2002 WAFF Championship

2nd WAFF Championship, held in Syria in 2002 July 2026 WAFF Championship 2002 Syria 30 August – 7 September 6 1 1 1 IRQ 1991 1 JOR IRN SYR 1980 10 22 IRN Alireza NikbakhtIRQ 1991 Razzaq FarhanJOR Muayad SalimSYR 1980 Anas Sari (2 goals each) 2000 2004 The 2002 West Asian Football Federation Championship took part in Syrian Capital of Damascus. Iraq won the final against Jordan 3–2 after extra time coming back from 0–2 at half time. The 6 entrants were Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon and host nation Syria. The draw was held on 13 August in Kuala Lumpur. Participants All 6 members of WAFF participated in this tournament. CountryAppearancePrevious best performanceIRN2ndChampions (2000) IRQ 19912ndThird place (2000) JOR2ndFourth place (2000) LBN2ndGroup stage (2000) PLE2nd Group stage (2000) SYR 1980 (hosts)2ndRunners-up (2000) Venue Syria right 280 Syria 33.513056 36.291944 DamascusDamascus Abbasiyyin Stadium Capacity: 30,000 150px Group stage Group A main WDL Group A Q n y JOR JOR IRN IRN LIB LIB 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 3 #ccffcc A A complete RSSSF.com 30 August 2002 JOR 1–0 IRN Salim 11   Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus 1 September 2002 LIB 0–1 JOR   Shelbaieh 4 Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus 3 September 2002 IRN 2–0 LIB Nikbakht 24Karimi 90+2'   Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus Group B main WDL Group B Q n y IRQ IRQ 1991 SYR SYR 1980 PLE PLE 2 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 2 2 H 0 0 2 1 4 #ccffcc A A complete RSSSF.com 30 August 2002 SYR 1980 2–1 PLE Ibrahim 21Haj Moustafa 37 Lafi 39 Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus 1 September 2002 PLE 0–2 IRQ 1991   Wahaib 47 Farhan 69 Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus 3 September 2002 IRQ 1991 1–0 SYR 1980 Kadhim 43   Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus Knockout phase Semi-finals 5 September 2002 JOR 2–1 yes SYR 1980 Salim 38 Al-Zboun 118 Shehadeh 54 Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus 5 September 2002 IRQ 1991 0–0 yes IRN Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus Abdul-Jabar Abu Al-Hail Abdul-Jabar Mohammed Kadhim Akram Abbas 6–5 Nekounam Bakhtiarizadeh Navidkia Nosrati Nikbakht Bayatinia Azizzadeh Third place match 7 September 2002 IRN 2–2 SYR 1980 Kameli Mofrad 59Nikbakht 88 Sari 15 89 Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus Nekounam Bakhtiarizadeh Navidkia Kazemian 4–2 Haj Moustafa Ibrahim Jabban Final 7 September 2002 IRQ 1991 3–2 yes JOR Farhan 32 Y.Mahmoud 89 H.Mahmoud 103 Shehdeh 2 Amer Deeb 30 Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus Champion fb 2002 WAFF Championship winners Iraq First 1991 Statistics Goalscorers 22 10 no IRN Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht IRQ 1991 Razzaq Farhan JOR Moayad Salim SYR 1980 Anas Sari IRN Ali Karimi IRN Jalal Kameli Mofrad IRQ 1991 Haidar Mahmoud IRQ 1991 Ahmad Kadhim IRQ 1991 Ali Wahaib IRQ 1991 Younis Mahmoud IRQ 1991 Abbas Obeid JOR Anas Al-Zboun JOR Amer Deeb JOR Mustafa Shehdeh JOR Mahmoud Shelbaieh PLE Fadi Lafi SYR 1980 Nihad Haj Moustafa SYR 1980 Hassan Ibrahim SYR 1980 Raghdan Shehadeh External links RSSSF Page on the tournament 2002 Category:2002 in Asian men's international football Category:2002–03 in Syrian football 2002 Category:August 2002 sports events in Asia Category:September 2002 sports events in Asia