25th Arabian Gulf Cup Group B

The Group B of the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup was one of the two groups of competing nations in the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup. It consisted of defending champions Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The matches took place from 7 to 13 January 2023. The top two teams, Bahrain and Qatar, advanced to the semi-finals.

Teams

Team	Appearance	Previous best performance	FIFA Rankings (October 2022)^[1]
Team	Appearance	Previous best performance	Bahrain (holders)	25th	Winners (2019)	85
Kuwait	25th	Winners (1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1996, 1998, 2010)	149
Qatar	25th	Winners (1992, 2004, 2014)	50
United Arab Emirates	24th	Winners (2007, 2013)	70

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bahrain	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Qatar	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	4	Advance to knockout stage
3	Kuwait	3	1	1	1	2	3	−1	4
4	United Arab Emirates	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1

Source: AGCFF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Matches

Bahrain vs United Arab Emirates

7 January 2023

16:15 UTC+3

Bahrain	2–1	United Arab Emirates
Al-Aswad 60' Al-Shaikh 77'	Report	Tagliabúe 90+2'

Al-Minaa Olympic Stadium, Basra

Referee: Ahmed Al-Kaf (Oman)

Bahrain

United Arab Emirates


GK	21	Sayed Mohammed Jaffer (c)
RB	16	Sayed Isa	47'	67'
CB	2	Amine Bennadi
CB	3	Waleed Al Hayam
LB	4	Sayed Dhiya Saeed
CM	15	Jasim Al-Shaikh
CM	14	Ali Haram	34'
RW	7	Ali Madan		84'
AM	19	Kamil Al-Aswad
LW	20	Mahdi Al-Humaidan
CF	9	Abdulla Yusuf Helal
Substitutions:
DF	18	Mohammed Adel		67'
MF	8	Mohamed Marhoon		84'
Manager:
Hélio Sousa


GK	17	Khalid Eisa
RB	20	Ahmed Abdullah Jamil
CB	12	Khalifa Al Hammadi
CB	19	Khaled Ibrahim	80'
LB	3	Walid Abbas (c)
RM	9	Harib Suhail
CM	8	Majed Hassan	81'
CM	6	Majid Rashid	66'
CM	18	Abdullah Ramadan
LM	7	Ali Saleh	81'
CF	11	Caio Canedo
Substitutions:
FW	15	Sebastián Tagliabúe	66'
DF	16	Bader Abdelaziz	80'
MF	5	Mohammed Abdulbasit	81'
FW	14	Yahya Al Ghassani	81'
Manager:
Rodolfo Arruabarrena

Man of the Match:
Kamil Al-Aswad (Bahrain)

Assistant referees:
Rashad Al-Hakmani (Oman)
Rashid Abdi (Oman)
Fourth official:
Ali Sabah (Iraq)
Video assistant referee:
Rédouane Jiyed (Morocco)
Assistant video assistant referee:
Abdullah Al-Shehri (Saudi Arabia)

Kuwait vs Qatar

7 January 2023

19:15 UTC+3

Kuwait	0–2	Qatar
	Report	Surag 21' Alaaeldin 37' (pen.)

Al-Minaa Olympic Stadium, Basra

Referee: Ma Ning (China)

Kuwait

Qatar


GK	22	Sulaiman Abdulghafour
RB	2	Hassan Hamdan
CB	3	Meshari Ghanam
CB	19	Mahdi Dashti
LB	12	Abdullah Ghanem	75'	78'
CM	4	Khalid El Ebrahim (c)
CM	6	Sultan Al Enezi
RW	11	Eid Al Rashidi
AM	8	Ahmed Al-Dhefiri		64'
LW	16	Mobarak Al-Faneeni		74'
CF	9	Ibrahim Kameel		46'
Substitutions:
FW	20	Shabaib Al-Khaldi		46'
MF	10	Faisal Zayid		64'
FW	14	Mohammad Bajeyah		74'
MF	18	Fawaz Al-Otaibi		78'
Manager:
Rui Bento


GK	22	Meshaal Barsham
RB	17	Ismaeel Mohammad (c)
CB	15	Jassem Gaber
CB	5	Tarek Salman
LB	14	Homam Ahmed	57'
CM	8	Ali Assadalla		76'
CM	23	Assim Madibo
RW	7	Ahmed Alaaeldin		76'
AM	10	Mohammed Waad		85'
LW	11	Amro Surag		85'
CF	9	Tameem Al-Abdullah		70'
Substitutions:
MF	16	Hashim Ali		70'
FW	12	Yusuf Abdurisag		76'
MF	13	Mostafa Meshaal		76'
FW	18	Khalid Muneer		85'
MF	19	Ahmed Fadhel		85'
Manager:
Bruno Pinheiro

Man of the Match:
Amro Surag (Qatar)

Assistant referees:
Zhou Fei (China)
Zhang Cheng (China)
Fourth official:
Shukri Al-Hanfoush (Saudi Arabia)
Video assistant referee:
Fu Ming (China)
Assistant video assistant referee:
Jérémie Pignard (France)

United Arab Emirates vs Kuwait

10 January 2023

16:15 UTC+3

United Arab Emirates	0–1	Kuwait
	Report	Al-Dhefiri 90+3'

Al-Minaa Olympic Stadium, Basra

Referee: Shukri Al-Hanfoush (Saudi Arabia)

United Arab Emirates

Kuwait


GK	17	Khalid Eisa
RB	19	Khaled Ibrahim
CB	12	Khalifa Al Hammadi	70'
CB	3	Walid Abbas (c)
LB	16	Bader Abdelaziz		78'
CM	5	Mohammed Abdulbasit		78'
CM	18	Abdullah Ramadan	22'
RW	11	Caio Canedo		78'
AM	6	Majid Rashid		62'
LW	9	Harib Suhail
CF	15	Sebastián Tagliabúe	47'
Substitutions:
FW	7	Ali Saleh		62'
FW	14	Yahya Al Ghassani		78'
DF	20	Ahmed Jamil		78'
DF	13	Falah Waleed		78'
Manager:
Rodolfo Arruabarrena


GK	22	Sulaiman Abdulghafour
RB	19	Mahdi Dashti		72'
CB	4	Khalid El Ebrahim (c)
CB	2	Hassan Hamdan
LB	3	Meshari Ghanam		61'
CM	6	Sultan Al Enezi	90+4'
CM	5	Fahad Al Hajeri
RW	11	Eid Al Rashidi		86'
AM	10	Faisal Zayid		86'
LW	16	Mobarak Al-Faneeni		86'
CF	20	Shabaib Al-Khaldi
Substitutions:
DF	15	Hamad Al-Qallaf		61'
MF	7	Bader Al-Fadhel		72'
FW	9	Ibrahim Kameel		86'
DF	8	Ahmed Al-Dhefiri		86'
FW	14	Mohammad Bajeyah		86'
Manager:
Rui Bento

Man of the Match:
Mobarak Al-Faneeni (Kuwait)

Assistant referees:
Yasser Al-Sultan (Saudi Arabia)
Faisal Al-Qahtani (Saudi Arabia)
Fourth official:
István Kovács (Romania)
Video assistant referee:
Abdullah Al-Shehri (Saudi Arabia)
Assistant video assistant referee:
Rédouane Jiyed (Morocco)

Qatar vs Bahrain

10 January 2023

19:15 UTC+3

Qatar	1–2	Bahrain
Alaaeldin 34'	Report	Waad 72' (o.g.) Yusuf 89' (pen.)

Al-Minaa Olympic Stadium, Basra

Referee: Ilgiz Tantashev (Uzbekistan)

Qatar

Bahrain


GK	22	Meshaal Barsham
RB	17	Ismaeel Mohammad (c)
CB	15	Jassem Gaber
CB	5	Tarek Salman
LB	14	Homam Ahmed
CM	10	Mohammed Waad	86'
CM	23	Assim Madibo
RW	9	Tameem Al-Abdullah		79'
AM	8	Ali Assadalla		90'
LW	11	Amro Surag		79'
CF	7	Ahmed Alaaeldin		81'
Substitutions:
FW	18	Khalid Muneer		79'
MF	16	Hashim Ali		79'
FW	12	Yusuf Abdurisag		81'
MF	13	Mostafa Meshaal		90'
Manager:
Bruno Pinheiro


GK	22	Ebrahim Lutfalla	90+7'
RB	18	Mohammed Adel		78'
CB	2	Amine Bennadi
CB	3	Waleed Al Hayam (c)
LB	23	Abdullah Al-Khalasi		60'
CM	15	Jasim Al-Shaikh
CM	12	Mahdi Abdullatif		60'
RW	7	Ali Madan		60'
AM	10	Abdulwahab Al-Malood		90+3'
LW	8	Mohamed Marhoon
CF	9	Abdulla Yusuf Helal
Substitutions:
FW	19	Kamil Al-Aswad		60'
FW	4	Sayed Dhiya Saeed		60'
FW	13	Ahmed Al-Sherooqi		60'
FW	20	Mahdi Al-Humaidan		78'
MF	14	Ali Haram		90+3'
Manager:
Hélio Sousa

Man of the Match:
Abdulla Yusuf Helal (Bahrain)

Assistant referees:
Sanjar Shayusupov (Uzbekistan)
Alisher Usmanov (Uzbekistan)
Fourth official:
Ali Sabah (Iraq)
Video assistant referee:
Jérémie Pignard (France)
Assistant video assistant referee:
Fu Ming (China)

Bahrain vs Kuwait

13 January 2023

18:00 UTC+3

Bahrain	1–1	Kuwait
Al-Humaidan 26'	Report	Al-Khaldi 45'

Basra International Stadium, Basra

Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

Bahrain

Kuwait


GK	21	Sayed Mohammed Jaffer (c)
RB	2	Amine Bennadi		86'
CB	5	Hamad Al-Shamsan	10'	74'
CB	6	Hamza Abdullah Idris		65'
LB	17	Ahmed Bughammar
RM	20	Mahdi Al-Humaidan
CM	14	Ali Haram
CM	12	Mahdi Abdullatif	90+2'
LM	4	Sayed Dhiya Saeed
CF	19	Kamil Al-Aswad	16'	74'
CF	8	Mohamed Marhoon	44'	65'
Substitutions:
FW	7	Ali Madan		65'
FW	9	Yusuf Helal		65'
DF	3	Waleed Al Hayam		74'
MF	10	Abdulwahab Al-Malood		74'
DF	16	Sayed Isa		86'
Manager:
Hélio Sousa


GK	22	Sulaiman Abdulghafour
RB	5	Fahad Al Hajeri
CB	4	Khalid El Ebrahim (c)
CB	2	Hassan Hamdan
LB	15	Hamad Al-Qallaf	22' 68'
CM	7	Bader Al-Fadhel		46'
CM	6	Sultan Al Enezi		90+2'
RW	11	Eid Al Rashidi		86'
AM	10	Faisal Zayid		46'
LW	16	Mobarak Al-Faneeni		76'
CF	20	Shabaib Al-Khaldi
Substitutions:
DF	8	Ahmed Al-Dhefiri		46'
DF	19	Mahdi Dashti		46'
MF	17	Ali Khalaf		76'
FW	11	Eid Al Rashidi		86'
FW	9	Ibrahim Kameel		90+2'
Manager:
Rui Bento

Man of the Match:
Mahdi Al-Humaidan (Bahrain)

Assistant referees:
Vasile Florin Marinescu (Romania)
Mihai Ovidiu Artene (Romania)
Fourth official:
Ahmed Al-Kaf (Oman)
Video assistant referee:
Jérémie Pignard (France)

United Arab Emirates vs Qatar

13 January 2023

18:00 UTC+3

United Arab Emirates	1–1	Qatar
Lima 77'	Report	Al-Abdullah 88'

Al-Minaa Olympic Stadium, Basra

Referee: Ali Sabah (Iraq)

United Arab Emirates

Qatar


GK	17	Khalid Eisa
RB	20	Ahmed Abdullah Jamil		90+2'
CB	12	Khalifa Al Hammadi	45'	79'
CB	3	Walid Abbas (c)
LB	19	Khaled Ibrahim
CM	6	Majid Rashid	28'
CM	18	Abdullah Ramadan		79'
RW	14	Yahya Al Ghassani		79'
AM	10	Fábio Lima
LW	9	Harib Suhail
CF	11	Caio Canedo		90+2'
Substitutions:
DF	2	Abdusalam Mohammed		79'
MF	5	Mohammed Abdulbasit		79'
FW	15	Sebastián Tagliabúe		79'
MF	7	Ali Saleh		90+2'
DF	16	Bader Abdelaziz		90+2'
Manager:
Rodolfo Arruabarrena


GK	22	Meshaal Barsham
RB	17	Ismaeel Mohammad (c)	85'
CB	15	Jassem Gaber
CB	5	Tarek Salman
LB	14	Homam Ahmed
CM	8	Ali Assadalla
CM	23	Assim Madibo
CM	10	Mohammed Waad	59'
RW	18	Khalid Muneer	59'
LW	11	Amro Surag	84'
CF	7	Ahmed Alaaeldin	16'
Substitutions:
MF	12	Yusuf Abdurisag	16'
MF	9	Tameem Al-Abdullah	59'
DF	19	Ahmed Fadhel	59'
MF	16	Hashim Ali	84'
DF	20	Salem Al-Hajri	85'
Manager:
Bruno Pinheiro

Man of the Match:
Tameem Al-Abdullah (Qatar)

Assistant referees:
Ahmed Sabah (Iraq)
Hayder Abdulhasan (Iraq)
Fourth official:
Mohanad Qasim (Iraq)
Video assistant referee:
Rédouane Jiyed (Morocco)

Discipline

Fair play points would have been used as tiebreakers if the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:

first yellow card: −1 point;
indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
direct red card: −4 points;
yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;

Only one of the above deductions was applied to a player in a single match.

Team	Match 1	Match 2	Match 3		Points
Team					Points
Bahrain	2	1	5		–8
Kuwait	1	1		1	–5
Qatar	1	1			–2
United Arab Emirates		3	2		–5

References

^ "FIFA Men's Ranking". Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 8 October 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022.

[1] "FIFA Men's Ranking". Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 8 October 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022.

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