QUALIFYING ROUND - GROUP 5 Date Fixture Venue Result Home Team Scorer Away Team Scorer 04.09.1998 Sweden V England Sundsvall, Sweden 0-2 - Carragher (8 mins), Lampard (86 mins - pen) 09.10.1998 England V Bulgaria Upton Park, London, England 1-0 Lampard (60 mins - pen) - 13.10.1998 Luxembourg V England Grevenmacher, Luxembourg 0-5 - Hendrie (27 mins), Upson (45 mins), Lampard (50 mins), Cort (65 & 85 mins). 26.03.1999 England V Poland Southampton, England 5-0 Bowyer (41 & 81 mins), Lampard (55 & 60 mins), Hendrie (72 mins) - 04.06.1999 England V Sweden Huddersfield, England 3-0 Cort (30 & 80 mins), Cresswell (45 mins) - 08.06.1999 Bulgaria V England Vratza, Bulgaria 0-1 - Cort (87 mins) 03.09.1999 England V Luxembourg Reading, England 5-0 Gerrard (13 mins), Jeffers (32 mins) Hendrie (62 mins), Cort (69 mins), Lampard (80 mins) - 07.09.1999 Poland V England Plock, Poland 3-1 Kubic (46 mins), Dawidowski (57 mins), Sobczak (61 mins) Mills (48 mins) Country Pl W D L F A Pts England 8 7 0 1 23 3 21 Poland 7 4 2 1 19 11 14 Bulgaria 7 3 2 2 14 9 11 Sweden 6 1 0 5 5 13 3 Luxembourg 6 0 0 6 0 25 0 PLAY-OFF Date Fixture Location Time (UK) Result 29.03.2000 Yugoslavia V England Barcelona, Spain 17.30 0-3 England qualified for the championship finals in Bratislava, Slovakia. FINALS IN SLOVAKIA - GROUP B Date Fixture Venue Time (BST) Result 27.05.2000 Italy V England Bratislava 19.00 2-0 29.05.2000 England V Turkey Bratislava Unknown 6-0 01.06.2000 England V Slovakia Bratislava Unknown 2-0 Country Pl W D L F A Pts Italy 3 2 1 0 6 2 7 Slovakia 3 2 1 0 5 2 7 England 3 1 0 2 6 4 3 Turkey 3 0 0 3 2 11 0 England did not continue in the competition. The teams finishing in the first four positions in the competition represented Europe in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. However, should have England qualified for the final round and finished in any of the first four positions they would not have been entitled to participate in the Olympic Games, as England is not a separate member of the IOC.