2023 Maurice Revello Tournament

The 2023 Maurice Revello Tournament (officially French: 49ème Festival International "Espoirs" – Tournoi Maurice Revello), was the 49th edition of the Maurice Revello Tournament, an annual, international, age-restricted football tournament.^[1]

2023 Maurice Revello Tournament

49ème Festival International "Espoirs" – Tournoi Maurice Revello (in French)
Tournament details
Host country	France
Dates	5–18 June 2023
Teams	12 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Panama (1st title)
Runners-up	Mexico
Third place	Australia
Fourth place	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	71 (2.73 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mathys Tel Hisatsugu Ishii Ángel Orelien (3 goals each)
Best player(s)	Eliesse Ben Seghir
Best goalkeeper	Mohamed Koné
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Panama won their first title after defeating Mexico 4–1 in the final.^[2]

Participants

The following twelve teams participated:^[3] In May, Bolivia announced their withdrawal due to the country's financial situation and Morocco were invited to replace them.^[4] 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 region.^[5]

AFC  Australia  Japan  Qatar  Saudi Arabia CAF  Ivory Coast  Morocco  Togo

CONCACAF  Costa Rica  Mexico  Panama CONMEBOL  Bolivia  Venezuela UEFA  France U-21 Mediterranean team

Squads

Main article: 2023 Maurice Revello Tournament squads

Venues

The following venues were used during the tournament.^[6]

4600km
2858miles

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Venues of the 2023 Maurice Revello Tournament

1

Arles

2

Aubagne

3

Fos-sur-Mer

City	Stadium	Capacity
Arles	Stade Fernand-Fournier	2,500
Aubagne	Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny	1,000
Fos-sur-Mer	Stade Parsemain	12,500
Mallemort	Stade d'Honneur	720
Miramas	Stade des Molières
Salon-de-Provence	Stade d'Honneur Marcel Roustan	4,000

Match officials

The match officials were announced on the tournament's website.^[7]

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 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.^[1]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	DW	DL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France (H)	3	1	1	1	0	6	4	+2	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Saudi Arabia	3	0	2	1	0	2	2	0	5
3	Venezuela	3	0	1	2	0	2	2	0	4
4	Costa Rica	3	0	1	1	1	2	4	−2	3

Source: Maurice Revello Tournament
(H) Host

All times are local CEST

5 June 2023 (2023-06-05)

14:00

Venezuela	1–1	Costa Rica
Hernández 77'	Report	Aguilera 72' (pen.)
Penalties
Alcócer Ferro Hernández Chacón Ortega	3–4	Vargas van der Putten Zamora Bran

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Attendance: 400

Referee: Daniel Portelli (Malta)

5 June 2023 (2023-06-05)

17:30

France	2–2	Saudi Arabia
Aiki 8' Tel 88'	Report	Maran 20' (pen.) Al-Nasser 39'
Penalties
Jacquet Byar Tel Dacourt Sarr Bentoumi Diakhon Aradj Gomis	5–6	F. Al-Ghamdi Al-Johani Al-Mousa Al-Nasser Radif A. Al-Ghamdi Masoud Al-Sebyani Al-Sibyani

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Referee: Tess Olofsson (Sweden)

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8 June 2023 (2023-06-08)

14:00

Saudi Arabia	0–0	Venezuela
	Report
Penalties
Al-Johani Al-Mousa Al-Sayyali	0–3	Alcócer Pérez Ferro Vivas

Stade d'Honneur, Mallemort

Attendance: 500

Referee: Moatasem Al Mazyed (Qatar)

8 June 2023 (2023-06-08)

17:30

France	3–1	Costa Rica
Housni 18', 56' Ben Seghir 89'	Report	Aguilera 45+2'

Stade d'Honneur, Mallemort

Referee: Daniel Portelli (Malta)

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11 June 2023 (2023-06-11)

14:00

Saudi Arabia	0–0	Costa Rica
	Report
Penalties
Al-Juwayr Maran Yahya K. Al-Absi F. Al-Ghamdi	3–2	Vargas van der Putten Barahona Hernández Zamora

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Attendance: 300

Referee: Marta Huerta de Aza (Spain)

11 June 2023 (2023-06-11)

17:30

France	1–1	Venezuela
Tel 87'	Report	Romero 11'
Penalties
Jacquet Assoumani Tel Bahoya	3–2	Aramburu Ferro Ruíz Vivas Guarirapa

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Referee: Konstantinos Perrakis (Greece)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	DW	DL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	3	2	0	1	0	5	2	+3	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Mexico	3	2	0	0	1	6	3	+3	6
3	U-21 Mediterranean team	3	1	0	0	2	4	5	−1	3
4	Qatar	3	0	1	0	2	0	5	−5	2

Source: Maurice Revello Tournament

All times are local CEST

6 June 2023 (2023-06-06)

14:00

Qatar	0–0	Australia
	Report
Penalties
Al-Rawi Hamza Al-Ali Al-Yazidi	4–3	Botic Teague D'Arrigo Rawlins Nieuwenhof

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Attendance: 350

Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)

6 June 2023 (2023-06-06)

17:30

U-21 Mediterranean team	1–2	Mexico
Lasne 57'	Report	Monroy 48' Jurado 90+3'

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Attendance: 800

Referee: Moatasem Al Mazyed (Qatar)

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9 June 2023 (2023-06-09)

14:00

Australia	3–2	U-21 Mediterranean team
Velupillay 6', 21' Teague 85'	Report	Mandefu 26' Trinker 43'

Stade d'Honneur, Mallemort

Attendance: 350

Referee: Tess Olofsson (Sweden)

9 June 2023 (2023-06-09)

17:30

Mexico	4–0	Qatar
Trigos 57' Juárez 68' L. Martínez 72', 74'	Report

Stade d'Honneur, Mallemort

Attendance: 500

Referee: Konstantinos Perrakis (Greece)

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12 June 2023 (2023-06-12)

14:00

Mexico	0–2	Australia
	Report	Botic 50' Francois 87'

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Attendance: 500

Referee: Karim Abed (France)

12 June 2023 (2023-06-12)

17:30

U-21 Mediterranean team	1–0	Qatar
Djahafi 41' (pen.)	Report

Stade de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Aubagne

Attendance: 550

Referee: Daniel Portelli (Malta)

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	DW	DL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Panama	3	1	1	1	0	4	2	+2	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Ivory Coast	3	1	1	0	1	3	3	0	5
3	Morocco	3	1	0	1	1	3	3	0	4
4	Japan	3	1	0	0	2	3	5	−2	3

Source: Maurice Revello Tournament

All times are local CEST

7 June 2023 (2023-06-07)

14:00

Japan	2–1	Morocco
Uchino 72' Ishii 81'	Report	Raihani 64'

Stade Parsemain, Fos-sur-Mer

Attendance: 350

Referee: Marta Huerta de Aza (Spain)

7 June 2023 (2023-06-07)

17:30

Ivory Coast	1–1	Panama
D. Fofana 12' (pen.)	Report	Bernal 90+2'
Penalties
Koffi Konaté N'Guessan Sogodogo I. Fofana	5–3	Hinds Tejada Contreras Perdomo

Stade Parsemain, Fos-sur-Mer

Referee: Karim Abed (France)

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10 June 2023 (2023-06-10)

14:00

Japan	0–2	Panama
	Report	Orelien 75' Perdomo 90+7'

Stade Parsemain, Fos-sur-Mer

Attendance: 300

Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)

10 June 2023 (2023-06-10)

17:30

Ivory Coast	0–1	Morocco
	Report	El Jebari 21'

Stade Parsemain, Fos-sur-Mer

Attendance: 950

Referee: Karim Abed (France)

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13 June 2023 (2023-06-13)

14:00

Japan	1–2	Ivory Coast
Yukutomo 20'	Report	Koffi 11' Konaté 57'

Stade Parsemain, Fos-sur-Mer

Referee: Moatasem Al Mazyed (Qatar)

13 June 2023 (2023-06-13)

17:30

Panama	1–1	Morocco
Orelien 67'	Report	Raihani 11'
Penalties
Phillips Fields Bernal Fariña Jones Véliz Matos Perdomo Perez Carrasquilla	9–8	Raihani Arhoun Radid Bensaad Soussi Et Taïbi Ergouai Lantaki Azrour Bentaik

Stade Parsemain, Fos-sur-Mer

Referee: Konstantinos Perrakis (Greece)

Ranking games

The teams that failed to reach the knock-out stage played an additional game to determine their final ranking in the competition.

All times are local CEST

Eleventh place play-off

15 June 2023 (2023-06-15)

14:00

Costa Rica	2–4	Qatar
Rodríguez 77' (pen.) Barahona 82'	Report	Ali Sabah 20' (pen.), 58' Madjer 66' Al-Rawi 69'

Stade des Molières, Miramas

Attendance: 50

Referee: Konstantinos Perrakis (Greece)

Ninth place play-off

15 June 2023 (2023-06-15)

18:00

U-21 Mediterranean team	3–3	Japan
Djahafi 55' Dahmani 64' Barry 90+6'	Report	Ishii 2', 44' Yukutomo 65'
Penalties
Khetir Djahafi Trinker Dahmani Mendy Okyere Lasne	7–6	Uchino Yukutomo Hatano Kuwahara Ikeda Hayakawa Kita

Stade des Molières, Miramas

Attendance: 150

Referee: Moatasem Al Mazyed (Qatar)

Seventh place play-off

15 June 2023 (2023-06-15)

14:00

Morocco	1–0	Venezuela
Bensaad 50'	Report

Stade Fernand-Fournier, Arles

Attendance: 300

Referee: Karim Abed (France)

Fifth place play-off

15 June 2023 (2023-06-15)

18:00

Ivory Coast	3–1	Saudi Arabia
Sogodogo 8' Toure 73' Koffi 87' (pen.)	Report	Maran 83' (pen.)

Stade Fernand-Fournier, Arles

Referee: Daniel Portelli (Malta)

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	16 June – Salon-de-Provence
	Australia	1
					18 June – Salon-de-Provence
	Panama	2
					Panama	4
	16 June – Salon-de-Provence
					Mexico	1
	France	2 (3)
	Mexico (p)	2 (4)
					Third place play-off
					18 June – Salon-de-Provence
					Australia	2
					France	0

All times are local CEST

Semi-finals

16 June 2023 (2023-06-16)

14:30

Australia	1–2	Panama
Botic 18'	Report	Contreras 37' Perdomo 87'

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

Attendance: 250

Referee: Tess Olofsson (Sweden)

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16 June 2023 (2023-06-16)

18:00

France	2–2	Mexico
Ben Seghir 39' Tel 51' (pen.)	Report	Robles 30' García 47'
Penalties
Jacquet Ben Seghir Aiki Housni Dacourt	3–4	Martínez Juárez García Flores Pérez

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

Third place play-off

18 June 2023 (2023-06-18)

14:30

Australia	2–0	France
Hollman 29' D'Arrigo 45+3'	Report

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

Attendance: 600

Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)

Final

18 June 2023 (2023-06-18)

18:00

Panama	4–1	Mexico
Hinds 40' (pen.) Bernal 52' Lenis 60' Orelien 75'	Report	Jurado 81'

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

Referee: Karim Abed (France)

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 71 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.73 goals per match.

3 goals

• Mathys Tel
• Hisatsugu Ishii
• Ángel Orelien

2 goals

• Noah Botic
• Nishan Velupillay
• Brandon Aguilera
• Eliesse Ben Seghir
• Ilyes Housni
• N'Dri Philippe Koffi
• Toki Yukutomo
• Sofiane Djahafi
• Heriberto Jurado
• Luca Martínez
• Abde Raihani
• José Bernal
• Reyniel Perdomo
• Khalid Ali Sabah
• Mohammed Maran

1 goal

• Louis D'Arrigo
• Marlee Francois
• Jake Hollman
• Ryan Teague
• Carlos Barahona
• Doryan Rodríguez
• Ayman Aiki
• David Datro Fofana
• Abdramane Konaté
• Yaya Sogodogo
• Yassine Toure
• Kotaro Uchino
• Yacouba Barry
• Yassine Dahmani
• Enzo Lasne
• Ahmed Mandefu
• Théo Trinker
• Uziel García
• Ramón Juárez
• Pablo Monroy
• Ángel Manuel Robles
• Santiago Trigos
• Adnane Bensaad
• Salim El Jebari
• Davis Contreras
• Ricardo Hinds
• Kahiser Lenis
• Ahmed Al-Rawi
• Lotfi Madje
• Saad Al-Nasser
• Luifer Hernández
• Andrés Romero

Awards

Individual awards

After the final, the following individual awards were announced.^[8]

• Best player: Eliesse Ben Seghir
• Second best player: Ángel Orelien
• Third best player: Ramón Juárez
• Revelation player: Benjamín Galdames
• Best goalkeeper: Mohamed Koné
• Topscorers: Mathys Tel / Hisatsugu Ishii / Ángel Orelien
• 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.^[9]

Pos. Player GK Mohamed Koné DF Ramón Juárez DF Reyniel Perdomo DF Zakariya Hawsawi DF Joshua Rawlins MF Santiago Trigos MF Benjamín Galdames MF Ángel Orelien FW Ilyes Ziani FW Eliesse Ben Seghir FW Mathys Tel

Koné Juárez Rawlins Perdomo Hawsawi Trigos Galdames Ben Seghir Ziani Orelien Tel

See also

• 2023 Sud Ladies Cup