2017 Toulon Tournament

The 2017 Toulon Tournament (officially French: 45ème Festival International "Espoirs" – Tournoi Maurice Revello) was the 45th edition of the Toulon Tournament. The tournament was named after Maurice Revello,^[1] who started the tournament in 1967 and died in 2016.^[2] It was held in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône from 29 May to 10 June 2017.^[3] The 2017 edition was the first to feature 12 teams.

2017 Toulon Tournament

45ème Festival International "Espoirs" – Tournoi Maurice Revello (in French)
Tournament details
Host country	France
Dates	29 May – 10 June 2017
Teams	12 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	England (6th title)
Runners-up	Ivory Coast
Third place	Scotland
Fourth place	Czech Republic
Tournament statistics
Matches played	22
Goals scored	61 (2.77 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Chico Banza Harvey Barnes George Hirst (4 goals each)
Best player(s)	David Brooks
Best goalkeeper	Luke Pilling
← 2016 2018 →

The tournament was won by the defending champions England, who claimed their sixth title, beating Ivory Coast 5–3 in a penalty shootout after the game ended 1–1.^[4][5]

Participants

Twelve participating teams were announced on April 12, 2017.^[6]

AFC  Bahrain (1st participation)  Indonesia (1st participation)  Japan (12th participation) CAF  Angola (3rd participation)  Ivory Coast (9th participation) CONCACAF  Cuba (1st participation)

CONMEBOL  Brazil (16th participation) UEFA  Czech Republic (5th participation)  EnglandTH (19th participation)  France (40th participation)  Scotland (8th participation)  Wales (1st participation)

Squads

Main article: 2017 Toulon Tournament squads

The twelve national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 20 Under-20 players.^[7]

Venues

A total of four cities hosted the tournament.

Vitrolles Fos-sur-Mer Salon-de-Provence Aubagne
Aubagne	Fos-sur-Mer
Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny	Stade Parsemain
43.2939°N 5.5623°E / 43.2939; 5.5623 (Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny)	43.4687°N 4.9489°E / 43.4687; 4.9489 (Stade Parsemain)
Capacity: 1,000	Capacity: 17,170
Salon-de-Provence	Vitrolles
Stade d'Honneur Marcel Roustan	Stade Jules-Ladoumègue
43.6356°N 5.0928°E / 43.6356; 5.0928 (Stade d'Honneur Marcel Roustan)	43.4578°N 5.2433°E / 43.4578; 5.2433 (Stade Jules Ladoumègue)
Capacity: 4,000	Capacity: 1,500

Match officials

The referees were:^[8]

Hélder Martins de Carvalho[a] and António Muachihuissa Caxala Assistants: Estanislau Guedes Prata Pavel Orel Assistants: Jakub Hrabovský and Tomáš Mokrusch Karim Abed Assistants: Mehdi Rahmouni and Benjamin Pagès Anastasios Papapetrou Assistants: Ioannis Toumpakaris and Tryfon Petropoulos

Yusuke Araki Assistants: Toshiyuki Tanaka and Jun Mihara Alan Mario Sant Assistants: Luke Portelli and Christopher Lawrence Francalanza Radu Petrescu Assistants: Vasile Marinescu and Radu-Adrian-Ştefan Ghinguleac Don Robertson Assistants: Jordan Stokoe and Dougie Potter

^{^} Hélder Martins de Carvalho took an assistant's place during the tournament.

Matches rules

Every match consisted of two periods of 40 minutes each. In a match, every team had nine named substitutes and the maximum number of substitutions permitted was four.
In the knockout stage, if a game tied at the end of regulation time, extra time would not be played and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.

Group stage

The draw was held on 15 April 2017. The twelve teams were drawn into three groups of four. The group winners and the best second-placed team qualified for the semi-finals.^[9] The Group stage was played from 29 May to 6 June 2017.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	3	0	0	10	2	+8	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Angola	3	1	1	1	6	3	+3	4
3	Japan	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2
4	Cuba	3	0	1	2	3	13	−10	1

Source: Standings

29 May 2017 (2017-05-29)

17:00 CEST

Japan	1–1	Cuba
Ito 54'	Report	Oviedo 71'

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Referee: Don Robertson (Scotland)

29 May 2017 (2017-05-29)

19:30 CEST

England	1–0	Angola
Ugbo 45'	Report

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Referee: Karim Abed (France)

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1 June 2017 (2017-06-01)

17:00 CEST

Angola	1–1	Japan
Chico Banza 80+3'	Report	Sasaki 52' (pen.)

Stade d'Honneur Marcel Roustan, Salon-de-Provence

Referee: Pavel Orel (Czech Republic)

1 June 2017 (2017-06-01)

19:30 CEST

England	7–1	Cuba
Barnes 18', 44' Hirst 33', 53', 64' (pen.) Brooks 60' Taylor-Crossdale 76' (pen.)	Report	Puga 37'

Stade d'Honneur Marcel Roustan, Salon-de-Provence

Referee: Alan Mario Sant (Malta)

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4 June 2017 (2017-06-04)

15:00 CEST

Japan	1–2	England
Ando 53'	Report	Hirst 25' (pen.) Taylor-Crossdale 72' (pen.)

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Referee: Anastasios Papapetrou (Greece)

4 June 2017 (2017-06-04)

19:30 CEST

Angola	5–1	Cuba
Chico Banza 1', 39', 52' Rui 41' Vá 73'	Report	Tuero 67'

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Referee: Don Robertson (Scotland)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ivory Coast	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Wales	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
3	France (H)	3	1	1	1	7	3	+4	4
4	Bahrain	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0

Source: Standings
(H) Hosts

30 May 2017 (2017-05-30)

17:00 CEST

Ivory Coast	1–0	Bahrain
Gnoukouri 38'	Report

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Referee: Alan Mario Sant (Malta)

30 May 2017 (2017-05-30)

19:30 CEST

France	0–0	Wales
	Report

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)

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2 June 2017 (2017-06-02)

17:00 CEST

Bahrain	0–1	Wales
	Report	James 77' (pen.)

Stade Parsemain, Fos-sur-Mer

Referee: Don Robertson (Scotland)

2 June 2017 (2017-06-02)

19:30 CEST

France	1–2	Ivory Coast
Marcel 44'	Report	Lazare 61' Touré 79'

Stade Parsemain, Fos-sur-Mer

Referee: Yusuke Araki (Japan)

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5 June 2017 (2017-06-05)

17:00 CEST

Wales	2–2	Ivory Coast
G. Thomas 7', 80+2'	Report	Tiéhi 50' Krasso 62'

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Referee: Pavel Orel (Czech Republic)

5 June 2017 (2017-06-05)

19:30 CEST

Bahrain	1–6	France
Khalid 19'	Report	Nordin 4' Mateta 44' Boutobba 48' (pen.), 64' Barka 56' Osei 80+1'

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Referee: Yusuke Araki (Japan)

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czech Republic	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Scotland	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6
3	Brazil	3	1	1	1	1	1	0	4
4	Indonesia	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

Source: Standings

31 May 2017 (2017-05-31)

17:00 CEST

Czech Republic	3–2	Scotland
Chvěja 35' Šašinka 41' Graiciar 59'	Report	Burke 1', 55' (pen.)

Stade d'Honneur Marcel Roustan, Salon-de-Provence

Referee: Anastasios Papapetrou (Greece)

31 May 2017 (2017-05-31)

19:30 CEST

Brazil	1–0	Indonesia
Gabriel Novaes 37'	Report

Stade d'Honneur Marcel Roustan, Salon-de-Provence

Referee: António Caxala (Angola)

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3 June 2017 (2017-06-03)

15:00 CEST

Czech Republic	2–0	Indonesia
Kašiar 12' Šašinka 77'	Report

Stade Parsemain, Fos-sur-Mer

Referee: Karim Abed (France)

3 June 2017 (2017-06-03)

17:30 CEST

Scotland	1–0	Brazil
Taylor 35'	Report

Stade Parsemain, Fos-sur-Mer

Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)

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6 June 2017 (2017-06-06)

17:00 CEST

Indonesia	1–2	Scotland
Saghara 23'	Report	Hardie 32', 63' (pen.)

Stade Jules-Ladoumègue, Vitrolles

Referee: Alan Mario Sant (Malta)

6 June 2017 (2017-06-06)

19:30 CEST

Brazil	0–0	Czech Republic
	Report

Stade Jules-Ladoumègue, Vitrolles

Referee: António Caxala (Angola)

Knockout stage

The knockout stage was played on 8 and 10 June 2017.^[10]

	Semi-finals				Final
	8 June – Fos-sur-Mer
	England	3
					10 June – Aubagne
	Scotland	0
					England (p)	1 (5)
	8 June – Fos-sur-Mer
					Ivory Coast	1 (3)
	Ivory Coast	2
	Czech Republic	1
					Third place
					10 June – Aubagne
					Scotland	3
					Czech Republic	0

Semi-finals

8 June 2017 (2017-06-08)

17:00 CEST

England	3–0	Scotland
Barnes 6', 68' Embleton 50'	Report

Stade Parsemain, Fos-sur-Mer

Referee: António Caxala (Angola)

8 June 2017 (2017-06-08)

19:30 CEST

Ivory Coast	2–1	Czech Republic
Lazare 2' Krasso 38'	Report	Novotný 21'

Stade Parsemain, Fos-sur-Mer

Referee: Anastasios Papapetrou (Greece)

Third place playoff

10 June 2017 (2017-06-10)

15:00 CEST

Scotland	3–0	Czech Republic
Hardie 43' Wighton 57' Granečný 80+2' (o.g.)	Report

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Referee: Alan Mario Sant (Malta)

Final

10 June 2017 (2017-06-10)

17:30 CEST

England	1–1	Ivory Coast
Brooks 13'	Report	Loba 80+1' (pen.)
Penalties
Ugbo Embleton Barnes Slattery Vieira	5–3	Loba Diaby Kouyaté Lazare

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Referee: Pavel Orel (Czech Republic)

Goalscorers

61 goals were scored in 22 matches, for an average of 2.77 goals per match.

4 goals

• Chico Banza
• Harvey Barnes
• George Hirst

3 goals

• Ryan Hardie

2 goals

• Ondřej Šašinka
• David Brooks
• Martell Taylor-Crossdale
• Bilal Boutobba
• Jean-Philippe Krasso
• Jean Thierry Lazare
• Oliver Burke
• George Thomas

1 goal

• Rui
• Vá
• Abdulaziz Khalid
• Gabriel Novaes
• Rolando Oviedo
• Eduardo Puga
• Lázaro Tuero
• Ondřej Chvěja
• Martin Graiciar
• Roman Kašiar
• Ondřej Novotný
• Elliot Embleton
• Iké Ugbo
• Yanis Barka
• Vincent Marcel
• Jean-Philippe Mateta
• Arnaud Nordin
• Derick Osei
• Hanis Saghara Putra
• Wilfried Gnoukouri
• Aké Arnaud Loba
• Christ Tiéhi
• Yaya Kader Touré
• Mizuki Ando
• Hiroki Ito
• Takumi Sasaki
• Greg Taylor
• Craig Wighton
• Daniel James

Own goal

• Denis Granečný (playing against Scotland)

Source: Toulon Tournament^[11]

Awards

Individual awards

After the final, the following players were rewarded for their performances during the competition.^[12]

• Best player: David Brooks
• Second best player: Joe Worrall
• Third best player: Jean Thierry Lazare
• Fourth best player: Greg Taylor
• Breakthrough player: Egy Maulana
• Best goalkeeper: Luke Pilling
• Younger player of the final: Reece James
• Best goal of the tournament: Hiroki Ito (playing against Cuba)
• Fair-Play:  England

Best XI

The best XI team was a squad consisting of the eleven most impressive players at the tournament.^[13]

Pos. Player GK Luke Pilling DF Reece James DF Joe Worrall DF Souleymane Diaby DF Greg Taylor MF Michal Sadílek MF Jean Thierry Lazare MF David Brooks FW George Thomas FW George Hirst FW Harvey Barnes

Pilling Worrall Diaby James Taylor Sadílek Lazare G. Thomas Barnes Brooks Hirst