FIFA Arab Cup records and statistics

This is a list of records and statistics of the FIFA Arab Cup.

General statistics by tournament[]

Year	Hosts	Champions	Winning coach	Top scorer(s)[1]	Best player(s)	Best goalkeeper
1963	Lebanon	Tunisia	André Gérard	Levon Altounian (5)[2]
1964	Kuwait	Iraq	Adil Basher	Ahmed Ben Soueid (4)[3]
1966	Iraq	Iraq	Adil Basher	Ali Al-Biski (16)	Shidrak Yousif
1985	Saudi Arabia	Iraq	Anwar Jassam	Anad Abid (5)	Mohamed Abd Al-Jawad
1988	Jordan	Iraq	Ammo Baba	Ahmed Radhi (4)
1992	Syria	Egypt	Mahmoud El-Gohary	Ayman Mansour (2) Saeed Al-Owairan (2) (2)
1998	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	Otto Pfister	Obeid Al-Dosari (8)	Bader Haji Mubarak Mustafa	Mohamed Al-Deayea
2002	Kuwait	Saudi Arabia	Gerard van der Lem	Ahmed Hassan (4) (4)	Mohammed Noor	Mabrouk Zaid
2012	Saudi Arabia	Morocco	Eric Gerets	Yassine Salhi (6)	Yassine Salhi
2021	Qatar	Algeria	Madjid Bougherra	Seifeddine Jaziri (4)	Yacine Brahimi	Raïs M'Bolhi

Most tournaments hosted[]

All tournaments were played in Asia.

No. of times hosted	Nation	Year(s)
1	Kuwait	1964, 2002
	Saudi Arabia	1985, 2012
	Qatar	1998, 2021
4	Lebanon	1963
	Iraq	1966
	Jordan	1988
	Syria	1992

Overall team records[]

As of the 2021 edition^[4]

Rank	Team	Participations	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Avg Pts	Trophies
1	Iraq	6	28	16	10	2	47	20	+27	58	2.07	4
2	Syria	7	28	11	7	10	38	32	+6	40	1.43
3	Kuwait	8	30	10	6	14	48	50	–2	36	1.20
4	Lebanon	8	30	9	7	14	38	42	–4	34	1.13
5	Egypt	5	21	8	9	4	27	15	+12	33	1.57	1
6	Morocco	4	16	9	4	2	29	12	+17	31	1.94	1
7	Jordan	9	33	8	7	18	32	65	–33	31	0.94
8	Saudi Arabia	7	29	13	8	8	44	26	+18	28	0.97	2
9	Tunisia	3	14	8	3	3	23	11	+12	27	1.93	1
10	Qatar	3	14	8	3	3	22	10	+12	27	1.93
11	Libya	4	16	7	6	3	39	16	+23	27	1.69
12	Algeria	3	12	5	5	2	16	10	+6	20	1.67	1
13	Bahrain	6	24	3	10	11	21	44	–23	19	0.79
14	Sudan	5	12	3	3	6	11	22	–11	12	1.00
15	Palestine	6	14	1	7	6	20	28	–8	10	0.71
16	United Arab Emirates	2	8	3	0	5	9	15	–6	9	1.13
17	Oman	2	7	1	1	5	7	29	–22	4	0.57
18	Yemen[a]	3	10	1	1	8	9	44	–35	4	0.40
19	Mauritania	2	5	1	0	4	3	11	–8	3	0.60

Notes

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Iraq (IRQ)	4	0	1	5
2	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	2	1	1	4
3	Tunisia (TUN)	1	1	0	2
4	Egypt (EGY)	1	0	1	2
	Morocco (MAR)	1	0	1	2
6	Algeria (ALG)	1	0	0	1
7	Syria (SYR)	0	3	0	3
8	Libya (LBA)	0	2	1	3
9	Bahrain (BHR)	0	2	0	2
10	Qatar (QAT)	0	1	1	2
11	Kuwait (KUW)	0	0	3	3
12	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	1	1
	Lebanon (LBN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		10	10	11	31

• Jordan and Morocco shared bronze in 2002.

References[]