European Football Championship 2004 / Spain

This article covers the Spanish national team at the 2004 European Football Championship .

qualification

Group stage

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Greece	8th	6th	0	2	08: 04	18th
2	Spain	8th	5	2	1	16: 04	17th
3	Ukraine	8th	2	4th	2	11:10	10
4th	Armenia	8th	2	1	5	07:16	7th
5	Northern Ireland	8th	0	3	5	00: 08	3

Game results

07.09.2002	Greece	-	Spain	0: 2 (0: 1)
10/12/2002	Spain	-	Northern Ireland	3: 0 (1: 0)
03/29/2003	Ukraine	-	Spain	2: 2 (1: 0)
04/02/2003	Spain	-	Armenia	3: 0 (0: 0)
06/07/2003	Spain	-	Greece	0: 1 (0: 1)
06/11/2003	Northern Ireland	-	Spain	0-0
09/10/2003	Spain	-	Ukraine	2: 1 (0: 0)
10/11/2003	Armenia	-	Spain	0: 4 (0: 1)

Relegation

			11/15/2003	11/19/2003
Spain	-	Norway	2: 1 (1: 1)	3: 0 (1: 0)

The qualification for the finals of the 2004 European Football Championship was not very convincing for the team trained by Iñaki Sáez . A home defeat against Greece and a draw against Ukraine and Northern Ireland were only enough for the favored team to finish second. She had to play in a decisive relegation game against Norway, won the duel on two legs with an overall result of 5: 1 and thus qualified for the finals.

Spanish contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the European Championship	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Santiago Cañizares	Valencia CF	December 18, 1969	0	0	0	0	0
13	Daniel trainee	Athletic Bilbao	09/18/1979	0	0	0	0	0
23	Iker Casillas	real Madrid	05/20/1981	3	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Joan Capdevila	Deportivo La Coruña	02/03/1978	0	0	0	0	0
3	Carlos Marchena	Valencia CF	07/31/1979	2	0	2	0	0
5	Carles Puyol	FC Barcelona	04/13/1978	3	0	1	0	0
6th	Iván Helguera	real Madrid	March 28, 1975	3	0	1	0	0
15th	Raúl Bravo	real Madrid	04/14/1981	3	0	0	0	0
18th	César Martín	Deportivo La Coruña	04/03/1977	0	0	0	0	0
22nd	Juanito	Betis Seville	07/23/1976	1	0	1	0	0
midfield player
4th	David Albelda	Valencia CF	09/01/1977	3	0	2	0	0
8th	Rubén Baraja	Valencia CF	07/11/1975	3	0	1	0	0
12	Gabriella	FC Barcelona	02/10/1979	0	0	0	0	0
14th	Vicente	Valencia CF	07/16/1981	3	0	0	0	0
16	Xabi Alonso	Real Sociedad	11/25/1981	2	0	0	0	0
17th	Joseba Etxeberria	Athletic Bilbao	05.09.1977	2	0	0	0	0
19th	Joaquín	Betis Seville	07/21/1981	2	0	0	0	0
20th	Xavi	FC Barcelona	January 25, 1980	0	0	0	0	0
21st	Juan Carlos Valerón	Deportivo La Coruña	06/17/1975	2	1	0	0	0
striker
7th	Raúl	real Madrid	06/27/1977	3	0	0	0	0
9	Fernando Torres	Atlético Madrid	03/20/1984	3	0	0	0	0
10	Fernando Morientes	AS Monaco	04/05/1976	3	1	0	0	0
11	Albert Luque	Deportivo La Coruña	03/11/1978	1	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Iñaki Sáez		04/23/1943

Finals

Table group A
space	team	Sp.	Weight	Unent.	Loss	Gates	Pt.
1	Portugal	3	2	0	1	4: 2	6th
2	Greece	3	1	1	1	4: 4	4th
3	Spain	3	1	1	1	2: 2	4th
4th	Russia	3	1	0	2	2: 4	3

June 12, 2004
Spain	- Russia	1: 0 (0: 0)
June 16, 2004
Greece	- Spain	1: 1 (0: 1)
June 20, 2004
Spain	- Portugal	0: 1 (0: 0)

Spain confirmed their reputation for not being a tournament team. After the narrow win against Russia and a draw despite their superiority against Greece, a draw against Portugal would have been enough to advance. But the 0: 1 against the neighbors and hosts led to the end, because Greece did not lose by more than one goal difference to Russia.