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China national football team
The China national football team (Chinese: 中国国家足球队) is the national football team representing China in football. The national team was founded in 1924, and joined the FIFA in 1931, 1958 and 1979.
He qualified for the 2002 FIFA World Cup for the first time in his history, and his best position was in the 1984 AFC Asian Cup and the 2004 AFC Asian Cup hosted by China, in which they finished second.
Asia Cup
The Chinese national football team played against the Saudi team in the 1984 Asian Cup
1956 to 1972 did not make the playoffs.
1976 third place.
1980 first round.
1984 second place.
1988 fourth place.
1992 3rd place.
1996 quarter-finals.
2000 fourth place.
2004 second place.
2007 first round.
2011 first round
world Cup
1930 to 1954 did not enter the playoffs.
1958 did not qualify.
1962 to 1978 did not enter the playoffs.
1982 to 1998 did not qualify.
2002 First round.
2006 to 2022 did not qualify
Saudi national football team
The Saudi Arabian national football team is the official representative of Saudi Arabia in football.
The Saudi national football team was founded in 1956, and represents the Saudi national team
Football has officially been Saudi Arabia in international men's football since its first match
Against the Lebanese national team in the year 18/1/1957 AD, which ended with a score of (1-1),
The match was in the Arab Games in 1957 AD, the team is subject to the mandate
The international judiciary of FIFA, which he joined in 1956, and also joined
to the Asian Confederation in the same year. The team is nicknamed the Falcons by the fans
Or green or green hawks.
Then it was the second participation of the Saudi national team in the championships in the Gulf Cup
In 1970, in front of the Kuwait national team and witnessed the first Saudi goal
In the Gulf Cup championship, which was scored by Muhammad Al-Abdali, then it was the third participation
In the 1975 tournaments in the Palestine Cup, as for the fourth participation
The championships were in 1978, at the Asian Games in Bangkok,
Then, two years later, the Saudi national team participated in the Islamic Games Championship.
Then in 1984, the Saudi national team had a date to crown its first championship
In its history, the Asian Nations Cup was held in Singapore, where he won
In the tournament from his first participation.
The Saudi national team then participated in a regional competition and another
It is the Afro-Asian Nations Cup in 1985 AD, then the Saudi national team was
On a date with his second successive crowning in the 1988 Asian Nations Cup,
Which was held in Qatar, and then came in 1994, to be the Saudi national team
On a date with history and Saudi Arabia's first participation in the World Cup
Which was held in the United States and witnessed a historic achievement
Reaching the second round of the tournament from the first participation
Which major teams failed to do at the time, such as Colombia,
Where the Saudi team managed to overtake the candidate Belgium and win
Morocco defeated Morocco in the group stage, before losing to Sweden in
Round of 16, 3-1. Saudi Arabia has become a terrifying team for everyone
Asian teams, where the Saudi team has become since winning the title
The Asian for the first time and until 2000 was a permanent guest in the final.
He has qualified for the World Cup finals five times, including four times in a row
Since his first promotion in the World Cup America in 1994 until 2006.
The Saudi national team was eliminated from the first round of the World Cup matches during
His next three participations in the 1994 World Cup. The Saudi national team was cut off
After that, he stopped qualifying for the competition until he qualified for the World Cup finals for the fifth time in 2018.
In the 2018 World Cup, the Saudi national team was eliminated in the first round
After losing in the first two rounds against Russia and Uruguay,
He played in the last round with the Egyptian national team and scored 3 points after winning 2-1;
The two goals for the Saudi national team were scored by Salman Al-Faraj, and the second by Salem
Al-Dosari in the last seconds of the match against a goal scored by Muhammad
Salah for the Egyptian national team. It is reported that this is the first meeting between Saudi Arabia
Egypt has been in an international tournament since the 1999 Confederations Cup (the Saudi team won 5-1).
The history of the Saudi national team
Saudi Arabia was one of the first Asian countries to play soccer
Football and its association are among the first federations established in the continent of Asia. Saudi Arabia started
Participation in international tournaments with the first beginning of the establishment
In 1957, in the Arab Games, which were held in Lebanon, which included
The tournament includes Tunisia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Algeria
Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Kuwait.
On December 21, 1975, Saudi Arabia participated in the Palestine Cup
(Arab Cup), which was held in Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia participated for the first time
Once in this edition with Egypt and Yemen from the same second group,
Iraq, Tunisia and the UAE are in Group A, and Syria and Libya
Sudan and Palestine.
On December 10, 1978, the Saudi national team participated for the first time
In the Asian Championships, and that tournament was the 1978 Asian Games
Which was held in the Thai capital, Bangkok, and the match was against
The Chinese team The Saudi group, along with China, included Qatar and Iraq.
The start of the Saudi national team towards Asian fame was in the 1984 Asian Cup
Who won the title for the first time in its history from the first participation against the national team
The Chinese, who beat him 2-0 in the final,
Then the Saudi national team would dominate the yellow continent by being a guest
Always in the final rounds in all the editions that followed that tournament until the year 2000 AD.
In the 1984 Summer Olympics first appearance
Official in the Olympics, this tournament is considered the victories of Saudi football
The Saudis played in this tournament against both Brazil and Morocco
and West Germany, and Majed Abdullah managed to score the first Saudi goal in the Olympics.
Ten years later, Saudi Arabia qualified for the largest international sports event in the world
The World Cup in 1994 AD, the Saudis managed to achieve
Historic achievement in this tournament, where he was able through his participation
The first reached the first round in a group that was not easy, which included both
The Netherlands, Morocco and Belgium, where the Saudi team managed to win
On both Morocco and Belgium to snatch the second card and go up
With the Dutch national team to the round of sixteen.
This distinguished performance in that edition made the Saudi national team
The strongest teams of the yellow continent at the time and the most prominent candidate
To win the 1996 Asian Cup for the third time in its history
Indeed, that was, and the Saudi national team was able to defeat the owner of
The UAE national team. With this victory, the Saudi national team became
The most Asian team crowned the title in 4 four editions in which he participated only.
After the 2006 World Cup, the team weakened with more lost
Players like Sami Al-Jaber and Muhammad Al-Deayea later missed
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