Football at the 2022 Mediterranean Games

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)Italy Antonio Raimondo (6 goals)
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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]

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
Confederation Nation
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

Main article: Football at the 2022 Mediterranean Games – Men's team squads

Schedule

P Group stage ½ Semifinals B Bronze medal match F Gold medal match
Event↓/Date → 26 Sun 27 Mon 28 Tue 29 Wed 30 Thu 1 Fri 2 Sat 3 Sun 4 Mon
Men G G G ½ B F

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

All match times are local, WAT, CET (UTC+1).

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
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
 Report
Referee: Jérémie Pignard (France)
Italy 1–0 Portugal
 Report
Referee: Karim Sabry (Morocco)
Italy 4–0 Greece
 Report
Referee: Lotfi Bekouassa (Algeria)
Portugal 2–0 Turkey
 Report
Referee: Youcef Gamouh (Algeria)
Portugal 0–2 Greece
Report
Referee: Lamia Atman (Algeria)
Turkey 0–0 Italy
Report
Referee: Amir Loucif (Tunisia)

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
 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
1st place, gold medalist(s)  France 5 4 1 0 8 3 +5 13 Gold medal
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Italy 5 3 1 1 7 2 +5 10 Silver medal
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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

  • Turkey Habib Biçer

2 goals

1 goal

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

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