Saudi Arabian national soccer team
Nickname (s) | الصقور الخضراء / as-suqūr al-ḫaḍrāʾ / 'Green Falcons' | ||
Association | SAFF | ||
confederacy | AFC | ||
Technical sponsor | Nike | ||
Head coach | Hervé Renard (since 2019) | ||
Record scorer | Majid Abdullah (67) | ||
Record player | Mohammad ad-Daʿayyaʿ (178) | ||
Home stadium | King Fahd Stadium | ||
FIFA code | KSA | ||
FIFA rank | 67th (1351 points) (as of July 16, 2020) |
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First international match Saudi Arabia 3-1 Syria ( Beirut , Lebanon ; October 20, 1957 )
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Biggest win East Timor 0:10 Saudi Arabia ( Dili , East Timor ; November 17, 2015 )
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Biggest defeat Egypt 13-0 Saudi Arabia ( Casablanca , Morocco ; September 3, 1961 )
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World Championship | |||
Participation in the finals | 5 ( first : 1994 ) | ||
Best results | Round of 16 1994 | ||
Asian Championship | |||
Participation in the finals | 10 ( first : 1984 ) | ||
Best results | Winner 1984 , 1988 , 1996 | ||
(As of October 8, 2019) |
The Saudi Arabian national soccer team ( Arabic منتخب المملكة العربية السعودية لكرة القدم, DMG muntaǧab al-mamlaka al-ʿarabiyya as-saʿūdiyya li-kurat al-qadam ) has been one of the strongest Asian national teams since the mid- 1980s . After winning the Asian Cup twice in 1984 and 1988 , the national team of Saudi Arabia qualified for a World Cup finals for the first time in 1994 . In the course of this tournament, reaching the round of 16 (after victories against Morocco and Belgium ) was the greatest success at world championships so far. In 1996 the Asian Cup was won again. The team has qualified for the World Cup finals a total of five times.
The team has been coached by Frenchman Hervé Renard since September 2019 , making him the 40th coach in the past 30 years. The former international Mohammad ad-Daʿayyaʿ is the goalkeeper with the most international appearances.
Participation in the Olympic Games
1900 to 1972 | not participated |
1976 in Montreal | not qualified |
1980 in Moscow | not participated |
1984 in Los Angeles | Preliminary round |
1988 in Seoul | not qualified |
1992 in Barcelona | not participated |
1996 in Atlanta | Preliminary round |
After 1996, the senior national team stopped taking part in the Olympic Games and the qualifying games.
Participation in Saudi Arabia in the World Cup (five times)
year | Host country | Participation until ... | Last opponent | Result | Trainer | Comments and special features |
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1930 | Uruguay | not participated | State foundation only in 1932 | |||
1934 | Italy | not participated | First international match only in 1957 | |||
1938 | France | not participated | First international match only in 1957 | |||
1950 | Brazil | not participated | First international match only in 1957 | |||
1954 | Switzerland | not participated | First international match only in 1957 | |||
1958 | Sweden | not participated | ||||
1962 | Chile | not participated | ||||
1966 | England | not participated | ||||
1970 | Mexico | not participated | ||||
1974 | Germany | not participated | ||||
1978 | Argentina | not qualified | In the qualifiers in the first round on Iran have failed. | |||
1982 | Spain | not qualified | In the qualification in the finals of New Zealand and Kuwait failed. | |||
1986 | Mexico | not qualified | In the qualification in the West Asia group stage to the UAE failed, which also could not qualify. | |||
1990 | Italy | not qualified | In the qualification in the final round of South Korea and the UAE failed. | |||
1994 | United States | Round of 16 | Sweden | 12. | Jorge Solari | The group phase was survived with the same point and goal behind the Netherlands as runners-up in the group, the poorer placement resulted from the direct comparison that was lost. In the last sixteen the end came against the later third. |
1998 | France | Preliminary round | Denmark , France , South Africa | 28. | Carlos Alberto Parreira | After defeats against Denmark and the hosts and eventual world champions France and a draw against South Africa, they were eliminated as bottom group. |
2002 | South Korea / Japan | Preliminary round | Germany , Cameroon , Ireland | 32. | Nasser Al-Johar | After three defeats and without a goal, knocked out last in the group. The 8-0 defeat against Germany is the highest World Cup defeat for Saudi Arabia and the highest World Cup victory for Germany. |
2006 | Germany | Preliminary round | Tunisia , Ukraine , Spain | 28. | Marcos Paquetá | After a draw against Tunisia and defeats against Ukraine and Spain, they were eliminated as bottom group. |
2010 | South Africa | not qualified | In the qualifying in the 5th round of Bahrain failed, which also failed to qualify. | |||
2014 | Brazil | not qualified | In the qualifying in the third round of Australia and Oman failed. | |||
2018 | Russia | Preliminary round | Uruguay , Egypt , Russia | Juan Antonio Pizzi | After defeats against Russia and Uruguay as well as a win against Egypt, eliminated in third place in the group. | |
2022 | Qatar |
FIFA Confederations Cup
Saudi Arabia took part in the first three events as the organizer of the King Fahd Cup and won the 1996 AFC Asian Cup in 1999.
year | Host country | Participation until ... | Last opponent | Result | Trainer | Comments and special features | |
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1992 | Saudi Arabia | final | Argentina | Second | Nelsinho Rosa | ||
1995 | Saudi Arabia | Preliminary round | Denmark , Mexico | 5. | Mohammed Al-Kharashy | ||
1997 | Saudi Arabia | Preliminary round | Australia , Brazil , Mexico | 7th | Otto Pfister | ||
1999 | Mexico | 3rd place match | United States | Fourth | Milan Máčala | ||
2001 | South Korea / Japan | not qualified | |||||
2003 | France | not qualified | |||||
2005 | Germany | not qualified | |||||
2009 | South Africa | not qualified | |||||
2013 | Brazil | not qualified | |||||
Participation of Saudi Arabia in the soccer Asian championship
- 1976 - no participation in the final round
- 1980 - did not participate
- 1984 - Asian champion
- 1988 - Asian champion
- 1992 - runner-up
- 1996 - Asian champion
- 2000 - runner-up
- 2004 - preliminary round
- 2007 - runner-up
- 2011 - preliminary round
- 2015 - preliminary round
- 2019 - round of 16
Participation of Saudi Arabia in the West Asian Football Championship
- 2000 to 2010 - did not participate
- 2012 - preliminary round
- 2013/14 - preliminary round
- 2019 - preliminary round
- 2021 - qualified
title
- Asian Champion (3) - 1984, 1988, 1996
- Golf Cup (3) - 1994, 2002, 2004
- Arab Cup (2) - 1998, 2002
- U-17 World Champion - 1989
International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams
date | place | Home team | result | Visiting team | |
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1. | 02/22/1998 | Riad | Saudi Arabia | 0: 3 | Germany |
2. | 06/01/2002 | Sapporo ( ) | Germany | 8-0 | Saudi Arabia |
3. | 04/30/2003 | Vaduz | Liechtenstein | 1-0 | Saudi Arabia |
4th | 06/08/2018 | Leverkusen | Germany | 2: 1 | Saudi Arabia |
So far there have been no meetings against Switzerland and Austria.
statistics
Record player
Saudi Arabia, along with the US, has the largest number of players with at least 100 games .
Games | Surname | Period |
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173 (178) | Mohammad ad-Daʿayyaʿ | 1990 to 2006 |
163 | Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi | 1992 to 2001 |
156 | Sami al-Jabir | 1992 to 2006 |
142 (141) | Abdullah Zubromawi | 1993 to 2002 |
138 | Osama Hawsawi | 2006 to 2018 |
138 | Hussein Suleimani | 1996 to 2014 |
134 | Taisir Al-Jassim | 2004 to 2018 |
133 | Saud Kariri | 2001 to 2015 |
121 | Mohamed Abdeljawid | 1993 to 2002 |
118 | Mohammad asch-Schalhub | 2000 to 2012, 2018 |
116 | Majid Mohammed Abdullah | 1978 to 1994 |
116 | Ahmed Jamil Madani | 1986 to 1998 |
114 | Khaled al-Muwallid | 1988 to 1998 |
113 | Ahmad ad-Duchi | 1997 to 2006 |
112 | Yassir al-Qahtani | 2002 to 2013 |
105 | Khamis Al-Dosari | 1997 to 2006 |
103 | Muhammad al-Jahani | 1994 to 2002 |
Note: In August and September 2013, FIFA (numbers in brackets if different) and RSSSF added more Saudi Arabian players to the list of players with at least 100 games and changed the data of previously listed players. Sources: FIFA Hundred Club, Saudi Arabia - Record International Players
Record goal scorers
Gates | Surname | Games | Quota | World Cup goals | AM gates |
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71 | Majid Mohammed Abdullah | 116 | 0.61 | 0 | 3 |
46 | Sami al-Jabir | 156 | 0.32 | 3 | 2 |
42 | Yassir al-Qahtani | 112 | 0.38 | 1 | 5 |
41 | Ubaid ad-Dusari | 94 | 0.44 | 0 | 0 |
32 | Talal al-Meshal | 60 | 0.53 | NT | 3 |
28 | Khaled al-Muwallid | 114 | 0.25 | 0 | 2 |
28 | Mohammad Al-Sahlawi | 43 | 0.65 | 0 | 3 |
26th | Fahad al-Mehalel | 87 | 0.3 | 0 | 4th |
24 | Said al-Uwairan | 75 | 0.32 | 1 | ? |
24 | Ibrahim al-Shahrani | 84 | 0.29 | 0 | ? |
20th | Youssef al-Tunayan | 81 | 0.25 | 1 | ? |
- Note: NT = not participated
- Source: Saudi Arabia - Record International Players
International matches
Games | opponent |
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36 | Kuwait |
35 | Qatar |
29 | Bahrain |
26th | United Arab Emirates |
25th | Iraq |
National coach
Other national teams
At the 2006 World Cup for people with disabilities , the Saudi Arabian team won the title in front of 14,500 spectators in the Leverkus Bayarena.
See also
- Saudi Arabian National Football Team (U-17 Juniors)
- Saudi Arabian National Football Team (U-20 Men)
- List of national football teams (men)
Web links
- Website of the Saudi Arabian Football Association (arab.)
- All international matches of Saudi Arabia (as of May 31, 2006)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
- ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930-2010 (PDF; 200 kB)
- ↑ FACT Sheet FIFA Century Club (as of December 4, 2019)
- ↑ a b Naeim Albakr: Appearances for Saudi Arabia National Team ( English ) rsssf.com. December 20, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2020.