Kuwait national football team
The Kuwaiti national football team is the national team of the Gulf State of Kuwait. The national team is a member of the Asian continental federation Asian Football Confederation and the world governing body FIFA.
History
The Kuwait Football Association ( KFA ) was founded in 1952 and joined FIFA in 1962. In 1980, Kuwait Asian champion and 1982 took Kuwait for the first time at a FIFA World Cup finals.
When qualifying for the Football World Cup 2006 in Kuwait threw the favored Chinese out of the race, but could not qualify in the further course.
On 29 October 2007, FIFA decided on the suspension of Kuwait from all international competitions until further notice. The reason the government's interference was called in affairs of the Association.
On November 9, 2007, FIFA lifted the suspension temporarily on again. Should the Kuwaiti Football Association not fulfill his obligations, suspension shall enter into force again.
Kuwait played in the third round of qualifying for the World Cup 2010 against Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Syria. In the course of qualifying the team got only four points from six matches, and thus different from the group last.
2010 Kuwait won the West Asian Championship in Jordan.
Kuwait is among others with 10 league titles in the Gulf Cup record winner of this football competition, which takes place every 2 to 3 years.
Participation in the Olympic Games
After 1988, the national team has not participated in the Olympics and the qualifying matches to do so. The Olympic team took part in 1992 and 2000, but retired in the first round of.
Participation of Kuwait at the Football World Cup
Asia Championships
Games against German -speaking national soccer teams
Previously there were no games against Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
Coach
- Ali Othman (1955 )
- Ahmed Abu Taha (1957 )
- Edmund Majowski (1958 )
- Ljubisa Brocic (1962 )
- Mohammed Abdu Saleh Al Wahsh (1964 )
- Dimitri Tadic (1966-1969)
- Taha Al Touki (1970 )
- Ljubisa Brocic (1971-1973)
- Hate Nasser (1973 )
- Ljubisa Brocic (1973-1975)
- Mário Zagallo (1976-1978)
- Saleh Zakereya (1978 )
- Carlos Alberto Parreira (1978-1983)
- Antônio Lopes (1983-1985)
- Malcolm Allison (1985-1986)
- Saleh Zakaria (1986 )
- György Mezey (1986-1987)
- António Vieira (1987-1988)
- George Armstrong (1988 )
- Miguel Pereira ( 1989)
- Otacílio Gonçalves da Silva Junior ( Otacílio ) ( 1989-1990)
- Luiz Felipe Scolari (1990 )
- Muhammad Karam (1990 )
- Valmir Louruz (1990-1992)
- Paulo Luiz Campos (1992-1993)
- Gildo Rodrigues ( 1993)
- Jawad Maqseed (1993 )
- Valery Lobanovsky (1993-1996)
- Milan Máčala (1996-1999)
- Dušan Uhrin (1999-2001)
- Berti Vogts (2001-2002)
- Radojko Avramović (2002-2003)
- Paulo César Carpe Giani (2003-2004)
- Mohammed Ibrahem (2004)
- Slobodan Pavković (2005)
- Mohammed Ibrahem (2005)
- Mihai Stoichita (2005-2006)
- Saleh Zakaria (2006-2007)
- Rodion Gačanin (2007-2008)
- Mohammed Ibrahim (2008-2009)
- Goran Tufegdzic (2009 -)