On May 29, 2004 Latvia coach Aleksandrs Starkovs named a 23-man squad.

Contents

1 Squad 2 Qualifying 2.1 Group 4 2.2 Play-off 3 Final tournament 3.1 Group D

Squad

#	Name	Club in 2004	Date of Birth	Age	Pld	Goals	Y	Y/R	R
Goalkeepers
1	Aleksandrs Kolinko	FC Rostov	18.06.1975	28	3	0	0	0	0
20	Andrejs Pavlovs	Skonto Riga	22.02.1979	25	0	0	0	0	0
12	Andrejs Piedels	Skonto Riga	17.09.1970	33	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
6	Olegs Blagonadezdins	Skonto Riga	16.05.1973	31	3	0	0	0	0
7	Aleksandrs Isakovs	Skonto Riga	16.09.1973	30	3	0	1	0	0
18	Igors Korablovs	Ventspils	23.11.1974	29	0	0	0	0	0
15	Maris Smirnovs	Ventspils	02.06.1976	28	0	0	0	0	0
2	Igors Stepanovs	Beveren	21.01.1976	28	3	0	0	0	0
22	Arturs Zakresevskis	Skonto Riga	07.08.1971	32	0	0	0	0	0
4	Mihails Zemlinskis	Skonto Riga	21.12.1969	34	3	0	0	0	0
16	Dzintars Zirnis	Metalurgs Liepajas	25.04.1977	27	1	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
3	Vitalis Astafjevs	Admira Wacker	03.04.1971	33	3	0	1	0	0
8	Imants Bleidelis	Viborg	16.08.1979	24	3	0	0	0	0
5	Juris Laizans	CSKA Moscow	06.01.1979	25	3	0	0	0	0
14	Valentins Lobanovs	Metalurg Zaporizhya	23.10.1971	32	3	0	1	0	0
13	Jurgis Pucinskis	Luch-Energia	01.03.1973	31	0	0	0	0	0
10	Andrejs Rubins	Shinnik Yaroslavl	26.11.1978	25	3	0	0	0	0
Forwards
19	Andrejs Štolcers	Fulham	08.07.1974	29	1	0	0	0	0
21	Mihails Miholaps	Skonto Riga	24.08.1974	29	0	0	0	0	0
17	Marians Pahars	Southampton	05.08.1976	27	3	0	0	0	0
11	Andrejs Prohorenkovs	Maccabi Tel-Aviv	05.02.1977	27	3	0	0	0	0
23	Vits Rimkus	Ventspils	21.06.1973	30	1	0	0	0	0
9	Maris Verpakovskis	Dynamo Kyiv	15.10.1979	24	3	1	0	0	0
Coach
	Aleksandrs Starkovs		26.07.1955	48

• Key: Pld - Games played; Y - Yellow cards; Y/R - Yellow/Red cards; R - Red cards
• Date format: dd.mm.yyyy

Qualifying

Group 4

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1. Sweden	17	8	5	2	1	19	3	+16
2. Latvia	16	8	5	1	2	10	6	+4
3. Poland	13	8	4	1	3	11	7	+4
4. Hungary	11	8	3	2	3	15	9	+6
5. San Marino	0	8	0	0	8	0	30	-30

September 7, 2002 Latvia 0 – 0 Sweden October 12, 2002 Poland 0 – 1 Latvia November 20, 2002 San Marino 0 – 1 Latvia April 30, 2003 Latvia 3 – 0 San Marino

June 7, 2003 Hungary 3 – 1 Latvia September 6, 2003 Latvia 0 – 2 Poland September 10, 2003 Latvia 3 – 1 Hungary October 11, 2003 Sweden 0 – 1 Latvia

Play-off

First leg: November 15, 2003 Latvia 1 – 0 Turkey

Second leg: November 19, 2003 Turkey 2 – 2 Latvia

• Latvia won 3 - 2 on aggregate.

Final tournament

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1. Czech Republic	9	3	3	0	0	7	4	+3
2. Netherlands	4	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2
3. Germany	2	3	0	2	1	2	3	-1
4. Latvia	1	3	0	1	2	1	5	-4

June 15, 2004
Czech Republic	2 – 1 (0-1)	Latvia	17:00	Estádio Municipal de Aveiro	Details
June 19, 2004
Latvia	0 – 0 (0-0)	Germany	17:00	Estádio do Bessa Século XXI	Details
June 23, 2004
Netherlands	3 – 0 (2-0)	Latvia	19:45	Estádio Municipal de Braga	Details