Sudan

Nickname(s)	Sokoor Al-Jediane (Falcons of Jediane)
Association	Sudan Football Association
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Head coach	Stephen Constantine
Most caps	Haytham Mustafa Karar(102)
Top scorer	Haytham Tambal (26)
Home stadium	Khartoum Stadium
FIFA code	SUD
FIFA ranking	108
Highest FIFA ranking	74 (December 1996)
Lowest FIFA ranking	137 (April 2000)
Elo ranking	124
Home colours Away colours
First international
Ethiopia 2 - 1 Sudan (Ethiopia; 16 November 1956)
Biggest win
Sudan 15 - 0 Oman (Egypt; 2 September 1965)
Biggest defeat
South Korea 8 - 0 Sudan (Seoul, South Korea; 10 September 1979)
African Nations Cup
Appearances	7 (First in 1957)
Best result	Winners, 1970

The Sudan national football team, nicknamed Sokoor Al-Jediane (Desert Hawks), is the national team of Sudan and is controlled by the Sudan Football Association. They were one of the only three teams (Egypt, Ethiopia) to participate in the inaugural African Nations Cup in 1957, and won the competition in 1970 when they hosted it.

[edit] Sudan Football Achievements

African cup of Nation Champion (1970) World Cup Winners (1938)

CECAFA Cup :

• 3 Time Champion (1980, 2006, 2007)
• 2 Times Runners-up

Harmony Cup

• Winners, 2009

[edit] World Cup record

[edit] African Cup record

African Nations Cup record
Year	Round	P	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1957	Third place	1	0	0	1	1	2
1959	Second place	2	1	0	1	2	2
1962	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1963	Second place	3	1	1	1	6	5
1965	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1968	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1970	Champions	5	4	0	1	8	3
1972	Round 1	3	0	2	1	4	6
1974	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1976	Round 1	3	0	2	1	3	4
1978	Withdrew	-	-	-	-	-	-
1980	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1982	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1984	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1986	Withdrew	-	-	-	-	-	-
1988 to 1996	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1998	Withdrew during qualifying	-	-	-	-	-	-
2000	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002 to 2006	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008	Round 1	3	0	0	3	0	9
2010	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	--	20	6	5	9	24	31

Winners of the world cup 1938

[edit] Current squad

The following players were called for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification against Mali on 22 June 2008.

No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club 1 GK Mohamed Kamal Eldin 17 November 1987 (1987-11-17) (age 22) Al-Merreikh 2 DF Amar Ramadan Abdel Aziz 4 December 1976 (1976-12-04) (age 33) Al-Hilal 3 DF Mousa Al Tayeb 15 July 1984 (1984-07-15) (age 25) Al-Merreikh 4 DF Mohamed Ali El Khider 1 June 1985 (1985-06-01) (age 24) Al-Merreikh 5 MF Alaa Eldin Yousif 10 June 1982 (1982-06-10) (age 27) Al-Hilal 6 DF Richard Gastin 5 October 1979 (1979-10-05) (age 30) Al-Hilal 7 DF Alaadin Ahmed Katoul Gibril 7 December 1978 (1978-12-07) (age 31) Al-Hilal 8 MF Haitham Mustafa 19 July 1977 (1977-07-19) (age 32) Al-Hilal 9 MF Hamouda Bashir 1 June 1983 (1983-06-01) (age 26) Al-Hilal 10 FW Haytham Tambal 31 November 1978 (1978-11-31) (age 31) Al-Merreikh 11 FW Alaeldin Babiker 16 December 1984 (1984-12-16) (age 25) Al-Merrikh 12 MF Badreldin Galag 1 April 1981 (1981-04-01) (age 28) Al-Merreikh 13 MF Mohamed Tahir 3 December 1984 (1984-12-03) (age 25) Al-Hilal 14 MF Mugahid Ahmed Mohamed 19 June 1976 (1976-06-19) (age 33) Al-Merreikh 15 DF Amir Damar Koku 8 December 1979 (1979-12-08) (age 30) Al-Merreikh 16 GK Elmuez Mahgoub Abdalla 14 August 1978 (1978-08-14) (age 31) Al-Hilal 17 FW Faisal Agab 24 August 1978 (1978-08-24) (age 31) Al-Merreikh 18 DF Khalid Hassan 27 October 1981 (1981-10-27) (age 28) Al-Hilal 19 FW Abdel Amari 20 August 1984 (1984-08-20) (age 25) Al-Merreikh 20 GK Bahaeddine Mohamed Abdellah Rihan 1 July 1978 (1978-07-01) (age 31) Al-Merreikh

[edit] Recent Call Ups 2008

No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club 2 DF Omer Mohamed Bakhit (v. Mali on June 14) 24 November 1984 Al-Hilal 11 FW Gimi Natali Al-Merreikh 15 Anas Farah 17 DF Ahmed Adam Al Basha (v. Mali on June 14) 2 January 1982 Al-Merreikh 18 Mohamed Abdel Monim 1 El Sadig Mohamed (v. Congo on June 8) 7 Hassan Mergany 7 FW Gimi Aristo Wani 22 FW Younis Jamal Kamil 24 September 1984 Al-Hilal 6 Hassan Sayed 9 MF Saifeldin Ali Idris Masawi Al-Hilal 12 MF Nasr Eldin Omer Al-Merreikh 14 FW Mudathir El Tahir Al-Nil Al-Hasahesa 16 GK Mustafa Hafez 17 Ismael Sideg Adam 20 FW Younis Jamal Kamil Al-Hilal 23 MF Hassan Korongo 28 February 1985 Al-Nil

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