Norway at the UEFA European Championship

Norway qualified for one UEFA European Championship so far (as of 2024), the Euro 2000 tournament. During the qualifiers, they enforced direct qualification by ending first in their group with Slovenia, Greece, Latvia, Albania and Georgia.

At the championship in Belgium and the Netherlands, Norway was drawn into group C together with Spain, Yugoslavia and Slovenia. With their last group match against Slovenia ending on 0–0 and the simultaneously played other group match Yugoslavia vs. Spain standing 3–2 after the regular playing time, it appeared Norway (with 4 points) would finish second in their group, ahead of Spain (3 points). However, after an unlikely 3–4 comeback from Spain during the extra time Norway saw themselves eliminated. Norway coach Nils Johan Semb worded this as his team having been "at 12 seconds from the quarter-finals".^[1]

Euro 2000 edit

Group stage edit

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	3	2	0	1	6	5	+1	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	FR Yugoslavia	3	1	1	1	7	7	0	4^[a]	Advance to knockout stage
3	Norway	3	1	1	1	1	1	0	4^[a]
4	Slovenia	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head result: Norway 0–1 FR Yugoslavia.

13 June 2000

18:00

Spain	0–1	Norway
	Report	Iversen 65'

Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam

Attendance: 41,000

Referee: Gamal Al-Ghandour (Egypt)

18 June 2000

20:45

Norway	0–1	FR Yugoslavia
	Report	Milošević 8'

Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège

Attendance: 28,750

Referee: Hugh Dallas (Scotland)

21 June 2000

18:00

Slovenia	0–0	Norway
	Report

GelreDome, Arnhem

Attendance: 21,000

Referee: Graham Poll (England)

Overall record edit

Year	Round	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1960	Did not qualify
1964
1968
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000	Group stage	3	1	1	1	1	1
2004	Did not qualify
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
2028	To be determined
2032	To be determined
Total	1/17	3	1	1	1	1	1

Player records edit

Most appearances edit

Rank	Player	Matches	Years
1	Eirik Bakke	3	2000
	André Bergdølmo	3	2000
	Bjørn Otto Bragstad	3	2000
	John Carew	3	2000
	Dan Eggen	3	2000
	Tore André Flo	3	2000
	Steffen Iversen	3	2000
	Thomas Myhre	3	2000
	Erik Mykland	3	2000
	Ole Gunnar Solskjær	3	2000
11	Stig Inge Bjørnebye	2	2000
	Vegard Heggem	2	2000
	Bent Skammelsrud	2	2000
	Roar Strand	2	2000

Goalscorers edit

Rank	Player	Goals	Years
1	Steffen Iversen	1	2000

References edit

^ "12 seconds from the quarter-finals". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 21 June 2000. Archived from the original on 29 August 2000. Retrieved 1 July 2013.

[table_hth_YUG0.19470469616107-2] Head-to-head result: Norway 0–1 FR Yugoslavia.

[12sec-1] "12 seconds from the quarter-finals". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 21 June 2000. Archived from the original on 29 August 2000. Retrieved 1 July 2013.

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