The men's

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

tournament at the 2011 Arab Games was held in

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from 10 to 23 December. The tournament was played at three venues in two host cities.

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were the defending champions from the 2007 Arab Games in

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clinched the Gold Medal after beating

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1–0.

Venues

Squads

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held on 30 October 2011 in

Group stage

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Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Knockout stage

Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Final ranking

Scorers

;4 goals * Abdallah Deeb ;3 goals *

Ismail Abdul-Latif Ismail (Ismaeel) Abdullatif Ismail Hassan, also spelled Abdullatif ( ar, إسماعيل عبد اللطيف; born September 11, 1986), is a Bahraini professional association football, football Forward (association football), forward, currently pl ...

;2 goals *

Sami Al-Husaini Sami Al-Husaini (Arabic: سامي الحسيني; born 29 September 1989) is a Bahraini professional footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football ...

Bader Al-Mutawa Bader Ahmed al-Mutawa ( ar, بدر أحمد المطوع; born 10 January 1985) is a Kuwaiti professional footballer who plays for Qadsia and the Kuwait national team, where he usually operates as a second striker. He wears the jersey number ...

Yousef Nasser Yousef Nasser Al-Sulaiman ( ar, يوسف ناصر, born 9 October 1990) is a Kuwaiti professional footballer who plays as a forward for Kuwaiti Premier League club Qadsiya SC. International goals :''Scores and results list Kuwait's goal tall ...

Ashraf Nu'man Ashraf Nu'man Al-Fawaghra ( ar, أشرف نعمان الفواغرة; born 29 July 1986) is a Palestinian footballer who plays for Shabab Al-Khalil of the West Bank Premier League and the Palestine national team as a forward or attacking midfi ...

;1 goal *

Fahad Hardan Fahd ( ar, فهد, “leopard“ or “cheetah”), also transliterated Fahed or Fahad, can refer to: People Given name Fahad *Fahad Ali (born 1987), Indian television actor *Fahad Babar (born 1992), Pakistani born American cricketer *Fahad A ...

* Mohamed Al-Alawi * Salman Isa * Hamza Al-Dardour * Rakan Al-Khalidi * Ali Al Kandari * Fahad Al-Rashidi * Hussain Al-Musawi * Ihaab Boussefi *

Ismail Al-Amour Ismail Al-Amour ( ar, إسماعيل العمور; born 2 October 1984) is a Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none ...

* Ali El-Khatib *

Imad Zatara Imad Zatara (Arabic: عماد زعترة; born on 1 October 1984) is a Palestinian former professional footballer who played as a forward. Club career Early career Zatara began his career in FC Inter Orhoy, a club famous for bringing players ...

Jaralla Al Marri Jaralla Salih Muhammad Khala al-Marri is a citizen of Qatar and a former detainee at the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, where he was imprisoned for six and a half years. He returned to Qatar on 27 July 2008. He was reporte ...

* Mohammed Razak * Mohamed Abd Al Momen Ankba ;1 own goal * Hussam Abu Saleh

References

External links

Official Page
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