This is a list of players, past and present, who have been capped by their country in international football whilst playing for Al Sadd Sports Club from twelve countries. The first tournament in which Al Sadd SC players participated was the Summer Olympics in 1984 with four players, including Khalid Salman who scored a brace against France which account for the only two goals Qatar scored during the tournament. At the end of the year Qatar participated for the second time in a row in the AFC Asian Cup and for the first time there were players from the club and Salman led Qatar to the only victory against South Korea. The first non-Qatari player to participate in the AFC Asian Cup was the Iranian Ali Daei in 1996 where he ranked third,
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DF | Defender | ||
MF | Midfielder | ||
FW | Forward | ||
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Al Sadd SC Qatari international footballers | |||||||
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Name | Position | Date of first cap | Debut against | Date of last cap | Final match against | Caps | Ref |
Emerson Sheik | FW | 4 Mar 2008 | Bahrain | 26 Mar 2008 | Iraq | 3 | [1] |
Mesaad Al-Hamad | DF | 15 Nov 2006 | Uzbekistan | 5 Jan 2013 | United Arab Emirates | 57 | [2] |
Khalfan Ibrahim | FW | 16 Aug 2006 | Bangladesh | 13 Oct 2015 | Maldives | 90 | [3] |
Ezzat Jadoua | MF | 5 Jun 2004 | Kyrgyzstan | 25 Jul 2004 | China | 5 | [4] |
Mohammed Kasola | DF | 3 Mar 2010 | Slovenia | 13 Jun 2017 | South Korea | 67 | [5] |
Abdulla Koni | DF | 19 Sep 1997 | Kuwait | 14 Jan 2009 | Oman | 59 | [6] |
Fahad Al Kuwari | MF | 27 Feb 1990 | United Arab Emirates | 13 Oct 2001 | China | 30 | [7] |
Ibrahim Majid | DF | 25 Jun 2007 | Turkmenistan | 13 Jun 2017 | South Korea | 100 | [8] |
Magid Mohamed | FW | 11 Oct 2005 | Iraq | 28 May 2012 | Palestine | 36 | [9] |
Al-Mahdi Ali Mukhtar | DF | 23 Jan 2012 | Sweden | 5 June 2015 | Scotland | 22 | [10] |
Dahi Al Naemi | DF | 19 Sep 1997 | Kuwait | 31 Mar 2004 | Jordan | 53 | [11] |
Ali Nasser | DF | 17 Nov 2004 | Jordan | 31 May 2009 | Iraq | 21 | [12] |
Abdulnasser Al-Obaidly | MF | 11 Oct 1992 | Hungary | 4 Oct 2001 | United Arab Emirates | 49 | [13] |
Wesam Rizik | FW | 8 Sep 2004 | Laos | 11 Jun 2013 | North Korea | 81 | [14] |
Jassim Al-Tamimi | MF | 27 Sep 2000 | Iran | 20 Nov 2002 | Iraq | 27 | [15] |
Taher Zakaria | DF | 11 Aug 2008 | Iran | 8 Oct 2012 | Jordan | 4 | [16] |
Khalid Salman | MF | 11 Dec 1987 | Iraq | 5 Oct 1994 | Japan | 11 | [17] |
Ali Sanad | DF | 13 Jan 2008 | Syria | 13 Jan 2008 | Syria | 1 | [18] |
Mohamed Saqr | GK | 19 Nov 2003 | Singapore | 1 Apr 2009 | Bahrain | 59 | [19] |
Majdi Siddiq | MF | 8 Oct 2009 | Croatia | 17 Jul 2011 | India | 10 | [20] |
Saad Al Sheeb | GK | 30 Dec 2009 | North Korea | 29 Mar 2022 | Slovenia | 79 | [21] |
Tarek Salman | DF | 7 Sep 2018 | China | 26 Mar 2022 | Bulgaria | 51 | [22] |
Ali Assadalla | MF | 23 Jan 2012 | Sweden | 26 Mar 2022 | Bulgaria | 56 | [23] |
Akram Afif | FW | 21 Mar 2018 | Iraq | 29 Mar 2022 | Slovenia | 54 | [24] |
Boualem Khoukhi | DF | 6 Jun 2017 | North Korea | 29 Mar 2022 | Slovenia | 62 | [25] |
Hassan Al-Haydos | MF | 11 Aug 2008 | Iran | 18 Dec 2021 | Egypt | 158 | [26] |
Salem Al-Hajri | DF | 17 Jan 2017 | Moldova | 29 Mar 2022 | Slovenia | 23 | [27] |
Abdelkarim Hassan | DF | 18 Nov 2010 | Haiti | 29 Mar 2022 | Slovenia | 114 | [28] |
Al Sadd SC Foreign international footballers | |||||||
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Name | Position | Date of first cap | Debut against | Date of last cap | Final match against | Caps | Ref |
Carlos Tenorio | FW | 6 Sep 2003 | Venezuela | 10 Jun 2009 | Argentina | 30 | [29] |
Nadir Belhadj | DF | 11 Aug 2011 | Gabon | 12 Nov 2011 | Tunisia | 6 | [30] |
Ali Daei | FW | 25 Nov 1996 | Turkmenistan | 13 Jun 1997 | Syria | 13 | [31] |
Hamid Derakhshan | MF | 27 Sep 1991 | Algeria | 13 Oct 1991 | Algeria | 2 | [32] |
Pascal Feindouno | FW | 11 Feb 2009 | Cameroon | 21 Jun 2009 | Malawi | 5 | [33] |
Abdul Kader Keïta | FW | 30 Apr 2003 | Morocco | 9 Jun 2012 | Morocco | 16 | [34] |
Nam Tae-hee | MF | 10 Oct 2019 | Sri Lanka | 13 Jun 2021 | Lebanon | 8 | [35] |
Mohammed Rabia Al-Noobi | DF | 13 Feb 2006 | Iraq | 6 Jan 2010 | Indonesia | 44 | [36] |
Abedi Pele | MF | 13 Feb 1982 | Benin | 1 May 1983 | Nigeria | 19 | [37] |
John Utaka | FW | 13 Sep 2001 | South Korea | 7 Jun 2002 | Sweden | 5 | [38] |
André Ayew | MF | 3 Sep 2021 | Ethiopia | 18 Jan 2022 | Comoros | 9 | [39] |
Baghdad Bounedjah | FW | 12 Nov 2016 | Nigeria | 20 Jan 2022 | Ivory Coast | 52 | [40] |
José Clayton | DF | 17 Aug 2005 | Kenya | 1 March 2006 | Serbia and Montenegro | 8 | [41] |
Mamadou Niang | FW | 9 Oct 2011 | Mauritius | 29 Jan 2012 | Libya | 6 | [42] |
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