UEFA Euro championship lineups through history (2004)

Tournament held in Portugal in Guimaraes, Braga, Porto, Lisbon (including the Final), Coimbra, Leiria, Loulé, Faro.

16 teams.

Winner, Greece : 

GREECE 2004

Runner-up, Portugal :

Portugal 2004

Semi-finalists :

Czech Republic, beaten by Greece :

Czech Republic 2004

 Grygera was finally preferred to Jiranek for the semis. Typo : Ufjalusi for Ujfalusi.

The Netherlands, beaten by Portugal :

The Netherlands 2004

2 wins in 5 matches, none in the knockout stages.

And also, amongst the quarter-finalists :

France (beaten by Greece) :

France 2004

With a Vieira who could not play the quarter-finals and who was replaced by Dacourt. And a Makélélé not in his best form for the event, neither.

England, beaten by Portugal :

England 2004

A seducing team on the paper with some names from the halfway line up to the opponent box.

France beat England in the group B with two goals by Zidane.

At last, the two other quarter-finalists were Sweden and Denmark : in the first round, both teams beat Bulgaria, had a draw game with Italy and another draw game between them two (2-2).

They used different formations and players. Their players : Isaksson and Sorensen in the goals, Mellberg, Helveg Laursen in defense (both teams lost their usual left back before the quarter-finals, Edman and C. Jensen, for different reasons). Linderoth, Svensson for Sweden at midfield, Gravesen for Denmark. Ljungberg and Gronkjaer plus Jorgensen at the animation of the attack and upfront a duo Ibrahimovic-Larsson for Sweden and a Tomasson-Sand for Denamrk (Sand did not play in the quarter-finals).

Sweden was eliminated by the Netherlands after a penalty shoot-out (0-0 after 120 minutes) and Denmark was severly beaten by the Czech team by 3-nil.