Toulon Tournament


The Toulon Tournament is a football tournament which traditionally features invited national teams composed of youth players from U-17 to U-23 level. The tournament is named after Maurice Revello, who started the tournament in 1967 and died in 2016. Although the first tournament in 1967 featured club teams, it has been limited to national teams since 1975. The tournament is held around Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, with the final usually being held in Toulon itself.

History

Toulon Tournament is not run under the supervision of FIFA or an individual national association. Therefore, it is deemed as the most prestigious of all friendly tournaments involving youth teams, and considered an unofficial world championship before FIFA introduced the official World Youth Cup in 1977. Despite the establishment of the FIFA U-20 World Cup and later, FIFA U-17 World Cup however, the Toulon Tournament remains one of the major competition for youth football teams.

Rules

The Toulon Tournament usually was played with two 40-minute halves. In 2019 every match consisted of two periods of 45 minutes each. In a match, every team has eleven named substitutes and the maximum number of substitutions permitted is four.
In the knockout stage, if a game tied at the end of regulation time, extra time is not played and the penalty shoot-out is used to determine the winner.

Results

Statistics

Performances by countries

TeamTitlesRunners-upThird placeFourth place
12 14 5 3
9 2 2
7 2 1 4
3 4 4 5
3 2
2 3 1
2 2 2
2 1 1
1 2 3
1 1 1
1 1
1 1 2 3
1 1 2 1
1 1 2 6
1
1
4 3
2 4 2
1 1 2
1
1
1 1
1
1 1 1

Performances by confederations

ConfederationTitlesRunners-up
UEFA28 36
CONMEBOL15 5
CAF1 2
CONCACAF1 1
AFC2

Awards

YearTop GoalscorerPlayer of the TournamentBest Goalkeeper
1967 Jozef Čapkovič Jacques Teugels Augustín Ivančík
1974 József Sipőcz Tibor Nyilasi John Turner
1975 András Törőcsik Roberto Antonelli József Kollár
1976 Radoslav Zdravkov Krasimir Manolov Boris Manolkov
1977 Gérard Soler Gérard Soler Boris Manolkov
1978 László P. Nagy Henri Zambelli Alberto Aguilar
1979 Sergio Fortunato
Roger Schouwenaar
László Gyimesi Valeri Novikov
1980 Lubomír Pokluda José Touré Luděk Mikloško
1981 Sauro Fattori Vazha Zhvania Marolla
1982 Stanislav Griga
Laurent Paganelli
Rainer Ernst Luděk Mikloško
1983 Eamonn O'Keefe Luvanor Stanislav Rudenko
1984 Meziane Zaghzi Mikhail Rusiaev Aleksandr Zhidkov
1985 Jean-Pierre Papin François Omam-Biyik Jean-Claude Nadon
1986 József Zvara Jean-Luc Ribar Ivko Ganchev
1987 Lyuboslav Penev David Ginola Taffarel
1988 David Zitelli Michael Thomas Nigel Martyn
1989 Petar Mihtarski Radko Kalaydzhiev Franck Chaumin
1990 Mark Robins Radim Nečas Tomáš Bernady
1991 Alan Shearer Alan Shearer David James
1992 Rui Costa Rui Costa Željko Cicović
1993 Florian Maurice Florian Maurice Paul Gerrard
1994 Bob Peeters Régis Genaux Grégory Coupet
1995 Franck Histilloles Vikash Dhorasoo Fábio Noronha
1996 Adaílton
Nuno Gomes
Adaílton Fábio Noronha
1997 Gustavo Victoria
Thierry Henry
Carlitos
Josh Wolff
Thierry Henry Nuno Santos
1998 Francisco Guerrero
Emile Heskey
Juan Román Riquelme Nuno Santos
1999 Peguy Luyindula Guillermo Pereyra Sebastián Saja
2000 Tressor Moreno Tressor Moreno Sérgio Leite
2001 Djibril Cissé
Lourenço
Felipe Chará Neco Martínez
2002 Alessandro Pellicori
Satoshi Nakayama
Pinga Rubinho
2003 Germán Herrera
Francesco Ruopolo
Lourenço
Javier Mascherano Bruno Vale
2004 Bryan Bergougnoux Rio Mavuba Jérémy Gavanon
2005 Vaz Tê Arnold Mvuemba Steve Mandanda
2006 David Gigliotti Ricardo Faty Hugo Lloris
2007 Kevin Gameiro Kevin Gameiro Ibrahim Koné
2008 Sekou Cissé Sebastian Giovinco Davide Bassi
2009 Diego Buonanotte
Gerson Martínez
Diego Buonanotte Agustín Marchesín
Cristopher Toselli
2010 Nicki Bille Nielsen Serges Déblé Mikkel Andersen
2011 Steeven Joseph-Monrose James Rodríguez Franck L'Hostis
2012 Marco Fabián Héctor Herrera Nick Marsman
Ertuğrul Taşkıran
2013 Vinícius Araújo
José Abella
Aladje
Yuri Mamute Zacharie Boucher
2014 Jean-Christophe Bahebeck Rodrigo Caio Paul Nardi
2015 Enzo Crivelli
Achraf Bencharki
Walid El Karti Badreddine Benachour
2016 Lewis Baker Ruben Loftus-Cheek Joel Pereira
2017 Chico Banza
Harvey Barnes
George Hirst
David Brooks Luke Pilling
2018 Eduardo Aguirre Diego Lainez Freddie Woodman
2019 Matheus Cunha Douglas Luiz Chen Wei