Malta International Football Tournament

Malta International Football Tournament

Founded	1986
Abolished	2008
Region	Malta
Number of teams	4 (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

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

Malta Women's Tournament

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

All-time top goalscorers

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

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