2009 Gulf Cup of Nations
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The 2009 Gulf Cup of Nations
Gulf Cup of Nations
The Gulf Cup of Nations , also known as Khaleeji followed by the edition of the games , is a football tournament currently held every two years rotating the host city every edition...

was the nineteenth edition of the biannual Gulf Cup competition
Competition
Competition is a contest between individuals, groups, animals, etc. for territory, a niche, or a location of resources. It arises whenever two and only two strive for a goal which cannot be shared. Competition occurs naturally between living organisms which co-exist in the same environment. For...

, and took place in Muscat
Muscat, Oman
Muscat is the capital of Oman. It is also the seat of government and largest city in the Governorate of Muscat. As of 2008, the population of the Muscat metropolitan area was 1,090,797. The metropolitan area spans approximately and includes six provinces called wilayats...

, Oman
Oman
Oman , officially called the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the...

, from 4 January to 17 January 2009 and was won by Oman
Oman national football team
The Oman national football team is the national team of Oman. Although the team was officially founded in 1978, the squad was formed long before, and has established a proper football association in only December, 2005...

 for the first time in its history, in a penalty shootout against regional rivals, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia national football team
Saudi Arabia national football team is the national team of Saudi Arabia and is controlled by the Saudi Arabia Football Federation...

.

The 2009 Gulf Cup of Nations marked as a milestone in the competition when it was broadcasted for the first time in HD
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...

, and featured virtual graphics, such as distance between free kick barrier and the goal, 9.15 m circle for free-kicks
Free kick
A free kick is used to restart play in several codes of football:Association football* Direct free kick, from which one may score directly* Indirect free kick, from which one may not score directlyAmerican football;* Safety kick...

, and off-side line detection with help from Al-Jazeera Sports
Al Jazeera Sports
Al Jazeera Sports is a popular Arabic-language sports channel launched in November 2003 by the well-known Al Jazeera network.Al Jazeera Sports also owns the exclusive broadcasting rights in the Middle East for major football leagues, such as the Spanish La Liga, the French Ligue 1 and the Italian...

. Many praised Al-Jazeera for their excellent coverage of the competition, noting that the camerawork was very similar to Euro 2008.

The postponing of the competition

The 2009 Gulf Cup of Nations was originally planned out to be held in 2008, but due to Hurricane Gonu destroying Muscat 6 months before the planned time of the event, it was then postponed to early 2009.

The Draw

  • The draw was held in Oman on 29 October 2008.

  • Eight teams were divided into two groups, Oman
    Oman national football team
    The Oman national football team is the national team of Oman. Although the team was officially founded in 1978, the squad was formed long before, and has established a proper football association in only December, 2005...

     (The host nation) was in group A, The UAE (The holder) in group B, while the rest of the teams were placed in a pot based on October 2008's FIFA ranking.

  • Oman played the opening match at Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex
    Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex
    Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex also known locally as, Boshar , is a government owned multi-purpose stadium in the Boshar district of Muscat, Oman. It is currently used mostly for football matches, and also has facilities for athletics. The stadium originally had a capacity of over 40,000, but after...

    .

Seedings

Pot
National Team
FIFA Ranking
A (Host)
96
(Holder)
110
B
48
80
C
72
84
D
127
145

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
3 2 1 0 6 0
6
7
3 1 2 0 2 1
1
5
3 1 0 2 3 4
3
3 0 1 2 2 8
1




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Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
3 2 1 0 9 0
9
7
3 1 2 0 2 1
1
5
3 1 1 1 3 4
4
3 0 0 3 2 11
0




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Semi finals




Final

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Goalscorers

4 goals Hassan Rabia
Hassan Rabia
Hassan Rabia Al-Housni is an Omani football striker. He currently plays for Al-Suwaiq and Oman national football team.In the past year or two, Hassan has played a vital role in the national team as well as with his club...


2 goals Malek Mouath
Malek Mouath
Malek Ali Mouath Al-Hawsawi is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who currently plays as a striker for Al-Nasr....

  Yasser Al-Qahtani
Yasser Al-Qahtani
Yasser Saeed Al-Qahtani is a Saudi Arabian footballer who plays as a striker currently on loan with U.A.E. Al-Ain FC captains of the Saudi Arabian national team....

  Ahmed Al-Fraidi
Ahmed Al-Fraidi
Ahmed Al-Fraidi is a Saudi football player.At the age of 17 he joined the Riyadh based club Al-Hilal, where he plays as number 8 on a midfielder position....

  Ali Al Nono
Ali Al Nono
Ali Al-Nono is a Yemeni football striker who is currently playing for Al-Ahli San'a'. He is the captain of the Yemen national football team.-International goals:...


1 goal Abdullah Al-Dakheel Abdullah Omar
Abdullah Omar
Abdullah Omar Ismail is a Chadian-born Bahraini professional footballer currently playing for Neuchâtel Xamax in the Swiss Super League as a midfielder. He also plays for the Bahrain national football team....

 Sayed Mohamed Adnan
Sayed Mohamed Adnan
Sayed Mohamed Adnan is a Bahrani footballer currently playing for the Brisbane Roar in A-League. He is known for joining up in attacks during open play to help score using his height advantage.-Club career:...

  Alaa Abdul-Zahra
Alaa Abdul-Zahra
Alaa Abdul-Zahrah Khashen Al-Azzawi is an Iraqi football player who currently plays for Al-Wakrah in Qatar and the Iraq national football team. His nickname is Kaka of Iraq or Iraqi Kaka. During his profissonal career in Qatar and Sudan he was known as Alaa Al-Zahra...

  Younis Mahmoud
Younis Mahmoud
Younis Mahmoud Khalef is an Iraqi football striker who currently playes for Al-Wakrah. He was recently removed from his previous club, Al-Gharafa in Qatar despite being the top goal scorer in the league for the third time in five years. He is also the captain of the Iraq national football team...

  Abdullah Al-Zori
Abdullah Al-Zori
Abdullah Al-Zori is a Saudi Arabian football player.-International goals:-External links:*...



1 goal (cont.) Abdullah Shuhail
Abdullah Shuhail
Abdullah Shuhail is a Saudi football player, playing with the Al-Shabab club in Saudi Arabia.Shuhail has made several appearances for the Saudi Arabia national football team, including six qualifying matches for 2010 FIFA World Cup....

  Ahmed Al-Mousa
Ahmed Al-Mousa
Ahmed Al Mousa is a Saudi Arabian footballer , the brother of Al Ahli’s Motaz and Al Wahda’s Kamil, started his career with Al Ittihad before joining Al Wahda. He led Al Wahda to third place in the regular season before beating defending champions Al Shabab in the quarter-finals of the league...

  Ahmed Otaif
Ahmed Otaif
Ahmed Ibrahim Otaif is a footballer. He currently plays for Al-Shabab in Riyadh, in the Saudi Premier League. He is the oldest of the Otaif football brothers....

  Khaled Khalaf
Khaled Khalaf
Khaled Ahmad Khalaf Matar is a Kuwaiti footballer who plays in Attack for Kuwaiti Premier League club Al Arabi and the Kuwait national football team.He played for Al-Arabi in the 2007 AFC Champions League group stage.-References:...

  Musaed Neda
Musaed Neda
Musaed Neda is a Kuwaiti football player. He Currently play for Al Qadisiya.Neda scored the first goals of a free directly in the final match against Kuwait Club. He scored three goals from direct free kicks in a game Qadisiya 3 v.s Kuwait 0...

  Badar Al-Maimani
Badar Al-Maimani
Badar Al-Maimani commonly refer as Badar , born on July 16, 1984 is a Omani footballer who is a striker who currently plays for Muscat Club. He is a member of the Oman national football team. Al-Maimani is a key player in the attack on the national squad, and has been serving since 2003. Badar...

  Imad Al-Hosni  Fawzi Bashir
Fawzi Bashir
Fawzi Bashir Rajab Bait Doorbeen, most commonly known as Fawzi Bashir , is a Omani football midfielder who currently plays for U.A.E. club, Bani Yas. He has been an active member of the senior national team since the early turn of the millennium. Fawzi has been a very key player for the Oman...

  Majdi Siddiq
Majdi Siddiq
Majdi Siddiq is a Qatari of Sudanese descent footballer. He currently plays as a midfielder for Al Arabi. He is a member of the Qatar national football team.-Goals for Senior National Team:- External links :*...

  Musa Haroon
Musa Haroon
Musa Haroon Jama is a Qatari footballer. He currently plays as a defender for Umm-Salal. He is a member of the Qatar national football team.-Goals for Senior National Team:- External links :***...

  Mohammed Omar  Ismail Al-Hammadi
Ismail Al Hammadi
Ismail Al Hammadi is a footballer from the United Arab Emirates . He currently plays for Al-Ahli Football Club - Dubai.-International goals:-External links:*...

  Mohamed Al-Shehhi
Mohamed Al Shehhi
Mohamed Saeed al-Shehhi is a professional Emirati footballer. He is nicknamed The Ghost.-Honours:Individual* UAE League: Rookie Of the Year 2006 - 2007.* UAE League:Best Emirati Player 2007 - 2008.-External links:...



Total goals by team

10 goals
7 goals
3 goals
2 goals

Trivia

  • FIFA
    FIFA
    The Fédération Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by the acronym FIFA , is the international governing body of :association football, futsal and beach football. Its headquarters are located in Zurich, Switzerland, and its president is Sepp Blatter, who is in his fourth...

     president Sepp Blatter
    Sepp Blatter
    Joseph S. Blatter , commonly known as Sepp Blatter, is a Swiss football administrator, who serves as the 8th and current President of FIFA . He was elected on 8 June 1998, succeeding João Havelange. He was re-elected as President in 2002, 2007, and 2011...

     came to Oman
    Oman
    Oman , officially called the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the...

     for the second time, and attended the Oman
    Oman national football team
    The Oman national football team is the national team of Oman. Although the team was officially founded in 1978, the squad was formed long before, and has established a proper football association in only December, 2005...

    /Qatar
    Qatar national football team
    The Qatar national football team is the national team of Qatar and is controlled by the Qatar Football Association. They have never qualified for a FIFA World Cup but are hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The team has also appeared in seven AFC Asian Cup tournaments and hosted the 2011 AFC Asian...

    , and the Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia national football team
    Saudi Arabia national football team is the national team of Saudi Arabia and is controlled by the Saudi Arabia Football Federation...

    /Kuwait
    Kuwait national football team
    The Kuwait National Football Team is the national team of Kuwait and is controlled by the Kuwait Football Association. They made one World Cup Finals appearance, in 1982, managing a draw with Czechoslovakia but losing to England and France. During the match against France, France scored a goal...

     games.
  • UEFA
    UEFA
    The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....

     president, and French football legend, Michel Platini
    Michel Platini
    Michel François Platini is a former French football player, manager and current president of UEFA. Platini was a member of the French national team that won the 1984 European Championship, a tournament in which he was the top goalscorer and voted the best player. He participated in the 1978, 1982...

     attended the Oman/Kuwait
    Kuwait national football team
    The Kuwait National Football Team is the national team of Kuwait and is controlled by the Kuwait Football Association. They made one World Cup Finals appearance, in 1982, managing a draw with Czechoslovakia but losing to England and France. During the match against France, France scored a goal...

    , and the Bahrain
    Bahrain national football team
    The Bahrain national football team is the national team of the Kingdom of Bahrain and is controlled by the Bahrain Football Association; it was founded in 1951 and joined FIFA in 1966. They have never reached the finals of the World Cup, but have twice come within one match of doing so...

    /Iraq
    Iraq national football team
    The Iraqi national football team represents Iraq in international football and is controlled by the Iraq Football Association. They won the 2007 Asian Football Confederation Asian Cup tournament.-The Golden Generation:...

     games, both in the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex
    Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex
    Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex also known locally as, Boshar , is a government owned multi-purpose stadium in the Boshar district of Muscat, Oman. It is currently used mostly for football matches, and also has facilities for athletics. The stadium originally had a capacity of over 40,000, but after...

    .
  • Singer Mohammed Abdo attended the final match between Oman and his native, Saudi Arabia.
  • The Tournament took place during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza
    Gaza
    Gaza , also referred to as Gaza City, is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip, with a population of about 450,000, making it the largest city in the Palestinian territories.Inhabited since at least the 15th century BC,...

    , also known as the Gaza War, as a sign of solidarity toward the Palestinians
    Palestine
    Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....

    , many fans waved pro-Palestinian banners and chanted pro-Palestinian slogan
    Slogan
    A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commercial, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. The word slogan is derived from slogorn which was an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm . Slogans vary from the written and the...

    s. Omani footballer Badr Al-Maimani
    Badar Al-Maimani
    Badar Al-Maimani commonly refer as Badar , born on July 16, 1984 is a Omani footballer who is a striker who currently plays for Muscat Club. He is a member of the Oman national football team. Al-Maimani is a key player in the attack on the national squad, and has been serving since 2003. Badar...

     also revealed a pro-Gaza undershirt after his free-kick goal against Bahrain. Also before the opening match played by Yemen
    Yemen national football team
    The Yemen national football team , is the national team of Yemen and is controlled by the Yemen Football Association.When the nation was split into North Yemen and South Yemen before 1990, two national teams existed. After unification, the Yemen national football team is considered the successor of...

    , players wore shirts representing solidarity with Palestine. The Kuwaiti team also did the same in their opening match against Oman, but instead wore scarves.

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