# Malta International Football Tournament

The Malta International Tournament was a biannual association football friendly competition for national teams, organised by the Malta Football Association that took place in Malta between 1986 and 2008. Initially, the tournament included the participation of football clubs, but starting from 1988 this was revamped to include only national A teams.
Usually played in February, the competition involved a single round-robin phase where each team played once against each other. Teams are ranked by points and at the end of the competition, the team with the most points is crowned champion. Up till 2004, the competition was sponsored by Rothmans and was known as the Rothmans Tournament for sponsorship reasons.

## Summary

| Year | Winners | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place | Top scorer(s) | Top scorer(s) |
| 1986 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | Fakel Voronezh | Malta | Hammarby IF | Not known | |
| 1987 | VfB Stuttgart | Legia Warsaw | Malta | | Not known | |
| 1988 | East Germany Olympic | Malta | Finland | Tunisia | Damian Halata Carmel Busuttil Mika Lipponen | 3 goals |
| 1989 | Algeria | Denmark | Finland | Malta | Five players | 1 goal |
| 1990 | Norway | South Korea | Malta | | Ten players | 1 goal |
| 1992 | Malta | Norway U-21 | Iceland | | Not known | |
| 1994 | Slovenia | Georgia | Tunisia | Malta | Primož Gliha | 2 goals |
| 1996 | Russia | Slovenia | Iceland | Malta | Sašo Udovič | 5 goals |
| 1998 | Georgia | Malta | Albania | Latvia | Gocha Jamarauli Mikhail Kavelashvili Marians Pahars | 3 goals |
| 2000 | Albania | Malta | Andorra | Azerbaijan | Gilbert Agius | 2 goals |
| 2002 | Malta | Lithuania | Jordan | Moldova | George Mallia Michael Mifsud Alexandru Golban | 2 goals |
| 2004 | Belarus U-23 | Estonia | Malta | Moldova | Etienne Barbara | 2 goals |
| 2006 | Moldova U-21 | Georgia | Malta | | Alexandru Zislis | 2 goals |
| 2008 | Belarus | Armenia | Iceland | Malta | Ara Hakobyan | 2 goals |

## Malta Women's Tournament

| Year | Winners | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place | Top scorer(s) | Top scorer(s) |
| 2021 | Sweden | Slovakia | Austria | Malta | Fridolina Rolfö | 2 goals |
| 2022 | Morocco | Malta | Moldova | Only three teams | 9 different players | 1 goal |
| 2024 | Belarus | Malta | Albania | | | |

## All-time top goalscorers

| Rank | Name | Team | Goals | Tournament(s) |
| 1 | Sašo Udovič | Slovenia | 5 | 1996(5) |
| 2 | Mikhail Kavelashvili | Georgia | 4 | 1994(1) and 1998(3) |
| 3 | Carmel Busuttil | Malta | 3 | 1988(3) |
| 3 | Mika Lipponen | Finland | 3 | 1988(3) |
| 3 | Damian Halata | East Germany Olympic | 3 | 1988(3) |
| 3 | Primož Gliha | Slovenia | 3 | 1994(2) and 1996(1) |
| 3 | Valeri Karpin | Russia | 3 | 1996(3) |
| 3 | Gocha Jamarauli | Georgia | 3 | 1998(3) |
| 3 | Marians Pahars | Latvia | 3 | 1998(3) |
| 3 | Gilbert Agius | Malta | 3 | 2000(2) and 2002(1) |
| 3 | George Mallia | Malta | 3 | 2000(1) and 2002(2) |

## Hat-tricks

Malta International Football Tournament hat-tricks :
| # | Player | G | Time of goals | For | Result | Against | Tournament | Date | Ref |
| 1. | Mika Lipponen | 3 | 35', 42', 74' | Finland | 3–0 | Tunisia | 1988 Malta Football Tournament | 13 February 1988 | |
| 2. | Sašo Udovič | 5 | 42', 48', 57', 69', 74' | Slovenia | 7–1 | Iceland | 1996 Malta Football Tournament | 7 February 1996 | |