Malta International Football Tournament

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Malta International Football Tournament
Founded1986
Abolished2008
RegionMalta
Number of teams4 (or 3)
Most successful team(s) Belarus
 Malta
(2 titles)
2008 Malta International Football Tournament

The Malta International Tournament was a biannual association football friendly competition for national teams, organised by the Malta Football Association that took place in Malta between 1986 and 2008. Initially, the tournament included the participation of football clubs, but starting from 1988 this was revamped to include only national A teams.[1]

Usually played in February, the competition involved a single round-robin phase where each team played once against each other. Teams are ranked by points and at the end of the competition, the team with the most points is crowned champion. Up till 2004, the competition was sponsored by Rothmans and was known as the Rothmans Tournament for sponsorship reasons.[2]

Summary[edit]

Year[3] Winners Runners-up Third place Fourth place Top scorer(s) Ref
1986 Germany 1. FC Kaiserslautern Soviet Union Fakel Voronezh  Malta Sweden Hammarby IF Not known [4]
1987 Germany VfB Stuttgart Poland Legia Warsaw  Malta [5]
1988 East Germany East Germany Olympic  Malta  Finland  Tunisia East Germany Damian Halata
Malta Carmel Busuttil
Finland Mika Lipponen 		3 goals [6]
1989  Algeria  Denmark  Finland  Malta Five players 1 goal [7]
1990  Norway  South Korea  Malta Ten players 1 goal [8]
1992  Malta  Norway U-21  Iceland Not known [9]
1994  Slovenia  Georgia  Tunisia  Malta Slovenia Primož Gliha 2 goals [10]
1996  Russia  Slovenia  Iceland  Malta Slovenia Sašo Udovič 5 goals [11]
1998  Georgia  Malta  Albania  Latvia Georgia (country) Gocha Jamarauli
Georgia (country) Mikhail Kavelashvili
Latvia Marians Pahars 		3 goals [12]
2000  Albania  Malta  Andorra  Azerbaijan Malta Gilbert Agius 2 goals [13]
2002  Malta  Lithuania  Jordan  Moldova Malta George Mallia
Malta Michael Mifsud
Moldova Alexandru Golban 		2 goals [14]
2004  Belarus U-23  Estonia  Malta  Moldova Malta Etienne Barbara 2 goals [15]
2006  Moldova U-21  Georgia  Malta Moldova Alexandru Zislis 2 goals [16]
2008  Belarus  Armenia  Iceland  Malta Armenia Ara Hakobyan 2 goals [17]

Malta Women's Tournament[edit]

Year Winners Runners-up Third place Fourth place Top scorer(s)
2021  Sweden  Slovakia  Austria  Malta Sweden Fridolina Rolfö 2 goals
2022  Morocco  Malta  Moldova Only three teams 9 different players 1 goal
2024  Belarus  Malta  Albania

All-time top goalscorers[edit]

Rank Name Team Goals Tournament(s)
1 Slovenia Sašo Udovič Slovenia 5 1996(5)
2 Georgia (country) Mikhail Kavelashvili Georgia 4 1994(1) and 1998(3)
3 Malta Carmel Busuttil Malta 3 1988(3)
Finland Mika Lipponen Finland
East Germany Damian Halata East Germany Olympic
Slovenia Primož Gliha Slovenia 1994(2) and 1996(1)
Russia Valeri Karpin Russia 1996(3)
Georgia (country) Gocha Jamarauli Georgia 1998(3)
Latvia Marians Pahars Latvia
Malta Gilbert Agius Malta 2000(2) and 2002(1)
Malta George Mallia 2000(1) and 2002(2)

Hat-tricks[edit]

Malta International Football Tournament hat-tricks
# Player G Time of goals For Result Against Tournament Date Ref
1. Mika Lipponen 3 35', 42', 74'  Finland 3–0  Tunisia 1988 Malta Football Tournament 13 February 1988 [18]
2. Sašo Udovič 5 42', 48', 57', 69', 74'  Slovenia 7–1  Iceland 1996 Malta Football Tournament 7 February 1996 [19]

References[edit]

  1. ^ https://www.rsssf.org/tablesr/rothmans.html
  2. ^ "All Time Results". Malta Football Association. Archived from the original on 2020-05-06. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
  3. ^ Antoine Busuttil (14 February 2008). "Malta (Rothmans) International Tournament". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 4 July 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Rothmans Tournament 1986 (Malta)". RSSSF. 1 May 2003. Archived from the original on 21 November 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Rothmans Tournament 1987 (Malta)". RSSSF. 1 May 2003. Archived from the original on 20 October 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Rothmans Tournament 1988 results". EU-Football.info. Archived from the original on 16 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Rothmans Tournament 1989 results". EU-Football.info. Archived from the original on 16 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  8. ^ "Rothmans Tournament 1990 results". EU-Football.info. Archived from the original on 16 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  9. ^ "Rothmans Tournament 1992 (Malta)". RSSSF. 8 December 1999. Archived from the original on 20 October 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  10. ^ "Rothmans Tournament 1994 results". EU-Football.info. Archived from the original on 15 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  11. ^ "Rothmans Tournament 1996 results". EU-Football.info. Archived from the original on 15 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  12. ^ "Rothmans Tournament 1998 results". EU-Football.info. Archived from the original on 15 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  13. ^ "Rothmans Tournament 2000 results". EU-Football.info. Archived from the original on 8 November 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  14. ^ "Rothmans Tournament 2002 results". EU-Football.info. Archived from the original on 11 January 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  15. ^ "Rothmans Tournament 2004 results". EU-Football.info. Archived from the original on 15 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  16. ^ "Rothmans Tournament 2006 results". EU-Football.info. Archived from the original on 15 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  17. ^ "Rothmans Tournament 2008 results". EU-Football.info. Archived from the original on 15 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  18. ^ "Finland vs Tunisia, 13 February 1988". EU-Football.info. Archived from the original on 16 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  19. ^ "Iceland vs Slovenia, 7 February 1996". EU-Football.info. Archived from the original on 2 October 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
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