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The Arab Cup of Nations is a football competition held between Arab countries.

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Winners

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	3rd Place	Score	4th Place
1963 Details	Lebanon	Tunisia	Group Stage	Syria	Lebanon	Group Stage	Kuwait
1964 Details	Kuwait	Iraq	Group Stage	Libya	Kuwait	Group Stage	Lebanon
1966 Details	Iraq	Iraq	2–1	Syria	Libya	6–1	Lebanon
1985 Details	KSA	Iraq	1–0	Bahrain	Saudi Arabia	0–0 (4–1) ps	Qatar
1988 Details	Jordan	Iraq	1–1 (4–3) ps	Syria	Egypt	2–0	Jordan
1992⁽¹⁾ Details	Syria	Egypt	3–2	Saudi Arabia	Kuwait	2–1	Syria
1998 Details	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	3–1	Qatar	Kuwait	4–1	United Arab Emirates
2002 Details	Kuwait	Saudi Arabia	1–0	Bahrain	Jordan	n/a⁽²⁾	Morocco
2009 Details

¹ The 1992 edition organised as part of the Pan Arab Games, but counted for the Arab Nations Cup.

² No third place match was played. In this case, the third and fourth place standings are defined by the campaigns of the respective teams.

Iraq was banned from the competition from 1991 to 2002 due to Gulf War

Key:
- aet - after extra time
- ps - after penalty shootout

[edit] Successful national teams

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third-place⁽¹⁾	Fourth-place⁽¹⁾	Semi-finalists⁽²⁾
Iraq	4 (1964, 1966, 1985, 1988)	-	-	-
Saudi Arabia	2 (1998, 2002)	1 (1992)	1 (1985)	-	-
Egypt	1 (1992)	-	1 (1988)	-	-
Tunisia	1 (1963)	-	-	-	-
Syria	-	3 (1963, 1966, 1988)	-	1 (1992)	-
Bahrain	-	2 (1985, 2002)	-	-	-
Libya	-	1 (1964)	1 (1966)	-	-
Qatar	-	1 (1998)	-	1 (1985)	-
Kuwait	-	-	3 (1964, 1992, 1998)	-	-
Lebanon	-	-	1 (1963)	2 (1964, 1966)	-
Jordan	-	-	-	1 (1988)	1 (2002)
United Arab Emirates	-	-	-	1 (1998)	-
Morocco	-	-	-	-	1 (2002)

¹ Refers to tournaments held in 1998 and earlier. There was no match to determine 3rd place after the 1998 tournament.

² Refers to tournaments held in 2002 and later. There was no match to determine 3rd place after the 2002 tournament.

Iraq was banned from the competition from 1991 to 2002 due to Gulf War

[edit] Final tournament appearances

App.	Country
8	Jordan
7	Kuwait
6	Syria Lebanon
5	Saudi Arabia
4	Iraq Bahrain
3	Egypt Libya Palestine
2	Tunisia Morocco Algeria Qatar Sudan Yemen (1 as North Yemen)
1	United Arab Emirates Mauritania

[edit] Total hosts

Hosts	Nation	Year(s)
2	Kuwait	1964, 2002
1	Qatar	1998
1	Syria	1992
1	Jordan	1988
1	KSA	1985
1	Iraq	1966
1	Lebanon	1963

[edit] Palestine Cup 1972-1975

During the long interruption between 1966 and 1985, The tournament apparently acted as replacement for the Arab Cup and did not accounted as the Arab Cup, Held on three occasions in Arab countries in the 70's.

[edit] Palestine Cup Winners

Year	Host	Winner	Runner-up
1972	Iraq	Egypt	Iraq
1973	Libya	Tunisia	Syria
1975	Tunisia	Egypt	Iraq

[edit] See also

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