2000 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping
Subsequent to Armstrong's statement to withdraw his fight against United States Anti- Doping Agency's (USADA) charges, on 24 August 2012, the USADA said it would ban Armstrong for life and stripped him of his record seven Tour de France titles. Later that day it was confirmed in a USADA statement that Armstrong was banned for life and would be disqualified from any and all competitive results obtained on and subsequent to 1 August 1998, including forfeiture of any medals, titles, winnings, finishes, points and prizes. On 22 October 2012, the Union Cycliste Internationale endorsed the USADA sanctions, and decided not to award victories to any other rider or upgrade other placings in any of the affected events.


2000 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There were several classifications in the 2000 Tour de France. The most important was the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Tour.


2000 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists got points for finishing among the best in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and was identified with a green jersey.


2000 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There was also a mountains classification. The organisation had categorised some climbs as either hors catégorie, first, second, third, or fourth-category; points for this classification were won by the first cyclists that reached the top of these climbs first, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and wore a white jersey with red polka dots.


2000 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The fourth individual classification was the young rider classification. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders under 26 years were eligible. Up until 1989 the leader received a white jersey. After 1989 the white jersey was no longer awarded, but the classification was still held. In 2000 the race organisers decided to start awarding the white jersey.


2000 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
For the team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time.


2000 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
In addition, there was a combativity award given after each mass-start stage to the cyclist considered most combative, who wore a red number bib the next stage. The decision was made by a jury composed of journalists who gave points. The cyclist with the most points from votes in all stages led the combativity classification. Erik Dekker won this classification, and was given overall the super-combativity award. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange was given in honour of Tour founder Henri Desgrange to the first rider to pass the summit of the Col du Galibier. This prize was won by Pascal Hervé during stage 15. There was also a Souvenir in honour of Gino Bartali, winner of the 1938 and 1948 Tours, given first rider atop the Col d'Izoard on stage 14. This award was won by Santiago Botero.


2000 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11
The 2000 Tour de France was the 87th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Futuroscope with a prologue individual time trial on 1 July and Stage 11 occurred on 11 July with a hilly stage to Revel. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 23 July.


2000 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
1 July 2000 — Futuroscope, 16.5 km (10.3 mi) (individual time trial)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2
2 July 2000 — Futuroscope to Loudun, 194 km (120.5 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3
3 July 2000 — Loudun to Nantes, 161.5 km (100.4 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4
4 July 2000 — Nantes to Saint-Nazaire, 70 km (43 mi) (team time trial)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5
5 July 2000 — Vannes to Vitré, 202 km (126 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6
6 July 2000 — Vitré to Tours, 198.5 km (123.3 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7
7 July 2000 — Tours to Limoges, 205 km (127 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
8 July 2000 — Limoges to Villeneuve-sur-Lot, 203.5 km (126.4 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9
9 July 2000 — Agen to Dax, 181 km (112 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10
10 July 2000 — Dax to Hautacam, 205 km (127 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11
11 July 2000 — Bagnères-de-Bigorre to Revel, 218.5 km (135.8 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21
The 2000 Tour de France was the 87th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Futuroscope with a prologue individual time trial on 1 July and Stage 12 occurred on 13 July with a mountainous stage from Carpentras. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 23 July.


2000 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12
13 July 2000 — Carpentras to Mont Ventoux, 149 km (92.6 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13
14 July 2000 — Avignon to Draguignan, 185.5 km (115.3 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14
15 July 2000 — Draguignan to Briançon, 249 km (155 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 15
16 July 2000 — Briançon to Courchevel, 173.5 km (107.8 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16
18 July 2000 — Courchevel to Morzine, 196 km (122 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17
19 July 2000 — Évian-les-Bains to Lausanne, 155 km (96 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18
20 July 2000 — Lausanne to Freiburg (Germany), 246.5 km (153.2 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19
21 July 2000 — Freiburg (Germany) to Mulhouse, 58.5 km (36.4 mi) (individual time trial)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20
22 July 2000 — Belfort to Troyes, 254.5 km (158.1 mi)


2000 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21
23 July 2000 — Paris (Eiffel Tower) to Paris (Champs-Élysées), 138 km (86 mi)


2000 Tour de Langkawi
The 2000 Tour de Langkawi was the 5th edition of the Tour de Langkawi, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. It began with a prologue criterium on 25 January in Langkawi and ended on 6 February in Kuala Lumpur. In fact, this race was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 2.4 category race.


2000 Tour de Langkawi
Chris Horner of USA won the race, followed by Julio Alberto Pérez of Mexico second and Fortunato Baliani of Italy third. Gordon Fraser won the points classification category and Julio Alberto Pérez won the mountains classification category. Mercury won the team classification category.


2000 Tour de Langkawi, Stages
The cyclists competed in 12 stages, covering a distance of 1,604.9 kilometres. Prologue did not count towards the overall but many riders competed in the stage.


2000 Tour de Langkawi, List of teams and riders
A total of 25 teams were invited to participate in the 2000 Tour de Langkawi. Out of the 149 riders, a total of 126 riders made it to the finish in Kuala Lumpur.


2000 Tour de Pologne
The 2000 Tour de Pologne was the 57th edition of the Tour de Pologne cycle race and was held from 4 September to 10 September 2000. The race started in Braniewo and finished in Karpacz. The race was won by Piotr Przydział.


2000 Tour de Romandie
The 2000 Tour de Romandie was the 54th edition of the Tour de Romandie cycle race and was held from 2 May to 7 May 2000. The race started in Locarno and finished in Geneva. The race was won by Paolo Savoldelli of the Saeco team.


2000 Tour de Suisse
The 2000 Tour de Suisse was the 64th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 13 June to 22 June 2000. The race started in Romanshorn and finished in Zürich. The race was won by Oscar Camenzind of the Lampre team.


2000 Tour de la Région Wallonne
The 2000 Tour de la Région Wallonne was the 27th edition of the Tour de Wallonie cycle race and was held on 29 July to 3 August 2000. The race started in Aubel and finished in Charleroi. The race was won by Axel Merckx.


2000 Tour du Haut Var
The 2000 Tour du Haut Var was the 32nd edition of the Tour du Haut Var cycle race and was held on 19 February 2000. The race started and finished in Draguignan. The race was won by Daniele Nardello.


2000 Tour of Flanders
The 84th running of the Tour of Flanders cycling race in Belgium was held on Sunday 2 April 2000. It was the second leg of the 2000 UCI Road World Cup. Naturalized Belgian Andrei Tchmil won the monument classic ahead of Dario Pieri and Romāns Vainšteins. The race started in Bruges and finished in Meerbeke (Ninove).


2000 Tour of Flanders, Race summary
Several crashes marred the race. Jans Koerts broke his arm and was taken to hospital. Defending champion Peter Van Petegem attacked on Tenbosse, but to no effect. Johan Museeuw tried to go clear on the Muur van Geraardsbergen, but was caught by a large group before the top. After the Bosberg, 11 km from the finish, Andrei Tchmil attacked on a flat stretch and powered on to Meerbeke. Tchmil never had more than 20 seconds over a large chasing group, but won by four seconds over Dario Pieri, who broke clear from the group, and Romāns Vainšteins. At 37, Tchmil became the oldest winner ever of the Tour of Flanders.


2000 Tour of the Basque Country
The 2000 Tour of the Basque Country (Spanish: Vuelta al País Vasco) was the 40th edition of the Tour of the Basque Country cycle race and was held from 3 April to 7 April 2000. The race started in Oñati and finished at Madarixa. The race was won by Andreas Klöden of the Telekom team.


2000 Towson Tigers football team
The 2000 Towson Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Towson University during the 2000 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Towson tied for last in the Patriot League.


2000 Towson Tigers football team
In their ninth year under head coach Gordy Combs, the Tigers compiled a 7–4 record.


2000 Towson Tigers football team
The Tigers outscored opponents 299 to 216. Their 3–3 conference record placed fourth in the seven-team Patriot League standings.


2000 Towson Tigers football team
Towson played its home games at Minnegan Stadium on the university campus in Towson, Maryland.


2000 Toyota Princess Cup
The 2000 Toyota Princess Cup was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Tokyo, Japan. It was part of Tier II of the 2000 WTA Tour. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from 2 October through 8 October 2000. Second-seeded Serena Williams won the singles title and earned $87,000 first-prize money.


2000 Toyota Princess Cup, Finals, Doubles
Julie Halard-Decugis /  Ai Sugiyama defeated  Nana Miyagi /  Paola Suárez, 6–0, 6–2


2000 Toyota Princess Cup – Doubles
Conchita Martínez and Patricia Tarabini were the defending champions, but none competed this year.


2000 Toyota Princess Cup – Doubles
Julie Halard-Decugis and Ai Sugiyama won the title by defeating Nana Miyagi and Paola Suárez 6–0, 6–2 in the final.


2000 Toyota Princess Cup – Singles
Lindsay Davenport was the defending champion, but did not compete this year.


2000 Toyota Princess Cup – Singles
Serena Williams won the title by defeating Julie Halard-Decugis 7–5, 6–1 in the final.


2000 Toyota Princess Cup – Singles, Seeds
The first four seeds seeds received a bye into the second round.


2000 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
Elections to Trafford Council were held on 4 May 2000. One third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a four-year term of office, expiring in 2004. The Labour Party held overall control of the council.


2000 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
After the election, the composition of the council was as follows:


2000 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2000 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament was held at John Sessions Stadium at Alexander Brest Field on the campus of Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida from May 17 through 20. Stetson won its fourth tournament championship to earn the Trans America Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2000 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2000 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding
The top six teams (based on conference results) from the conference earn invites to the tournament.


2000 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Tournament Most Valuable Player
Jeff Christy was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Christy was an outfielder for Stetson.


2000 Trans-Am Series
The 2000 BFGoodrich Tires Trans-Am Series was the 35th season of the Sports Car Club of America's Trans-Am Series. 2000 marked the end of the "American muscle revival" era that had begun in 1989, with Italian manufacturer Qvale winning the championship. It would also mark the rise of Rocketsports Racing's dominance using Jaguar XKRs, which would continue until the series dissolved in 2006, after which team owner Paul Gentilozzi would switch to the American Le Mans Series. The season also marked the final victory for Pontiac in Trans Am, with a win at Texas.


2000 Transnistrian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in the breakaway republic of Transnistria on 10 December 2000. 42 Out of 43 seats were up for election, most of which were won by independent candidates. Women made up 4 of the 42 elected representatives. Grigore Mărăcuţă was elected for a third term as speaker, having the support of 39 out of 41 representatives present at his election.


2000 Tri Nations Series
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2000 Tri Nations Series
The 2000 Tri Nations Series was contested from 15 July to 26 August between the Australia, New Zealand and South Africa national rugby union teams. The Wallabies won the tournament for the first time after a thrilling 19–18 win in Durban.


2000 Tri Nations Series
The opening game of the tournament between Australia and New Zealand attracted a world record rugby union crowd of 109,874 to the Sydney Olympic Stadium.


2000 Tri Nations Series
Australia made it 3 wins in a row in the Bledisloe Cup, having taken it from New Zealand in 1998. (They also won the first ever Mandela Challenge Plate in a one-off home test against South Africa on 8 July, but that was a week before the Tri-Nations began.)


2000 Tri Nations Series, Results
The 15 July Sydney fixture set a world record for a rugby union crowd, with 109,874 spectators filling Telstra Stadium.


2000 Trinidad and Tobago general election
General elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 11 December 2000. The result was a victory for the United National Congress, which won 19 of the 36 seats. Voter turnout was 63.1%.


2000 Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council election
Elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) were held on 30 April and 3 May 2000. The results were declared on 6 May 2000.


2000 Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council election
The election result was a victory for the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT). The IPFT won 18 seats that were up for election. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) was the second largest party with 8 seats.


2000 Tro-Bro Léon
The 2000 Tro-Bro Léon was the 17th edition of the Tro-Bro Léon cycle race and was held on 28 May 2000. The race was won by Jo Planckaert.


2000 Trophée Lalique
The 2000 Trophée Lalique was the fifth event of six in the 2000–01 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris on November 23–26. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2000–01 Grand Prix Final.


2000 Trophée Lalique
The competition was named after the Lalique company, which was its chief sponsor at the time.


2000 Trophée des Champions
The 2000 Trophée des Champions was a football match held at Stade Auguste Bonal, Montbéliard on 22 July 2000, that saw 1999–2000 Division 1 champions AS Monaco FC defeat 2000 Coupe de France winners FC Nantes 6-5 on penalty kicks after a draw of 0–0.


2000 Troy State Trojans football team
The 2000 Troy State Trojans football team represented Troy State University in the 2000 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Trojans played their home games at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Troy, Alabama and competed in the Southland Conference. The 2000 season was Troy State's last season as a full member of Division I-AA before transitioning to Division I-A. Troy State finished the season ranked #3 in the Coaches' Poll and #9 in the Sports Network Poll.


2000 Tulane Green Wave football team
The 2000 Tulane Green Wave football team represented Tulane University in the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Green Wave played their home games at the Louisiana Superdome. They competed in Conference USA. The team was coached by head coach Chris Scelfo.


2000 Tulane Green Wave football team, After the season
The 2001 NFL Draft was held on April 21–22, 2001. The following Green Wave player was selected.


2000 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team
The 2000 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team represented the University of Tulsa in the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Keith Burns. They played home games at Skelly Stadium in Tulsa, Oklahoma and competed as a member of the Western Athletic Conference.


2000 Tunbridge Wells Borough Council election
The 2000 Tunbridge Wells Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Tunbridge Wells Borough Council in Kent, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2000 Turkish census
The 2000 Turkish census was held in 2000 and recorded the population and demographic details of every settlement in Turkey.


2000 Turkish presidential election
The 2000 Turkish presidential election consisted of a first round election on 27 April 2000 followed by a second round vote on 1 May and a third on 5 May. It occurred at the end of 9th president Süleyman Demirel's seven-year term in office. There was a small effort to convert Turkey's presidential system into two terms of five years each, which would have given Demirel an additional three years, but this proposal never found widespread support.


2000 Turkish presidential election
In the months leading to the vote, each of the five largest parliamentary parties informally endorsed their own candidates. However, with their no party with a defining majority, a neutral compromise candidate was sought and eventually found in the form of Ahmet Necdet Sezer, then chief justice at Turkey's Constitutional Court. Sezer was endorsed by the leaders of the governing Democratic Left, Nationalist Action and Motherland parties, as well as the leaders of the opposition Virtue and True Path parties.


2000 Turkish presidential election
A number of MPs broke from party lines to nominate themselves. Among them was parliament speaker and former prime minister Yıldırım Akbulut, who was unable to win popular support and withdrew after the second round.


2000 Turkish presidential election, Procedure
The presidential vote is held in parliament by secret ballot. A candidate requires a two-thirds majority - or 367 votes - to be elected in the first two rounds. If there is no clear winner before the third round, the winning threshold is dropped to a simple majority, or 276 votes. If there is still no winner, the two candidates with the most votes from the third round progress to a runoff election, where the simply majority rule still applies. In the event of no clear winner among the two, the Turkish constitution states that a snap general election must be called to overcome the parliamentary deadlock.


2000 Turkmenistan earthquake
The 2000 Turkmenistan earthquake took place at 8:11 p.m. Moscow Time on December 6 and had a magnitude of 7.0. The intensity of the earthquake reached VIII at its epicenter, and VI at the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat. The epicentre was located approximately 25 kilometers north of the city of Balkanabat and 125 kilometres southeast of Türkmenbaşy. There were unconfirmed reports that the quake killed up to 11 people and injured 5 others.


2000 Turkmenistan earthquake, Tectonic setting
Turkmenistan lies at the northern edge of the zone of complex tectonics caused by the continuing collision between the Arabian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The main structure in the Caspian Sea is the Apsheron Sill, a zone of active subduction. The trend of the Apsheron sill is quite oblique to the overall plate motion and this results in significant amounts of right lateral strike-slip along this structure in an overall transpressional setting. Onshore, the motion along the Apsheron sill is transferred to the Ashgabat Fault, another right lateral strike-slip fault, across a large restraining bend.


2000 Turkmenistan earthquake, Earthquake
The focal mechanism for this event indicates that it was the result of oblique reverse faulting on one of two possible faults, either northwest–southeast or west–east trending.


2000 Tuscan regional election
The Tuscan regional election of 2000 took place on 16 April 2000.


2000 Tuscan regional election, Electoral law
Tuscany used the national Tatarella Law to elect its Council. Thirty-nine councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists; remaining seats and votes are grouped at regional level where a Hare quota is used, and then distributed to provincial party lists.


2000 Tuscan regional election, Results
1999 European election marked a turning point in relations between Forza Italia and the Northern League. In fact, the assembly works in Parliament had highlighted a growing programmatic convergence between the two parties. And so, in view of the 2001 general election, Berlusconi and Umberto Bossi put aside the old, and even bloody quarrels, and formed a new coalition: the House of Freedoms, which found in the regional elections, also in Tuscany, its first test. So the center-right candidate, Altero Matteoli, an important figure on the national landscape, was sustained also by the Northern League, which in 1995 had sustained Chiti.


2000 Tuscan regional election, Results
The combination of what were the major forces of regional politics, securing an appointment to Claudio Martini, which ensured stability of the Regional Cabinet that the new regulations wanted to coincide in term with the legislature. Democrats of the Left was confirmed as the largest party in the region with 36% of the vote, while Forza Italia was the second largest party with 20%. The Olive Tree, an alliance comprising several centre-left parties including the Italian People's Party, the Democrats of the Left, The Democrats, the Federation of the Greens and Party of Italian Communists, had a reconfirmation but lost votes.


2000 Tuscan regional election, Results
Like 1995 election, Communist Refoundation Party run lonely with its candidate.


2000 U.S. Cup
The 2000 Nike United States Cup (U.S. Cup), a Nike-sponsored, United States Soccer Federation (USSF)-organized international football tournament, took place in June 2000. It was the seventh and last U.S. Cup in the series, which began in 1992.


2000 U.S. Cup
The four teams in the competition were the United States team, Ireland, South Africa and Mexico. Of the three teams invited, Ireland was playing its third cup, Mexico its fifth (plus one U.S. Women's Cup) and South Africa its first. Ireland played in the inaugural cup in 1992 while Mexico won three straight Cups before the 2000 tournament. South Africa was the second African team to compete, after Nigeria in 1995.


2000 U.S. Cup, Pre-tournament controversy
The USSF had deliberately scheduled the 2000 U.S. Cup to fall during the 2000 European Championship. USSF hoped to attract two European nations from the pool of countries that failed to qualify for the Euro Cup. Once Euro Cup qualifications determined the final competitors, the USSF invited Ireland, Russia and Scotland, but only Ireland accepted the offer. The USSF then invited South Africa, an African Cup semi-finalist six months earlier. However, South Africa elected to use the U.S. Cup to give several younger players international experience and therefore did not bring its full senior team. While both the lack of European participation and South Africa's decision on player selection disappointed USSF, these paled in comparison to the controversy surrounding Mexico's participation.


2000 U.S. Cup, Pre-tournament controversy
After the 1999 U.S. Cup, USSF had negotiated a three-year contract with the Mexican Soccer Federation, obliging Mexico to send its full international team to the next three U.S. Cups. By the time the 2000 Cup was staged, three major developments threatened Mexico's participation. First, in May 2000 Alberto de la Torre became the new Mexican Football Association president. He took control of a federation which had just failed to qualify for the Summer Olympics and had lost badly at the Gold Cup.


2000 U.S. Cup, Pre-tournament controversy
He quickly fired Hugo Enrique Kiese, chief of the national team commission and the official most responsible for Mexico's three-year contract with USSF. De la Torre was publicly critical of both Kiese and the U.S. Cup contract. To make matters worse, the Mexican League had also extended its season due to weathered out games. This meant that many of the top Mexican players would still be in the post-season during the tournament. Finally, FIFA had pressured CONCACAF to alter its World Cup qualification schedule, making the games earlier than anticipated.


2000 U.S. Cup, Pre-tournament controversy
In fact, the United States and Mexican teams would leave the U.S. Cup and go immediately into preparation for those games. This meant that Mexican players, coming from their domestic league schedule, would have no time to rest before beginning a World Cup qualification campaign. Therefore, de la Torre, just weeks before the cup, asked USSF to reschedule it for August. With Ireland and South Africa confirmed and stadiums scheduled, USSF refused. De la Torre then told USSF that he would refuse to send the Mexican team, but USSF threatened a lawsuit, as well as FIFA sanctions.


2000 U.S. Cup, Pre-tournament controversy
De la Torre brought Kiese back into the Mexican Federation and sent him to break the news to USSF, Mexico would send its "national team", but it would look a lot like the UNAM Pumas. After the tournament, USSF considered canceling its U.S. Cup contract with Mexico, a point which became moot as the 2000 tournament was the last played.


2000 U.S. Cup, June 3: Opening Day
The 2000 U.S. Cup opened with two games on 3 June 2000. The first match pitted South Africa against the host United States in Washington, D.C.'s RFK Stadium. While the United States team had typically drawn well at RFK Stadium in the past, only 16,750 fans arrived for a game played on a clear, 78 °F day. The USSF later blamed the low turnout to poor marketing by the local professional club D.C. United with which USSF had contracted, but this was merely one in a series of mis-steps associated with this cup.


2000 U.S. Cup, June 3: Opening Day
On the field, the United States dominated South Africa. In the 36th minute, Cobi Jones took a pass from Chris Armas, and cut from right to left across the box. As Jones recalls it, "As I was dribbling across the box, the player who was marking me said, 'Shoot it! Shoot it!' So I said, 'OK, I'll shoot it.' I think he was a little bit surprised after the fact." Jones scored again, then assisted on second half goals by Claudio Reyna and Ben Olsen. The game was also notable as United States defender Jeff Agoos reached his 100th cap.


2000 U.S. Cup, June 3: Opening Day
United States - Kasey Keller; Tony Sanneh, Carlos Llamosa, Jeff Agoos, David Regis; Earnie Stewart (Steve Ralston 82'), Chris Armas, Claudio Reyna (captain), Eddie Lewis (Ben Olsen 66'); Brian McBride (Ante Razov 70'), Cobi Jones (Jason Kreis 84')


2000 U.S. Cup, June 3: Opening Day
South Africa - Andre Arendse; Cyril Nzama, Pierre Issa, Andrew Rabutla, David Kannemeyer (Jacob Lekgetho 73'); Helman Mkhalele, Dumisa Ngobe, Thabo Mngomeni, Ivan McKinley (Delron Buckley 33'); Benedict McCarthy (George Koumantarakis 73'), Shaun Bartlett (captain)


2000 U.S. Cup, June 4: Mexico vs. Ireland
The second game began one day later in Chicago's Soldier Field where Mexico and Ireland played to a 2-2 tie. Over 36,000 fans attended despite heavy and nearly constant rain. Mexico dominated the first half but Ireland made a late comeback with goals by Richard Dunne and Dominic Foley. In the last minutes of the game, both teams had opportunities to score the winning goal, but Ireland's Kevin Kilbane shot just wide and Mexico's Joaquin Beltran's header was punched over the bar by Ireland's goalkeeper, Dean Kiely.


2000 U.S. Cup, June 4: Mexico vs. Ireland
Ireland - Dean Kiely, Stephen Carr, Terry Phelan, Gary Breen, Richard Dunne (Phil Babb 82'), Jason McAteer, Matt Holland, Mark Kennedy, Barry Quinn (Kevin Kilbane 41'); Niall Quinn (captain), Robbie Keane (Dominic Foley 46')


2000 U.S. Cup, June 4: Mexico vs. Ireland
Mexico - Sergio Bernal, Joaquin Beltran, Christian Ramirez (Gilberto Jimenez 69'), Raul Alpizar, Israel Lopez, Gerardo Torrado, Luis Perez, Antonio Sancho (captain) (Gerardo Galindo 81'), Horacio Sanchez, Luis Ignacio Gonzalez, Daniel Osorno


2000 U.S. Cup, June 6: United States vs. Ireland
Ireland and the United States played to a 1-1 draw in front of another disappointingly low turnout. Only 16,319 fans, from a heavily Irish immigrant community, came to see the game which was played in a driving rainstorm in Foxboro Stadium. Once again, the USSF blamed local promoters for the poor numbers. On the field, Ireland's Dominic Foley scored first, taking a feed from Stephen McPhail before slipping past United States defender C.J. Brown and beating United States goalkeeper Brad Friedel. The Irish retained their lead until Ante Razov evened the match with a controversial goal.


2000 U.S. Cup, June 6: United States vs. Ireland
Earnie Stewart hit a clearly off-side Razov who scored as the Irish players stood still anticipating that the referee would whistle the ball dead. Instead, the referee and linesmen, all from Mexico, allowed the goal. Three minutes later, the stadium lost power for ten minutes. The game was delayed a further ten minutes as the lights warmed up. The low turnout, off-side goal and power outage merely added to the sense that this was a poorly run tournament.


2000 U.S. Cup, June 6: United States vs. Ireland
After the game, the Irish hinted at a conspiracy between the United States and Mexico as an Irish victory would have won the tournament. Whatever the reason the Mexican officials allowed the goal, the USSF secretary general Hank Steinbrecher denied it was a conspiracy, saying, "I wish we were that sophisticated."


2000 U.S. Cup, June 6: United States vs. Ireland
United States - Brad Friedel, Frankie Hejduk, C.J. Brown, Gregg Berhalter, Greg Vanney, Steve Ralston (Earnie Stewart 46'), John O'Brien (Claudio Reyna 60), Jovan Kirovski, Ben Olsen (Tony Sanneh 75'); Jason Kreis (Cobi Jones 65'), Ante Razov (Brian McBride 88')


2000 U.S. Cup, June 6: United States vs. Ireland
Ireland - Alan Kelly; Stephen Carr, Gary Breen, Phill Babb, Terry Phelan; Stephen McPhail (Jason McAteer 37'), Matt Holland, Gareth Farrelly (Mark Kennedy 72'), Kevin Kilbane, Gary Doherty (Niall Quinn 72'), Dominic Foley (Barry Quinn 88')


2000 U.S. Cup, June 7: Mexico vs. South Africa
Mexico met South Africa before 27,815 fans in the Cotton Bowl. Mexico, clearly the superior side, defeated South Africa 4-2. The Mexican team scored twice in the first half before South Africa staged a brief come-back when Benni McCarthy scored in the 52nd minute making it 2-1. Mexican substitute and coach's son Horacio Sanchez came into the game in the 79th minute and scored two quick goals. Thabo Mngomeni of South Africa scored from a penalty kick in the 89th minute.


2000 U.S. Cup, June 7: Mexico vs. South Africa
Mexico - Sergio Bernal, Joaquin Beltran, Christian Ramirez, Raul Alpizar, Israel Lopez, Gerardo Torrado, Luis Perez, Paulo Cesar Chavez (Carlos Cariño 68'), Jesus Olade (Horacio Sáchez 79'), Luis Hernandez (Luis Ignacio Gonzalez 68'), Daniel Orsono (Jaime Lozano 79')


2000 U.S. Cup, June 7: Mexico vs. South Africa
South Africa - Andre Arendse, Cyril Nzama, Fabian McCarthy, Pierre Issa, Jacob Lekgetho, Dumisi Ngobe (Thabo Mngomeni 71'), Helman Mkhalele (Arthur Zwane 85'), Godfrey Sapula, George Koumantarakis (Patrick Mayo 71'), Benni McCarthy, Delron Buckley


2000 U.S. Cup, June 11: United States vs Mexico (US wins Cup)
Two games were played at Giants Stadium on the final day. In the first match, the United States and Mexico faced each other for the Cup title while Ireland and South Africa played for second place.


2000 U.S. Cup, June 11: United States vs Mexico (US wins Cup)
In the first game, the United States, for the first time in years, easily handled Mexico with a 3-0 win in front of 45,008 fans. In the 33rd minute, Brian McBride took a cross from Earnie Stewart and easily scored from 10 yards. Mexico kept it close until Christian Ramirez received his second yellow of the match in the 70th minute for pulling Cobi Jones to the ground. With Mexico down to ten men, Frankie Hejduk of the United States scored nine minutes later from a rebound from a Cobi Jones shot. Ante Razov scored his second goal of the tournament, when he intercepted a poorly timed pass between Mexican defender Paul Cesar Chavez and his goalkeeper. With this victory, the United States claimed its third U.S. Cup.


2000 U.S. Cup, June 11: United States vs Mexico (US wins Cup)
United States - Kasey Keller, Tony Sanneh, Carlos Llamosa (Gregg Berhalter 71'), Jeff Agoos, David Regis, Earnie Stewart (Frankie Hejduk 76'), Chris Armas, Claudio Reyna (captain), John O'Brien (Ben Olsen 64'), Brian McBride (Ante Razov 81'), Cobi Jones (Jovan Kirovski 89') Coach: Bruce Arena


2000 U.S. Cup, June 11: United States vs Mexico (US wins Cup)
Mexico - Sergio Bernal, Joaquin Beltran, Israel Lopez (captain), Gerrado Torrado, Luis Perez (Luis Ignacio Gonzalez 66'), Paulo Cesar Chavez (Carlos Carino 85'), Horacio Sanchez (Jaime Lozano 46'), Jesus Olalde, Christian Ramirez Raul Lapizar, Daniel Orsono (Ignacio Flores 77') Coach: Hugo Sánchez


2000 U.S. Cup, June 11: United States vs Mexico (US wins Cup)
In the second game of the day, Ireland claimed the second spot in the Cup standings with a 2-1 victory over South Africa. South Africa scored first when captain Shaun Bartlett fed Benni McCarthy for a 14th-minute goal. Ireland came back with a Stephen McPhail goal in the 24th minute. Late in the second half, Niall Quinn scored the winning goal. This was his 20th international goal, placing him in a tie with Frank Stapleton on Ireland's all time goals list.


2000 U.S. Cup, June 11: United States vs Mexico (US wins Cup)
Ireland - Shay Given, Stephen Carr, Terry Phelan, Phil Babb, Gary Breen, Jason McAteer (Mark Kennedy 45'), Matt Holland, Stephen McPhail (Barry Quinn 86'), Alan Mahon (Kevin Kilbane 42'), Dominic Foley (Robbie Keane 46'), Niall Quinn (captain)


2000 U.S. Cup, June 11: United States vs Mexico (US wins Cup)
South Africa - Andre Arendse, Cyril Nzama, Andrew Rabutla, Jacob Lekgetho, Aaron Mokoena, Quinton Fortune (Arthur Zwane 75'), Dumisi Ngobe (Patrick Mayo 46'), Helman Mkhalele (Thabo Mngomeni 75'), Benni McCarthy (Dillon Sheppard 46'), Delron Buckley (Godfrey Sapula 46'), Shaun Barlett (captain)


2000 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The 2000 U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place between February 6 and 13, 2000 at the Gund Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Medals were awarded in four colors: gold (first), silver (second), bronze (third), and pewter (fourth) in four disciplines – men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing – across three levels: senior, junior, and novice.


2000 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The event was used to determine the U.S. teams for the 2000 World Championships, 2000 Four Continents Championships, and the 2000 World Junior Championships.


2000 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships
The 2000 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships was an Association of Tennis Professionals men's tennis tournament held in Orlando, Florida in the United States. It was the 32nd edition of the tournament and was held from May 1 to May 8, 2000. Fernando González, who entered the main draw as a qualifier, won the singles title.


2000 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, Finals, Doubles
Leander Paes /  Jan Siemerink defeated  Justin Gimelstob /  Sébastien Lareau 6–3, 6–4


2000 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Doubles
Jim Courier and Todd Woodbridge were the defending champions, but Courier did not participate this year. Woodbridge partnered Mark Woodforde, losing in the quarterfinals.


2000 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Doubles
Leander Paes and Jan Siemerink won the title, defeating Justin Gimelstob and Sébastien Lareau 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


2000 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Singles
Magnus Norman was the defending champion, but did not compete this year.


2000 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Singles
Qualifier Fernando González won the first title of his career by defeating his compatriot Nicolás Massú 6–2, 6–3 in the final.


2000 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2000 U.S. Open (golf)
The 2000 United States Open Championship was the 100th U.S. Open Championship, held June 15–18 at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. Tiger Woods won his first U.S. Open by a record-setting fifteen strokes over runners-up Ernie Els and Miguel Ángel Jiménez – it remains the most dominating performance and victory in any major championship. As the United States Golf Association wanted to begin the millennium with a memorable tournament, Pebble Beach was moved up two years in the rotation. Notable golfers going into the tournament at large included Jack Nicklaus, playing in his final U.S. Open; Vijay Singh, the year's Masters winner; Ernie Els; and David Duval.


2000 U.S. Open (golf)
Defending champion Payne Stewart had died in an aviation accident on October 25 at the age of 42. His death was commemorated many times throughout the week, starting with a ceremony on the eve of the tournament at the 18th hole. Speakers included Stewart's widow Tracey and his good friend Paul Azinger, while attendees included Phil Mickelson, Davis Love III, David Duval, Tom Lehman, Lee Janzen, Sergio García and Stewart's caddy Mike Hicks, and it concluded with shots being hit into Stillwater Cove in a golf version of a 21-gun salute.


2000 U.S. Open (golf)
García also wore Stewart's trademark navy plus fours in Stewart's honor in the first round. Nicklaus was asked to take Stewart's spot in the traditional opening grouping of the prior year's Open Championship (British Open) winner (Paul Lawrie), U.S. Amateur winner (David Gossett), and U.S. Open winner, and he asked for a moment of silence in Stewart's memory before his opening tee shot.


2000 U.S. Open (golf)
Aside from being the last U.S. Open appearance for Nicklaus, playing in his 44th consecutive U.S. Open, it was also the last appearance for two-time winner Curtis Strange.


2000 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, First round
Players who started early took advantage of the calm conditions before dense fog came in. The second hole proved difficult for many golfers. USGA officials changed the hole from a par-5 to a par-4. Tiger Woods, with an early starting time, fired a six-under 65 to take the first round lead. 75 golfers were unable to complete their rounds due to fog and finished Friday morning. Local favorite and CBS commentator Bobby Clampett, playing in his first event in 21 months, shot 68 to tie for fourth with Hale Irwin and Loren Roberts, three shots behind Woods. Players' Championship winner Hal Sutton tied for seventh after chipping in on the 1st hole for the first ever opening hole eagle in U.S. Open history.


2000 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Second round
Weather conditions made the course extremely difficult for scoring. Tiger Woods, however, seemed almost impervious to the conditions and continued to make birdies to stretch his lead. On the 6th hole, Woods fired a now famous approach to reach the par-5 in two shots, ripping an iron from deep rough over the ocean and a cypress tree and winding up within 15 feet from the hole. He would two-putt for birdie, would also birdie the 7th and 11th holes. With darkness settling in, Woods and his playing partners decided to attempt to play the 12th hole, a par 3, before halting play. Woods made the most of it, sinking a 30-foot putt for birdie and finishing his day with a large fist pump.


2000 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Second round
After returning on Saturday, Woods hooked his tee shot on the 18th hole into the Pacific, which left him with only one ball left, but drove straight at the second attempt and bogeyed the hole to finish with two-under par 69. With the scoring average so difficult, he still increased his lead to six shots. Playing his last U.S. Open hole, Nicklaus memorably reached the 18th green in two shots but ultimately three-putted for par. Lee Westwood finished the round tied for sixth after making an 80-foot eagle putt on the 18th hole for the first eagle on that hole during a U.S. Open.


2000 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Second round
Amateurs: Wilson (+4), Baddeley (+11), Barnes (+11), Gossett (+13), Lile (+14), McLuen (+16).


2000 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Third round
The 36-hole cut was 149 (+7), and only 63 players advanced to the third round. The low number was attributed to the fact that the cut is the top 60 players and ties, plus anyone within 10 strokes of the leader. Only 17 players were within 10 strokes of Woods. Conditions on Saturday were brutal for scoring, with the wind blowing hard and the rough difficult to manage. Woods, after finishing his 2nd round 69, made a triple bogey on the third hole but multiple birdies eventually put him back at even par for the round. Woods drained a 15-foot putt on the 9th hole, the most difficult on the course, and finished at even par for the day with a 71. His ten stroke lead was the largest 54-hole lead of a U.S. Open.


2000 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Third round
Ernie Els shot the low round of the day with a 68, the only round under par all day, to put him into second place.


2000 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round
Tiger Woods won his third major championship in amazing fashion after a final round 67. Woods began his day by making nine consecutive pars, but he only missed one fairway and one green on his way to an outward 35. He would end his par streak with a birdie at the 10th, while his competitors faltered on the brutal poa annua greens. Woods then made three consecutive birdies at 12, 13 and 14 to move to 12-under par. After a par at 15, Woods then got up and down at both 16 and 17 for pars.


2000 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round
He would par the final hole to finish off a bogey-free 67. At twelve strokes under par, he was the only player to finish at even par or better and became the first player in the 106-year history of the U.S. Open to finish at double-digits under par. Only one other player had even reached double-digits under par in a U.S. Open – Gil Morgan in 1992, the last time the tournament had been held at Pebble Beach.


2000 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round
Woods' aggregate 272 tied what was then the lowest score ever in a U.S. Open set by Nicklaus, Lee Janzen and Jim Furyk, all achieved on par-70 courses. His 15-stroke margin of victory also surpassed the 13-shot record margin set by Old Tom Morris at the 1862 Open Championship at Prestwick and remains the largest in a major championship.


2000 U.S. Open (golf), Impact
Tiger Woods would go on to win four majors in a row, the first player since Bobby Jones to simultaneously hold all four major championship titles, otherwise referred to as the "Tiger Slam". The year 2000 is often regarded as the pinnacle of Woods's career.


2000 U.S. Open (golf), Impact
In a 2011 piece for the ESPN outlet Grantland.com, writer Bill Barnwell argued that Woods' performance at the 2000 U.S. Open was statistically the most dominant by any major championship winner since 1960. When compared to the performance of all golfers who completed four rounds in that event, Woods' score of 272 was 4.12 standard deviations better than the mean of the field he competed against—more than half a standard deviation better than the winner of any other major in that period.


2000 U.S. Open Cup
The 2000 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup ran from June through October, 2000, open to all soccer teams in the United States.


2000 U.S. Open Cup
The Chicago Fire earned their second Open Cup by defeating the Miami Fusion 2–1 in the final at Soldier Field, Chicago.


2000 U.S. Open Cup
Amateur club Uruguay SC narrowly missed a major second-round upset, losing in overtime to the Tampa Bay Mutiny. Two PDL teams - the Mid Michigan Bucks and the Chicago Sockers - beat MLS teams in the second round, but the quarterfinals were an all-MLS affair. Mid Michigan came closest to duplicating its second-round upset, losing in a shootout to eventual runner-up Miami. Two referees were used for all games from the second round through the semifinals as part of a FIFA experiment.


2000 U.S. Open Cup, Schedule
Note: Scorelines use the standard U.S. convention of placing the home team on the right-hand side of box scores.


2000 U.S. Open Cup, Schedule, Second round
Twelve MLS, nine A-League, seven D3 Pro League teams enter.


2000 U.S. Women's Open
The 2000 U.S. Women's Open was the 55th U.S. Women's Open, held July 20–23 at the Merit Club in Libertyville, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago and west of Waukegan. Karrie Webb won the first of two consecutive U.S Women's Opens, five strokes ahead of runners-up Cristie Kerr and Meg Mallon. It was the third of Webb's seven major titles.


2000 U.S. Women's Open
This was the first time in 19 years that the championship had been held in the Chicago metropolitan area; the Merit Club course opened eight years earlier in 1992. The purse was $2.75 million, an increase of over 57% from the previous year, with a winner's share of $500,000. Webb also picked up an additional $250,000 bonus from the Nabisco Grand Slam Challenge for winning two majors in the same year.


2000 U.S. Women's Open
This championship was scheduled concurrently with The Open Championship in Scotland, where Tiger Woods won his fourth straight major title at St. Andrews to secure his historic Tiger Slam.


2000 UAB Blazers football team
The 2000 UAB Blazers football team represented the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the college football season of 2000, and was the tenth team fielded by the school. The Blazers' head coach was Watson Brown, who entered his sixth season as UAB's head coach. They played their home games at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, and competed as a member of Conference USA. The Blazers finished their fifth season at the I-A level, and their second affiliated with a conference with a record of 7–4 (3–4 C-USA).


2000 UBS Open Gstaad
The 2000 UBS Open Gstaad was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Roy Emerson Arena in Gstaad in Switzerland and was part of the International Series of the 2000 ATP Tour. It was the 55th edition of the tournament and ran from 10 July until 17 July 2000. First-seeded Àlex Corretja won the singles title.


2000 UBS Open Gstaad, Finals, Doubles
Jiří Novák /  David Rikl defeated  Jérôme Golmard /  Michael Kohlmann 3–6, 6–3, 6–4


2000 UBS Open Gstaad – Doubles
Donald Johnson and Cyril Suk were the defending champions, but competed this year with different partners. Johnson teamed up with Lucas Arnold Ker and lost in the first round to Nicolas Kiefer and Max Mirnyi, while Suk teamed up with Aleksandar Kitinov and also lost in first round to Roger Federer and Marc Rosset.


2000 UBS Open Gstaad – Doubles
Jiří Novák and David Rikl won the title by defeating Jérôme Golmard and Michael Kohlmann 3–6, 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


2000 UBS Open Gstaad – Singles
Albert Costa was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Mariano Puerta.


2000 UBS Open Gstaad – Singles
Àlex Corretja won the title, defeating Puerta in the final 6–1, 6–3.


2000 UBS Open Gstaad – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2000 UC Davis Aggies football team
The 2000 UC Davis football team represented the University of California, Davis in the 2000 NCAA Division II football season. They played as a Division II independent in 2000. They would stay an independent until 2004 when they became a charter member of the Great West Conference (GWC).


2000 UC Davis Aggies football team
The 2000 Aggies were led by eighth-year head coach Bob Biggs and played their home games at Toomey Field. UC Davis finished the regular season undefeated, with a record of ten wins and no losses (10–0). This was the 31st consecutive year UC Davis finished with a winning record.


2000 UC Davis Aggies football team
At the end of the season the Aggies were ranked #1 in the West Region and were invited to the Division II playoffs for the fifth year in a row. In the first round they defeated 4th-ranked (West) Chadron State at their home stadium in Davis, California. In the second round (quarterfinal) they again played in their home stadium, and defeated 3rd-ranked (West) Mesa State. In the semifinal round (quarterfinal) they again played in their home stadium, and were upset by the #3 ranked team in the Northeast Region Bloomsburg. That brought the Aggies final record to twelve wins and one loss (12–1). The Aggies averaged scoring 48 points per game, outscoring their opponents 622–258 for the season.


2000 UC Davis Aggies football team, NFL Draft
The following UC Davis Aggies players were selected in the 2001 NFL Draft.


2000 UCF Golden Knights football team
The 2000 UCF Golden Knights football team represented the University of Central Florida in the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. Their head coach was Mike Kruczek, who was in his third season with the team. The 2000 season marked the Golden Knights fifth year since ascending to the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision in 1996.


2000 UCF Golden Knights football team, Season summary
Quarterback Vic Penn was sidelined after four games with a separated shoulder. Redshirt freshman Ryan Schneider was elevated to starting quarterback, and won his first start, a 31-10 triumph over Eastern Michigan.


2000 UCF Golden Knights football team, Season summary
During the season, UCF recorded its biggest win in program history at the time, when the Golden Knights upset the Alabama Crimson Tide during their Homecoming 40–38 on a last-second field goal by Javier Beorlegui. The victory was part of a mid-season streak where the Golden Knights won six out of seven games.


2000 UCF Golden Knights football team, Season summary
The season finale was a much-anticipated, nationally televised match-up hosting #8 Virginia Tech. Over 50,000 fans packed the Citrus Bowl, and Hokies quarterback Michael Vick sat out with an ankle injury. Mistakes ruled the day, as Ryan Schneider threw four interceptions, and the Hokies jumped out to a 30-7 halftime lead. Lee Suggs rushed for five touchdowns, as the Knights fell 44-21.


2000 UCF Golden Knights football team, Season summary
Despite a strong 7-4 record, the Golden Knights were not selected for a bowl at the end of the season. The lack of a conference affiliation worked heavily against UCF's favor, and rumors of a possible invitation to the Las Vegas Bowl never came to fruition.


2000 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships
The 2000 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships were held in Sint-Michielsgestel, Netherlands on Saturday January 28 and Sunday January 29, 2000. This was the first year that a women's event was held. The track for the race was 2660 meter long with 700 meter road, 1080 meter grass and 880 meter forest trail.


2000 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships
The 2000 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships were held in Sierra Nevada, Andalusia, Spain from 7 to 11 June 2000. The disciplines included were cross-country, downhill, dual slalom, and trials. The event was the 11th edition of the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships and the 15th edition of the UCI Trials World Championships.


2000 UCI Road World Championships
The 2000 UCI Road World Championships took place in Plouay, France, between October 9 and October 15, 2000. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women.


2000 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
The men's road race at the 2000 UCI Road World Championships was the 67th edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 15 October 2000 in Plouay, France. The race was won by Romāns Vainšteins of Latvia.


2000 UCI Road World Championships – Men's time trial
The Men's Individual Time Trial at the 2000 UCI Road World Championships was the 7th edition of the event. The race took place on 12 October 2000 in Plouay, France. The race was won by Serhiy Honchar of Ukraine.


2000 UCI Road World Championships – Women's time trial
The Women's time trial at the 2000 UCI Road World Championships took place over a distance of 24.5 kilometres (15.2 miles) in Plouay, France on 11 October 2000.


2000 UCI Road World Cup
The 2000 UCI Road World Cup was the twelfth edition of the UCI Road World Cup. It was won by Erik Zabel.


2000 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
The 2000 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Manchester, United Kingdom from October 26 to October 30, 2000.


2000 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
The 2000 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics is a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling. The season ran from 19 May 2000 to 13 August 2000. The World Cup is organised by the UCI.


2000 UCI Women's Road World Cup
The 2000 UCI Women's Road World Cup was the third edition of the UCI Women's Road World Cup. Seven rounds were contested; compared to 1999, the Trophée International and the New Zealand World Cup were dropped, while the Ladies Tour Beneden-Maas was replaced by the Rotterdam Tour. Diana Žiliūtė won the series for the second time, having won the inaugural series in 1998.


2000 UCLA Bruins baseball team
The 2000 UCLA Bruins baseball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 2000 NCAA Division I baseball season. The team played their home games in Jackie Robinson Stadium. The Bruins finished the season with a 38–26 overall record. With a 17–7 conference record, UCLA shared the Pacific-10 Conference Championship with Arizona and Stanford. The team qualified for the 2000 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, and were seeded #1 in the Oklahoma City Regional. The Bruins beat Delaware and Oklahoma to reach the regional finals.


2000 UCLA Bruins baseball team
UCLA again played the Oklahoma Sooners in the finals, and beat them 11–3 to advance to the Baton Rouge Super Regionals. The Bruins faced the LSU Tigers, who were the #1 seed from the Baton Rouge Regional. UCLA lost the first game of the series 2–8, and lost the second game 8–14. LSU went on to win the 2000 College World Series, and never lost a game in the entire tournament.


2000 UCLA Bruins baseball team
UCLA set the NCAA record for most players drafted from a university in a single season when 12 players were picked in the 2000 Major League Baseball Draft.


2000 UCLA Bruins baseball team, UCLA Bruins in the 2000 MLB Draft
The following members of the UCLA Bruins baseball program were drafted in the 2000 Major League Baseball Draft.


2000 UCLA Bruins football team
The 2000 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. They played their home games at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California and were led by head coach Bob Toledo.


2000 UEFA Champions League Final
The 2000 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match that took place on 24 May 2000. The match was played at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France, to determine the winner of the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League. The final pitted Spanish teams Real Madrid and Valencia. It was the first time in the Champions League or the European Cup that two clubs from the same country competed in the final.


2000 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary
The match saw a headed goal from Fernando Morientes and a spectacular Steve McManaman volley put Real Madrid 2–0 ahead, before Raúl sealed the win with a breakaway third goal, rounding Santiago Cañizares after Real had cleared a Valencia corner.


2000 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary
The win was Real's eighth European Cup Championship overall and their second in three years, and was notable for being Vicente del Bosque's first title as manager. It was also a landmark for being the first final played between two teams from the same nation. Upon this win, McManaman became the first English player to win the tournament with a non-English club.


2000 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Details
Assistant referees: Gennaro Mazzei (Italy) Piergiuseppe Farneti (Italy)Fourth official: Domenico Messina (Italy)


2000 UEFA Cup Final
The 2000 UEFA Cup Final was a football match that took place on 17 May 2000 at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark to decide the winner of the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup. The game event pitted Galatasaray of Turkey and Arsenal of England, and was the final match of the 1999–2000 season, the 29th final of Europe's second largest club football competition, the UEFA Cup. It was Galatasaray's first appearance in a final of a European tournament and Arsenal's first UEFA Cup final.


2000 UEFA Cup Final
Both clubs competed in the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League; with each team finishing in third place of the first group stage, Galatasaray behind Chelsea and Hertha Berlin and Arsenal behind Barcelona and Fiorentina, thus exiting the competition, and qualifying for the third round of the UEFA Cup. From there, the two sides advanced through the fourth round, the quarter-finals and the semi-finals to progress to the final. Galatasaray overcame Bologna, Borussia Dortmund, Mallorca and Leeds United on their way, while Arsenal defeated Nantes, Deportivo La Coruña, Werder Bremen and Lens.


2000 UEFA Cup Final
The match was attended by 38,919 spectators, as Galatasaray won 4–1 on penalties following extra time, making it the first time for a Turkish side to win a European honour. They also obtained a Treble, having also won the Turkish league championship and the Turkish domestic cup titles. As a result of their triumph, Galatasaray became the first UEFA Cup winner to compete for the UEFA Super Cup, following the dissolution of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, and also initially qualified for the later-cancelled 2001 FIFA Club World Championship. The final was somewhat marred by the riots between supporters of the two sides.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Galatasaray
Galatasaray were required to qualify for the group stage, as Turkey's country coefficient only held qualifying places. The Turks entered the third qualifying round of the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League, the final qualifying game of the competition, where they competed against Rapid Wien in two matches. Galatasaray won the first leg with 3–0 at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion, and earned their spot in the first group stage following a 1–0 win at their home arena, Ali Sami Yen Stadium in the decisive leg. Galatasaray were scheduled to take part in Group G, containing Chelsea, Hertha BSC and Milan. Six matches were played, as they recorded a total two wins, one draw and three defeats, thus descending into the third round of the UEFA Cup.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Galatasaray
Galatasaray faced Bologna in the competition's third round. The first game was played at Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, which ended in a 1–1 draw; the Italian side took the lead after a Giuseppe Signori goal during the second half, before Hakan Şükür levelled the score, with eight minutes remaining. At home, the Turkish side scored twice during the first half, and conceded once, as they won the match 2–1, and the overall leg 3–2. Galatasaray were pitted against Borussia Dortmund in the fourth round. Gala won 2–0 away at Westfalenstadion, while a scoreless draw in the homecoming match was enough for Galatasaray to see them through.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Galatasaray
In the quarter-finals, Galatasaray's opponents were Mallorca. They won the first match with 4–1, which was played at Son Moix. They booked their place in the next round by clinching a 2–1 home victory in the return leg, winning 6–2 on aggregate. Galatasaray were up against Leeds United in the semi-finals. The Istanbul side began their first game on home soil with a 2–0 win, following goals by Şükür and Capone. At Elland Road, their second match ended in a 2–2 stalemate, with Gheorghe Hagi and Şükür netting, thus winning the tie 4–2 and proceeding to the final.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Arsenal
Arsenal qualified automatically into the Champions League group stage because of England's country coefficient. They were drawn in Group B, along with AIK, Barcelona and Fiorentina. Each club played six matches, with Arsenal registering two victories, two draws and two defeats. This meant they finished in third place, one point behind second place holders Fiorentina, and hence entered the third round stage of the UEFA Cup.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Arsenal
Arsenal competed against Nantes in the third round of the contest. At their home venue, Arsenal Stadium, they defeated the French club 3–0, before recording a 3–3 draw at the Stade de la Beaujoire, ensuring the Gunners a 6–3 aggregate victory. They battled Deportivo La Coruña in the fourth round. Arsenal played at their home ground in the first match, and comprehensively beat the Spanish outfit by five goals to one, before suffering a 2–1 loss at Estadio Municipal de Riazor, which was still enough to take the English side to the next round on aggregate.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Arsenal
Werder Bremen were next up in the quarter-finals. Goals apiece by Thierry Henry and Freddie Ljungberg helped them to a 2–0 victory at home. Arsenal sealed their place in the semi-finals in the second leg played at the Weserstadion, a match which they won 4–2 after Ray Parlour's hat-trick and a lone Henry goal to register a 6–2 aggregate win. In the semi-finals, Arsenal collided with Lens. The first leg took place at home, and the Gunners won by one goal to nil, through an early goal scored by Dennis Bergkamp. They advanced at Stade Félix-Bollaert with a 2–1 victory, overall winning 3–1 to reach the final.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Background
Galatasaray and Arsenal met each other for the first time in a European football competition, though the Turkish outfit had faced English clubs formerly on eight occasions. Their first was against Manchester United, in the 1993–94 Champions League second round, which they won 3–3 on away goals in a two-legged match. Both teams were reunited in the following season of the group stage, which concluded in a goalless tie and a Galatasaray blow. Other meetings include against West Bromwich Albion in the commencing round of the 1978–79 UEFA Cup, and Chelsea in this year's Champions League campaign. Arsenal by contrast ran into Turkish opposition twice, both of them against Fenerbahçe in the 1979–80 European Cup Winners' Cup first round; the home game was won by the English side 2–0, while the away leg ended in a 0–0 draw.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Background
Arsenal had a better European record, compared to Galatasaray going into the match; they defeated Anderlecht with a 4–3 aggregate winning result, in the final of the 1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. The London-based club reached the Cup Winners' Cup finales three times, in 1980, where they suffered a 5–4 defeat in a penalty shoot-out to Valencia, following a 0–0 stalemate; Arsenal also reached the 1994 final, winning 1–0 over Parma, and the following edition, losing 2–1 at the hands of Real Zaragoza. Their 1994 success led to them qualifying for that year's European Super Cup, where they were beaten 2–0 by Milan on aggregate in two games. This was Arsenal's first UEFA Cup (sixth in total) European final. The club were considered favorites to win the match.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Background
Galatasaray entered the final in search for a Treble. Their fourteenth and fourth successive Turkish league title was confirmed on the final matchday. The Turkish club added the domestic cup to their trophy cabinet, after Antalyaspor was defeated with a 5–3 victory in the 2000 Turkish Cup Final. The side participated in their first UEFA Cup and European competition final, while also becoming the first ever team from Turkey to make the final in a UEFA club football competition.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Ticketing
Before the final, both finalists were awarded 12,000 tickets. The Danish Football Union announced that 9,000 tickets would be offered, for sale to the public, while the remaining 3,000 were sold to other European countries. UEFA allocated another 3,000 tickets to their officials and VIP members. Problems ensued after it was revealed that Galatasaray had been charging the tickets more than the original price, in order to prevent some football hooligans from entering the ground. The Turkish club's secretary general however, denied this and insisted that the tickets were being sold at their original price and to support the stadium and the club's other sporting activities.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Venue
Parken Stadium was selected as the venue for the final, after a decision made by the UEFA Executive Committee. It is located in the Indre Østerbro territory in Copenhagen; the site was once known as Idrætsparken, with the opening premiere held in 1911. It was the home of the Denmark national football team and Kjøbenhavns Boldklub's (KB) matches, until 1990, when the venue underwent reconstruction by the Danish lending company Baltica Finans A/S, with the former scrapped in favour of the new name, Parken Stadium.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Venue
The concept was supported by the Danish Football Union with a contract that all of Denmark's national games would take place at the stadium for fifteen years. The price of the renovation was DKK640 million (£740 million). It made its debut two years later, in 1992, and has since then been the home base for F.C. Copenhagen's fixtures.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Venue
This was the second occasion that a major European final had been staged at Parken. The venue also hosted the 1994 Cup Winners' Cup Final between Arsenal and Parma.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Match ball
Adidas Terrestra Silverstream was the official match ball used in the final. It was assembled and marketed by German sport firm Adidas, and was the ninth ball in the European Championship series, as well as part of the Adidas Finale. The ball's design was created by British independent brand specialist company Design Bridge, and influenced by the waters, in the Netherlands and Belgium. The ball contains synthetic foam layers, making it more comfortable to grip and smoother to control. The Terrestra Silverstream was later unveiled as the official match ball of the UEFA Euro 2000.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Match officials
Before the final, a match official team from the Royal Spanish Football Federation was appointed, with Antonio López Nieto as the main referee of the final, his second UEFA Cup final since 1998 between Inter Milan and Lazio. Nieto obtained his international referee badge in 1993, and had previously taken charge of 30 European tournament games – 15 UEFA Champions League and 15 UEFA Cup matches. The Spaniard made his European debut in the second leg of the first-round tie between Manchester United and Honvéd in the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League. He was also present in the match referees squad during the UEFA Euro 1996 qualifiers and the main event, as well as at the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Match officials
Nieto was joined by assistant referees Fernando Tresaco Gracia and Victoriano Giráldez Carrasco and fourth official Arturo Daudén Ibáñez.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Opening ceremony
An opening ceremony was held, prior to the match. At the start of the event, cheerleading girls dressed in pom-pom clothing stepped onto the football pitch to entertain the crowd; the routine also featured a small number of Danish–Turkish girls from a local school, performing a folk dance display containing Turkish elements. The act was succeeded by an appearance from Danish pop singer and actor Stig Rossen, who sang an alternative version of the notable song "Wonderful Copenhagen". Prince Joachim of Denmark, the youngest of Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik's two children, welcomed the opening ceremony by making a short speech to all the seated spectators in the stadium.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Broadcasting
The final was made available on television, across 185 countries, with an estimated 500 million viewers. Danish television channel DR1 announced that they would use seventeen cameras, for the match coverage. In the United Kingdom, BBC One, the main channel of the public television corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation acquired the rights for the final; the network broadcast the event, with live commentary provided by veteran professional sports pundit and television presenter Barry Davies, who was assisted by former English footballer Trevor Brooking. In the United Kingdom, the final came second in the overnight ratings list, with 9.1 million viewers, behind an episode of Coronation Street. The game was shown on Fox Sports World in the United States. In Turkey, the match was broadcast on the public television channel TRT 1.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Match, Summary, First half
Arsenal started the match through a kick-off by Henry. Three minutes into the match, captain Tony Adams attempted to clear the ball with a header, only for it to land at the feet of Arif Erdem, who attempted a volley from outside the Arsenal area that was deflected on to the post, with Galatasaray being awarded a corner. Erdem took it, but failed to trouble the defence and the ball was easily cleared.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Match, Summary, First half
Arsenal responded via Bergkamp, who received the ball from Marc Overmars; Bergkamp attempted to outrun Galatasaray defenders Capone and Gheorghe Popescu and into their area, but he was unable to keep the ball in play. Arsenal fashioned more chances, as Overmars won a one-on-one encounter against Capone, trying to reach Bergkamp, but the ball was easily read by Popescu and put out for a corner. The corner came to nothing, with Patrick Vieira trying to hit the ball, but an opportunity went to Henry, whose shot went over the bar. A third of the match played, Arsenal were awarded a free-kick after Okan Buruk received a yellow card for a slide tackle on Vieira.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Match, Summary, First half
Martin Keown took the free-kick, which Popescu unsuccessfully attempted to clear, giving Overmars a shot on goal, a volley which went over. One minute later, Galatasaray's first opportunity came when Erdem received a straight ball from a Hagi-taken free-kick and took a shot, which goalkeeper David Seaman managed to keep out with his left hand for a corner. The corner was taken, but no Galatasaray player was available to direct the ball towards the goal.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Match, Summary, First half
Arsenal would create more opportunities, when Sylvinho snatched the ball from Hagi and ran down Galatasaray's left, before putting in a cross to the running Henry, who was halted by a clearance from Bülent Korkmaz. As Galatasaray grew more into the game, Erdem exchanged passes with Şükür, whose bicycle kick went completely off target. Arsenal began creating more chances – in the 35th minute, Overmars made a low powerful shot on goal, forcing Cláudio Taffarel to make a diving save. Overmars then made another run into the area, but his attempt went across the goal. Galatasaray nearly took the lead with only two minutes of the first half remaining, when Şükür found Erdem, who beat the offside trap. However, his shot went just wide.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Match, Summary, Second half
Galatasaray kicked off the second half, with neither team having made any substitutions. During the third minute, Vieira picked out Parlour, but his shot hit the outside of the net. Galatasaray almost scored the opening goal, when Okan Buruk played in Hakan Şükür, whose shot hit the right post. Arsenal attempted to strike, with Sylvinho passing Hagi, and finding Henry, who in turn put in a cross for Keown, only for his shot to go over. Later, Parlour sent a long ball into the Galatasaray midfield, but no Arsenal player was there to pick up the ball.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Match, Summary, Second half
A free-kick was given to Bergkamp after a foul on Overmars, but it was cleared with a Popescu header. Galatasaray attempted an attack on the counter, with Capone giving the ball to Hagi, who lost his balance while preparing to take a shot. After receiving a pass, Hagi put in a wide cross for Şükür, but he was denied a shot on target after a clearance. Arsenal had another chance, when Henry snatched the ball from Korkmaz, and entered the penalty area, only to see his shot to go off target.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Match, Summary, Second half
A throw-in by Hagi led to Şükür attempting to reach Erdem, who was in the penalty area, but he was tackled and play continued, which saw Arsenal attack on the counter under Parlour, whose volley went wide. Overmars then had an opportunity, after being given the ball by Henry, but the shot was off target. In the 70th minute, Korkmaz exchanged passes with Erdem, but his effort was successfully blocked by Tony Adams. Three minutes later, Parlour attempted a bending cross for Henry, but Taffarel read it easily.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Match, Summary, Second half
A well-played pass by Nwankwo Kanu ensured the ball reached Henry on the left area, who proceeded to give it to Overmars in the penalty area. Overmars's shot fell flat, but was still enough to force Taffarel to make a save. With four minutes of normal time remaining, the Turks came close to a winning goal, when Şükür collected the ball from the centre and entered Arsenal's area, but lost his footing before he could make an effort on goal, allowing Seaman to pick up the ball. Two minutes of injury time were added on, just when a free-kick was awarded to Galatasaray. Şükür took the shot, but the ball went around the wall and wide. It proved to be the final event in normal time, as the match entered extra time.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Match, Summary, Extra time
With the match entering extra time and the golden goal rule applying, both sides had chances to score the decisive goal. In the second minute, Henry beat two defenders to enter the opponent's area, but his shot went just across the goal. Shortly after, Hagi received a straight red card, after game footage showed the player holding and striking Adams in the back; the Arsenal captain was awarded a yellow card for hitting Hagi during the altercation.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Match, Summary, Extra time
As a result, Arsenal began to put the Turkish side under pressure by creating more chances through Henry, who almost won the game when he directed a header on goal from a long cross by Parlour, which Taffarel managed to keep out. Overmars's effort was then blocked by a Galatasaray defender.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Match, Summary, Extra time
Near the start of the second half in extra time, Galatasaray's first opportunity came, when Şükür attempted a shot from a Popescu cross, but the ball hit the side netting. After seven minutes, Kanu beat a defender, dribbled into the Galatasaray area and shot the ball twice, only to be denied twice by Taffarel. In the dying minutes both teams continued to create decisive chances – Galatasaray's Popescu was given a free-kick, after Şükür was brought down by Keown. However, the ball flew straight into Seaman's arms. Arsenal's Sylvinho put in a cross into the Galatasaray area to Henry, but ball was cleared away. The final whistle was blown and the match moved into a penalty shoot-out.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Match, Summary, Penalty shoot-out
Galatasaray's Ergün Penbe stepped up to take the first spot kick and scored. He placed the ball inside the near right-hand corner, just past Seaman, who dived to his left. Davor Šuker was the first man up to take Arsenal's penalty kick. His effort proved to be unsuccessful, as the ball hit the left-hand post and bounced off the goal. Şükür became the next player to take Galatasaray's spot kick. He scored as he lobbed the ball in the right-hand corner. With Galatasaray leading 2–0, Arsenal's next penalty taker was Parlour.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Match, Summary, Penalty shoot-out
He placed the ball on the spot and successfully scored by burying the ball to Taffarel's right to make it 2–1. Ümit Davala calmly placed the goal, near the centre of the goal to make it 3–1 to Galatasaray. Arsenal's only hope now was Vieira, but the midfielder missed and hit the crossbar instead. Popescu then stepped up, and netted with a powerful shot, as Galatasaray won the penalty shoot-out 4–1.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Match, Details
Assistant referees: Fernando Tresaco Gracia (Spain) Victoriano Giráldez Carrasco (Spain)Fourth official: Arturo Daudén Ibáñez (Spain)


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Aftermath
After the players had collected their medals, UEFA president Lennart Johansson handed over the trophy to Bülent Korkmaz. Korkmaz celebrated by raising the silverware, together with Şükür and the rest of the Galatasaray squad on the podium, including the ejected Hagi himself as golden confetti rained down. A selected UEFA panel named Taffarel as the man of the match, and presented him with a trophy after the game.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Aftermath
Galatasaray manager Fatih Terim expressed his delight following his side's victory. He was interviewed by the Turkish press and dedicated the cup to Turkey and its public, particularly to those who lost their lives during the 1999 İzmit earthquake: "Many people suffered terribly in the earthquake in Turkey last year and if this victory brings some happiness back into their lives then I am delighted and so are all the players.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Aftermath
We are very proud if we are able to help the Turkish people in some small way and this victory is for the whole country and all of the soccer fans in Turkey. I believe they were all united behind us. Terim also praised his own players and Taffarel: "I am proud and delighted he is in my team. He was magnificent and thoroughly deserved to be man of the match". Popescu, a former defender of Tottenham Hotspur, also indulged in the triumph and said: "I am sure the fans at my old club are delighted as well!"


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Aftermath
As some Arsenal players were seen consoling each other, manager Arsène Wenger was left to rue the defeat and said that his Arsenal side could not take their chances: "It was not a huge advantage for us to have Hagi sent off, sometimes you defend better with 10 men because everybody is focused." He was displeased with the penalty shoot-out and criticised Spanish referee Antonio López Nieto for deciding the penalty shoot-out to take place in front of Galatasaray fans. Wenger was also unhappy with the decision made by UEFA officials regarding a coin toss during extra time, which would affect where the spot kicks would be taken.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Aftermath
The win was widely celebrated in Turkey; Galatasaray players and staff received a hero's welcome in Istanbul from the club's fans. The Turkish media hailed the match as one of the best achievements in their sports history and the biggest in football, the country's most popular sport. The Ministry of Youth and Sports minister Fikret Ünlü, who attended the final, described the performance as "marvelous" and "a big present from Galatasaray to Turkey".


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Aftermath
Ahmet Necdet Sezer, the President of Turkey highlighted the club's success by awarding the team with the State Medal of Distinguished Service, as a result for winning the country's first European competition. In August 2013 the two sides met in an Emirates Cup pre-season match. The friendly ended in a 2–1 win for Galatasaray.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Fan riots
The final was overshadowed by riots between the two sides – it began when Galatasaray fans stormed a club in Strøget, composed of Arsenal supporters. Arsenal fans responded by provoking the Galatasaray followers, along with fans of other clubs involved, as retribution for the two Leeds United supporters murdered, before the club's semi-final first leg match against Galatasaray. Four Britons and Turks were apprehended by the Danish riot police following the violence. The turmoil was covered by some British media; tabloid newspaper the Daily Mirror, published images, believed to be the Arsenal fans involved in the onslaught, while BBC News, ITN News and Sky News reported and broadcast television footage of the riots.


2000 UEFA Cup Final, Fan riots
One Arsenal supporter, Paul Dineen was stabbed in the back with a knife, during the riots in a pub, near the City Hall Square. The incident caused Arsenal to offer their fans full compensation, if they did not want to travel and attend the match. Another three members of the public, identified as one Englishman, Turk and Dutchman were also wounded by knifing when the event was still under its way. Sixty people, all presumed to have been involved, were detained by Danish law enforcement, while another 19 suffered injuries as a result of the violence.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots
The 2000 UEFA Cup Final Riots, also known as the Battle of Copenhagen, were a series of riots in City Hall Square, Copenhagen, Denmark between fans of English football team Arsenal and Turkish team Galatasaray around the 2000 UEFA Cup Final on 17 May 2000. Four people were stabbed in the scuffles, which also involved fans from other clubs and were viewed by the media as part of a retaliation for the killing of two Leeds United fans by Galatasaray supporters the month before.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots
The events of the day started early in the morning when skirmishes broke out in a bar, which led to an Arsenal fan being stabbed. Later in the day, Galatasaray fans occupied City Hall Square before heading towards Arsenal fans in bars nearby. The Galatasaray fans were later attacked from behind by members of British hooligan firms seeking revenge for the Istanbul stabbings. The police had prior warning of potential trouble and deployed 2,000 officers to the area, yet they were unable to control the riot until they fired tear gas. This led to 19 injuries, including 4 stabbings, and 60 arrests with similar events occurring in England and Turkey in the aftermath of the riots.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots
Football authorities condemned the riots and threatened to expel national football teams from European competition if such events happened again. The Danish police were also criticized for their mishandling of the riots.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, History
Arsenal qualified for the final by defeating French club Lens in their semi-final. Galatasaray beat English team Leeds United but their matches were marred by violence: two Leeds United fans were stabbed to death before their semi-final first leg at Galatasaray's Ali Sami Yen Stadium in Istanbul on 6 April 2000. The events happened at 22:00 in Istanbul's Taksim Square during a fight between Leeds fans and Galatasaray fans. Leeds fans had been drinking in bars reportedly taunting local people and Turkish police intervened to stop fights breaking out. There were reports that a Galatasaray fan had run to a telephone to call for support when he saw Leeds fans arriving. Galatasaray fans entered the area shortly afterwards which precipitated a fight between the two sets of supporters. This led to the two Leeds fans being stabbed.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, History
It was not clear how the fight started, with reports of it either being started by Leeds fans throwing beer glasses and insulting the Turkish flag, or being started by Galatasaray fans throwing chairs. Police arrested Ali Umit Demir and three other men for the stabbings. Demir was later found guilty of murder and was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, but released in 2004. As a result of the stabbings, Leeds United banned Galatasaray fans from attending the second leg at Elland Road, claiming that the safety of fans could not be guaranteed. The ban was supported by UEFA and only 80 tickets were issued to Galatasaray for officials and representatives of the Turkish government.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, History
The stabbings caused anger throughout the United Kingdom, and subsequently members of Arsenal's hooligan firms The Herd and The Gooners, wanted to avenge the deaths of the Leeds fans, and telephoned other British hooligan firms, inviting them to join them in Copenhagen to attack Galatasaray fans. It was reported that members of Leeds United's Leeds United Service Crew and Chelsea's Chelsea Headhunters, along with hooligans supporting Rangers, Cardiff City and Swansea City all travelled to Denmark to join Arsenal fans in attacks on Galatasaray fans. This led to the final being considered "high risk"; 2,000 members of the Danish police were assigned to the game, with assistance from members of British and Turkish police forces.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Events, In Copenhagen
On the Wednesday at 1:00, Galatasaray fans attacked a bar in Strøget in Copenhagen, where some Arsenal fans were located. The Arsenal fans left the bar to confront the Galatasaray fans, which led to a fight lasting for an hour before riot police managed to control it and arrested four Britons and four Turks. In the fight, Paul Dineen, an Arsenal fan, was stabbed, leading to Arsenal offering fans refunds if they did not want to fly to the game. Dineen was released from hospital later in the day and attended the match as a guest of the Arsenal directors.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Events, In Copenhagen
Throughout the day large numbers of fans, both English and Turkish, were seen throughout the city and at the airport. Later, large numbers of Galatasaray fans congregated in Copenhagen's City Hall Square, raising the Turkish flag in the square. Arsenal fans congregated in nearby bars. Galatasaray fans attempted to provoke the Arsenal fans in the bars, and the two sides began chanting at each other until bottles were thrown from both sides around 16:00. The Danish police then moved in to separate the fans, and moved the Galatasaray fans back towards the square.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Events, In Copenhagen
Then, in a calculated attack, approximately 500 Arsenal fans attacked from the main road behind the Galatasaray fans. This caused a severe riot in the city square, with several restaurant facilities used by fans to fight each other, with iron bars and knives also being used. This lasted 20 minutes before the Danish police attempted to break up the melee with dogs and tear gas. The violence, which included fans from other English clubs and Turks living in Denmark, lasted for 45 minutes. There were further clashes at the airport the day after the game.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Events, In Copenhagen
At Parken Stadium, where the final was to be played, the police erected iron fencing outside to separate the Arsenal and Galatasaray fans as a precaution. UEFA also requested that fences be put up around the perimeter of the pitch. The riots did not spread to the stadium, although there was an attempt to pull down the fences by fans heading towards the Arsenal area of the stadium before police stopped them.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Events, In England and Turkey
After the match, which Galatasaray won 4–1 on penalties, approximately 300 Arsenal fans in the Finsbury Park area of Islington in London attacked Turkish restaurants and businesses, with bottles being used to break windows. They then broke into an apartment building to threaten Kosovan refugees with a knife, mistakenly believing them to be Turkish. Six people were arrested and three Metropolitan Police officers were injured. In Turkey, nine people were accidentally shot and injured by Galatasaray fans firing guns in celebration despite police warning them not to.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Injuries and arrests
In all, four people were stabbed during the riots: two English, one Turkish and one Dutch fan. A Danish police officer and a Turkish cameraman were also injured in the riots. In total, nineteen people were injured and sixty people were arrested, with 15 of the arrested being subsequently banned from attending Euro 2000. Nineteen of the arrested were British, thirty-six were Turkish and the rest of the arrested included people from Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands. The British fans were later released without charge but were forbidden from returning to Denmark. The rest were fined an equivalent of $500 and banned from Denmark for a year.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Aftermath
The day after the riots, FA Executive Director David Davies, issued an apology for the violence. The Copenhagen riots followed a long line of similar events involving English football fans, and in June, UEFA's executive committee listed the Heysel Stadium disaster, disorders in Charleroi and Brussels, the killing of the two Leeds fans in Istanbul, and the Copenhagen riots and warned the British government that if there was any more rioting then England would be expelled from Euro 2000. In response, Prime Minister Tony Blair stated:


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Aftermath
Hopefully this threat will bring to their senses anyone tempted to continue the mindless thuggery that had brought such shame to the country.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Aftermath
Turkish Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit also made a call for fans to avoid violence after the riots, stating:


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Aftermath
Sports should be an initiative for friendship, not for fighting.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Aftermath
In August 2000, Arsenal banned thirty-seven people involved in the Copenhagen riot from Arsenal's Highbury stadium. Leeds United also banned three of their fans from Elland Road after they had been identified in pictures of the riots.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Aftermath
In the United Kingdom, Arsenal fans were originally blamed for the violence as the police had fixed blame on them. In Turkey, the media portrayed Galatasaray fans as acting in self-defence, with criticism directed at the British fans for allegedly attacking members of the press. However, there were conflicting reports, with claims that some Galatasaray fans were instigating some of the violence. Later on, British media blame also transferred towards Galatasaray fans.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Aftermath
The Danish police were also criticised for their handling of the riots. Their policing of City Hall Square in the days running up to the final was described as "non-existent" by Dineen. It was noted by Turkish newspaper, Radikal that cannabis was being freely traded in the city square during the time before the riots, and the police did nothing about it. Arsenal fans also criticised the police, claiming that they had been slow to intervene and were "too soft" on the hooligans.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Aftermath
It was claimed that the police failed to control the riots, and that they had been undermanned and outmaneuvered, to which Mogens Laurisden, the police chief in Copenhagen admitted that the police had been "under-prepared". This came after Arsenal had warned the police before the final that there could be hooligans travelling to Copenhagen.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Aftermath
In the United Kingdom, the Daily Mirror newspaper printed pictures of Arsenal fans alleged to have been part of the violence. It later arose that the majority of the people in the photos were either not involved or had been acting in self-defence. The photos led to some postmen working for Royal Mail losing their jobs because they had been seen in the photos and in television coverage, even though they had not been arrested.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Aftermath
Michael Doherty, the chairman of the Communication Workers Union, and his brother Tom took Royal Mail to an Employment Tribunal for unfair dismissal claiming they had been acting in self-defence. In 2001, the tribunal ruled in their favour, and ordered Royal Mail to reinstate them. In 2012 Piers Morgan, the editor of the Daily Mirror at the time and a high-profile Arsenal fan who attended the match, apologised for printing the pictures.


2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Aftermath
In 2013, Arsenal invited Galatasaray to compete at their annual Emirates Cup tournament. Some Arsenal fans reacted negatively to the news, claiming that there was still bad blood between the two sets of supporters and were concerned that there would be a resumption of hostilities between them.


2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence
The 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence in Istanbul, Turkey, between fans of English football team Leeds United and Turkish team Galatasaray before the first match of the UEFA Cup semi-final on 5 April 2000, led to two Leeds fans being stabbed to death by Galatasaray fans. Four men were arrested and charged with their murders. The deaths led to an angry reaction in England with Galatasaray fans being banned from attending the second leg in England.


2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence, Background
Leeds qualified for the UEFA Cup through finishing fourth in the 1998–99 Premier League. They reached the semi-final after defeating Partizan, Lokomotiv Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Roma and Slavia Prague. Galatasaray qualified for the UEFA Cup by finishing third in the group stage in the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League. They entered the third round defeating Bologna, Borussia Dortmund and Mallorca en route to the semi-final. Galatasaray had a reputation of creating a hostile atmosphere surrounding their home matches and Leeds travelled there aiming to reach the UEFA Cup Final in order to win in their last chance of silverware of their season.


2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence, Events
The violence occurred at 21:00 in Istanbul's Taksim Square during a fight between Leeds fans and Galatasaray fans the day before their UEFA Cup semi-final first leg at Galatasaray's Ali Sami Yen Stadium in Istanbul on 6 April 2000.


2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence, Events
Turkish accounts of the events stated that Leeds fans had been taunting people from local bars, which led to the Turkish police being called in to stop fights from breaking out. There were reports that a Galatasaray fan had run to a nearby telephone box to call for support when he saw Leeds fans arriving. Several Galatasaray fans, reportedly members of a gang called "The Night Watchmen", entered the area shortly afterwards, precipitating a fight between the two sets of supporters which led to the two Leeds fans, Kevin Speight, 40, and Christopher Loftus, 37, being stabbed to death. Police arrested Ali Umit Demir and three other men for the stabbings.


2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence, Events
The first moments of the fight are unclear with witness accounts of the brawl either being started by Leeds fans throwing beer glasses at Galatasaray fans and insulting the Turkish flag or being started by Galatasaray fans throwing chairs or ambushing Leeds fans with knives.


2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence, Aftermath
In 2002, after an adjournment from 2001 where some of the defendants failed to appear in court, Demir was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment which was reduced from 30 years as it was not clear who was the sole cause of the deaths. This sentence was negatively received by residents of Istanbul who said that Demir was a "patriot". In 2005, he was released for a retrial after a change in Turkish law and after an appeal in 2003 was successful. Eventually one of the Turkish attackers was sentenced to 10 years, while three others were sentenced to 6 years and 8 months in prison.


2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence, Aftermath
Because of the stabbings, Leeds United banned Galatasaray fans from attending the second leg at Elland Road, claiming that the safety of fans inside the stadium could not be guaranteed and asked for Galatasaray fans not to travel to England. Galatasaray in response asked for the match to be played at a neutral venue or for Leeds fans to be banned from the match as well. In the end, Galatasaray fans were banned from the match. UEFA supported the ban and only 80 tickets were issued to Galatasaray for officials and representatives of the Turkish government.


2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence, Aftermath
This led to an angry reaction from Galatasaray's vice-president who called the decision "disgusting" and by the Turkish State Minister who said that Leeds were trying to turn the murders into an advantage. Leeds United chairman, Peter Ridsdale, responded by claiming that Galatasaray were showing a lack of respect and said that Galatasaray should withdraw from the UEFA Cup if they did not accept the ban.