Qualifying for the 2000 UEFA European Championship final tournament, took place throughout 1998 and 1999. Forty-nine teams were divided into nine groups. All teams played against each other, within their groups, in a home-and-away basis. The winner of each group and the best runner-up qualified automatically for the final tournament. The rest of the runners-up played an additional set of playoff matches amongst each other.
Belgium and the Netherlands qualified automatically as co-hosts of the event.
Group 1
Group matches
Group 2
Group matches
Group 3
Group matches
Group 4
Group matches
| September 5, 1998 |
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| Armenia | 3 - 1 | Andorra |
| Iceland | 1 - 1 | France |
| Ukraine | 3 - 2 | Russia |
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| October 10, 1998 |
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| Andorra | 0 - 2 | Ukraine |
| Armenia | 0 - 0 | Iceland |
| Russia | 2 - 3 | France |
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| October 14, 1998 |
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| Iceland | 1 - 0 | Russia |
| Ukraine | 2 - 0 | Armenia |
| France | 2 - 0 | Andorra |
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| March 27, 1999 |
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| Andorra | 0 - 2 | Iceland |
| Armenia | 0 - 3 | Russia |
| France | 0 - 0 | Ukraine |
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| March 31, 1999 |
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| Ukraine | 1 - 1 | Iceland |
| Russia | 6 - 1 | Andorra |
| France | 2 - 0 | Armenia |
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| June 5, 1999 |
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| Iceland | 2 - 0 | Armenia |
| Ukraine | 4 - 0 | Andorra |
| France | 2 - 3 | Russia |
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| June 9, 1999 |
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| Russia | 1 - 0 | Iceland |
| Armenia | 0 - 0 | Ukraine |
| Andorra | 0 - 1 | France |
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| September 4, 1999 |
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| Iceland | 3 - 0 | Andorra |
| Russia | 2 - 0 | Armenia |
| Ukraine | 0 - 0 | France |
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| September 8, 1999 |
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| Iceland | 0 - 1 | Ukraine |
| Andorra | 1 - 2 | Russia |
| Armenia | 2 - 3 | France |
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| October 9, 1999 |
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| Andorra | 0 - 3 | Armenia |
| France | 3 - 2 | Iceland |
| Russia | 1 - 1 | Ukraine |
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Group 5
Group matches
Group 6
Group matches
Group 7
Group matches
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| June 5, 1999 |
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| Azerbaijan | 4 - 0 | Liechtenstein |
| Portugal | 1 - 0 | Slovakia |
| Romania | 2 - 0 | Hungary |
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| June 9, 1999 |
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| Hungary | 0 - 1 | Slovakia |
| Portugal | 8 - 0 | Liechtenstein |
| Romania | 4 - 0 | Azerbaijan |
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| September 4, 1999 |
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| Azerbaijan | 1 - 1 | Portugal |
| Liechtenstein | 0 - 0 | Hungary |
| Slovakia | 1 - 5 | Romania |
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| September 8, 1999 |
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| Slovakia | 2 - 0 | Liechtenstein |
| Hungary | 3 - 0 | Azerbaijan |
| Romania | 1 - 1 | Portugal |
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| October 9, 1999 |
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| Azerbaijan | 0 - 1 | Slovakia |
| Portugal | 3 - 0 | Hungary |
| Liechtenstein | 0 - 3 | Romania |
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Group 8
Group matches
Group 9
Group matches
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| June 5, 1999 |
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| Faroe Islands | 1 - 1 | Scotland |
| Estonia | 0 - 2 | Czech Rep. |
| Bosnia-Herz. | 2 - 0 | Lithuania |
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| June 9, 1999 |
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| Estonia | 1 - 2 | Lithuania |
| Faroe Islands | 2 - 2 | Bosnia-Herz. |
| Czech Rep. | 3 - 2 | Scotland |
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| September 4, 1999 |
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| Faroe Islands | 0 - 2 | Estonia |
| Lithuania | 0 - 4 | Czech Rep. |
| Bosnia-Herz. | 1 - 2 | Scotland |
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| September 8, 1999 |
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| Faroe Islands | 0 - 1 | Lithuania |
| Estonia | 0 - 0 | Scotland |
| Czech Rep. | 3 - 0 | Bosnia-Herz. |
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| October 5, 1999 |
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| Scotland | 1 - 0 | Bosnia-Herz. |
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| October 9, 1999 |
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| Scotland | 3 - 0 | Lithuania |
| Estonia | 1 - 4 | Bosnia-Herz. |
| Czech Rep. | 2 - 0 | Faroe Islands |
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Best runner-up
The best runner-up of the entire group phase, qualified automatically for the final tournament. To determine the best runner-up, a comparison was made between all of them. Only matches played against teams that finished first, third and fourth were regarded. Matches played against fifth and sixth placed teams were discarded, because some groups had more teams than others.
After the best runner-up was found, all the others (eight of them), entered a random playoff to determine four more teams to qualify.
Portugal qualified automatically as best runner-up, beating Turkey on goal difference (goals for minus goals against).
Playoffs
The remaining eight runners-up entered a random playoff, disputed in two legs, home and away.
Four more teams qualified for the final tournament.
First leg: November 13, 1999
Second leg: November 17, 1999
Qualified teams
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