UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying play-offs

The UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying play-offs were the last round of qualifying competition for UEFA Euro 2000. They were contested by the eight lowest-ranked runners-up from the nine first round groups of the UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying tournament. The winners of each of four home and away ties qualified for the final tournament in Belgium and Netherlands. The matches were played on 13 and 17 November 1999.

Ranking of second-placed teams

The highest ranked second placed team from the groups qualified automatically for the tournament, while the remainder entered the playoffs. As the groups contained different numbers of teams, matches against the fifth and sixth-placed teams in each group were not included in this ranking. As a result, a total of six matches played by each team count toward the purpose of the second-placed ranking table.

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	7	Portugal	6	4	1	1	11	3	+8	13	Qualify for final tournament
2	3	Turkey	6	4	1	1	12	5	+7	13	Advance to play-offs
3	9	Scotland	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10
4	1	Denmark	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	10
5	4	Ukraine	6	2	4	0	6	4	+2	10
6	8	Republic of Ireland	6	3	1	2	6	4	+2	10
7	6	Israel	6	2	1	3	12	9	+3	7
8	5	England	6	1	4	1	5	4	+1	7
9	2	Slovenia	6	2	1	3	6	12	−6	7

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: Counting only matches against teams ranked first to fourth in the group, 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Drawing of lots.

Draw

The draw for the play-offs was held on 13 October 1999 in Aachen, Germany, to determine the four pairings as well as the order of the home and away ties. No seeding system was used, making the draw an open one. This decision was announced by UEFA the day before the draw was made.

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Scotland	1–2	England	0–2	1–0
Israel	0–8	Denmark	0–5	0–3
Slovenia	3–2	Ukraine	2–1	1–1
Republic of Ireland	1–1 (a)	Turkey	1–1	0–0

Matches

13 November 1999

14:00 UTC±0

Scotland	0–2	England
	Report	Scholes 21', 42'

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 50,132

Referee: Manuel Díaz Vega (Spain)

17 November 1999

20:00 UTC±0

England	0–1	Scotland
	Report	Hutchison 39'

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 75,848

Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)

England won 2–1 on aggregate.

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13 November 1999

20:05 UTC+2

Israel	0–5	Denmark
	Report	Tomasson 2', 34' Tøfting 67' Jørgensen 68' Steen Nielsen 73'

Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan

Attendance: 42,000

Referee: David Elleray (England)

17 November 1999

19:15 UTC+1

Denmark	3–0	Israel
Sand 4' Steen Nielsen 14' Tomasson 64'	Report

Parken Stadium, Copenhagen

Attendance: 41,186

Referee: Vítor Melo Pereira (Portugal)

Denmark won 8–0 on aggregate.

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13 November 1999

19:00 UTC+1

Slovenia	2–1	Ukraine
Zahovič 53' Ačimovič 83'	Report	Shevchenko 33'

Bežigrad Stadium, Ljubljana

Attendance: 9,000

Referee: Urs Meier (Switzerland)

17 November 1999

19:00 UTC+2

Ukraine	1–1	Slovenia
Rebrov 68' (pen.)	Report	Pavlin 78'

Olympic Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 52,800

Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Germany)

Slovenia won 3–2 on aggregate.

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13 November 1999

19:00 UTC±0

Republic of Ireland	1–1	Turkey
Rob. Keane 79'	Report	Havutçu 83' (pen.)

Lansdowne Road, Dublin

Attendance: 33,610

Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)

17 November 1999

20:00 UTC+2

Turkey	0–0	Republic of Ireland
	Report

Bursa Atatürk Stadium, Bursa

Attendance: 19,900

Referee: Gilles Veissière (France)

1–1 on aggregate. Turkey won on away goals.

Goalscorers

There were 18 goals scored in 8 matches, for an average of 2.25 goals per match.

3 goals

• Jon Dahl Tomasson

2 goals

• Brian Steen Nielsen
• Paul Scholes

1 goal

• Martin Jørgensen
• Ebbe Sand
• Stig Tøfting
• Robbie Keane
• Don Hutchison
• Milenko Ačimovič
• Miran Pavlin
• Zlatko Zahovič
• Tayfur Havutçu
• Serhiy Rebrov
• Andriy Shevchenko