# 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.

## 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 |

## 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 | 4 Mon |
| Men | G | | G | | G | | ½ | | B | F |

## Venues

4 stadiums were allocated to host the matches.
| OranMers El HadjadjSig | OranMers El HadjadjSig | Bir El Djir (Oran) | El Hamri (Oran) |
| OranMers El HadjadjSig | OranMers El HadjadjSig | Miloud Hadefi Stadium | Ahmed Zabana Stadium |
| OranMers El HadjadjSig | OranMers El HadjadjSig | Capacity: 40,143 | Capacity: 40,000 |
| OranMers El HadjadjSig | OranMers El HadjadjSig | Sig | Mers El Hadjadj |
| OranMers El HadjadjSig | OranMers El HadjadjSig | Abdelkrim Kerroum Stadium | Mers El Hadjadj Stadium |
| OranMers El HadjadjSig | OranMers El HadjadjSig | 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 | Semifinals |
| 3 | Algeria (H) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 3 | |
| 4 | Spain | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 | |

### 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 | Semifinals |
| 3 | Portugal | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 | |
| 4 | Greece | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 3 | |

## Knockout stage

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| 2 July – Sig | 2 July – Sig |
| France | 2 |
| France | 2 | 4 July – Bir El Djir | 4 July – Bir El Djir |
| Turkey | 0 | 4 July – Bir El Djir | 4 July – Bir El Djir |
| Turkey | 0 | France | 1 |
| 2 July – Sig | 2 July – Sig | | France | 1 |
| 2 July – Sig | 2 July – Sig | Italy | 0 |
| Italy | 2 | Italy | 0 |
| Morocco | 1 | | |
| Morocco | 1 | Third place | Third place |
| | | 4 July – Bir El Djir | 4 July – Bir El Djir |
| | | Turkey | 2 |
| | | Morocco | 4 |

### Gold medal match
## 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 | Group stage |
| 7 | Greece | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 3 | Group stage |
| 8 | Spain | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 | Group stage |

## 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