2018 Toulon Tournament

The 2018 Toulon Tournament (officially 46ème Festival International "Espoirs" – Tournoi Maurice Revello) was the 46th edition of the Toulon Tournament. It was held in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône from 26 May to 9 June 2018.

England won the tournament for the third successive year beating Mexico 2–1 in the final.

Participants
Twelve participating teams were announced on 27 February 2018.


 * AFC
 * (12th participation)
 * (13th participation)
 * (5th participation)
 * (5th participation)


 * CAF
 * (1st participation)
 * CONCACAF
 * (1st participation)
 * (24th participation)


 * UEFA
 * TH (20th participation)
 * (41st participation)
 * (29th participation)
 * (9th participation)
 * (5th participation)

Venues
A total of seven cities hosted the tournament.

Match officials
The referees were:

🇨🇦 Yusri Rudolf
 * Assistants: Micheal Barwegen and Daniel Belleau

🇫🇷 Karim Abed
 * Assistants: Mehdi Rahmouni and Mikaël Berchebru

Ioannis Papadopoulos
 * Assistants: Ioannis Sipkas and Vasileios Kampouris

🇲🇹 Trustin Farrugia Cann
 * Assistants: Alan Camilleri and Christopher Lawrence Francalanza

🇲🇽 Marco Antonio Ortiz
 * Assistants: José Luis Camargo and Marcos Quintero

Luís Miguel Branco Godinho
 * Assistants: Nuno Pereira and Luís Campos

Radu Petrescu
 * Assistants: Mihai Marius Marica and Radu-Adrian-Ştefan Ghinguleac

🇰🇷 Choi Hyun-jai
 * Assistants: Joo Hyeon-min and Shin Jae-hwan

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 March 2018. The twelve teams were drawn into three groups of four. The group winners and the best runners-up qualified for the semi-finals. The Group stage was played from 26 May to 3 June 2018.

Group A
All times are local CEST

Group B
All times are local CEST

Group C
All times are local CEST

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

All times were local CEST

Knockout stage
All times are local CEST

Goalscorers
68 goals were scored in 26 matches, for an average of goals per match.
 * 7 goals
 * 🇲🇽 Eduardo Aguirre
 * 3 goals
 * 🇲🇽 Roberto Alvarado
 * 2 goals


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tammy Abraham
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dael Fry
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Eddie Nketiah
 * 🇫🇷 Steve Ambri
 * 🇫🇷 Jordan Tell
 * 🇯🇵 Koji Miyoshi
 * 🇯🇵 Ayase Ueda
 * Oliver Burke
 * 🇰🇷 Cho Young-wook
 * 🇰🇷 Lee Kang-in
 * Kévin Denkey
 * 🇹🇷 Mücahit Can Akçay
 * 🇹🇷 Kubilay Kanatsızkuş


 * 1 goal


 * 🇨🇦 Theo Bair
 * 🇨🇦 Mathieu Choinière
 * 🇨🇦 Noah Verhoeven
 * 🇨🇳 Cong Zhen
 * 🇨🇳 Deng Yubiao
 * 🇨🇳 Yan Dinghao
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Adam Armstrong
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Callum Connolly
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Kieran Dowell
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ronaldo Vieira
 * 🇫🇷 Axel Bakayoko
 * 🇫🇷 Ludovic Blas
 * 🇫🇷 Wilfried Kanga
 * 🇫🇷 Bryan Lasme
 * 🇯🇵 Kaoru Mitoma
 * 🇯🇵 Kyosuke Tagawa
 * 🇲🇽 Diego Lainez
 * Domingos Quina
 * José Gomes
 * Jota
 * Luís Silva
 * Pedro Martelo
 * 🇶🇦 Nasser Al Ahrak
 * 🇶🇦 Ahmed Jenahi
 * 🇶🇦 Abdullah Murisi
 * Billy Gilmour
 * Fraser Hornby
 * Mikey Johnston
 * 🇰🇷 Jeon Se-jin
 * Thomas Wogodo
 * 🇹🇷 Barış Alıcı


 * Own goal
 * 🇶🇦 Ahmed Al-Hamawende (playing against England)

Individual awards
After the final, the following players were rewarded for their performances during the competition.


 * Best player: 🇲🇽 Diego Lainez
 * Second best player: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lewis Cook
 * Third best player: Mikey Johnston
 * Fourth best player: 🇰🇷 Lee Kang-in
 * Breakthrough player: Billy Gilmour
 * Best goalkeeper: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Freddie Woodman
 * Topscorer: 🇲🇽 Eduardo Aguirre
 * Younger player of the final: 🇲🇽 Diego Lainez
 * Best goal of the tournament: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Eddie Nketiah (playing against Scotland (50'))
 * Fair-Play:

Best XI
The best XI team was a squad consisting of the eleven most impressive players at the tournament.