Malta International Football Tournament

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Malta International Football Tournament
Founded1986
Abolished2008
RegionMalta
Number of teams4 (or 3)
Most successful team(s)File:Flag of Belarus.svg Belarus
File:Flag of Malta.svg Malta
(2 titles)
File:Soccerball current event.svg 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

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

Malta Women's Tournament

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

All-time top goalscorers

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

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

References

  1. ↑ https://www.rsssf.org/tablesr/rothmans.html [bare URL]
  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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