InamotoHidetoshi NakataAtsushi YanagisawaLee Dong-gookLee Chun-sooJamal MubarakBader NajemEl Houssaine OuchlaBright IgbinadolorPius IkediaGarba LawalJuraj CzinegeJán ŠlahorQuinton FortuneSteve LekoeleaBenni McCarthyMiguel Ángel AnguloJesús María LacruzRaúl TamudoToni VelamazánDanny CaliffLandon DonovanPatrice 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)
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