| Tourney Name: | Mediterranean Games football tournament |
| Year: | 1971 |
| Country: | Turkey |
| City: | İzmir |
| Dates: | 6–16 October |
| Num Teams: | 8 |
| Confederations: | 3 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Count: | 1 |
| Third Other: |  Turkey B |
| Matches: | 12 |
| Goals: | 24 |
| Top Scorer: | Aleksandar Panajotović (5 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 1967 |
| Nextseason: | 1975 |
The 1971 Mediterranean Games football tournament was the 6th edition of the Mediterranean Games men's football tournament. The football tournament was held in İzmir, Turkey between the 6–16 October 1971 as part of the 1971 Mediterranean Games.
The following countries have participated for the final tournament:
| Federation | Nation | |
|---|---|---|
 France Amateurs Turkey B |
See main article: Football at the 1971 Mediterranean Games – Men's team squads.
All times local : Time zone (UTC+3)
| Key to colours in group tables | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=#ccffcc style="width: 20px" | Advance to the Final | ||
| bgcolor=#ffffe0 style="width: 20px" | Advance to the Third place match | ||
| bgcolor=#d0e7ff style="width: 20px" | Advance to the Fifth place match | ||
| width=165 | Team | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Turkey B | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 5 | |||||||||
| France Amateurs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 | |||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 0 |
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| width=165 | Team | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
--------Match abandoned at 1–0, Morocco walked off after two players sent off. Morocco disqualified and all their results annulled
| width=20 | Rank | width=200 | Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 5 | |||||
| 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 5 | |||||
| 3 | Turkey B | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 7 | ||||
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | –1 | 2 | |||||
| Eliminated in the group stage | |||||||||||||
| 5 | France Amateurs | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 | ||||
| 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | –7 | 1 | |||||
| 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | –3 | 0 | |||||