The finals of the 2004 UEFA European Championship, commonly called EURO 2004, will be held in Portugal between 12 June and 4 July 2004. The UEFA European Championship is a quadrennial football competition between national teams organised by UEFA, the sport's governing body in Europe. This is the first time that the competition finals will have been held in Portugal.
Qualifying for EURO 2004 took place from September 2002 to November 2003. Fifty teams were divided into ten groups and each team played the others in their group twice, once at home and once away. The top teams automatically qualified for EURO 2004, and the ten group runners-up took part in play-offs to determine another five teams. Together with the host nation of Portugal, who did not need to go through the qualifying process, sixteen nations will participate in EURO 2004.
Portugal qualified automatically as hosts of the Euro 2004 final tournament.
Group tables
Play-offs
First leg: 15 November, 2003
Second leg: 19 November, 2003
Qualification coefficients are sixth in the list of criteria to separate teams that finish level on points in their group in EURO 2004. The coefficients are calculated as the points earned per game in qualification for both EURO 2004 and the 2002 World Cup.
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