Editing UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying (section)

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{{Infobox international football competition
| tourney_name   = UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying
| dates          = {{nowrap|4 June 1998 – 17 November 1999}}
| num_teams      = 49
| matches        = 228
| goals          = 652
| attendance     =
| top_scorer     = {{fbicon|ESP}} [[Raúl (footballer)|Raúl]] {{nowrap|(11 goals)}}
| prevseason     = [[UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying|1996]]
| nextseason     = [[UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying|2004]]
}}
{{Qualification for championships (UEFA)|expanded=Euro}}

Qualifying for the [[UEFA Euro 2000]] final tournament, took place throughout 1998 and 1999. Forty-nine teams were divided into nine groups. All teams played against each other, within their groups, on a home-and-away basis. The winner of each group and the best runner-up qualified automatically for the final tournament. The rest of the runners-up played an additional set of playoff matches amongst each other.

Both [[Belgium national football team|Belgium]] and the [[Netherlands national football team|Netherlands]] qualified automatically as co-hosts of the event.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-23 |title=SPORTS BRIEFS |url=https://www.deseret.com/1995/7/15/19182404/sports-briefs/ |access-date=2024-07-13 |website=Deseret News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Archives |first=L. A. Times |date=1998-10-28 |title=Euro 2000 Officials Say Sites Will Be Ready |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-28-nb-36924-story.html |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>