2019 Toulon Tournament

The 2019 Toulon Tournament (officially 47ème Festival International "Espoirs" – Tournoi Maurice Revello) was the 47th edition of the Toulon Tournament. It was held in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône from 1 to 15 June 2019. England were the defending champions but they were eliminated in the group stage.

In this season the tournament was contested by under-22 national teams, although France, Portugal, England and Republic of Ireland played with their under-18, under-19, under-20 and under-21 teams, respectively.

Brazil won their ninth title by defeating Japan 5–4 in a penalty shoot-out in the final, after the match had finished in a 1–1 draw.

Participants
Twelve participating teams were announced in March and April 2019.


 * AFC
 * (2nd participation)
 * (13th participation)
 * (14th participation)
 * (6th participation)
 * CONCACAF
 * (1st participation)
 * (25th participation)


 * CONMEBOL
 * (17th participation)
 * (5th participation)
 * UEFA
 * TH (21st participation)
 * (42nd participation)
 * (30th participation)
 * (7th participation)

Venues
A total of five cities hosted the tournament.

Initially, Stade Marcel Cerdan (Carnoux-en-Provence) would host the ninth-place and seventh-place playoffs but the matches originally to be played there would be moved to Stade d'Honneur (Mallemort) and Stade Parsemain (Fos-sur-Mer).

Match officials
The referees were:

🇦🇿 Aliyar Aghayev
 * Assistants: Zeynal Zeynalov and Akif Amirali

Felipe González Alveal
 * Assistants: Raúl Orellana and Alejandro Molina

🇫🇷 Willy Delajod
 * Assistants: Aurélien Berthomieu and Philippe Jeanne

🇲🇹 Alex Johnson
 * Assistants: Edward Spiteri and Theodore Zammit

🇲🇽 Luis Enrique Santander
 * Assistants: Christian Espinosa and Michel Alejandro Morales

António Nobre
 * Assistants: Pedro Mota and Nuno Pereira

🇶🇦 Salman Falahi
 * Assistants: Yousuf Al-Shamari and Zahy Alshammari

🇮🇪 Robert Hennessy
 * Assistants: Emmett Dynan and Robert Clarke

Horațiu Feșnic
 * Assistants: Alexandru Cerei and Mihai Marius Marica

Matches rules
Every match consisted of two periods of 45 minutes each. In a match, every team had eleven named substitutes and the maximum number of substitutions permitted was four (a fifth substitution was allowed only for goalkeepers).

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 8 April 2019. The twelve teams were drawn into three groups of four. In the group stage, each group was played on a round-robin basis. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, the following criteria would be used to determine the ranking: 1. Goal difference; 2. Goals scored; 3. Fair play points. The group winners and the best runners-up qualified for the semi-finals. The Group stage was played from 1 to 9 June 2019.

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

Ninth place playoff

 * Match delayed due to rain. The original date was 11 June, 16:00 at Stade Marcel Cerdan, Carnoux-en-Provence.

Seventh place playoff

 * Match originally scheduled at Stade Marcel Cerdan, Carnoux-en-Provence.

Knockout stage
All times are local CEST

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


 * Best player: 🇧🇷 Douglas Luiz
 * Second best player: 🇧🇷 Lyanco
 * Third best player: 🇯🇵 Ao Tanaka
 * Fourth best player: 🇮🇪 Jayson Molumby
 * Breakthrough player: Vitinha
 * Best goalkeeper: 🇨🇳 Chen Wei
 * Topscorer: 🇧🇷 Matheus Cunha
 * Youngest player of the final: 🇧🇷 Paulinho
 * Best goal of the tournament: 🇧🇷 Paulinho
 * Fair-Play:

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