Football at the Mediterranean Games

Association Football at the Mediterranean Games
Organising body	CIJM
Founded	1951
Region	Mediterranean Sea (FIFA)
Number of teams	8 (from 3 confederations)
Current champions	France (2nd title)
Most successful team(s)	Italy (4 titles)

Football has been played consistently at the Mediterranean Games since the year 1951 for men. Italy and Spain is the most successful team. From 1991, national teams are not allowed, which means only youth teams participate in the tournament.

Tournament edit

Men's edit

Year	Host	Gold medal game			Bronze medal game
Year	Host	Gold medalist	Score	Silver medalist	Bronze medalist	Score	Fourth place
Senior teams
1951 Details	Alexandria	Greece	^n/a	Egypt	Syria		No Fourth
Senior / B / XI / Amateur / Olympic teams
1955 Details	Barcelona	Egypt	^n/a	Spain	France	^n/a	Syria
1959 Details	Beirut	Italy	^n/a	Turkey	Lebanon		No Fourth
1963 Details	Naples	Italy	3–0	Turkey	Spain	2–1	Morocco
1967 Details	Tunis	France / Italy Gold Medal Shared			Spain	2–1	Turkey
1971 Details	İzmir	Yugoslavia	1–0	Tunisia	Turkey	1–0 (a.e.t.)	United Arab Republic
1975 Details	Algiers	Algeria	3–2 (a.e.t.)	France	Tunisia	1–1 (4–3 p)	Morocco
1979 Details	Split	Yugoslavia	3–0	France	Algeria	2–1	Greece
1983 Details	Casablanca	Morocco	3–0	Turkey	Egypt	0–0 (5–2 p)	France
1987 Details	Latakia	Syria	2–1	France	Turkey	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Greece
U23 teams
1991 Details	Athens	Greece	3–1	Turkey	Morocco	3–2	Yugoslavia
1993 Details	Languedoc-Roussillon	Turkey	2–0	Algeria	France	2–1	Italy
1997 Details	Bari	Italy	5–1	Turkey	Greece	1–0	Spain
U21 teams
2001 Details	Tunis	Tunisia	1–0	Italy	France	2–0	Turkey
U23 teams
2005 Details	Almería	Spain	1–0	Turkey	Libya	1–1 (4–3 p)	Morocco
U20 teams
2009 Details	Pescara	Spain	2–1	Italy	Libya	0–0 (8–7 p)	France
U19 teams
2013 Details	Mersin	Morocco	2–2 (3–2 p)	Turkey	Tunisia	4–0	Libya
U18 teams
2018 Details	Tarragona	Spain	3–2	Italy	Morocco	0–0 (7–6 p)	Greece
2022 Details	Oran	France	1–0	Italy	Morocco	4–2	Turkey

^n/a A round-robin tournament determined the final standings.

Medals (1951-2022) edit


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	4	4	0	8
2	Spain	3	1	2	6
3	France	2	3	3	8
4	Morocco	2	0	3	5
5	Greece	2	0	1	3
6	Yugoslavia	2	0	0	2
7	Turkey	1	7	2	10
8	Tunisia	1	1	2	4
9	Algeria	1	1	1	3
9	Egypt	1	1	1	3
11	Syria	1	0	1	2
12	Libya	0	0	2	2
13	Lebanon	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		20	18	19	57

Participating nations edit

Nation	51	55	59	63	67	71	75	79	83	87	91	93	97	01	05	09	13	18	22	Years
Albania											6		11			10	8			4
Algeria	part of France				6		1	3	6	8	9	2	8	8	6			6	6	12
Bosnia and Herzegovina	part of Yugoslavia											8	6				5	8		4
Croatia	part of Yugoslavia											10	10							2
Cyprus											11									1
Egypt	2	1		5		4	6	8	3		5									8
France		3			1	5	2	2	4	2		3	7	3		4		5	1	13
Greece	1					6	9	4	5	4	1	5	3	6	8	5		4	7	14
Italy			1	1	1						8	4	1	2	5	2	7	2	2	12
Lebanon			3	7						6										3
Libya					8		8		9				13	7	3	3	4	9		9
North Macedonia	part of Yugoslavia																6			1
Malta				9											9	11				3
Montenegro	part of Yugoslavia															8				1
Morocco				4	7	dq	4	6	1	5	3	9		5	4	w/o	1	3	3	14
Portugal																			5	1
San Marino										7	10		12	9						4
Serbia^A						1	5	1			4		5							5
Slovenia	part of Yugoslavia											6	9							2
Spain		2		3	3								4		1	1		1	8	8
Syria	3	4		8		7			8	1						9				7
Tunisia				6	5	2	3	7	7		7	7		1	7	7	3			12
Turkey			2	2	4	3	7	5	2	3	2	1	2	4	2	6	2	7	4	17
Total nations (23)	3	4	3	9	8	7	9	8	9	8	11	10	13	9	9	12	8	9	8

^{^A}Includes four appearances as

Yugoslavia

Summary edit

Men (1951–1987) edit

As end of 1987 Mediterranean Games. 10 editions compete between Senior teams but many teams not compete national A teams. All matches not between two A Senior team are not counted as A-level match by FIFA.

Rank	Team	Part	M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
1	France	7	32	16	8	8	44	27	+17	56
2	Turkey	8	32	15	7	10	41	33	+8	52
3	Italy	3	13	10	2	1	32	6	+26	32
4	Algeria	5	19	10	2	7	29	25	+4	32
5	Morocco	7	22	8	8	6	23	21	+2	32
6	Egypt	7	24	8	7	9	42	33	+9	31
7	Yugoslavia	3	12	9	2	1	32	9	+23	29
8	Spain	3	13	7	5	1	28	12	+16	26
9	Tunisia	6	20	6	6	8	21	23	–2	24
10	Greece	6	21	6	4	11	24	38	–14	22
11	Syria	6	18	4	1	13	15	41	–26	13
12	Lebanon	3	11	1	1	9	4	26	–22	4
13	Libya	3	9	1	1	7	7	18	–11	4
14	San Marino	1	3	0	1	2	0	7	–7	1
15	Malta	1	4	0	0	4	4	18	–14	0

Men (1951–2022) edit

Rank	Team	Part	M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
1	Turkey	17	72	35	13	24	99	78	+21	118
2	France	13	55	29	12	14	80	51	+29	99
3	Italy	12	47	30	7	10	96	34	+6	97
4	Spain	8	34	19	10	5	63	32	+31	67
5	Greece	14	46	19	6	21	64	66	–2	63
6	Morocco	14	48	19	15	14	63	49	+14	60
7	Tunisia	12	40	15	12	13	50	47	+3	57
8	Algeria	12	39	14	8	17	52	60	–8	50
9	Yugoslavia	5	19	13	3	3	49	15	+34	42
10	Egypt	8	27	9	7	11	44	36	+8	34
11	Libya	9	31	3	11	17	22	56	–34	20
12	Syria	7	20	4	2	14	16	46	–30	14
13	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4	11	2	3	6	14	24	–10	9
14	Albania	4	10	1	1	8	8	27	–19	4
15	Lebanon	3	11	1	1	9	4	26	–22	4
16	Portugal	1	3	1	0	2	2	3	–1	3
17	Slovenia	2	5	0	3	2	5	7	–2	3
18	Montenegro	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
19	Croatia	2	5	0	1	4	6	11	–5	1
20	North Macedonia	1	4	0	1	3	5	13	–8	1
21	San Marino	4	9	0	1	8	1	32	–31	1
22	Cyprus	1	1	0	0	1	0	3	–3	0
23	Malta	3	8	0	0	8	4	31	–27	0

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