Football at the 2001 Mediterranean Games

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2001 Mediterranean Games
football tournament
Tournament details
Host countryTunisia
CityTunis
Dates5–15 September
Teams9
Venue(s)5 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Tunisia (1st title)
Runners-up Italy
Third place France
Fourth place Turkey
Tournament statistics
Matches played13
Goals scored36 (2.77 per match)
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2005

The 2001 Mediterranean Games football tournament was the 14th edition of the Mediterranean Games men's football tournament. The football tournament was held in Tunis, Tunisia between 5 and 15 September 2001 as part of the 2001 Mediterranean Games and was contested by 9 teams, all countries were represented by the U-21 teams.[1] Tunisia won the gold medal.

Participating teams

Nine teams for under-21 took part in the tournament, 4 teams from Africa and 5 teams from Europe.

Federation Nation
CAF Africa  Algeria
 Libya
 Morocco
 Tunisia (hosts)
AFC Asia None
UEFA Europe  France
 Greece
 Italy (holders)
 San Marino
 Turkey

Squads

Venues

Cities Venues Capacity
Radès
Stade du 7 Novembre
60,000
Tunis
Stade El Menzah
45,000
Sousse Stade Olympique de Sousse 28,000
Sfax
Stade Taïeb Mhiri
22,000
Bizerte
Stade 15 Octobre
20,000

Tournament

All times local:

UTC+1
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Key to colours in group tables
Group winners advance to the Semi-finals

Group stage

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 France 2 2 0 0 7 0 +7 6
 Tunisia 2 1 0 1 5 1 +4 3
 San Marino 2 0 0 2 0 11 −11 0
Tunisia 5–0 San Marino
Stade El Menzah, Tunis


Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Turkey 2 1 1 0 3 2 +1 4
 Greece 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3
 Libya 2 0 1 1 1 2 −1 1
Greece 1–2 Turkey

Turkey 1–1 Libya

Greece 1–0 Libya

Group C

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Italy 2 2 0 0 4 2 +2 6
 Morocco 2 1 0 1 6 4 +2 3
 Algeria 2 0 0 2 3 7 −4 0
Morocco 5–2 Algeria
El Hadi
Bouras
Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax


Knockout stage

 
SemifinalsFinal
 
      
 
13 September – Bizerte
 
 
 France0
 
15 September – Radès
 
 Italy1
 
 Italy0
 
13 September – Tunis
 
 Tunisia1
 
 
a.e.t.
)
1
 
Third place
 
 
15 September – Radès
 
 
 France2
 
 
 Turkey0

Semi-finals


Third place match

Final

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
 
Anis Boussaidi
Achraf Khalfaoui
 
Julien Stephan
Guillaume Laval

Final standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Final result
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Tunisia (H) 4 3 0 1 7 1 +6 9 Gold Medal
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Italy 4 3 0 1 5 3 +2 9 Silver Medal
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  France 4 3 0 1 9 1 +8 9 Bronze Medal
4  Turkey 4 1 1 2 3 5 −2 4 Fourth place
5  Morocco 2 1 0 1 6 4 +2 3 Eliminated in
group stage
6  Greece 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3
7  Libya 2 0 1 1 1 2 −1 1
8  Algeria 2 0 0 2 3 7 −4 0
9  San Marino 2 0 0 2 0 11 −11 0

References