Syria national football team

Infobox National football team
Name = Syria
Badge = Syria_FA.gif
FIFA Trigramme = SYR
FIFA Rank = 97|1st ranking date = August 1993
FIFA max = 78
FIFA max date = August 1993
FIFA min = 145
FIFA min date = May 1996
Elo Rank = 78
Nickname =
Association = Syrian Football Association
Confederation = AFC (Asia)
Coach = Fajr Ibrahim
Most caps =
Top scorer =
Home Stadium = Abbasiyyin Stadium

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First game = Flagicon|Turkey Turkey 7 - 0 Syria Flagicon|Syria|1932 (Ankara, Turkey; November 20, 1949)
Largest win = Flagicon|Syria Syria 12 - 0 Maldives Flagicon|Maldives (Damascus, Syria; June 4, 1997)
Flagicon|Syria Syria 12 - 0 Maldives Flagicon|Maldives (Tehran, Iran; June 9, 1997)
Flagicon|Syria Syria 12 - 0 Philippines Flagicon|Philippines (Aleppo, Syria; April 30, 2001)
Largest loss = Flagicon|Greece|old Greece 8 - 0 Syria Flagicon|Syria|1932 (Athens, Greece; November 25, 1949)
Flagicon|Egypt|1922 Egypt 8 - 0 Syria Flagicon|Syria|1932 (Alexandria, Egypt; October 12, 1951)
World cup apps =
World cup first =
World cup best =
Regional name = AFC Asian Cup
Regional cup apps = 4
Regional cup first = 1980
Regional cup best = Round 1, allThe 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.

Competition Records

=World Cup record=

Youth National Team Records

FIFA U-20 World Cup

*1989 : Round 1
*1991 : Quarterfinal
*1995 : Round 1
*2005 : Round of 16

AFC Youth Championship

*1988 : 2nd Place
*1990 : 3rd Place
*1994 : Champions
*2004 : 4th Place

FIFA U-17 World Cup

*2007 : Round of 16

AFC U-16 Championship

*2006 : Fourth place
*2008 :

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)

Current Call Up Squad

Notable players

*Mohammad Nasser Afash
*Sanharib Malki
*Louay Chanko
*Zyad Chaabo
*Firas Al Khatib
*Maher Al Sayed (Captain)

External links

* [http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=syr/index.html Syria national team on FIFA.com]
* [http://www.the-afc.com/eng/nassoc/country.jsp_SYR-242-1.html Syria national team on AFC.com]
* [http://www.syrian-soccer.com/ Official website of Syrian Arab Federation of Football]
* [http://www.goalzz.com/main.aspx?team=324 Syria national team on Goalzz.com]
* [http://www.ua-fa.com/uafa/arabic/index.php Syria national team on UAFA.com]
* [http://forum.kooora.com/f.aspx?f=113 Syria national team on Kooora.com]