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2000 UEFA European Under-16 Championship

football tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ264437 ↗
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The 2000 UEFA European Under-16 Championship was the 18th edition of UEFA's European Under-16 Football Championship. Israel hosted the championship, during 1–14 May 2000. Players born on or after 1 January 1983 were eligible to participate in this competition. 16 teams entered the competition, and Portugal defeated the Czech Republic in the final to win the competition for the fourth time.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2000 UEFA European Under-16 Championship” is football tournament. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through UEFA, European and Under-16, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, UEFA, European and Under-16 is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2000 UEFA European Under-16 Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.