Omani national soccer team
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) |
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statistics | |||
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First international game Sudan 15: 0 Oman Egypt ; September 2, 1965
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Biggest win Oman 14: 0 Bhutan Muscat , Oman ; March 28, 2017
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Biggest defeat Libya 21-0 Oman Baghdad , Iraq ; April 1, 1966
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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
Record player
(As of December 3, 2019)
Record player | ||||
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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 | 0 |
127 | Hassan Mudhafar | Defense | 2003-2015 | 6th |
126 | Amad al-Hosni | attack | 2003-2015 | 38 |
111 (107) | Saad al-Mukhaini | Defense | 2008– | 1 |
103 | Ahmed al-Mukhaini | Defense | 2003-2013 | 9 |
102 | Hani al-Dhabit | midfield | 1997-2014 | 43 |
Record shooters | |||
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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 | 78 |
23 | Ahmed Mubarak | 2003-2019 | 179 (175) |
Source: Oman - Record International Players
- ↑ 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 | |
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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 |
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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
Individual evidence
- ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
- ^ Oman - Record International Players , at www.rsssf.com, accessed April 25, 2020