6 champions and 505 goals in 175 matches… Arab Cup in 62 years

Arab football fans from the Ocean to the Gulf are anticipating the launch of the competitions of the eleventh edition of the Arab Cup, which Qatar is hosting from today (Monday) until the eighteenth of this December with the participation of 16 teams, including 10 teams from the continent of Asia and 6 from Africa.

 

On the occasion of the launch of the "Arab World Cup" In the presence of Egypt, the official website of the Egyptian Football Association reviews the most prominent numbers, statistics and paradoxes of the tournament over the course of the previous ten edition as follows:

 

– 6 teams were able to win the title, led by the Iraqi team with 4 titles in 1964 ’ 1966 ’ 1985 and 1988 ’ Followed by the Saudi national team, which won two titles in 1998 and 2002. There are 4 teams that won the title once, namely Tunisia (1963). Egypt (1992) ’ Morocco (2012) and Algeria (2021).

 

– 175 matches were held during the previous ten editions, which witnessed 128 wins and 47 draws. The net conceded 505 goals, with an average of 2.88 goals per match. Note that the third edition in Iraq 1966 was the most prolific in scoring, with 111 goals in 21 matches, an average of 5.25 goals. The fifth edition in Jordan 1988 was the lowest, with an average of 1.45 goals per match (35 goals in 24 matches), while the lowest number of goals conceded was 21 goals during 10 matches in the fourth edition 1985 in Saudi Arabia.

 

– In terms of hosting the tournament, Qatar is on par with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, as the tournament landed twice in the hospitality of this trio, compared to once. In Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Syria.

 

– Iraq, Libya and Saudi Arabia top the list of teams whose stars have won the tournament’s top scorer award twice ’ Where the duo “Lions of Mesopotamia” won. Enad Obaid and Ahmed Radhi won the award in the 1985 and 1988 editions, with 5 and 4 goals, respectively. It was credited to the Libyan duo Ahmed bin Suwayd and Ali Al-Biski in the 1964 and 1966 editions, with 4 and 16 goals respectively. The latter holds the record for the number of goals in one edition, as well as the most goals scored in a single match, with 9 goals against the Sultanate of Oman national team in the 1966 edition. As for the “green” stars, They won the award through Obaid Al-Dosari in the 1998 edition with 8 goals, and Saeed Al-Owairan in the next edition in 1992 in Syria, with the participation of the duo Ayman Mansour from Egypt and Walid Al-Fulaij from Kuwait with two goals for each player, which is the first time that more than one player shared the top scorers. The second was in the 2002 edition when the Bahraini Ahmed Hassan Talib tied with the Syrian Muhammad Rafi’ with 4 goals. Goals.

 

– Players from three other national teams were able to top the scorers list, the first of which was the Lebanese Leon Altounian in the 1966 edition with 5 goals ’ Then the Moroccan Yassin Salehi in the 2012 edition, with 6 goals, and finally the Tunisian Saif Al-Din Al-Jaziri in the last edition, with 4 goals.

 

– The Libyan national team achieved the largest victory in the history of the tournament when it defeated its Omani counterpart (21 – 0) in the 1966 edition, during which it also achieved the second largest victory when it defeated the North Yemen national team (13 – 0).

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