Syria national football team

Syria
	Shirt badge/Association crest
Association	Syrian Football Association
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Head coach	Mohammad Qwayed
Home stadium	Abbasiyyin Stadium
FIFA code	SYR
First colours	Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	97
Highest	78 (August 1993)
Lowest	145 (May 1996)
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)
Appearances	(first in -)
Best result	-
AFC Asian Cup
Appearances	4 (first in 1980)
Best result	Round 1, all

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.

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. 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.

2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa

Syria are in the same FIFA World Cup qualifying group as Iran, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates. They will play home and away against each of the other three teams in the group 5.

Group 5

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Iran	4	1	3	0	5	2	+3	9
United Arab Emirates	4	1	2	1	3	2	+1	5
Syria	3	1	2	1	4	5	-1	5
Kuwait	4	1	1	2	6	7	-1	4


Iran		22 Jun	0-0	0-0
Kuwait	2-2		4-2	14 Jun
Syria	0-2	1-0		1-1
United Arab Emirates	0-1	2-0	22 Jun

Competition history

World Cup record

Year	Round	P	W	D	L	GF	GA
1930–1938	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1950	Withdrew during qualifying	-	-	-	-	-	-
1954	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1958	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1962	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1966	Withdrew	-	-	-	-	-	-
1970	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1974	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1978	Withdrew during qualifying	-	-	-	-	-	-
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	Qualifications-on going	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	Best: Round -	0	0	0	0	0	0

Asian Cup record

Year	Round	P	W	D	L	GF	GA
1956–1968	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1972	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
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	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	Best: Round 1	15	6	2	7	11	18

WAFF Championship record

Year	Round	P	W	D	L	GF	GA
2000	2nd Place	5	2	1	2	5	2
2002	4th Place	4	1	1	2	5	6
2004	2nd Place	4	1	1	2	6	13
2007	Semi Finals	3	2	0	1	2	3
Total	Best: 2nd Place	16	6	3	7	18	24

Fixtures and Results

Current squad 2008

The following players were called up for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification.(against Iran on June 14 2008)

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Mosab Balhous	5 October, 1983			Al-Karamah
16	1GK	Radwan Al Azhar	12 May, 1979			Al-Jaish

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
3	2DF	Ali Dyab	23 May, 1982	Al Majd
4	2DF	Omar Hemidi	2 May, 1986	Al-Ittihad
5	2DF	Feras Esmaeel	3 January, 1983	Al-Karamah
17	2DF	Abdelkader Dakka	1 October 1985	Al-Ansar
18	2DF	Bakri Tarrab	30 January, 1985	Al-Ittihad

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
6	3MF	Jehad Al Hussein	30 July, 1982			Al-Karamah
8	3MF	Mahmoud Al Amenah	15 January, 1983			Al-Ittihad
9	3MF	Youness Sulaiman Hamida				Al-Taliya
11	3MF	Adel Abdullah	12 January, 1984			Al-Jaish
13	3MF	Aatef Jenyat	8 May, 1986			Al-Karamah
14	3MF	Louay Chanko	29 November, 1979	2	0	Hammarby
15	3MF	Ilyas Merkes	8 January, 1987	1	0	Assyriska

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
2	4FW	Sanharib Malki	1 March, 1984	2	0	Germinal Beerschot
7	4FW	Zyad Chaabo	1 January, 1979			Al-Karamah
10	4FW	Feras Al Khatib	9 June, 1983			Al-Arabi
12	4FW	Raja Rafe	1 May, 1983			Al-Majd

Current Call Up Squad

(as of December, 2007)

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
9	4FW	Maher Al Sayed	1 January, 1979	Al-Wahda
12	4FW	Mohamed Al Zeno	5 February, 1983	Al-Majd
14	2DF	Wael Ayan	9 April, 1985	Al-Ittihad
15	2DF	Ahmad Deeb		Hottin Latakia
18	3MF	Bwrhan Sahiwni	7 April, 1986	Al Jaish
14	3MF	Majed Al Haj	6 April, 1985	Al-Jaish
7	3MF	Mootassem Alaya	1 January, 1983	Al-Wahda
9	4FW	Zain Al Fandi		Al-Taliya
16	1GK	Adnan Al Hafez	23 April, 1984	Al-Karamah
18	4FW	Abdul Fattah Alaga	1 August, 1986	Al-Ittihad
14	2DF	Adeeb Barakat	6 June, 1982	Al Taliya
16		Ali Al Holami
11	2DF	Khaled Mansoor Al Baba		Al Taliya
18	2DF	Hamzeh Al Aitoni	16 January, 1986	Al Majd
	4FW	Ibrahim Al Hasan		Afrin SC
	4FW	Ali Al Rifayi		Al Majd
	2DF	Majed Humssi	12 December, 1982	Al-Ittihad
	2DF	Rafat Mohamed		Shabab Al Ordon

Notable players

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