The 2023 Maurice Revello Tournament (officially french: 49ème Festival International "Espoirs" – Tournoi Maurice Revello), was the 49th edition of the
Maurice Revello Tournament
The Maurice Revello Tournament (officially French: the ''Festival International "Espoirs" – Tournoi Maurice Revello''), previously known as the Toulon Tournament, is a football tournament, which traditionally features invited national teams comp ...
, an annual, international, age-restricted
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
tournament.
Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...
won their first title after defeating
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
4–1 in the final.
Participants
The following twelve teams are participating: In May, Bolivia announced their withdrawal due to the country's financial situation and Morocco were invited to replace them. In June, Togo withdrew from the competition, and due to the late announcement no nation was able to replace them. Therefore the tournament organisers called-up a selection of under-21 players from the
Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the e ...
region.
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CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football,, ; french: Confédération de football d'Amérique du Nord, d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes, . Dutch uses the English name. abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typese ...
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CONMEBOL
The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL, , or CSF; es, Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol; pt, Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol) is the continental governing body of football in South America (apart from Guyana, Suri ...
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UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...
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Squads
Venues
The following venues were used during the tournament.
Match officials
The match officials were announced on the tournament's website.
Matches rules
Every match consists of two periods of 45 minutes each. In a match, every team has eleven named substitutes and the maximum number of substitutions permitted is five.
In the group stage, in the event of a draw, the two teams face each other in a
penalty shoot-out, with a bonus point for the winners. In the knockout stage, if a game tied,
extra time
Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played onl ...
would not be played and a penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winners.
Group stage
The groups were announced on 3 April 2023. The twelve teams were drawn into three groups of four.
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Ranking games
The teams that failed to reach the knock-out stage played an additional game to determine their final ranking in the competition.
Eleventh place play-off
Ninth place play-off
Seventh place play-off
Fifth place play-off
Knockout stage
Bracket
Semi-finals
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Third place play-off
Final
Statistics
Goalscorers
Awards
Individual awards
After the final, the following individual awards were announced.
*Best player: Eliesse Ben Seghir
*Second best player: Ángel Orelien
Ángel Gabriel Orelien González (born 2 April 2001) is a Panamanian professional footballer who plays as a winger for French club Dunkerque.
Club career Early career
Born in Panama City, Orelien joined Academia Bagoso FC at the age of seven a ...
*Third best player: Ramón Juárez
*Revelation player: Benjamín Galdames
*Best goalkeeper: Mohamed Koné
*Topscorers: Mathys Tel
Mathys Tel (born 27 April 2005) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. Known for his pace and creative dribbling ability, Tel has drawn comparisons to his French compatriot Kylian Mbappé. ...
/ Hisatsugu Ishii / Ángel Orelien
Ángel Gabriel Orelien González (born 2 April 2001) is a Panamanian professional footballer who plays as a winger for French club Dunkerque.
Club career Early career
Born in Panama City, Orelien joined Academia Bagoso FC at the age of seven a ...
*Special Prize Lucarne Opposée: Ricardo Phillips
Best XI
The best XI team was a squad consisting of the eleven most impressive players at the tournament.
See also
*2023 Sud Ladies Cup
The 2023 Sud Ladies Cup (officially french: 4ème Sud Ladies Cup – Tournoi Maurice Revello) was the fourth edition of the Sud Ladies Cup women's football tournament.
It was held in the department of Vaucluse from 16 to 21 May 2023. In this seaso ...
References
External links
Maurice Revello Tournament
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2023
Events
Predicted and scheduled events
* January 1
** In the United States, books, films, and other works published in 1927 will enter the public domain, assuming there are no changes made to copyright law.
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2022–23 in French football
2023 in youth association football
June 2023 sports events in France