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The 33 of Palestine.
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01
OD
Oday Dabbagh 45 (as of 4 October 2026) caps (Palestine) · 16 (as of 4 October 2026) goals · F.C. Arouca, Royal Charleroi S.C.
ST2018–
02
AN
Ashraf Nu'man Tarji Wadi Al-Nes, Al-Faisaly SCThe free kick that carried Palestine to their first Asian Cup came in the 59th minute in Malé on 30 May 2014, and it was the only goal of the Challenge Cup final against the Philippines.
CAM2009–
03
FA
Fahed Attal 37 (as of 4 October 2026) caps (Palestine) · 14 (as of 4 October 2026) goals · Al-Jazeera, Al-Wehdat SC
SS2005–
04
RS
Ramzi Saleh Al Ittihad, Al Ahly SCHe captained Palestine and kept the clean sheet in Malé on 30 May 2014, when Ashraf Nu'man's goal beat the Philippines and carried the country to its first Asian Cup finals.
GK2000–
05
AB
Abdelatif Bahdari Al-Wehdat SC, Hajer ClubDhaka, October 2018: a centre back walked off with the best player award at the Bangabandhu Cup, having scored in the group win over Tajikistan on the 4th before the two met again in a goalless final that Palestine took 4-3 on penalties.
CB2007–
06
MR
Mohammed Rashid Hilal Al-Quds ClubAt Education City Stadium on 4 December 2021, Rashid put Palestine in front of Saudi Arabia at the Arab Cup, and Palestine came away with a 1-1 draw.
CB
Career sources
Identity and career · Wikidata Q60286849
07
JC
Jonathan Cantillana San Antonio UnidoPalestine were already 8-0 up on Bhutan in Dura on 10 October 2017 when Cantillana added the ninth and the tenth in a qualifier for the 2019 Asian Cup.
CM
Career sources
Identity and career · Wikidata Q21623390
08
MA
Musab Al-Battat Shabab Al-Dhahiriya SCThree Asian Cups in 2015, 2019 and 2023, plus league football in Egypt with Ceramica Cleopatra and Qatar with Al-Wakrah and Qatar SC.
RB2013–
09
TS
Tamer Seyam Malaysia were beaten 6-0 in Kuala Lumpur on 16 June 2015, with Seyam taking two of the six, and he scored against them again in Amman that November.
CM2014–
11
MW
Mahmoud Wadi Al Masry SCHe answers to the Tower, a nickname earned at 1.88m by heading in more than his share, and the 2017-18 season at Al-Ahli in Amman put numbers on it with ten goals in seventeen league games. Two AFC Asian Cups with Palestine in 2019 and 2023, a debut off the bench against the Maldives in November 2017, and eleven league goals in two seasons at Al-Masry in Egypt.
LM
Career sources
Identity and career · Wikidata Q55956399
12
MS
Mohammed Saleh Ahli Al-KhaleelA centre-back out of Gaza City, Saleh spent half of 2022 on loan at Eastern Company in Cairo and scored nine goals there, a striker's return from a defender.
CB
Career sources
Identity and career · Wikidata Q55623561
13
NA
Nazmi Albadawi North Carolina, FC CincinnatiHis first cap for Palestine came with a goal attached, the winner against Pakistan at Faisal Al-Husseini Stadium in Al-Ram on 16 November 2018. Two months later he was at the 2019 Asian Cup wearing 20, and he still holds the NASL single-season assist record of ten, set for the Carolina RailHawks in 2016 in a season that put him in the league's Best XI.
CM2018–
14
RK
Roberto Kettlun 23 caps (Palestine) · Universidad Católica, PalestinoBorn in Santiago and schooled in Chilean football at Universidad Católica and Palestino, he crossed over in 2012 to play in Jerusalem, joining Hilal Al-Quds and winning the Palestine Cup with them in 2013-14.
CDM2002–2006
15
AJ
Abdallah Jaber Hilal Al-Quds Club, Bnei SakhninTwenty-one and uncapped, Jaber started Palestine's opening game of the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup against Kyrgyzstan and played 360 of the tournament's 450 minutes without his team conceding a goal.
CB2014–2020
16
AN
Alexis Norambuena 23 caps (Palestine) · Unión Española, ÑublensePoland held Norambuena for six years, and he was in the Jagiellonia Bialystok side of 2010 when the club won the Polish Cup and Super Cup, the first major trophies in its history.
RB2012–2019
17
IZ
Imad Zatara 28 caps (Palestine) · 3 goals · Essinge IK, Vasalund/Essinge IFThe 2013 Allsvenskan scoring chart finished with two Palestinians near the top, Imad Khalili ahead of Zatara, whose nine goals for Åtvidabergs FF came a year after he signed for Sanat Naft and became the first Palestinian to play in Iran.
ST2004–2015
18
ME
Mahmoud Eid Hammarby Fotboll, Vasalunds IFEid answered his first Palestine call-up with a goal in Vietnam on 9 November 2014, a 3-1 win for a winger who was still playing in the Swedish lower divisions.
CDM2014–
19
PT
Pablo Tamburrini 21 caps (Palestine) · 1 goals · Palestino, San Antonio UnidoHe came through CD Palestino, the Santiago club founded by Palestinian immigrants, made 73 appearances there, and went to the 2019 Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates wearing 17.
CAM2015–2019
20
Yaser Hamed 21 (as of 4 October 2026) caps (Palestine) · Gallarta, SanturtziAthletic Bilbao took him into their academy at ten, and Palestine got the return in July 2019 when he scored on his debut at the WAFF Championship to beat Yemen 1-0 and then appeared in every match of the country's best run in that tournament.
CB2019–
Yaser Hamed 21 (as of 4 October 2026) caps (Palestine) · Gallarta, SanturtziAthletic Bilbao took him into their academy at ten, and Palestine got the return in July 2019 when he scored on his debut at the WAFF Championship to beat Yemen 1-0 and then appeared in every match of the country's best run in that tournament.
CB2019–
21
ZA
Ziyad Al-Kord 33 caps (Palestine) · 16 goals · Valenciennes, Al-Hussein SCThe scoreboard in Dhaka read 8-0 when Al-Kord made it nine against Guam on 1 April 2006, and he had the tenth before the Challenge Cup match finished 11-0.
ST1998–2007
22
IB
Islam Batran Al-JazeeraBatran was 30 and playing in his sixth country when he took a hat-trick off Bourj for Safa on 6 February 2025, a 4-0 win in Lebanon.
RM
Career sources
Identity and career · Wikidata Q48471466
23
LK
Layth Kharoub Merkaz Balata, Thaqafi TulkaremTen days after debuting in a 2-0 win over hosts Bangladesh, he scored Palestine's third in the 2020 Bangabandhu Cup final on 25 January, a 26th-minute goal in the 3-1 defeat of Burundi that took him to three for the tournament.
CAM
Career sources
Identity and career · Wikidata Q107066578
24
OJ
Omar Jarun Fort Wayne Fever, Chicago Fire PremierMissiles landed near the family's apartment in Kuwait City in 1990, and the boy who got out of it grew up in Peachtree City, Georgia, into a 1.96-metre centre-back who first played for Palestine in 2007.
CB2007–2014
25
RH
Rami Hamadeh Hilal Al-Quds Club, Thaqafi TulkaremAcross the entire 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign, only one goalkeeper kept South Korea from scoring, and it was Hamadeh, in a goalless draw in Seoul on 5 September 2024.
GK
Career sources
Identity and career · Wikidata Q19342156
26
SM
Sameh Maraaba Jabal Al Mukaber, Thaqafi TulkaremHis second cap came at Bukit Jalil on 16 June 2015 and he scored twice in it, part of a 6-0 win over Malaysia that nobody in Kuala Lumpur had seen coming.
LM2015–2023
27
CS
Camilo Saldana C.D. PalestinoIn November 2023 Saldaña gave up Unión San Felipe's promotion playoff in Chile to join Palestine for World Cup qualifying, five years after his single cap for Chile's under-20s.
LB
Career sources
Identity and career · Wikidata Q60048607
28
HM
Hilal Mousa 10 (as of 1 June 2020) caps (Palestine) · 0 (as of 1 June 2020) goals · Hapoel Bnei Tamra, Hapoel Rishon LeZionShirt 8 at the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup belonged to a left midfielder from Kafr Manda who was then scoring 18 goals in 44 games for Khader in the West Bank.
RM2014–
29
KS
Khaled Salem Merkaz Tulkarem, Shabab Al-Dhahiriya SCOn 24 May 2021 he scored all three goals as Markaz Balata beat Al-Muharraq of Bahrain 3-2, the first AFC Cup win in the club's history, and Al-Hidd signed him not long after.
ST2011–
30
MY
Mohammed Yamin Thaqafi Tulkarem, Hilal Al-Quds ClubUlaanbaatar, June 2022: the midfielder scored in Palestine's 5-0 win over Yemen and again three days later in a 4-0 defeat of the Philippines.
CM
Career sources
Identity and career · Wikidata Q105533834
31
TA
Tawfiq Ali Tarji Wadi Al-NesRamzi Saleh was injured, so Palestine gave the gloves to their reserve for the last match of their first Asian Cup, and on 20 January 2015 Ali conceded twice to Iraq after his side had shipped four to Japan and five to Jordan.
GK2011–
32
SJ
Samer Jondi A Jerusalem boy who gave Hilal Al-Quds two spells and most of a decade, he waited until 8 June 2022 for his first Palestine cap, a 1-0 win over Mongolia at the age of 25.About the editorial selection
LB
About this XI
Palestine's pool is led by Oday Dabbagh, Ashraf Nu'man and Fahed Attal. The 33 covers 3 goalkeepers, 10 defenders, 14 midfielders and 6 forwards, with sourced senior international careers spanning the 1990s to the 2020s. Pick a formation, drag your eleven onto the pitch, then explore the careers and settle the duels below. Your votes reorder the people's ranking of these 33 in real time.
Who is the greatest Palestine footballer of all time?
The editorial collection starts with Oday Dabbagh. Its first five careers: Oday Dabbagh, Ashraf Nu'man, Fahed Attal, Ramzi Saleh, Abdelatif Bahdari. The people's ranking on this page moves with every duel vote and can disagree.
How were these 33 Palestine players chosen?
The collection covers every position across Palestine's football history. Honours, international records and career achievements inform the editorial order. Each entry opens a career note and its sources. Fan votes in the duels build a separate ranking.
Where can I read about the careers?
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