The 1992 Arab Cup is the sixth edition of the Arab Cup and also counted as the seventh edition of the 1992 Arab Games football tournament, hosted by Syria, in 2 Provinces Aleppo and Damascus. Egypt won their first title of the Arab Cup and their third gold medal of the Arab Games by beating Saudi Arabia in the final.[1]

1992 Arab Cup
1992 Arab Cup /
1992 Arab Games football tournament
Tournament details
Host countrySyria
Dates8–17 September
Teams6 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Egypt
(1st title Arab Cup)
(3rd title Arab Games)
Runners-up Saudi Arabia
Third place Kuwait
Fourth place Syria
Tournament statistics
Matches played10
Goals scored23 (2.3 per match)
Top scorer(s)Egypt Ayman Mansour
Saudi Arabia Saeed Al-Owairan
Saudi Arabia Waleed Al-Felaij
(2 goals each)

Part of the Arab Games edit

The 1992 edition organized as part of the 1992 Arab Games football tournament was also counted as a part of the Arab Cup.[2]

Participated teams edit

Iraq absent edit

The most successful team and holder of the Arab Cup with four titles and the gold medalist holder in the Arab Games football tournament, Iraq the defending champions banned for playing in the Arab Cup due to Gulf War.[3]

Teams of the tournament edit

Egypt participated with the olympic team. The 6 participated teams are:

Participants
Zone Team
Hosts   Syria
Holders None
Zone 1 (Gulf Area)   Kuwait
Zone 2 (Red Sea)   Egypt
  Saudi Arabia
Zone 3 (North Africa) None
Zone 4 (East Region)   Jordan
  Palestine

Venues edit

Aleppo
Al-Hamadaniah Stadium
Capacity: 20,000
 

Squads edit

Group stage edit

Group A edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Egypt 2 1 1 0 2 1 +1 3
  Kuwait 2 1 0 1 4 2 +2 2
  Jordan 2 0 1 1 2 5 −3 1
Egypt  1–1  Jordan
Mansour   68' Tadrus   6'
Referee: Omar Al-Shaqeer (Saudi Arabia)

Kuwait  4–1  Jordan
Soliman  
Al Saleh   54', ?'
?  
Muhammad Al-Ashhab  

Egypt  1–0  Kuwait
Mansour   40'

Group B edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Saudi Arabia 2 1 1 0 3 2 +1 3
  Syria 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 2
  Palestine 2 0 1 1 1 2 −1 1
Syria  1–1  Saudi Arabia
Kardaghli   78' Abdullah   58' (pen.)
Referee: Kamal Sobhi (Egypt)

Syria  0–0  Palestine

Saudi Arabia  2–1  Palestine
Al-Bishi   54'
Al-Owairan   57'
 

Knock-out stage edit

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
15 September 1992 – Aleppo
 
 
  Egypt (pen.)0 (4)
 
17 September 1992 – Aleppo
 
  Syria0 (3)
 
  Egypt3
 
15 September 1992 – Aleppo
 
  Saudi Arabia2
 
  Saudi Arabia 2
 
 
  Kuwait0
 
Third place
 
 
17 September 1992 – Aleppo
 
 
  Kuwait2
 
 
  Syria 1

Semi-finals edit

Egypt  0–0  Syria
Penalties
4–3

Saudi Arabia  2–0  Kuwait
Al-Muwallid   38'
Al-Jaber   87'

Third place play-off edit

Kuwait  2–1  Syria
Al-Flayah   11', 51'  

Final edit

Egypt  3–2  Saudi Arabia
El-Sheshini   4' (pen.)
El-Kass   26'
H. Hassan   85'
Al-Roomi   9'
Al-Owairan   73'
Referee: Nizar Watti (Syria)

Final ranking edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Final result
    Egypt 4 2 2 0 5 3 +2 8 Gold Medal & Arab Cup champions
    Saudi Arabia 4 2 1 1 7 5 +2 7 Silver Medal
    Kuwait 4 2 0 2 6 5 +1 6 Bronze Medal
4   Syria (H) 4 0 3 1 2 3 −1 3 Fourth place
5   Palestine 2 0 1 1 1 2 −1 1 Eliminated in group stage
6   Jordan 2 0 1 1 2 5 −3 1
Source: rsssf[dead link]
(H) Hosts

References edit

  1. ^ "في مثل هذا اليوم.. منتخب مصر بطلاً لكأس العرب 1992". Akhbar El-Yom. Omar Al-Banobi. 18 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Arab Cup". RSSSF. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  3. ^ "تاريخ دورة الألعاب العربية". BBC Arabic. Ibrahim Al-Jarhi. 26 September 2004.

External links edit