Malta International Football Tournament Explained

Malta International Football Tournament
Founded:1986
Abolished:2008
Region:Malta
Number Of Teams:4 (or 3)
Most Successful Team:

(2 titles)
Current: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] WinnersRunners-upThird placeFourth placeTop scorer(s)scope=col class=unsortable
1986 1. FC Kaiserslautern Fakel Voronezh Hammarby IFNot known[4]
1987 VfB Stuttgart Legia Warsaw[5]
1988 East Germany Olympic Damian Halata
Carmel Busuttil
Mika Lipponen
3 goals[6]
1989Five players1 goal[7]
1990Ten players1 goal[8]
1992Not known[9]
1994 Primož Gliha2 goals[10]
1996 Sašo Udovič5 goals[11]
1998 Gocha Jamarauli
Mikhail Kavelashvili
Marians Pahars
3 goals[12]
2000 Gilbert Agius2 goals[13]
2002 George Mallia
Michael Mifsud
Alexandru Golban
2 goals[14]
2004 Etienne Barbara2 goals[15]
2006 Alexandru Zislis2 goals[16]
2008 Ara Hakobyan2 goals[17]

Malta Women's Tournament

YearWinnersRunners-upThird placeFourth placeTop scorer(s)
2021 Fridolina Rolfö2 goals
2022Only three teams9 different players1 goal
2024

All-time top goalscorers

RankNameTeamGoalsTournament(s)
1 Sašo UdovičSlovenia51996(5)
2 Mikhail KavelashviliGeorgia41994(1) and 1998(3)
3 Carmel BusuttilMalta31988(3)
Mika LipponenFinland
Damian HalataEast Germany Olympic
Primož GlihaSlovenia1994(2) and 1996(1)
Valeri KarpinRussia1996(3)
Gocha JamarauliGeorgia1998(3)
Marians PaharsLatvia
Gilbert AgiusMalta2000(2) and 2002(1)
George Mallia2000(1) and 2002(2)

Hat-tricks

Malta International Football Tournament hat-tricks
scope=colscope=colPlayerscope=colscope=colTime of goalsscope=colForscope=colResultscope=colAgainstscope=colTournamentscope=colDatescope=col class=unsortable
.Mika Lipponen3', 42', 74'3–01988 Malta Football Tournament13 February 1988[18]
.Sašo Udovič5', 48', 57', 69', 74'7–11996 Malta Football Tournament7 February 1996[19]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesr/rothmans.html
  2. Web site: All Time Results . Malta Football Association . 2018-11-03 . 2020-05-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200506004818/https://www.mfa.com.mt/en/national-team-all-results.htm . dead .
  3. Web site: Malta (Rothmans) International Tournament . 14 February 2008 . 3 October 2018 . Antoine Busuttil . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation . 4 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190704005051/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesr/rothmans.html . live .
  4. Web site: Rothmans Tournament 1986 (Malta) . 1 May 2003 . 16 June 2022 . 21 November 2020 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20201121064823/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesr/rothmans86.html . live .
  5. Web site: Rothmans Tournament 1987 (Malta) . 1 May 2003 . 16 June 2022 . 20 October 2021 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20211020100143/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesr/rothmans87.html . live .
  6. Web site: Rothmans Tournament 1988 results . EU-Football.info . 16 June 2022 . 16 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220616175405/https://eu-football.info/_tournament.php?id=MIT-1 . live .
  7. Web site: Rothmans Tournament 1989 results . EU-Football.info . 16 June 2022 . 16 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220616165123/https://eu-football.info/_tournament.php?id=MIT-2 . live .
  8. Web site: Rothmans Tournament 1990 results . EU-Football.info . 16 June 2022 . 16 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220616162433/https://eu-football.info/_tournament.php?id=MIT-3 . live .
  9. Web site: Rothmans Tournament 1992 (Malta) . 8 December 1999 . 16 June 2022 . 20 October 2021 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20211020011955/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesr/rothmans92.html . live .
  10. Web site: Rothmans Tournament 1994 results . EU-Football.info . 16 June 2022 . 15 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220615164800/https://eu-football.info/_tournament.php?id=MIT-5 . live .
  11. Web site: Rothmans Tournament 1996 results . EU-Football.info . 16 June 2022 . 15 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220615164800/https://eu-football.info/_tournament.php?id=MIT-6 . live .
  12. Web site: Rothmans Tournament 1998 results . EU-Football.info . 16 June 2022 . 15 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220615154813/https://eu-football.info/_tournament.php?id=MIT-7 . live .
  13. Web site: Rothmans Tournament 2000 results . EU-Football.info . 16 June 2022 . 8 November 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181108025643/https://eu-football.info/_tournament.php?id=MIT-8 . live .
  14. Web site: Rothmans Tournament 2002 results . EU-Football.info . 16 June 2022 . 11 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230111141325/https://eu-football.info/_tournament.php?id=MIT-9 . live .
  15. Web site: Rothmans Tournament 2004 results . EU-Football.info . 16 June 2022 . 15 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220615172445/https://eu-football.info/_tournament.php?id=MIT-10 . live .
  16. Web site: Rothmans Tournament 2006 results . EU-Football.info . 16 June 2022 . 15 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220615213508/https://eu-football.info/_tournament.php?id=MIT-11 . live .
  17. Web site: Rothmans Tournament 2008 results . EU-Football.info . 16 June 2022 . 15 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220615214150/https://eu-football.info/_tournament.php?id=MIT-12 . live .
  18. Web site: Finland vs Tunisia, 13 February 1988 . EU-Football.info . 16 June 2022 . 16 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220616175333/https://eu-football.info/_match.php?id=8964 . live .
  19. Web site: Iceland vs Slovenia, 7 February 1996 . EU-Football.info . 16 June 2022 . 2 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221002212322/https://eu-football.info/_match.php?id=10687 . live .