Malta International Football Tournament

The Malta International Tournament was a biannual association football friendly competition for national teams organised by the Malta Football Association and 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.

Malta International Football Tournament
Founded1986
Abolished2008
RegionMalta
Number of teams4 (or 3)
Most successful team(s) Belarus
 Malta
(2 titles)

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.[1]

Finals
Year[2] Winners Runners-up Third place Fourth place
1986 1. FC Kaiserslautern Fakel Voronezh  Malta Hammarby IF
1987 VfB Stuttgart Legia Warsaw  Malta
1988 East Germany Olympic  Malta  Finland  Tunisia
1989  Algeria  Denmark  Finland  Malta
1990  Norway  South Korea  Malta
1992  Malta  Norway U-21  Iceland
1994  Slovenia  Georgia  Tunisia  Malta
1996  Russia  Slovenia  Iceland  Malta
1998  Georgia  Malta  Albania  Latvia
2000  Albania  Malta  Andorra  Azerbaijan
2002  Malta  Lithuania  Jordan  Moldova
2004  Belarus U-23  Estonia  Malta  Moldova
2006  Moldova  Georgia  Malta
2008  Belarus  Armenia  Iceland  Malta

References
  1. "All Time Results". Malta Football Association.
  2. Antoine Busuttil (14 February 2008). "Malta (Rothmans) International Tournament". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
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