Nickname(s) South Falcons Most caps Abubakar Al-Mass Home stadium May 22 Stadium Ground May 22 Stadium | Head coach Mubarak Qadhi Top scorer Abubakar Al-Mass FIFA code YMD | |
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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.
Contents
- Debut
- 1986 World Cup qualification
- World Cup record
- Asian Cup record
- Friendly matches
- 1982 Asian Games
- Arab Nations Cup qualifier 1984
- Pan Arab Games 1965
- Palestine Cup 1972
- Palestine Cup 1973
- Palestine Cup 1975
- Pan Arab Games 1976
- Olympic Games Qualifier 1980
- Asian Nations Cup Qualifier 1988
- Line up 1989
- References
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.
1986 World Cup qualification
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
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 0 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
Line-up, 1989
GK (Abdulrahman Ebrahim) {Al-Tilal}
Df (Mohammed Ramadah) {Al-Shorta SC (Aden)}
Df (Khaled Attar)
Df (abdullah Hadi) {Al-Wahda (Aden)}
Df (Yasin Mahmood) {Al-Wahda (Aden)}
Mf (Salah Saifudin) {Al-Tilal}
Mf (Saleh Al Haj) {Al-Shula}
Mf (Omar Albarek) {Al-Tilal}
Mf (Ali Alsalahi)
Sk (Wagdan shadeli) {Al-Wahda (Aden)}
Sk (Sharaf Mahfood) {Al-Tilal}