2024-01-27T06:25:53+00:00
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/ The decisive match qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup between the Iraqi national team and its Jordanian counterpart is approaching the day after tomorrow, Monday, in the round of 16 of the 2023 Asian Cup Finals, which will be held at 2:30 pm at Khalifa International Stadium in the Qatari capital, Doha.
As this confrontation approaches, we must recall our memories and go back to learn about the results of the two teams’ official confrontations that brought them together over the past years.
The results of the Iraqi national team against its Jordanian counterpart during the official Asian and World Cup qualifying matches that the two teams played, most of which were in the Asian and World Cup qualifiers, noting that the Arab Cup, West Asia and Arab Tournament tournaments are considered friendly tournaments according to the international view.
Perhaps the most prominent confrontations that the two teams have witnessed over the past years in the Asian Nations Cup qualifiers and finals for the Iraqi national team are three confrontations, the first in the 1972 Asian Cup qualifiers, and Iraq achieved victory with two clean goals scored by Razzaq Ahmed and Ali Kadhim.
The second was in the 1996 Asian Cup qualifiers, in which Jabbar Hashim scored the valuable winning goal, and Iraq qualified at the expense of Jordan for the Asian finals.
The third confrontation was in 2015 in the Asian Cup finals, and Iraq managed to snatch victory with a goal by player Yasser Qasim.
These were the most prominent decisive confrontations between the Iraqi and Jordanian national football teams before the two teams play their next match in the round of 16 of the 2023 Asian Nations Championship the day after tomorrow, Monday, in the Qatari capital, Doha.
As for the statistics of the matches between the Iraqi and Jordanian teams, in the round of 16 the two teams faced each other in 40 matches, Iraq won 21 matches, Jordan won 10 matches, and there was a draw in 9 matches. Iraq scored 59 goals against Jordan, while Jordan scored 37 goals against Iraq.
The first confrontation in the history of the two teams was in the Arab Cup in 1964, where the Iraqi team won 3-1, while Iraq achieved the biggest victory over the Jordanian team 4-0 twice in the World Cup qualifiers in 1990 and 1994, while the biggest victory for Jordan over Iraq was 4-1 in a friendly match in 2010.
As for the details of the confrontations, the two teams met 10 times in the World Cup qualifiers. Iraq won 7 matches, while Jordan won once, and there was a draw twice. The two teams met once in the Asian Cup, and it ended with Iraq winning by one goal to nothing in Australia 2015.
The two teams also met four times in the Arab Cup, Iraq won twice, Jordan won once, and there was a draw once. The two teams met five times in the West Asian Championship, Iraq won three matches and Jordan twice. The two teams also met in the Arab Championship in 1999, Jordan won both matches. In the Jordan International Championship, Jordan won 2-0. In Amman, in the 2011 Fox Quadrangular Championship, the two teams met in a 1-1 draw.