On May 19, 2004 Netherlands coach Dick Advocaat named a 23-man squad for the Euro 2004 championships which took place in Portugal from June 12 to July 4.

Contents

1 Squad 2 Qualifying 2.1 Group 3 2.2 Play-off 3 Final tournament 3.1 Group D 3.2 Quarter-finals 3.3 Semi-finals

Squad

#	Name	Club in 2004	Date of Birth	Age	Pld	Goals	Y	Y/R	R
Goalkeepers
1	Edwin van der Sar	Fulham	29.10.1970	33	5	0	0	0	0
23	Ronald Waterreus	PSV Eindhoven	25.08.1970	33	0	0	0	0	0
13	Sander Westerveld	Real Sociedad	23.10.1974	29	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
15	Frank de Boer	Rangers	15.05.1970	34	2	0	1	0	0
4	Wilfred Bouma	PSV Eindhoven	15.06.1978	25	4	1	0	0	0
5	Giovanni van Bronckhorst	Barcelona	05.02.1975	29	5	0	0	0	0
18	Johnny Heitinga	Ajax	15.11.1983	20	3	0	2	1	0
2	Michael Reiziger	Barcelona	03.05.1973	31	4	0	0	0	0
3	Jaap Stam	A.C. Milan	17.07.1972	31	5	0	1	0	0
Midfielders
6	Phillip Cocu	Barcelona	29.10.1970	33	5	0	1	0	0
21	Paul Bosvelt	Manchester City	26.03.1970	34	1	0	0	0	0
8	Edgar Davids	Barcelona	13.03.1973	31	5	0	0	0	0
20	Clarence Seedorf	A.C. Milan	01.04.1976	28	4	0	1	0	0
14	Wesley Sneijder	Ajax	09.06.1984	20	2	0	0	0	0
11	Rafael van der Vaart	Ajax	11.02.1983	21	3	0	0	0	0
22	Boudewijn Zenden	Middlesbrough	15.08.1976	27	1	0	0	0	0
7	Andy van der Meyde	Inter Milan	30.09.1979	24	4	0	1	0	0
Forwards
17	Pierre van Hooijdonk	Fenerbahçe	29.11.1969	34	2	0	0	0	0
9	Patrick Kluivert	Barcelona	01.07.1976	27	0	0	0	0	0
12	Roy Makaay	Bayern Munich	09.03.1975	29	3	1	1	0	0
10	Ruud van Nistelrooij	Manchester United	01.07.1976	27	5	4	0	0	0
19	Arjen Robben	PSV Eindhoven	23.01.1984	20	4	0	1	0	0
16	Marc Overmars	Barcelona	29.03.1973	31	3	0	1	0	0
Coach
	Dick Advocaat		27.07.1947	56

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

Qualifying

Group 3

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1. Czech Republic	22	8	7	1	0	23	5	+18
2. Netherlands	19	8	6	1	1	20	6	+14
3. Austria	9	8	3	0	5	12	14	-2
4. Moldova	6	8	2	0	6	5	19	-14
5. Belarus	3	8	1	0	7	4	20	-16

September 7, 2002 Netherlands 3 – 0 Belarus October 16, 2002 Austria 0 – 3 Netherlands March 29, 2003 Netherlands 1 – 1 Czech Republic April 2, 2003 Moldova 1 – 2 Netherlands

June 7, 2003 Belarus 0 – 2 Netherlands September 6, 2003 Netherlands 3 – 1 Austria September 10, 2003 Czech Republic 3 – 1 Netherlands October 11, 2003 Netherlands 5 – 0 Moldova

Play-off

First leg: November 15, 2003 Scotland 1 – 0 Netherlands

Second leg: November 19, 2003 Netherlands 6 – 0 Scotland

• The Netherlands won 6 - 1 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
Germany	1 – 1 (1-0)	Netherlands	19:45	Estádio do Dragão	Details
June 19, 2004
Netherlands	2 – 3 (0-0)	Czech Republic	19:45	Estádio Municipal de Aveiro	Details
June 23, 2004
Netherlands	3 – 0 (2-0)	Latvia	19:45	Estádio Municipal de Braga	Details

Quarter-finals

June 26, 2004
Sweden	0 – 0 (0-0)	Netherlands	19:45	Estádio do Algarve	Details
After extra time:	0 – 0 (0-0)	Penalty shootout: 4 – 5

Semi-finals

June 30, 2004
Portugal	2 – 1 (1-0)	Netherlands	19:45	Estádio José Alvalade	Details