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.

2022 Men's Mediterranean Games Football Tournament
Tournament details
Host countryAlgeria
CityOran
Dates26 June – 5 July
Teams8 (from 2 confederations)
Venue4 (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 Antonio Raimondo (6 goals)
2018
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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
 Greece U18
 Italy U18
 Portugal U18
 Spain U18
 Turkey U18

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.

Oran
Mers El Hadjadj
Sig
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
  • Puch-Herrantz 27'
Abdelkrim Kerroum Stadium, Sig
Referee: Evangelos Manouchos (Greece)
France 1–0 Morocco
  • Messoussa 15'
Report
Abdelkrim Kerroum Stadium, Sig
Referee: Luca Pairetto (Italy)

Algeria 0–2 Morocco
Report
  • Boukhres 48'
  • Raihani 64'
Abdelkrim Kerroum Stadium, Sig
Referee: Amir Loucif (Tunisia)
Spain 1–1 France
  • Gómez 47'
Report
  • Dimi 55'
Ahmed Zabana Stadium, Oran
Referee: Zorbay Küçük (Turkey)

Morocco 1–1 Spain
  • Khalifi 23' (pen.)
Report
  • Rodríguez 12'
Abdelkrim Kerroum Stadium, Sig
Referee: Bruno José Costa (Portugal)
Algeria 2–3 France
  • Chegra 56' (pen.)
  • Zaoui 79'
Report
  • Messoussa 8', 28'
  • Bouanani 81' (pen.)
Ahmed Zabana Stadium, Oran
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'
Mers El Hadjadj Stadium, Mers El Hadjadj
Referee: Jérémie Pignard (France)
Italy 1–0 Portugal
  • Raimondo 77'
Report
Ahmed Zabana Stadium, Oran
Referee: Karim Sabry (Morocco)

Italy 4–0 Greece
  • Raimondo 47', 65', 90+1' (pen.)
  • D'Andrea 79' (pen.)
Report
Mers El Hadjadj Stadium, Mers El Hadjadj
Referee: Lotfi Bekouassa (Algeria)
Portugal 2–0 Turkey
  • Falé 15'
  • de Freitas 53'
Report
Abdelkrim Kerroum Stadium, Sig
Referee: Youcef Gamouh (Algeria)

Portugal 0–2 Greece
Report
  • Koutsias 76', 79'
Abdelkrim Kerroum Stadium, Sig
Referee: Lamia Atman (Algeria)
Turkey 0–0 Italy
Report
Mers El Hadjadj Stadium, Mers El Hadjadj
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
  • Messoussa 10'
  • Dimi 84'
Report
Abdelkrim Kerroum Stadium, Sig
Referee: Youcef Gamouh (Algeria)
Italy 2–1 Morocco
  • Raimondo 55', 63'
Report
  • Khalifi 90+3' (pen.)
Abdelkrim Kerroum Stadium, Sig
Referee: Jérémie Pignard (France)

Bronze medal match

Turkey 2–4 Morocco
  • Biçer 15', 58'
Report
  • Anhari 45+1'
  • Raihani 47'
  • Maurer 73'
  • Sadik 86'
Miloud Hadefi Stadium, Bir El Djir
Referee: Bruno José Costa (Portugal)

Gold medal match

France 1–0 Italy
  • Pirringuel 68'
Report
Miloud Hadefi Stadium, Bir El Djir
Attendance: 25,000 (official)
45,000
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

  • Antonio Raimondo

4 goals

  • Amine Messoussa

3 goals

  • Habib Biçer

2 goals

  • Ikia Dimi
  • Georgios Koutsias
  • Yassine Khalifi
  • Abdellah Raihani

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

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