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2001 Mediterranean Games
football tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Tunisia
City	Tunis
Dates	6–15 September
Teams	9
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 played	13
Goals scored	36 (2.77 per match)
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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 6 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. 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

Tournament

All times local: CEST (UTC+1)

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
Benachour 4' Sliti 24' (pen.) Daâssi 30' Dalhoum 60' (pen.) Khanchil 67'	Report

Tunisia	0–1	France
		Sahnoun 11'

France	6–0	San Marino
Sahnoun 14' (pen.) Hiroux 24', 31' (pen.) Pontal 29', 84' Delporte 68'	Report

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
Vakouftsis 10'	Report	Şanlı 9' Yalçınkaya 44'

Turkey	1–1	Libya
Aydın 60'		?

Greece	1–0	Libya
Kyriazis 51' (pen.)

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
Kherrazi 35' Bouden 59', 77' Laïfaoui 73' (o.g.) El Ouardi 85' (pen.)	Report	El Hadi 23' Bouras 43' Ouasti

Italy	2–1	Morocco
Sculli 42' Ferro 81'	Report	Aboub 25'

Italy	2–1	Algeria
Calaiò 20', 52'	Report	Zouaghi 90+3'

Knockout stage

	Semifinals				Final
	13 September – Bizerte
	France	0
					15 September – Radès
	Italy	1
					Italy	0
	13 September – Tunis
					Tunisia	1
	Turkey	0
	Tunisia (a.e.t.)	1
					Third place
					15 September – Radès
					France	2
					Turkey	0

Semi-finals

France	0–1	Italy
Grondin  7' Delporte  48'	Report	Cardinale 59'

Turkey	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Tunisia
		Benachour 96'

Third place match

France	2–0	Turkey
Pujol 52', 73'	Report

Final

Italy	0–1	Tunisia
Cardinale  7'	Report	Zitouni 76' (pen.)

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Tunisia Walid Ben Hassine Saïf Ghezal Ali Zitouni Imed Bouthouri Karim Hamida Ahmed Hammi Ahmed Khanchil Chokri Zaalani Bassam Daasi Karim Dalhoum Mohamed Sliti Lassaad Ouertani Slim Ben Achour Alaeddine Yahia Anis Ayari Anis Zitouni Anis Boussaidi Achraf Khalfaoui	Italy Vitangelo Spadavecchia Cristian Zaccardo Christian Maggio Riccardo Fissore Roberto Cardinale Andrea Dossena Simone Pacini Emanuele Calaiò Marco Mancinelli Giuseppe Sculli Gianluca Pegolo Luca Del Chiaro Simonluca Agazzone Federico Balzaretti Angelo Palombo Franco Semioli Marco Ferro Alessandro Pellicori	France Loïc Vincent Mickaël Natchimie Nicolas Sahnoun Mickaël Pontal Cyril Guyot David Grondin Grégory Pujol Loris Reina Gael Hiroux Ludovic Delporte Cyril Yapi Sebastien Squillacci Florent Balmont Loic Pailleres Nicolas Douchez David Vandenbossche Julien Stephan Guillaume Laval

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
	Tunisia (H)	4	3	0	1	7	1	+6	9	Gold Medal
	Italy	4	3	0	1	5	3	+2	9	Silver Medal
	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

1. Mediterranean Games 2001 (Tunis) - rsssf.com

• Football at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
• 2001 in association football
• Sports at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
• Football at the Mediterranean Games
• International association football competitions hosted by Tunisia
• 2001–02 in Tunisian football
• 2001–02 in Italian football
• 2001–02 in French football
• 2001–02 in Turkish football