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In the Euro 2004, Denmark and Sweden would both go on to qualify at Italy's expense if the result of the game was 2-2.

Of course, the score ended up being just that towards the end of the game, and then the players on both teams just stood still and passed the ball between themselves running down the last 8 minutes or so of the clock.

https://youtu.be/9kgJNL_uuHI



This was much worse (I saw it on TV), and the reason why the last two matches in the qualifiers are played at the same time:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgrace_of_Gijón




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