Football at the 2022 Mediterranean Games

Football at the 2022 Mediterranean Games 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]

Men's football tournament at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
Tournament details
Host countryAlgeria
CityOran
Dates26 June – 5 July
Teams8 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)4 (in 4 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)

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

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
  • Puch-Herrantz 27'
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
Referee: Lotfi Bekouassa (Algeria)
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
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
  • Biçer 15', 58'
 Report
Referee: Bruno José Costa (Portugal)

Gold medal match
France 1–0 Italy
 Report
Attendance: 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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