South Yemen national football team

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 South Yemen
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s) (south falcons)
Head coach Mubarak Qadhi
Most caps Abubakar Al-Mass
Top scorer Abubakar Al-Mass
Home stadium May 22 Stadium
FIFA code YMD
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Highest 139 (1976)
Lowest 164 (1989)
First international
Egypt UAR 14 - 0 South Yemen People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
(Egypt, September 2, 1965)[2]
Last International
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen South Yemen 1-0 Guinea Guinea
(Kuwait City, Kuwait; November 5, 1989)
AFC Asian Cup
Appearances 1 (First in 1976)
Best result Round 1, 1976

The South Yemen national football team was the national team of South Yemen between 1965 and 1989. It took part in the Asian Cup finals in 1976, losing 0-8 to Iran and 0-1 to Iraq. They entered their only World Cup qualification campaign, for the 1986 FIFA World Cup, and were knocked out in the first round by Bahrain.

The team ceased to exist when the country united with North Yemen in 1990 to form the modern country of Yemen. See the article Yemen national football team for details after 1990.

Debut

South Yemen made its international football debut on 2 September 1965 at the 1965 Pan Arab Games in Cairo, Egypt. They played the hosts (who played as the United Arab Republic) in the first game and lost 14-0. This was their largest defeat without scoring a goal in reply. South Yemen lost all three other games in the group: 1-0 to Palestine and then 4-3 to Lebanon. South Yemen did not play another game until 10 January 1972 when they lost a home friendly 4-1 to Algeria.[1]

1986 World Cup qualification

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Bahrain 2 1 1 0 7 4 +3 3
 South Yemen 2 0 1 1 4 7 −3 1
 Iran Disqualified

South Yemen competed in qualification for the only time for the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. They were placed in Group 4 of Zone A in the First Round against Iran and Bahrain. Iran was disqualified before the games were played, due to refusal to move their games to neutral grounds away from the Iran-Iraq War. South Yemen hosted Bahrain on 12 March 1985 and lost 4-1 in Mortayer Yard (now 22 May Stadium, Aden. On 12 April they drew 3-3 at the Bahrain National Stadium in Manama after leading 3-1. This saw Bahrain advance through.

World Cup record

Asian Cup record

Coaches

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some friendly matches

 South Yemen 1 vs 0  Denmark (( Al-Shohada'a Stadium  ??/October/1984 Abyan of South Yemen ))


 South Yemen 1 vs 4  Djibouti (( Djibouti Stadium 26 / February /1988 Djibouti City of Djibouti ))


 South Yemen 0 vs 0  Tanzania


 South Yemen 2 vs 1  Iraq


 South Yemen 1 vs 1  Tanzania


 South Yemen 1 vs 1  Ethiopia


 South Yemen 2 vs 4  China PR


 South Yemen 5 vs 6  China PR


 South Yemen 1 vs 15  Algeria

1982 Asian Games

 South Yemen 1 vs 3  Japan


 South Yemen 0 vs 2  Iran


 South Yemen 0 vs 3  South Korea


Arab Nations Cup qualifier 1984

 South Yemen 1 vs 1  Somalia


 South Yemen 0 vs 1  Saudi Arabia


 South Yemen 0 vs 1  Sudan

Pan Arab Games 1965

group 2 :


 South Yemen 0 vs 14  Egypt


 South Yemen 0 vs 6  Iraq


 South Yemen o vs 1  Palestine


 South Yemen 3 vs 4  Lebanon


Palestine Cup 1972

 South Yemen 2 vs 1  Qatar


 South Yemen 2 vs 1  Palestine


 South Yemen 1 vs 4  Algeria


 South Yemen 0 vs 1  Syria

Palestine Cup 1973

 South Yemen 1 vs 7  Syria


 South Yemen 1 vs 6  Egypt


 South Yemen 0 vs 2  Tunisia


Palestine Cup 1975

 South Yemen 1 VS 0  Saudi Arabia


 South Yemen 0 vs 5  Egypt


Pan Arab Games 1976

 South Yemen 2 vs 1  Syria


 South Yemen 0 vs 4  Morocco


 South Yemen 1 VS 0  Saudi Arabia


 South Yemen 0 vs 0  Palestine


 South Yemen 2 VS 3  Jordan


 South Yemen 2 vs 0  Mauritania


Olympic Games Qualifier 1980

 South Yemen 1 vs 2  Syria


 South Yemen 1 vs 5  Kuwait


 South Yemen 2 vs 1  Jordan


 South Yemen 0 vs 3  Iraq

Asian Nations Cup Qualifier 1988

 South Yemen 0 vs 2  Bahrain


 South Yemen 1 vs 1  South Korea


 South Yemen 0 vs 1  Indonesia

Other tournaments

Year Round
Kuwait 1989 Peace and Friendship Cup Group Stage

Line Up 1989

GK People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ((Abdulrahman Ebrahim)) {Al-Tilal}

Df People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ((Mohammed Ramadah)) {Al-Shorta SC (Aden)}

Df People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ((Khaled Attar))

Df People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ((abdullah Hadi)) {Al-Wahda (Aden)}

Df People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ((Yasin Mahmood)) {Al-Wahda (Aden)}

Mf People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ((Salah Saifudin)) {Al-Tilal}

Mf People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ((Saleh Al Haj)) {Al-Shula}

Mf People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ((Omar Albarek)) {Al-Tilal}

Mf People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ((Ali Alsalahi))

Sk People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ((Wagdan shadeli)) {Al-Wahda (Aden)}

Sk People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ((Sharaf Mahfood)) {Al-Tilal}

Recent results

Main article: South Yemen national football team match results:

References