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2009 Arab Cup

The Arab Cup 2009 was planned to be the ninth staging of the Arab Cup, an association football tournament held between Arab countries by UAFA. The first stage of qualifying began in December 2006, but no further rounds were played and the tournament was cancelled due to lack of sponsorship.[1]

2009 Arab Cup
Tournament cancelled
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Qualifications edit

The first qualifying stage contained eight teams which had lower FIFA ranking. The eight teams were divided into two groups. Each group contained four teams and the group winners qualified for the second qualifying stage.

The second qualifying stage contained 16 seats; 14 teams which had a higher FIFA ranking get byes from the first qualifying round and were entered into the second qualifying round, and two teams from the first qualifying stage got the last two seats. 16 teams were divided into four groups, four teams in each group and the group winners and runners-up qualified for the Arab Cup.[2]

Top Seeds
(bye to 2nd Qualifying Round)

 

Last 8
(1st Qualifying Round)

The teams sorted by Alphabetical order

First qualifying round edit

  • The first qualifying stage contained eight teams which had lower FIFA rankings. The eight teams were divided into two groups, each with four teams. The group winners qualified for the second qualifying stage.
  • Lebanon qualified as best runners-up due to the withdrawal of Qatar (Qatar would have received a bye to the second qualifying round).
  • Palestine withdrew due to traveling problem as Israel did not allow them to travel to Yemen.

Group 1 edit

Qualifying tournament of group 1 held in Yemen.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Yemen 2 2 0 0 6 1 +5 6
  Comoros 2 1 0 1 4 3 +1 3
  Djibouti 2 0 0 2 2 8 −6 0
  Palestine 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yemen  2–0  Comoros
Haggam   73', 90'
Djibouti  1–4  Comoros
Okishi   90+2' Bi Daoud   5'
Seif   33', 75'
Moni   89'
Yemen  4–1  Djibouti
Al-Sasi   9'
Nasser   48'
Al-Hubaishi   52'
Al-Tahoos   85'		 Okishi   7'

Group 2 edit

Qualifying tournament of group 2 held in Lebanon.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Sudan 3 2 1 0 8 1 +7 7
  Lebanon 3 1 2 0 4 0 +4 5
  Mauritania 3 1 1 1 8 4 +4 4
  Somalia 3 0 0 3 3 18 −15 0
Lebanon  0–0  Mauritania
Sudan  6–1  Somalia
Eltahir   8'
Khaider   16', 18'
Mustafa   21' (pen.)
Agab   30'
Natali   55'		 Ali Abdelaziz   90+3'
Lebanon  4–0  Somalia
Ghaddar   4', 28'
Nasseredine   72'
Rustom   83'
Mauritania  0–2  Sudan
Agab   3'
Tambal   90'
Somalia  2–8  Mauritania
Ali Abdelaziz   26' (pen.), 67' Mohamed   4' (pen.), 24'
Dominique   14', 27' (pen.)
Ndiaye   30', 43'
Khuro   75', 88'
Lebanon  0–0  Sudan

Second qualifying round edit

  • The second qualifying stage contained 16 seats, 14 teams with a higher FIFA ranking got byes from the first qualifying round and were entered into the second qualifying round, plus two teams from the first qualifying stage to complete the last two seats. 16 teams were divided into four groups, with four teams in each group. The group winners and runners-up qualified for the Arab Cup.
  • Qatar withdrew and Lebanon qualified as best runners-up.
  • The second round was never played and the tournament was eventually canceled.

Final round edit

The final tournament was cancelled because of no sponsor.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "UAFA: 44 millions dollars pour la relance des compétitions". ES Tunis media site. TAP. 2012.
  2. ^ "تأكيد مشاركة 16 دولة عربية في بطولة كأس العرب 2009". arabic.people.com. LMS. 28 July 2006.

External links edit

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