Mediterranean Cup and Mediterranean Games - Overview


These are two different tournaments for countries surrounding the Mediterranean. Most 'major' Southern European countries (France, Italy, Spain, Yugoslavia) take part with unofficial (B, amateur) sides. This has not been indicated below. There have been three tournaments for the Mediterranean Cup (the first officially called Friendship Tournament, the second East Mediterranean Cup), but now only the Mediterranean Games are played.


Palmares Mediterranean Cup

Year     Winners        Runners-Up          Venue
Friendship Tournament
1949     Italy          Turkey              Greece
East Mediterranean Cup
1950-53  Italy          Greece              home/away
Mediterranean Cup
1953-58  Spain          France              home/away

Palmares Mediterranean Games

Year     venue                Gold Medal        Silver Medal        Bronze Medal
1951     Alexandria           Greece            Egypt               Syria
1955     Barcelona            Egypt             Spain               France
1959     Beirut               Italy             Turkey              Lebanon
1963     Napoli               Italy         3-0 Turkey              Spain
1967     Tunis                Italy and France joint winners        Spain
1971     İzmir                Yugoslavia    1-0 Tunisia             Turkey
1975     Alger                Algeria       3-2 France              Tunisia
1979     Split                Yugoslavia    3-0 France              Algeria
1983     Casablanca           Morocco       3-0 Turkey              Egypt
1987     Latakia              Syria         2-1 France              Turkey
1991     Athinai              Greece        3-1 Turkey              Morocco
1993     Languedoc-Roussillon Turkey        2-0 Algeria             France
1997     Bari                 Italy         5-1 Turkey              Greece
2001     Tunis                Tunisia       1-0 Italy               France
2005     Almerķa              Spain         1-0 Turkey              Libya
2009     Pescara              Spain         2-1 Italy               Libya
2013     Mersin               Morocco       2-2 Turkey    [3-2 pen] Tunisia
2018     Tarragona            Spain         3-2 Italy               Morocco
2022     Oran                 France        1-0 Italy               Morocco

Medal Table

              G  S  B
Italy         4  4   
Spain         3  1  2
France        2  3  3
Morocco       2     3
Greece        2     1
Yugoslavia    2      
Turkey        1  7  2
Tunisia       1  1  2
Egypt         1  1  1
Algeria       1  1  1
Syria         1     1
Libya               2
Lebanon             1
             20 18 19

NB: first place was shared in 1967


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