Syria national football team
The Syrian national football team is the national team of Arabic - Syrian Football Association. It is run by coach Nizar Mahrous since 2011 and bears their home games at Abbasidenstadion in Damascus. So far, the national team could not qualify for a World Cup finals. An Asian Championships you participated five times, but never got it on the first round also.
- 2.1 Syria and the football World Cup 2.1.1 Results of Syria in the recent World Cup Qualifiers
History
The first game of the Syrian national was also the first competitive match: In qualifying for the 1950 World Cup they lost on November 20, 1949 Turkey away with 0:7. The first home game - again in the World Cup qualifiers, this time for 1958 - against Sudan on May 24, 1957 ended 1-1. It was only on January 8, 1972 there was the first victory, a 1-0 win over Algeria in a tournament in Iraq. However, this was only the sixth game of the Syrian national, because the Syrians had meanwhile played in a joint team with Egypt (see United Arab Republic).
In July 2007, Syria ranked in the FIFA world rankings to 109th place within Asia in 14th place
The match colors of the Syrian national team are red or white.
The Abbasidenstadion (Al- Abbasiyyin ) in Damascus holds 45,000 spectators and acts as the National Stadium, although to be held in other cities official matches.
On July 23, 2011 Syria had to unsubscribe in the Jordanian capital Amman, the World Cup qualifier against Tajikistan because of the unrest in Syria.
Success of the national
So far, the A-team did not win a major trophy Syria. The biggest success is winning the " Mediterranean Games " in 1987. During " Arab Cup of the national teams ," she reached in 1963, 1966 and 1988, second place.
At the FIFA World Youth Championship 2005, the Syrian selection reached the knockout stages after you could, inter alia, to enforce against Italy 2-1 in the group stage. In the Round of 16, the young team from the Middle East was defeated by a 1-0 defeat against eventual champions Brazil. All in all, you could travel home head held high, as you sat by the convincing performances in the Netherlands characters and Optimism for the future.
Internationals
From 1949 to 2005 Syria played 281 matches (including unofficial games), which were won 101 and lost 115, 65 encounters ended in a draw. The goal balance is 410:386. The most common international match opponents Kuwait was with 27 comparisons, followed by Jordan (21) and Saudi Arabia (20).
In the links there is a link to a list of all countries Games of 1949 and 2005.
The first and only game against a team from the German-speaking countries was held as part of the Summer Olympics of 1980 in the Soviet Union instead: In the first round of the football tournament Syria defeated the team of the GDR with 0:5. Counter (total ) Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, the Syrians have not yet played.
Participation in the Olympic Games
After 1988, the national team has not participated in the Olympics and the qualifying matches to do so. Been an Olympic team could not qualify.
Syria and the football World Cup
Syria took ten times so far to a qualification in part, first for the World Cup in 1950, it never could so far not qualify for the World Cup finals. At the scarcest failed the Syrians in qualifying for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, as it qualified for the final round of qualifying, but after a 0-0 draw in the first leg Iraq was defeated in the second leg in Saudi Arabia Taif with 1:3.
In qualifying for the 2006 World Cup in Germany Syria was eliminated after the first qualifying round. Behind Bahrain took to rank second in the preliminary round Group 6, but only the group winners came to the next round. The Syrian team had the penultimate round still have every chance of progressing, as it was in Damascus for a direct duel against rivals and eventual group winners: After 21 minutes, led by goals from Shekhelshra and Alhoussain 2-0, even during the first Halftime Mohamad Adnan scored the first goal for Bahrain. In this result, it would have come on the final day to a remote duel of the two teams to win the group. Up to 92 minutes (!) Could hope for in Abbasidenstadion the fans, but then sat Salmeens compensation to 2:2 all the hopes came to an abrupt end. Bahrain had earlier done with this draw to qualify for the second round, Syria was once again failed, and eventually lost the final, meaningless group match against Kyrgyzstan. The Syrian Association underlined their remuneration for November because of this 0-1 players. As a special event remains to be mentioned that the qualifier against Tajikistan had to be terminated on June 9 in Homs due to power failure and was repeated on the day. At the time of the crash ( during the second half of the time) Syria had led 3-1 in the replayed finally it was 2:1.
Due to the early failure in the World Cup Qualifiers 2006, Syria was unset in the qualifying for the 2010 World Cup and had to first get through two qualifying rounds. In the first round opponent from Afghanistan was defeated 3-0 and 2-1, before Indonesia was turned off in the second round with 4:1 and 7:0. The draw for the group stage in Durban revealed that Syria had to compete against Iran, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. On the final day, the Syrian team needed a 3-0 victory over the United Arab Emirates in order to qualify, you missed this goal in a 3-1 narrowest of margins and thus retired.
Results of Syria in the recent World Cup Qualifiers
In this table, H stands for a home, A for an away game, N for a game on a neutral court.
Syria and Asia Cup
For the Continental Cup in Asia, the Syrians (1984 1980 in Kuwait, Singapore, 1988 in Qatar and most recently in 1996 in the Emirates ) were four times at least qualify, but never got beyond the first round. For the first time they took part in 1972 in the qualifying, then you failed to Kuwait.
In qualifying for the final tournament of 2004 in Japan, Turkmenistan and the United Arab Emirates proved to be too strong for the Syrian team. Only against the eventual group Latter Sri Lanka, there were two wins, plus got a draw against the Turkmen. This was at the end again the third place in the preliminary round group. For the last group match in Turkmenistan Ashgabat Syria came not to.
During qualifying for the Asian Cup 2007 Syrian met on Iran, South Korea and Taiwan. While reached the Syrians both in Tehran and in Seoul a draw, but attended the home defeats against Group Favourites for the From in qualifying.
After 15 years, the team was once again represented at the Asian Cup in Qatar, however, Syria difference in first round.
- Asian Cup 1972 - not qualified
- Asian Cup 1976 - withdrawn
- Asian Cup 1980 - first round
- Asian Cup 1984 - Preliminary
- Asian Cup 1988 - first round
- Asian Cup 1992 - not qualified
- Asian Cup 1996 - first round
- Asian Cup 2000 - not qualified
- Asian Cup 2004 - not qualified
- Asian Cup 2007 - not qualified
- Asian Cup 2011 - first round
- Asian Cup 2015 - not qualified
Syria and the West Asian Championship
At the tournament in the West Asian Football Federation, which took place six times since 2000, Syria reached the finals three times, but had to admit defeat to Iran twice ( 2000: 0-1, 2004: 1:4). The first prize of this competition therefore succeeded only in 2012. During competition in their own country in 2002 they reached the fourth place, the collection was again in the 2007 semi-finals.
- 2000 - 2nd place
- 2002 - 4th place
- 2004 - 2nd place
- 2007 - Semi Finals
- 2008 - Semi Finals
- 2010 - Preliminary Round
- 2012 - Winner
- 2013 - no entry