Omani national soccer team

Oman

Association	Oman Football Association
confederacy	AFC
Technical sponsor	Jako
Head coach	Branko Ivanković (since 2020)
Record scorer	Hani al-Dhabit (43)
Record player	Ahmed Mubarak (179)
Home stadium	Sultan Qaboos Sports Center
FIFA code	GRANNY
FIFA rank	82nd (1303 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
statistics
First international game Sudan 15: 0 Oman Egypt ; September 2, 1965
Biggest win Oman 14: 0 Bhutan Muscat , Oman ; March 28, 2017
Biggest defeat Libya 21-0 Oman Baghdad , Iraq ; April 1, 1966
Successes in tournaments
Asian Championship
Participation in the finals	4 ( first : 2004 )
Best results	Round of 16 2019
(As of December 3, 2019)

The Omani national football team is the national team of the Sultanate of Oman , which is located on the Arabian Peninsula .

Oman played its first international match early on, in 1965. However, the team had no chance against Sudan and clearly lost with 0:15. For the next 20 years, the team failed to win a game. The country achieved its best results in 1976 (1: 1 against the United Arab Emirates ) and 1984 (0: 0 against Kuwait ). The first victory could only be celebrated on September 24, 1986 , when Oman defeated Nepal 8-0. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the team has steadily improved its results and caught up more and more with the other nations of the Near East.

Oman has not yet qualified for a soccer World Cup . The closest they failed in 2002 was when the team made it to the final round but had no chance against China and the UAE.

After the team had wanted to qualify for an Asian soccer championship for the first time in 1984, the Omani reached the finals 20 years later when they u. a. beat South Korea, fourth in the World Cup , 3-1. In the finals they lost their first game against Japan just 0: 1 and parted ways with 2: 2 against Iran . Despite beating Thailand 2-0, the Omani were eliminated as Iran and Japan parted goalless. In the end, the Omani took third place in the table.

In qualifying for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Oman was in first place in the table before the last match day and had to face second place Kuwait in Kuwait City , while third place Iraq received Saudi Arabia in Amman . A win in Kuwait would have brought the qualification, but the Omani did not get past a 0-0 and gambled away their chances of qualifying as Iraq beat Saudi Arabia 3-1 and secured the finals due to the better goal difference.

At the 2007 Asian Cup, the team was eliminated without a win in the preliminary round, and in 2009 they won the Golf Cup for the first time . A second title was won in 2017 .

Known players

The best-known player is Reading FC legionnaire Ali al-Habsi .

World championships

• 1930 to 1982 - did not participate
• 1986 - withdrawn
• 1990 to 2018 - not qualified

Record player

(As of December 3, 2019)

Record player
Games	player	position	Period	Gates
179 (175)	Ahmed Mubarak	midfield	2003-2019	23
150	Fawzi Bashir	midfield	2001-2013	30th
135	Ali al-Habsi	goal	2001-2019	00
127	Hassan Mudhafar	Defense	2003-2015	06th
126	Amad al-Hosni	attack	2003-2015	38
111 (107)	Saad al-Mukhaini	Defense	2008–	01
103	Ahmed al-Mukhaini	Defense	2003-2013	09
102	Hani al-Dhabit	midfield	1997-2014	43

Record shooters
Gates	player	Period	Games
43	Hani al-Dhabit	1997-2014	102
38	Amad al-Hosni	2003-2015	126
30th	Fawzi Bashir	2001-2013	150
30th	Abdulaziz al-Muqbali	2011-2019	078
23	Ahmed Mubarak	2003-2019	179 (175)

Source: Oman - Record International Players

1. ↑ Matches and goals recognized by FIFA in brackets if different.

Asian Championships

• 1956 to 1980 - did not participate
• 1984 - did not qualify
• 1988 - did not participate
• 1992 to 2000 - not qualified
• 2004 - preliminary round
• 2007 - preliminary round
• 2011 - did not qualify
• 2015 - preliminary round
• 2019 - round of 16

West Asian Championships

• 2000 to 2007 - did not participate
• 2008 - preliminary round
• 2010 - preliminary round
• 2012 - third place
• 2013/14 - preliminary round
• 2019 - did not participate
• 2021 - qualified

International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	02/18/1998	Muscat	Oman	0: 2	Germany
2.	02/10/1999	Muscat	Oman	1: 2	Switzerland
3.	02/19/2000	Muscat	Oman	1: 4	Switzerland

So far there have been no international matches against Austria and Liechtenstein.

Trainer

Trainer	Period
Mamadoh Mohammed Al-Khafaji	1974-1976
George Smith	1979
Hamed El-Dhiab	1980-1982
Mansaf El-Meliti	1982
Paulo Heiki	1984
Antônio Clemente	1986
Jorge Vitório	1986-1988
Karl-Heinz Heddergott	1988-1989
Bernd Patzke	1990-1992
Heshmat Mohajerani	1992-1994
Rashid Jaber Al-Yafi'i	1995-1996
Mahmoud El-Gohary	1996
Jozef Vengloš	1996-1997
Ian Porterfield	1997
Homayoun Shahrokhi	1997-1998
Valdeir Vieira	1998-1999
Carlos Alberto Torres	2000-2001
Milan Máčala	2001
Bernd Stange	2001
Rashid Jaber Al-Yafi'i	2002
Milan Máčala	2003-2005
Srečko Juričić	2005-2006
Hamad Al-Azani	2006 (interim trainer)
Milan Máčala	2006-2007
Gabriel Calderón	2007-2008
Julio César Ribas	2008
Hamad Al-Azani	2008 (interim trainer)
Claude Le Roy	2008-2010
Hamad Al-Azani	Jan 2010 (only for friendly matches during Le Roy's absence)
Paul Le Guen	2011-2016
Juan Ramón López Caro	2016
Pim Verbeek	2016-2019
Erwin Koeman	2019
Branko Ivanković	since 2020

See also

• List of the international matches of the Omani national football team
• Omani National Football Team (U-17 Juniors)

Web links

Commons : Omani National Soccer Team  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• National team results

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ^ Oman - Record International Players , at www.rsssf.com, accessed April 25, 2020