Year Winners Runners-Up Venue 1978 Iraq 1-0 Kuwait Kuwait 1985 Iraq 1-0 Saudi Arabia Iraq 1987 Iraq Libya 2002 Iraq Jordan Iraq NB: possibly there was another edition in the UAE in 1990 or 1991.
Group 1 Syria 1-0 Palestine Qatar 2-1 Jordan Libya 2-1 Palestine Syria 5-0 Jordan Libya 3-1 Jordan Palestine 2-0 Qatar Qatar 2-0 Libya Palestine 0-0 Jordan Syria 3-1 Qatar Syria 3-1 Libya Table: 1.Syria 4 4 0 0 12- 2 8 2.Libya 4 2 0 2 6- 7 4 3.Qatar 4 2 0 2 5- 6 4 4.Palestine 4 1 1 2 3- 3 3 5.Jordan 4 0 1 3 2-10 1 Group 2 Sudan 1-1 Kuwait Bahrain 3-1 UAE Sudan 1-1 Iraq Iraq 5-0 UAE Iraq 2-0 Bahrain Iraq 1-0 Kuwait Kuwait 3-0 UAE UAE 3-0 Sudan Kuwait 2-1 Bahrain Bahrain 3-0 Sudan Table: 1.Iraq 4 3 1 0 9- 1 7 2.Kuwait 4 2 1 1 6- 3 5 3.Bahrain 4 2 0 2 7- 5 4 4.Sudan 4 0 2 2 2- 8 2 5.UAE 4 1 0 3 4-11 2 Semifinals Iraq 3-0 Libya Syria 0-1 Kuwait Third Place Match Syria 4-0 Libya Final Iraq 2-0 Kuwait Topscorers 7 Ali Kazem (Iraq) 6 Haytham Bargakly (Syria) 6 Ibrahim Lotfy (Syria)
Group 1 Iraq 0-0 Qatar Qatar 3-1 Palestine Iraq 6-0 Palestine Table: 1.Iraq 2 1 1 0 6- 0 3 2.Qatar 2 1 1 0 3- 1 3 3.Palestine 2 0 0 2 1- 9 0 Group 2 Saudi Arabia 4-0 Libya Kuwait 2-0 Jordan Kuwait 5-0 Libya Saudi Arabia 3-1 Kuwait Saudi Arabia 2-0 Jordan Jordan 6-0 Libya Table: 1.Saudi Arabia 3 3 0 0 9- 1 6 2.Kuwait 3 2 0 1 8- 3 4 3.Jordan 3 1 0 2 6- 4 2 4.Libya 3 0 0 3 0-15 0 Semifinals Iraq 4-2 Kuwait Saudi Arabia 1-1 Qatar [Saudi Arabia win on pen] Third Place Match Kuwait 3-1 Qatar Final Iraq 1-0 Saudi Arabia [Mohamed Khalaf]
[Apr 23, Al-Shaab] Iraq 3-0 Palestine [Hamad Jaber 27, Ali Jawad 32, Qasim Jalout 77; ref: Hammadi Qadri (Syria)] [Apr 24, Al-Shurta] Jordan 0-0 Syria [ref: Najim Aboud (Iraq)] [Apr 26, Al-Shurta] Syria 0-1 Sudan [Kamal Al-Said 73; ref: Abdulhal Khudhair (Iraq)] [Apr 26, Al-Shaab] Iraq 2-1 Jordan [Ameer Obiad 10, Ali Jawad 70; Muyad Omar 65pen; ref: Mahdi Fallayah (Iraq)] [Apr 28, Al-Kashafa] Syria 0-0 Palestine [ref: Shaker Mahmoud (Iraq)] [Apr 28, Al-Shurta] Jordan 1-1 Sudan [Jamal Al-Wahidi 75; Kamal Al-Said 10; ref: Mahmoud Nouraddin (Iraq)] [Apr 30, Al-Shurta] Iraq 2-0 Syria [Thair Zawid 48, Hamad Jaber 51; ref: Hazim Hussein [Apr 30, Al-Shaab] Sudan 0-2 Palestine [Khaldon Ibrahim 29, Wathiq Hassouni 76; ref: Hammadi Qadri (Syria)] [May 2, Al-Shurta] Iraq 3-0 Sudan [Muslim Mubarak 24, Hamad Jaber 28, 48; ref: Mohamad Sahib (Iraq)] [May 2, Al-Nafat] Palestine 0-2 Jordan [Jamal Al-Wahidi 85, 90; ref: Alaa Abdul-Qadir (Iraq)] Final Table: 1.Iraq 4 4 0 0 10- 1 12 2.Jordan 4 1 2 1 4- 3 5 3.Palestine 4 1 1 2 2- 5 4 4.Sudan 4 1 1 2 2- 6 4 5.Syria 4 0 2 2 0- 3 2 Iraq Squad Goalkeepers: Maan Jamil Nafat Saifaddin Zaman Al-Zawraa Wisam Talib Amana Defenders: Muyad Khalid Talaba Haidar Aboudi Najaf Jassim Mohamad Haji Duhok Zaman Jawad Salahaddin Ali Abid Ali Al-Zawraa Ali Hussein Nafat Wisam Khadim Al-Zawraa Midfielders: Haithem Khadim Nafat Bashar Hadi Ahmad Al-Bahri Ameer Obiad Salahaddin Ahmed Hassan Fadhil Talaba Jassim Mohamad Suliman Duhok Hamad Jaber Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Safaa Khadim Salahaddin Muslim Mubarak Al-Minaa Osama Shalil Al-Minaa Forwards: Fuad Jawad Najaf Qasim Jalout Najaf Thair Zawid Samawa Ali Jawad Al-Minaa Younis Mahmoud Talaba Coach: Nasrat Nassir
Source for 1978: Al-Saqer magazine (Qatar)
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