2010 Gulf Cup of Nations

2010 Gulf Cup of Nations

كأس الخليج العربي 2010 ، او خليجي 20 Kass Al-Khaleej 2010, or Khaleeji 20
2010 Gulf Cup of Nations official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Yemen
Dates	22 November to 5 December 2010
Teams	8
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Kuwait (10th title)
Runners-up	Saudi Arabia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	27 (1.8 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Badr Al-Mutawa Alaa Abdul-Zahra (3)
Best player	Fahad Al-Enezi
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The Gulf Cup of Nations 2010 is the twentieth edition of the Gulf Cup 2010 (Arabic: كأس الخليج ‎) was the twentieth edition of the Gulf Cup of Nations and took place in Aden, Yemen, in November and December 2010.^[1] The tournament was held in Yemen for the first time in the tournament's history, and this edition celebrated the 40th year anniversary of the cup as well as the 20th anniversary of the tournament.

The opening match was played on November 22, 2010 between the host Yemen and KSA in the May 22 Stadium in Aden.^[2][3]

The tournament was won by Kuwait for the tenth time in the team's history^[4] against 2-time consecutive second place finishers, Saudi Arabia in a 1–0 score that ended in a 120 minute match.

Teams

8 teams participated in the tournament.^[5]

•  Yemen (Host)
•  Oman (Holder)
•  Bahrain
•  Iraq
•  Kuwait
•  Qatar
•  Saudi Arabia
•  United Arab Emirates

Competition mascot

The competition mascot (rather a secondary competition logo) depicts a Yemeni juggling a football in a traditional Yemeni wizaar while wearing headgear consisting of colors from the Yemeni flag. The design has been featured in many advertising campaigns for the cometition as well as many talk-shows, and has emerged as a well-known symbol for the competition, even more so than the primary competition logo.

Venues

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held on 22 August 2010.

Groups

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Kuwait	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4	7
Saudi Arabia	3	1	2	0	5	1	+4	5
Qatar	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
Yemen	3	0	0	3	1	9	-8	0

22 November 2010 19:00 UTC+3	Yemen	0 – 4	Saudi Arabia	May 22 Stadium, Aden Referee: Fareed Ali Al Marzouqi (United Arab Emirates)
		Report	Al-Muwallad  4' Al-Shalhoub  58' Asiri  72' (pen.) Al-Saeed  90'

22 November 2010 22:00 UTC+3	Kuwait	1 – 0	Qatar	May 22 Stadium, Aden Referee: Abdullah Al Rashid (Oman)
	Nasser  28'

25 November 2010 16:00 UTC+3	Saudi Arabia	0 – 0	Kuwait	Al-Wihda Stadium, Zinjibar Referee: Kengi Ogiya (Japan)

25 November 2010 19:00 UTC+3	Qatar	2 – 1	Yemen	Al-Wihda Stadium, Zinjibar Referee: Sabah Abid Iddan (Iraq)
	Al Marri  35', 55'		Akram  17'

28 November 2010 19:00 UTC+3	Yemen	0 – 3	Kuwait	Al-Wihda Stadium, Zinjibar Referee: Salah Mohammed Al Abassi (Bahrain)
			Al Ataiqi  18' (pen.) Al-Mutawa  34', 69'

28 November 2010 19:00 UTC+3	Qatar	1 – 1	Saudi Arabia	May 22 Stadium, Aden Referee: Fareed Ali Al Marzouqi (United Arab Emirates)
	Al-Ghanim  84'		Shami Zaher  89' (o.g.)

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United Arab Emirates	3	1	2	0	3	1	+2	5
Iraq	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
Oman	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	3
Bahrain	3	0	1	2	4	7	−3	1

23 November 2010 16:00 UTC+3	Oman	1 – 1	Bahrain	May 22 Stadium, Aden Referee: Naser Al Enezi (Kuwait)
	Al Hosni  37'		Al Mishkhas  67'

23 November 2010 19:00 UTC+3	Iraq	0 – 0	United Arab Emirates	May 22 Stadium, Aden Referee: Abdelrahman Al Qathani (Saudi Arabia)
		Report

26 November 2010 16:00 UTC+3	United Arab Emirates	0 – 0	Oman	May 22 Stadium, Aden Referee: Hamdy Raaban Shaaban (Egypt)

26 November 2010 19:00 UTC+3	Bahrain	2 – 3	Iraq	May 22 Stadium, Aden Referee: Khalaf Mohammad Allabany (Yemen)
	Ayesh  44' Abdullatif  90+'		Abdul-Zahra  24', 54' Hawar  90'

29 November 2010 19:00 UTC+3	Oman	0 – 0	Iraq	Al-Wihda Stadium, Zinjibar Referee: Yasser Younis (Egypt)

29 November 2010 19:00 UTC+3	United Arab Emirates	3 – 1	Bahrain	May 22 Stadium, Aden Referee: Khamis Al Marry (Bahrain)
	Khater  4' F. Juma  8' A. Juma  64'	Report	Fatadi  35'

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

2 December 2010 16:00 UTC+3	Kuwait	2 – 2	Iraq	May 22 Stadium, Aden
	Al-Mutawa  1' Al-Enezi  58'		Hawar  6' Abdul-Zahra  14'
		Penalties
		5–4

2 December 2010 20:00 UTC+3	United Arab Emirates	0 – 1	Saudi Arabia	May 22 Stadium, Aden Referee: Kengi Ogiya (JAP)
		Report	Abbas  55'

Final

5 December 2010 18:00 UTC+3	Kuwait	1 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Saudi Arabia	May 22 Stadium, Aden Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Abdullah Al-Hurassi (Oman)
	Waleed Ali  93'

Winners

2010 Gulf Cup of Nations Winners
Kuwait Tenth title

Goalscorers

Own goals

• Hamed Shami Zaher (for Saudi Arabia)

Total goals by team

*Includes one own goal scored by Qatar

Trivia

• For the first time in the tournament's history all matches were played on artificial grass fields.
• The broadcasting rights for the tournament was sold for the highest price ever in Gulf Cup history to Abu Dhabi Sports in a deal worth 560 million dollars.^[6]
• For the third consecutive time previous champions of the tournament failed to pass the group stages after 2009 winners, Oman failed to qualify to the final four.
• Ali Al-Habsi's record for 4 consecutive "Best Tournament Goalkeeper" was broken after Kuwait's Nawaf Al-Khaldi won the award due to Ali's absence in the competition.

See also

• 2009 Gulf Cup
• Yemen national football team

References

External links

• Official website
• Gulf Cup site
• Gulf Cup site