Facts and figures from UEFA EURO 2004™ in Portugal
| 0 | Greece travelled to Portugal in 2004 without a single European Championship final round victory under their belts, but Rehhagel’s team went on to lift the trophy. Their success was mainly founded on the three clean sheets they kept in their last three matches (quarter-final against France, semi-final against the Czech Republic and final against Portugal). |
| 2.48 | In the 31 EURO 2004 matches, a total of 77 goals were scored at an average of 2.48 per match. |
| 5 | With five goals, the Czech Republic’s Milan Baros was the tournament’s top goal scorer. |
| 4,947 | voluntary helpers were recruited for the tournament. |
| 6.208 | media representatives were accredited. |
| 600,000 | foreign supporters stayed for an average of seven days, spending EUR 1,320 each on average. 81 per cent of the fans were male and the average age was 32. |
| 151,000,000 | Each of the 31 matches was watched by at least 151 million TV viewers. The cumulative television audience was 7.9 billion and a total of 28,378 hours of airtime was devoted to the event worldwide. Interest was certainly not confined to Europe: in America, 446 million TV viewers tuned in, along with 986 million in Africa and an impressive 1.1 billion in Asia. |
| 500,000,000 | New records were also set on the Internet. The official UEFA EURO 2004™ website registered a total of 500 million hits and more than 40 million users between April and July. |
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