Football at the 2022 Mediterranean Games

Football at the 2022 Mediterranean Games – Men's tournament took place between 26 June and 5 July 2022 at the Ahmed Zabana Stadium, Mers El Hadjadj Stadium and Abdelkrim Kerroum Stadium. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to send their men's U-18, U-19 and U-21 national teams. There was no women's tournament on this occasion.[1][2]

2022 Men's Mediterranean Games Football Tournament
Tournament details
Host countryAlgeria
CityOran
Dates26 June – 5 July
Teams8 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)4 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions France (2nd title)
Runners-up Italy
Third place Morocco
Fourth place Turkey
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored37 (2.31 per match)
Top scorer(s) Antonio Raimondo (6 goals)

Participating nations

Nine nations have applied to compete in men's tournament, one more than at the previous games. None of the Asian nations opted to compete.

Men
ConfederationNation
CAF (Africa) Algeria U18
 Morocco U18
AFC (Asia)None
UEFA (Europe) France U18[3]
 Greece U18
 Italy U18
 Portugal U18[4]
 Spain U18[5]
 Turkey U18[6]

Squads

Schedule

PGroup stage ½Semifinals BBronze medal match FGold medal match
Event↓/Date →26 Sun27 Mon28 Tue29 Wed30 Thu1 Fri2 Sat3 Sun4 Mon
MenGGG½BF

Venues

4 stadiums were allocated to host the matches.

Bir El Djir
(Oran)
El Hamri
(Oran)
Miloud Hadefi Stadium Ahmed Zabana Stadium
Capacity: 40,143 Capacity: 40,000
Sig Mers El Hadjadj
Abdelkrim Kerroum Stadium Mers El Hadjadj Stadium
Capacity: 20,000 Capacity: 5,400

Group stage

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  France 3 2 1 0 5 3 +2 7 Semifinals
2  Morocco 3 1 1 1 3 2 +1 4
3  Algeria (H) 3 1 0 2 3 5 2 3
4  Spain 3 0 2 1 2 3 1 2
Source: Oran 2022
(H) Hosts
Spain 0–1 Algeria
Report
Referee: Evangelos Manouchos (Greece)
France 1–0 Morocco
Report
Referee: Luca Pairetto (Italy)

Algeria 0–2 Morocco
Report
Referee: Amir Loucif (Tunisia)
Spain 1–1 France
Report
  • Dimi 55'
Referee: Zorbay Küçük (Turkey)

Morocco 1–1 Spain
Report
Referee: Bruno José Costa (Portugal)
Algeria 2–3 France
Report
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Luca Pairetto (Italy)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Italy 3 2 1 0 5 0 +5 7 Semifinals
2  Turkey 3 1 1 1 2 3 1 4
3  Portugal 3 1 0 2 2 3 1 3
4  Greece 3 1 0 2 3 6 3 3
Source: Oran 2022
Greece 1–2 Turkey
  • Volakis 81'
Report
  • Yılmaz 39'
  • Biçer 45+1'
Referee: Jérémie Pignard (France)
Italy 1–0 Portugal
Report
Referee: Karim Sabry (Morocco)

Italy 4–0 Greece
Report
Portugal 2–0 Turkey
  • Falé 15'
  • de Freitas 53'
Report
Referee: Youcef Gamouh (Algeria)

Portugal 0–2 Greece
Report
Referee: Lamia Atman (Algeria)
Turkey 0–0 Italy
Report

Knockout stage

 
SemifinalsFinal
 
      
 
2 July – Sig
 
 
 France2
 
4 July – Bir El Djir
 
 Turkey0
 
 France1
 
2 July – Sig
 
 Italy0
 
 Italy2
 
 
 Morocco1
 
Third place
 
 
4 July – Bir El Djir
 
 
 Turkey2
 
 
 Morocco4

Semifinals

France 2–0 Turkey
Report
Referee: Youcef Gamouh (Algeria)
Italy 2–1 Morocco
Report
Referee: Jérémie Pignard (France)

Bronze medal match

Turkey 2–4 Morocco
  • Biçer 15', 58'
Report
Referee: Bruno José Costa (Portugal)

Gold medal match

France 1–0 Italy
Report
Attendance: 25,000 (official)
45,000[7]
Referee: Lotfi Bekouassa (Algeria)

Final standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Final result
 France 5 4 1 0 8 3 +5 13 Gold medal
 Italy 5 3 1 1 7 2 +5 10 Silver medal
 Morocco 5 2 1 2 8 6 +2 7 Bronze medal
4  Turkey 5 1 1 3 4 9 5 4 Fourth place
5  Portugal 3 1 0 2 2 3 1 3 Group stage
6  Algeria (H) 3 1 0 2 3 5 2 3
7  Greece 3 1 0 2 3 6 3 3
8  Spain 3 0 2 1 2 3 1 2
Source: Oran2022
(H) Hosts

Goalscorers

There were 37 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 2.31 goals per match.

6 goals

4 goals

3 goals

  • Habib Biçer

2 goals

1 goal

  • Ivane Chegra
  • Mehdi Puch-Herrantz
  • Salah Eddine Zaoui
  • Badredine Bouanani
  • Lenny Pirringuel
  • Konstantinos Volakis
  • Luca D'Andrea
  • Hamza Anhari
  • Othmane Boukhres
  • Aïman Maurer
  • Omar Sadik
  • Alves de Freitas
  • Mariano Falé
  • Álex Valle Gómez
  • Álvaro Daniel Rodríguez Muñoz
  • Ali Şahin Yılmaz

References

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