Syria national football team
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| Association | Syrian Football Association | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Confederation | AFC (Asia) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach | Fajer Iprahim | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home stadium | Abbasiyyin Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA code | SYR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA ranking | 112 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest FIFA ranking | 78 (August 1993) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lowest FIFA ranking | 145 (May 1996) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elo ranking | 97 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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First international Turkey 7 - 0 Syria  (Ankara, Turkey; November 20, 1949) |
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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) |
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Biggest defeat Greece 8 - 0 Syria (Athens, Greece; November 25, 1949)  Egypt 8 - 0 Syria (Egypt; October 12, 1951) |
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| 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 made the World Cup.
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[edit] History
Although not one of the strongest teams in Asia, Syria nonetheless has 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.
[edit] World Cup record
- 1930 to 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 to 2006 - Did not qualify
[edit] Asian Cup record
- 1956 to 1968 - Did not enter
- 1972 - Did not qualify
- 1976 - Withdrew
- 1980 - Round 1
- 1984 - Round 1
- 1988 - Round 1
- 1992 - Did not qualify
- 1996 - Round 1
- 2000 to 2007- Did not qualify
[edit] West Asian Football Federation Championship record
- 2000 - Runners Up
- 2002 - Third Place
- 2004 - Runners Up
- 2006 - Qualified
[edit] Current Squad
- Zyad Chaabo
- Firas Al Khatib
- Tarek Jabban (captain)
