By Saoud Moussa Baccus
The
Saudi Arabia men’s national football team, founded in 1956, represents
Saudi Arabia in international competitions. Their success comes mostly
from participating in the Asian Football Federation (AFC) Asian Cup in
which they first participated in 1984. Following their maiden
participation, they would qualify for the next four Asian Cup Finals in
1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000; they won two of them, in 1988 and 1996. In
2007, they qualified for yet another final but lost against Iraq; since
then, they have not missed another AFC Finals.
In the FIFA World
Cups, the national team had its share of success and failures. Their
first foray into the World Cup Finals was in 1994. They reached the
round of 16 and thereby became the second Arab nation after Morocco in
1986 to make it that far. They would go on and qualify for the next
three World Cups but failed to win a single game; there followed a
12-year hiatus before they resurfaced for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in
Russia where they lost their first two games and won their last against
Egypt.
They qualified for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and scored
their famous win against Argentina in their opening game but failed to
qualify for the last 16 after they lost against Poland and Mexico.
Known as the Green Falcons (Al-Saqour), the men’s national team usually play in green and white.
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