1974 Kuneitra Cup
Appearance
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Syria |
City | Damascus |
Dates | 26 September – 9 October 1974 |
Teams | 11 (from 2 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Morocco |
Runners-up | Syria |
Third place | Tunisia |
Fourth place | Sudan |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 29 |
Goals scored | 108 (3.72 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Ali Khalil (EGY) Ahmed Faras Abdel Aziz (6 goals each) |
The 1974 Kuneitra Cup (Arabic: كأس القنيطرة 1974) was an international football tournament held in Damascus, Syria, from 26 September to 9 October 1974. Morocco won the tournament, beating Syria in the final.[1]
Format
The 11 teams were distributed in two groups: Group A was composed of Syria, Sudan, Libya, Palestine, and North Yemen; Group B of Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt B, NA Hussein Dey, Lebanon, Jordan. The top two teams of each group faced each other in the semi-finals: the winners progressed to the final, whereas the losers played the third-place match.
Group stage
Group A
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Syria | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | +11 | 8 | Semi-finals |
2 | Sudan | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 6 | |
3 | Libya | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 3 | |
4 | Palestine | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 3 | |
5 | North Yemen | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 28 | −26 | 0 |
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal average.
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal average.
Libya | 9–1 | North Yemen |
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Group B
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Morocco | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 10 | Semi-finals |
2 | Tunisia | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 6 | |
3 | Egypt B | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 6 | |
4 | NA Hussein Dey | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 4 | |
5 | Lebanon | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 3 | |
6 | Jordan | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 18 | −17 | 1 |
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal average.
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal average.
Knockout stage
Bracket
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
7 October – Abbasiyyin Stadium | ||||||
Syria (a.e.t.) | 3 | |||||
9 October – Abbasiyyin Stadium | ||||||
Tunisia | 1 | |||||
Syria | 1 (3) | |||||
7 October – Abbasiyyin Stadium | ||||||
Morocco (p) | 1 (4) | |||||
Morocco | 2 | |||||
Sudan | 0 | |||||
Third place play-off | ||||||
9 October – Abbasiyyin Stadium | ||||||
Tunisia | 3 | |||||
Sudan | 1 |
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Scorers
There were 108 goals scored in 29 matches, for an average of 3.72 goals per match.
6 goals
- Ali Khalil (EGY)
- Ahmed Faras
- Abdel Aziz
4 goals
- Saeed Al-Ghazali (LBY)
- Zoubir Boughanieh
- Ali Gagarin
- Azam Goutouk (SYR)
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
- Ali Amidan
- Salem Sahli
- Ahmed Bayoumi (EGY)
- Mohamed Said Hamza (EGY)
- Mahmoud Hassan (EGY)
- Yassin Mostafa (EGY)
- Mahmoud Rushdie (EGY)
- Ezz El Din Yaqoub (EGY)
- Nabil Al-Tali
- Rashid Dougan
- Abdel-Qader Al-Bohemi (LBY)
- Mahmoud Al-Jahmani (LBY)
- Abdul-Bari Circassi (LBY)
- Al-Arabi Hardan
- Ahmed Makrouh
- Nasr Al-Jaradi
- Samir Naimi
- Ahmed Naji
- Hamid Nashta
- Abdel Aziz Abdallah
- Abdel Aziz Baye
- Khedr Al-Kori
- Kamal Abdelwahab
- Haitham Berjakli (SYR)
- Riad Esfahani (SYR)
- Suhail Lotfi (SYR)
- Ibrahim Mahlami (SYR)
- Ayman Matmah (SYR)
- Nabil Nano (SYR)
- Samir Said (SYR)
- Abdel Majid Kabouti
- Moncef Al-Khwaini
- Ali Ratima
1 own goal
- Badr Ismail (against Morocco)
See also
References
- ^ Karkora, Mahmoud. "Kuneitra Cup 1974 (Syria)". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 27 April 2003. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
External links
- 1974 Kuneitra Cup on InternationalFootball.net