Football at the 2013 Mediterranean Games

Men's football tournament at the 2013 Mediterranean Games

Tournament details
Host country	Turkey
Dates	19–27 June
Teams	8 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Morocco (2nd title)
Runners-up	Turkey
Third place	Tunisia
Fourth place	Libya
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Goals scored	74 (3.7 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Hicham Khaloua (5 goals)
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Football at the 2013 Mediterranean Games took place between 19 and 27 June. The tournament was held at the Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium, and Tarsus City Stadium. The final was held at the Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium on 27 June. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to send their men's U-19 national teams. There was no women's tournament on this occasion.[1]

Participating nations

Eight nations applied to compete in men's tournament, four less than at the previous games. At least six nations competing is the requirement for tournament to be held. None of the Asian nations opted to compete.

Men

Federation	Nation
CAF Africa	Libya  Morocco  Tunisia
AFC Asia	None
UEFA Europe	Albania  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Italy  Macedonia  Turkey

Format

• Eight teams were split into 2 preliminary round groups of 4 teams each. The top 2 teams from each group qualify for the main knockout stage, other team qualify for placement matches.
• In the semifinals, the matchups are as follows: A1 vs. B2 and B1 vs. A2
• The winning teams from the semifinals play for the gold medal. The losing teams compete for the bronze medal.

Squads

Main article: Football at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Men's team squads

Preliminary round

All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3).

Qualified for the semifinals

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Morocco	3	3	0	0	7	2	+5	9
Turkey	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6
Albania	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	0	1	2	4	10	−6	1

Source: ^[citation needed]

19 June 2013

18:00

Morocco	3–0	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ennaffati 14' El Karti 17' Khaloua 73'	Report^[permanent dead link‍]

Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium, Mersin

Referee: Alain Bieri (Switzerland)

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19 June 2013

21:45

Turkey	2–0	Albania
Aydın 10' Sazdağı 86'	Report^[permanent dead link‍]

Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium, Mersin

Referee: Andrea De Marco (Italy)

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21 June 2013

18:00

Albania	2–2	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Turtulli 61' Rrahmani 73'	Report	Bajić 44', 52'

Tarsus Şehir Stadı, Tarsus

Referee: Baris Simsek (Turkey)

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21 June 2013

21:45

Turkey	1–2	Morocco
Yazici 57'	Report	El Karti 11' El-Neoualy 73' (pen.)

Tarsus Şehir Stadı, Tarsus

Referee: Nikola Popov (Bulgaria)

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23 June 2013

18:00

Bosnia and Herzegovina	2–5	Turkey
Bajić 18', 30'	Report	Sazdagi 14' Unsal 39' Aydın 43' Coskun 82' Cicek 86'

Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium, Mersin

Referee: Andrea De Marco (Italy)

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23 June 2013

21:45

Morocco	2–1	Albania
Khaloua 33' (pen.) El Hassouni 58'	Report	Gino 47'

Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium, Mersin

Referee: Alain Bieri (Switzerland)

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Tunisia	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	7
Libya	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
Italy	3	1	1	1	8	5	+3	4
Macedonia	3	0	1	2	3	9	−6	1

Source: ^[citation needed]

19 June 2013

18:00

Macedonia	2–2	Libya
Imeri 52' Markoski 66'		Elmangoush 70' Elhouni 80'

Tarsus Şehir Stadı, Tarsus

Referee: Mete Kalkavan (Turkey)

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19 June 2013

21:45

Italy	2–2	Tunisia
Gomez 50' Cataldi 63'	Report	Mhirsi 49', 87'

Tarsus Şehir Stadı, Tarsus

Referee: Anatoliy Zhabchenko (Ukraine)

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21 June 2013

18:00

Italy	5–1	Macedonia
Canotto 47' Iotti 76' Gomez 79', 82' Aveni 90+1'	Report	Markoski 20'

Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium, Mersin

Referee: Khalid Ennouni (Morocco)

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21 June 2013

21:45

Tunisia	2–1	Libya
Rjaibi 2' Kablouti 76'		Elmangoush 32'

Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium, Mersin

Referee: Stanislav Todorov (Bulgaria)

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23 June 2013

18:00

Libya	2–1	Italy
Nasr 19' Alshadi 71'		Palma 90'

Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium, Mersin

Referee: Istvan Kovacs (Romania)

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23 June 2013

21:45

Macedonia	0–2	Tunisia
	Report	Mhirsi 40' Kamarji 75'

Tarsus Şehir Stadı, Tarsus

Referee: Mete Kalkavan (Turkey)

Classification stage

Classification 5–8 matches

25 June 2013

18:00

Italy	0–3	Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Report	Bajić 61' Hodzic 75', 90+4'

Tarsus Şehir Stadı, Tarsus

Referee: Baris Simsek (Turkey)

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25 June 2013

21:00

Albania	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Macedonia
Kastrati 85' (pen.)	Report	Kostovski 50' Imeri 96'

Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium, Mersin

Referee: Nikola Popov (Bulgaria)

Seventh place match

June 26, 2013

18:00

Albania	1–3	Italy
Hyseni 82'	Report	Canotto 20' Bollino 47' Gomez 54' (pen.)

Tarsus Şehir Stadı, Tarsus

Referee: Khalid Ennouni (Morocco)

Fifth place match

June 26, 2013

18:00

Macedonia	2–4	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Imeri 50' Markoski 52'	Report	Jpikic 11' Maric 54' Markovic 88' Hodzic 89'

Tarsus Şehir Stadı, Tarsus

Referee: Istvan Kovacs (Romania)

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	25 June 18:00 – Mersin
	Tunisia	0
					27 June 22:00 – Mersin
	Turkey	2
					Turkey	2 (2)
	25 June 21:00 – Tarsus
					Morocco (p)	2 (3)
	Morocco	3
	Libya	1
					Third place
					27 June 18:00 – Mersin
					Tunisia	4
					Libya	0

Semifinals

25 June 2013

18:00

Tunisia	0–2	Turkey
	Report	Bardakci 50' Niyaz 77'

Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium, Mersin

Referee: Anatoly Zhabchenko (Ukraine)

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25 June 2013

21:00

Morocco	3–1	Libya
Khaloua 10', 72' Ennaffati 80'	Report	Elhouni 36'

Tarsus Şehir Stadı, Tarsus

Referee: Stanislav Todorov (Bulgaria)

Bronze medal match

27 June 2013

18:00

Libya	0–4	Tunisia
	Report	Rjaibi 2', 36', 78' Khalfaoui 90'

Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium, Mersin

Referee: Mete Kalkavan (Turkey)

Gold medal match

27 June 2013

22:00

Morocco	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Turkey
Khaloua 2' Ennaffati 71'		Bardakci 15' Coskun 28'
Penalties
Khaloua Moufaddal Moussadak Ennaffati Hajhouj	3–2	Yazıcı Aydın Bardakcı Coskun Niyaz

Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium, Mersin

Referee: Andrea De Marco (Italy)

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
	Morocco	5	4	1	0	12	5	+7	13	Gold Medal
	Turkey (H)	5	3	1	1	12	6	+6	10	Silver Medal
	Tunisia	5	3	1	1	10	5	+5	10	Bronze Medal
4	Libya	5	1	1	3	6	12	−6	4	Fourth place
5	Bosnia and Herzegovina	5	2	1	2	11	12	−1	7	5th place match
6	Macedonia	5	1	1	3	7	14	−7	4
7	Italy	5	2	1	2	11	9	+2	7	7th place match
8	Albania	5	0	1	4	5	11	−6	1

Source: rsssf
(H) Hosts

Medal Winning Squads

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Morocco (MAR) Badreddine Benrachour Omar Boutayeb Mohamed Saidi Hamza Moussadak Mohammed El Jaaouani Adam Ennaffati Adnane El Ouardy Reda En-Neoualy Youssef Es Saiydy Mohamed Cheikhi Walid El Karti Ayman El Hassouni El Mehdi Moufaddal Hamza Mouatamid Elmehdi Dghoughi Reda Hajhouj Mohamed El Makahasi Hicham Khaloua	Turkey (TUR) Cantuğ Temel Ozan Tufan Abdülkerim Bardakcı Muhammed Serdar Yazıcı Süheyl Çetin Kubilay Aktaş Kubilay Dursun Sönmez İbrahim Coşkun Berk İsmail Ünsal Recep Niyaz Okan Aydın Emre Selen İsmail Güven Gökhan Sazdağı Metin Sevinç Atabey Çiçek Sedat Yüce Haydar Deniz	Tunisia (TUN) Seifedine Lahwel Rami Haj Selem Khalim Sassi Walid Dhaouedi Idriss Mhirsi Radhouene Khalfaoui Rafik Kamarji Edem Rjaïbi Mehdi Ben Nsib Bechir Kablouti Ayoub Jirtila Sedik Mejri Oualid Bouzidi Zied Ounali Slimen Kchok Ahmed Khlil Achref Mnani Azer Ghali

References

1. "Med Games Football 2013". 2013.

External links

• Mediterranean Games 2013 (Turkey) - rsssf.com