Syria national football team

Syria
Association	Syrian Football Association
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Head coach	Fajr Ibrahim
Home stadium	Abbasiyyin Stadium and Aleppo International Stadium
FIFA code	SYR
FIFA ranking	96
Highest FIFA ranking	78 (August 1993)
Lowest FIFA ranking	145 (May 1996)
Elo ranking	64
Home colours	Away colours
First international
	Turkey 7 - 0 Syria ; (Ankara, Turkey; November 20, 1949)
Biggest win
	Syria 12 - 0 Maldives ; (Damascus, Syria; June 4, 1997); Syria 12 - 0 Maldives ; (Tehran, Iran; June 9, 1997); Syria 12 - 0 Philippines ; (Aleppo, Syria; April 30, 2001)
Biggest defeat
	Greece 8 - 0 Syria ; (Athens, Greece; November 25, 1949); Egypt 8 - 0 Syria ; (Alexandria, Egypt; October 12, 1951)
AFC Asian Cup
Appearances	4 (First in 1980)
Best result	Round 1, all

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The Syria national football team is the national team of Syria and is controlled by the Syrian Football Association. It has never qualified for the World Cup finals.

[edit] History

It may not be the strongest in Asia, nevertheless Syrian football team has some considerable history. They participated in the 1950 and 1958 World Cup qualifiers, making them one of the first teams in the region to do so. Between 1958 and 1961, the team combined with Egypt to form the United Arab Republic national football team, although the team's records are attributed only to Egypt by FIFA. In the 1966 World Cup qualifiers they were one of two teams from the Asian zone (the other being Israel) to be allocated to the European qualifying zone and were originally placed with Spain and the Republic of Ireland. However, they joined the Asian and African boycott of the 1966 qualifiers, due to the decision of FIFA to allocate just one place between Asia and Africa.

Syria's best showing was in the 1986 qualifiers when they reached the final qualifying round only to lose to Iraq.

Syria have reached four Asian Cups, the last being 1996 when they narrowly missed the quarter-finals.

[edit] Competition history

[edit] FIFA World Cup record

FIFA World Cup Record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1930	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1934	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1938	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1950	Withdrew	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1954	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1958	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1962	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1966	Withdrew	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1970	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1974	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1978	Withdrew	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1982	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1986	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1990	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1994	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1998	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

[edit] AFC Asian Cup Record

AFC Asian Cup Record
Year	Round	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1956	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1960	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1964	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1968	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1972	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1976	Withdrew	-	-	-	-	-	-
1980	Round 1	4	2	1	1	3	2
1984	Round 1	4	1	1	2	3	5
1988	Round 1	4	2	0	2	2	5
1992	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1996	Round 1	3	1	0	2	3	6
2000	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
2004	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	0 Titles	15	6	2	7	11	18

*Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

AFC Asian Cup History
Year	Round	Score	Result
1980	Round 1	Syria 0 – 0 Iran	Draw
	Round 1	Syria 1 – 0 Bangladesh	Win
	Round 1	Syria 1 – 2 Korea DPR	Loss
	Round 1	Syria 1 – 0 China PR	Win
1984	Round 1	Syria 1 – 1 Qatar	Draw
	Round 1	Syria 0 – 1 Saudi Arabia	Loss
	Round 1	Syria 1 – 0 Korea Republic	Win
	Round 1	Syria 1 – 3 Kuwait	Loss
1988	Round 1	Syria 0 – 2 Saudi Arabia	Loss
	Round 1	Syria 0 – 3 China PR	Loss
	Round 1	Syria 1 – 0 Kuwait	Win
	Round 1	Syria 1 – 0 Bahrain	Win
1996	Round 1	Syria 1 – 2 Japan	Loss
	Round 1	Syria 0 – 3 China PR	Loss
	Round 1	Syria 2 – 1 Uzbekistan	Win

[edit] WAFF Championship Record

WAFF Championship Record
Year	Round	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
2000	Second Place	5	2	1	2	5	2
2002	Fourth Place	4	1	1	2	5	6
2004	Second Place	4	1	1	2	6	13
2007	Semi-Finals	3	2	0	1	2	3
2008	Semi-Finals	3	1	1	1	2	3
Total	0 Titles	19	7	4	8	20	27

*Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

[edit] Schedule and recent results

Date	Opponent	Result	Score	Venue	Competition
January 14, 2009	China PR	3:2 (3:0)	1-0 Maher Al Sayed 8' (pen.) 2-0 Maher Al Sayed 24' 3-0 Firas Al Khatib 39' (pen.) 3-1 Qu Bo 51' 3-2 Liu Jian 90+4'	Aleppo, Syria	2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification
January 18, 2009	Turkmenistan	5:1 (1:1)	0-1 Rahman Bablin 12' 1-1 Ali Dyab 44' 2-1 Raja Rafe 50' 3-1 Bakri Tarrab 65' 4-1 Firas Al Khatib 70' 5-1 Firas Al Khatib 75'	Kuwait City, Kuwait	Friendly Match
January 23, 2009	Kuwait	3:2 (1:1)	0-1 Musaed Neda 19' 1-1 Raja Rafe 29' (pen.) 2-1 Feras Esmaeel 52' 2-2 Bader Al-Mutwa 55' 3-2 Firas Al Khatib 65' (pen.)	Kuwait City, Kuwait	Friendly Match
January 28, 2009	Lebanon	2:0 (1:0)	1-0 Jehad Al Hussain 37' 2-0 Firas Al Khatib 78'	Saida, Lebanon	2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification
February 1, 2009	Korea Republic	1:1 (0:0)	0-1 Hamzeh Al Aitoni 80' (o.g.) 1-1 Yehya Al Rashed 90'	Dubai, UAE	Friendly Match
March 21, 2009	Qatar	1:2 (0:0)	0-1 Sebastián Soria 56' 0-2 Sebastián Soria 74' 1-2 Majed Al Haj 79'	Aleppo, Syria	Friendly Match
June 5, 2009	Sierra Leone	6:0 (3:0)	1-0 Ahmad Omaier 11' 2-0 Mohamed Al Zeno 34' 3-0 Mohamed Al Zeno 38' 4-0 Raja Rafe 80' 5-0 Ahmad Omaier 81' 6-0 Raja Rafe 85'	Damascus, Syria	Friendly Match
June 27, 2009	Haiti	2:1 (2:1)	1-0 Mohamed Al Zeno 8' 2-0 Firas Al Khatib 26' 2-1 Leonel Saint-Preux 29'	Montreal, Canada	Friendly Match
June 27, 2009	Montreal Impact	2:1 (2:1)		Montreal, Canada	Friendly Match
November 14, 2009	Vietnam			Hanoi, Vietnam	2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification
November 18, 2009	Vietnam			Aleppo, Syria	2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification
January 6, 2010	China PR			Hangzhou, China	2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification
March 3, 2010	Lebanon			Aleppo, Syria	2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification

[edit] All-time results

Further information: Syria national football team results

[edit] Results by year

Click on a year for more details about fixtures played during that year.

Year	Games	Wins	Draws	Losses
2009	8	6	1	1

[edit] Current squad 2009

Squad selected for the Friendly match against Haiti on 27 June 2009.

Caps and goals as of 28 June 2009.

Name	Date of birth	Club	Caps (goals)	Debut
Goalkeepers
Mosab Balhous	5 October 1983 (1983-10-05) (age 25)	Al-Karamah	? (0)
Moustafa Shakosh	1 January 1985 (1985-01-01) (age 24)	Teshrin SC	1 (0)	v. Sierra Leone, 5 June 2009
Defenders
Hamzeh Al Aitoni	16 January 1986 (1986-01-16) (age 23)	Al-Majd	? (0)
Ali Dyab	23 May 1982 (1982-05-23) (age 27)	Al-Majd
Juan Hesso		Al-Jaish	1 (0)	v. Sierra Leone, 5 June 2009
Belal Abduldaim	1 January 1983 (1983-01-01) (age 26)	Al-Karamah
Abdulkader Dakka	1 October 1985 (1985-10-01) (age 23)	Al-Ittihad
Midfielders
Bakri Tarrab	30 March 1985 (1985-03-30) (age 24)	Al-Ittihad
Wael Ayan	9 April 1985 (1985-04-09) (age 24)	Al-Ittihad
Ahmad Haj Mohamad		Hutteen SC	2 (0)	v. Sierra Leone, 5 June 2009
Aatef Jenyat	8 May 1986 (1986-05-08) (age 23)	Al-Karamah
Feras Esmaeel	3 January 1983 (1983-01-03) (age 26)	Al-Karamah
Abdelrazaq Al Hussain	15 September 1986 (1986-09-15) (age 22)	Al-Jaish
Jehad Al Hussain	30 July 1982 (1982-07-30) (age 26)	Al-Kuwait
Strikers
Mohamed Al Zeno	5 February 1983 (1983-02-05) (age 26)	Al-Majd
Raja Rafe	1 May 1983 (1983-05-01) (age 26)	Al-Majd
Majed Al Haj	6 April 1985 (1985-04-06) (age 24)	Al-Jaish
Ahmad Omaier		Al-Taliya
Firas Al Khatib	9 June 1983 (1983-06-09) (age 26)	Al-Arabi	36 (25)

[edit] Recent call-ups

The following players have also been called up to the Syria squad within last 7 months and are still available for selection

Name	Date of birth	Club	Caps (Goals)	Last Appearance
Goalkeepers
Radwan Al Azhar	12 May 1979 (1979-05-12) (age 30)	Al-Wahda		v Qatar, 21 March 2009
George Moussan	8 November 1989 (1989-11-08) (age 19)	Carlstad United	0 (0)	v Qatar, 21 March 2009
Defenders
Ali Maia		Jableh SC	1 (0)	v Sierra Leone, 5 June 2009
Omar Hemidi	2 May 1986 (1986-05-02) (age 23)	Al-Ittihad		v Sierra Leone, 5 June 2009
Majed Humssi	12 December 1982 (1982-12-12) (age 26)	Al-Ittihad		v Qatar, 21 March 2009
Zain Al Fandi		Al-Taliya		v Qatar, 21 March 2009
Bassel Al Shaar	15 February 1982 (1982-02-15) (age 27)	Al-Wahda		v Korea Republic, 1 February 2009
Midfielders
Bwrhan Sahiwni	7 April 1986 (1986-04-07) (age 23)	Al-Jaish		v Sierra Leone, 5 June 2009
Hazem Mahamid		Al-Wathba	1 (0)	v Sierra Leone, 5 June 2009
Adel Abdullah	12 January 1984 (1984-01-12) (age 25)	Al-Ittihad		v Sierra Leone, 5 June 2009
Yehya Al Rashed	1 February 1982 (1982-02-01) (age 27)	Al-Ittihad		v Qatar, 21 March 2009
Meaataz Kailouni	10 March 1985 (1985-03-10) (age 24)	Teshrin SC		v Qatar, 21 March 2009
Maher Al Sayed	1 January 1979 (1979-01-01) (age 30)	Al-Wahda		v Qatar, 21 March 2009
Mahmoud Al Amenah	15 January 1983 (1983-01-15) (age 26)	Al-Ittihad		v Korea Republic, 1 February 2009
Strikers
Ali Ghalium		Al-Wathba	0 (0)	v Sierra Leone, 5 June 2009
Abdul Fattah Alaga	1 August 1986 (1986-08-01) (age 22)	Al-Ittihad		v Korea Republic, 1 February 2009
Zyad Chaabo	1 January 1979 (1979-01-01) (age 30)	Al-Taliya		v Korea Republic, 1 February 2009

[edit] Coaches

Name	Period	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	Honours
Valery Yaremchenko	1985 – 1987
Mircea Rădulescu	1997 – 1998
Janusz Wójcik	2003 – 2003
Ahmed Rifaat	2003 – 2004
Miloslav Radinovic	2005 – 2006
Fajr Ibrahim	Feb 2006 – Mar 2008	29	14	5	10	Runner-up at ONGC Nehru Cup 2007
Mohamad Qwayed	Mar 2008 – Aug 2008	8	4	0	4
Fajr Ibrahim	Sep 2008 – present	11	6	3	2