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Gulf Cup of Nations
Founded	1968, officially in 1970
Region	Middle East/Arabia; (AFC)
Number of teams	8 (Qualifiers); 4 (Finals)
Current champions	Oman; (1st title)
Most successful team	Kuwait; (9 titles)
Website	www.gulfcup.com

Officially named as The Arabian Gulf Cup^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] (Arabic: كأس الخليج العربي‎), and also known as Khaleeji followed by the addition of the games (e.g. Khaleeji 17, Khaleeji 18, Khaleeji 19, etc), is a football (soccer) tournament held every two years rotating the host city every edition. For the first time, the 17th addition of the tournament, held in Doha, Qatar in 2004, featured sports such as handball, basketball, and volleyball. The 2007, and most latest, 2009 tournaments included these sports as well.

The Gulf Cup was founded at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico by Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The First Gulf Cup tournament took place in Bahrain in 1970, and was won by the Kuwaiti team.

The 2009 Arabian Gulf Cup, the 19th edition, took place in Muscat, Oman, from 4 January to 17 January 2009 and was won by Oman.

[edit] Future Hosts and Past Winners of the Gulf Cup of Nations

Year	Host	Champion	Runner Up
2013	Iraq
2011	Yemen
2009	Oman	Oman	Saudi Arabia
2007	United Arab Emirates	United Arab Emirates	Oman
2004	Qatar	Qatar	Oman
2003	Kuwait	Saudi Arabia	Bahrain
2002	Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia	Qatar
2000	Cancelled	not played	not played
1998	Bahrain	Kuwait	Saudi Arabia
1996	Oman	Kuwait	Qatar
1994	United Arab Emirates	Saudi Arabia	United Arab Emirates
1992	Qatar	Qatar	Bahrain
1990	Kuwait	Kuwait	Qatar
1988	Saudi Arabia	Iraq	United Arab Emirates
1986	Bahrain	Kuwait	United Arab Emirates
1984	Oman	Iraq	Qatar
1982	United Arab Emirates	Kuwait	Bahrain
1979	Iraq	Iraq	Kuwait
1976	Qatar	Kuwait	Iraq
1974	Kuwait	Kuwait	Saudi Arabia
1972	Saudi Arabia	Kuwait	Saudi Arabia
1970	Bahrain	Kuwait	Bahrain

[edit] Most Gulf Cup of Nations Champions

Champion(s)	Nation	Year(s)	Runner-Up	Third Place	Fourth Place
9 times	Kuwait	1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1996, 1998	1979		2002, 2004
3 times	Saudi Arabia	1994, 2002, 2003	1972, 1974, 1998, 2009	1970, 1979, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1996	1982
3 times	Iraq	1979, 1984, 1988	1976
2 times	Qatar	1992, 2004	1984, 1990, 1996, 2002	1974, 2003	1970, 1972, 1986, 1994
1 times	United Arab Emirates	2007	1986, 1988, 1994	1972, 1976, 1982, 1998	1974, 1984, 1992, 1996
1 times	Oman	2009	2004, 2007		1990, 1998, 2003
0 times	Bahrain		1970, 1982, 1992, 2003	1990, 1994, 2002, 2004	1976, 1979, 1988
0 times	Yemen

Iraq was banned from the competition from 1991 to 2003.
Yemen and Bahrain have not yet won the championship.
Bahrain and Saudi Arabia had a joint second place in 1992.
There was no third place for the Gulf Cup in 2007 and 2009.

[edit] All Time Goal Records

Nation	Goals Scored	Tournaments	Games Played	Goals per Game
Kuwait	167	19	94	1.83
Saudi Arabia	145	18	89	1.61
Qatar	107	19	94	1.16
Bahrain	99	18	87	1.14
United Arab Emirates	91	18	89	1.02
Iraq	83	8	41	2.13
Oman	68	17	88	0.73
Yemen	8	4	15	0.50

Kuwait reached 100 goals on 03-03-1988 vs Qatar

Saudi Arabia reached 100 goals on 19-10-1996 vs Qatar

Qatar reached 100 goals on 16-12-2004 vs Oman

Does not include goals from annulled or abandoned games (1972 - Bahrain games, 1982 & 1990 Iraq games)

Includes 1974 Preliminary Round games

Does not include penalty shoot-out goals

[edit] Other Records

Biggest Win - 8 Goals

Kuwait 8 – 0

Oman (29-03-1976)

Most Goals in a game - 8 Goals

Kuwait 8 – 0

Oman (29-03-1976)

Iraq 7 – 1

Saudi Arabia (29-03-1976)

Kuwait 6 – 2

Qatar (02-11-1998)

Most Individual Goals in a Single Game - 5 Goals

Majed Abdullah

Saudi Arabia (03-04-1979 vs. Qatar)

Jassem Al Houwaidi

Kuwait 1998 vs. Qatar

Most Individual Goals in a Single Tournament - 10 Goals

Hussein Saeed

Iraq (1979)

[edit] See also

[edit] References

RSSSF

[0] - Sony reports on the Arabian Gulf Cup

[1] - The 17th Arabian Gulf Cup on icondisplay.co.uk

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