Qatari national football team (U-20 men)

Qatar

Association	Qatar Football Association
confederacy	AFC
Head coach	Félix Sánchez
FIFA code	QAT
(Status: unknown)

The Qatari U-20 national soccer team is a selection team of Qatari soccer players. It is subject to the Qatar Football Association and represents it internationally at the U-20 level , for example in friendly matches against the national teams of other national associations or at the U-20 World Cup .

The team has qualified three times for the finals of a U-20 World Cup; In 1981 she was runner- up in Australia , in 1995 and 2015 she was eliminated in the preliminary round.

history

In 1980 Qatar took part in the U-19 Asian Cup for the first time. In the tournament, which was held in group mode, they achieved second place behind South Korea with only one defeat and thus qualified for the 1981 World Junior Championship . There Qatar finished second in the group with Poland , the USA and Uruguay and met Brazil in the quarter-finals . In an even game against the Seleção Sub-20 , Khalid Almuhannadi scored three goals, the goal for the 3-2 final score in the 87th minute. Then they defeated England 2-1 and moved into the final, in which they lost 4-0 to the German U-20s .

In the following years, the Qatari U-19 team failed to qualify for the U-20 World Cup at the Asian Championships. After they were eliminated in the semi-finals in 1986 , they lost to Iraq on penalties in the semifinals in 1988 and just barely missed qualifying as runner-up in the play-offs of Asia and Oceania. After another semi-final participation in 1990 , Qatar's U-19s did not get beyond the preliminary round at the Asian Championships until 2000 . As hosts, the Qatari U-20 team was able to take part in the Junior World Cup in 1995 , in which, after a draw with Russia, defeats against Brazil and Syria and thus the preliminary round followed.

In the Asian Cup, which is now held as a U-20 competition, the team was eliminated in the preliminary round in 2002 , before reaching the quarter-finals in 2004 as runners-up behind China , where they were eliminated 5-3 on penalties after a 0-0 win against Japan . At the Asian Championships in 2006 and 2008 , the Qatari U-20 team failed in qualifying. Since 2010, the Asian Cup has been played as a U-20 tournament again. After failing to qualify in 2010 , Qatar was fourth in the group behind Australia , Syria and Saudi Arabia in the preliminary round in 2012 . In 2014 , the Qatari U-19 national team became Asian champions by beating North Korea in the final . The U-20 team was qualified for the third time for the U-20 World Cup, in which they were eliminated in the preliminary round in 2015 as fourth in the group, without points behind Portugal , Colombia and Senegal .

Participation in U-20 soccer world championships

1977 : not qualified  1979 : not qualified  1981 : 2nd place  1983 : not qualified  1985 : not qualified  1987 : not qualified  1989 : not qualified  1991 : not qualified  1993 : not qualified  1995 : preliminary round  1997 : not qualified	1999 : not qualified  2001 : not qualified  2003 : not qualified  2005 : not qualified  2007 : not qualified  2009 : not qualified  2011 : not qualified  2013 : not qualified  2015 : preliminary round  2017 : not qualified  2019 : preliminary round

Participation in U-19 Asian championships

1959 : did not take part  1960 : did not take part  1961 : did not take part  1962 : did not take part  1963 : did not take part  1964 : did not take part  1965 : did not take part  1966 : did not take part  1967 : did not participate  1968 : did not take part  1969 : did not take part  1970 : did not participate  1971 : did not take part	1972 : did not participate  1973 : did not take part  1974 : did not take part  1975 : did not take part  1976 : did not participate  1977 : did not take part  1978 : did not participate  1980 : 2nd place  1982 : not qualified  1985 : not qualified  1986 : 4th place  1988 : 3rd place  1990 : 4th place	1992 : preliminary round  1994 : preliminary round  1996 : preliminary round  1998 : preliminary round  2000 : not qualified  2002 : preliminary round  2004 : quarter-finals  2006 : not qualified  2008 : not qualified  2010 : not qualified  2012 : preliminary round  2014 : winner  2016 : preliminary round

See also

• Qatari national football team
• Qatari national football team (U-17 juniors)

Web links

• Qatar on the 2015 U-20 World Cup website

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