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86 Akram Afif 129 caps · 41 goals · K.A.S. Eupen, Sporting de GijónJordan conceded three penalties in the Asian Cup final on 10 February 2024 and Afif scored all of them, a hat-trick from the spot that kept the title in Qatar. Afif won that tournament's Golden Boot with eight goals and its Best Player award, took AFC Player of the Year in both 2019 and 2023, set a tournament record of ten assists at the 2019 Asian Cup, and has six Qatar Stars League titles with Al Sadd. CAM2019–24

2 AA 84 Almoez Ali 125 caps · 60 goals · Al-Duhail SC, K.A.S. EupenHis ninth goal of the 2019 Asian Cup arrived as a bicycle kick against Japan in the final on 1 February, one more than Ali Daei managed in 1996 and a tournament record that still stands. Ali left Abu Dhabi with the title, the Golden Boot and the Best Player award, added the 2021 Gold Cup Golden Boot, and passed Mansour Muftah as Qatar's all-time leading scorer in November 2023. ST1996–2023

84 Hassan Al-Haydos 183 caps · 41 goals · Al Sadd Sports ClubOn 20 November 2022 he led the hosts out against Ecuador, the opening match of a World Cup Qatar had waited twelve years to stage. Al-Haydos lifted the Asian Cup as captain in 2019 and again in 2023, retired in March 2024 as Qatar's most capped player on 188 appearances, and won eight league titles and the 2011 AFC Champions League with Al Sadd. CAM2011–24

4 KI 84 Khalfan Ibrahim Al Sadd Sports Club, Al-Arabi SCAl Sadd's terraces called him Khalfaninho, and in November 2006, aged eighteen, he became the first Qatari named AFC Player of the Year, months before a knee injury against Bahrain took a year out of him. Ibrahim won gold at the 2006 Asian Games, lifted the 2011 AFC Champions League with Al Sadd, and left the club as its record league scorer with 78 goals in 298 appearances. CAM2006–11

5 MM 84 Mansour Muftah 86 caps · Al-Rayyan, Al-Wakrah Sports ClubTwenty-two goals in twelve matches in 1985-86 is why they called him The Fox, and why the Qatari league has named its top scorer award after him since 2013-14. Muftah scored 48 goals in 84 internationals and held Qatar's scoring record until 2023, finished as the league's leading marksman seven times, won the Arabian Golden Boot twice, and took 160 goals from 216 games for Al-Rayyan. ST1985–2023

84 Sebastian Soria Liverpool F.C. (Montevideo), Qatar SCNine seconds into a 2013 AFC Champions League tie against Pakhtakor he had already scored, and the competition has not seen a faster goal since. Born in Paysandú and naturalised in 2006, Soria won gold at the 2006 Asian Games, took four league titles across Al-Gharafa, Lekhwiya and Al-Rayyan, scored 104 goals in 152 league games for Qatar SC and finished with 39 in 124 caps for Qatar. RM2006–13

7 AH 83 Abdelkarim Hassan Al Sadd Sports ClubPersepolis signed him in January 2024, making him the first Qatari to play professionally in Iran after twelve years at Al Sadd. Hassan was AFC Player of the Year in 2018, won the 2019 Asian Cup and made its Team of the Tournament, took the 2011 AFC Champions League and four Qatar Stars League titles with Al Sadd, and won 136 caps for Qatar. LB2011–24

8 MM 83 Mubarak Mustafa 34 goals · Al-Arabi SC, Al-Khor Sports ClubAt the 1992 Gulf Cup he finished as top scorer and was voted player of the tournament, and thirteen years later he carried Al-Khor to their first major trophy in 46 years. Mustafa scored 41 goals in 106 internationals between 1992 and 2004, won the 1998 Arab Nations Cup, reached the Barcelona Olympic quarter-finals with Qatar, led the domestic scoring charts three times, and left international football without a single red card. SS1992–2004

82 Boualem Khoukhi 125 caps · JSM Chéraga, Al-Arabi SCA centre-back who kept arriving in the wrong box, he scored both goals against Jordan in the WAFF Championship final in Doha in January 2014, at 52 and 81 minutes, and ended the tournament as top scorer with six. He won the Asian Cup twice, in 2019 and 2023, added the 2014 Arabian Gulf Cup, made the 2019 Team of the Tournament, and stands past 130 caps and 21 goals for Qatar with league titles at Al Sadd. CB2014–23

10 PM 82 Pedro Miguel 80 caps · S.C. Farense, Al Ahli SCBorn in Algueirão-Mem Martins and still called Ró-Ró, he came from the Portuguese lower divisions to Qatar in 2011, and on 30 January 2024 he scored the shootout penalty that sent Uzbekistan out of the Asian Cup quarter-final. His honours run to two Asian Cups with Qatar, in 2019 and 2023, six Qatar Stars League titles at Al Sadd between 2019 and 2026, three Qatar Cups, and more than 100 caps. RB2011–26

82 Rodrigo Tabata Goiás Esporte Clube, SantosThe 2015-16 season belonged to him, Al Rayyan won the Qatar Stars League, and Tabata finished it as both the division's top scorer and its Player of the Year, an award he had already taken in 2011-12. Born in Araçatuba, he later added two more league titles with Al Sadd in 2020-21 and 2021-22, four Emir Cups, two Qatar Cups, and 18 caps for Qatar after his naturalisation. CM2011–21

81 Abdulaziz Hatem 123 caps · 11 goals · Al-Arabi SC, Al-Gharafa SCTwenty-seven minutes into the 2019 Asian Cup final in Abu Dhabi, he hit one from 25 yards past Shuichi Gonda into the top corner, the second in a 3-1 win over Japan. He captains Qatar now, past 120 caps, with the Asian Cup won in 2019 and 2023, the 2014 Arabian Gulf Cup, and places in the Team of the Tournament at the 2019 Asian Cup and the 2021 Arab Cup. CM2014–23

13 KB 81 Karim Boudiaf 124 caps · Al-Duhail SCLekhwiya signed him out of French football in 2010, and he was still in the same shirt more than 260 league games later, the club having changed its name to Al Duhail around him. Qatar's 2019 Asian Cup, a run in which the team conceded once in seven matches, heads his list, ahead of the 2014 Arabian Gulf Cup, seven Qatar Stars League titles from 2010-11 to 2019-20, four Emir Cups, and 121 caps. CDM2010–19

14 KS 81 Khalid Salman Al Sadd Sports ClubNewcastle, October 1981, Qatar's under-20s beat Brazil 3-2 in the World Youth Championship quarter-final, and Salman scored all three goals, at 10, 54 and 87 minutes. Runner-up at that World Youth Championship, he won the 1988-89 Asian Club Championship with Al Sadd, his only club from 1976 to 1998, settling the final with a free kick, and took six league titles and seven Emir Cups. LM1976–98

15 LM 81 Lucas Mendes 27 caps · Coritiba, El Jaish SCHe waited until he was 33 for his first Qatar call-up, in November 2023, and a year later, on 14 November 2024, he scored in the 102nd minute against Uzbekistan to end their 20-match unbeaten run in World Cup qualifying. He won the Asian Cup within three months of that debut, in February 2024, and made the Team of the Tournament, having already collected the 2017-18 Qatar Stars League, two Emir Cups and a Qatar Cup at Al Duhail. CB2017–24

16 SA 81 Saad Al-Sheeb 72 caps · Al Sadd Sports ClubSix games into the 2019 Asian Cup nobody had beaten him, and it took Takumi Minamino until the 69th minute of the final in Abu Dhabi to manage it. Qatar won that title conceding a single goal in seven matches, Al-Sheeb took the Golden Glove, and a second Asian Cup followed in 2023, with the 2014 Gulf Cup and seven league titles at Al Sadd behind him. GK2014–23

17 IM 80 Ismail Mohammed He signed for Lekhwiya in 2011 and stayed through the 2017 merger that turned the club into Al-Duhail, 257 appearances and 40 goals down the right flank for one badge under two names. The 2023 Asian Cup came at 33, off the bench after an hour of the final at Lusail, and behind it sit the 2014 Gulf Cup in Riyadh, the 2014 WAFF title, six Qatar Stars League championships and four Emir Cups. RM2011–23

18 MS 80 Mohammed Salem Al-Enazi 59 caps · 34 goals · Al-Rayyan, Al-Wahda S.C.C.Two minutes into his Al Wahda debut on 9 November 2000, the first Qatari to turn professional in the UAE league scored against Al Jazira, and he finished the derby with a hat-trick. He was the league's top scorer that season with 22 goals in 17 matches, won the Asian Cup Winners' Cup and Asian Super Cup with Al Nassr in 1998, and scored 34 goals in 69 caps for Qatar. SS1998–2000

19 TS 80 Tarek Salman Atlético AstorgaFélix Sánchez took him to the 2019 Asian Cup on seven caps, and the 21-year-old ended it starting the final against Japan. He won that tournament and the 2023 edition on home soil, and at Al Sadd has collected three Qatar Stars League titles and back-to-back Emir Cups, all after an unusual apprenticeship in the Spanish regional leagues with Júpiter Leonés and Atlético Astorga. CB2019–23

20 AF 79 Ahmed Fathi 49 caps · 0 goals · Al-Arabi SCNo goals in his first forty caps tells you the job, and on 10 February 2024 he started in Qatar's midfield at Lusail while Akram Afif beat Jordan with three penalties. It was his second Asian Cup after 2019, and he was picked in the 2023 team of the tournament, with an Emir Cup in 2023 and the QFA Cup in 2022 at Al-Arabi, the only senior club he has played for since 2012. CM2012–24

21 BM 79 Bilal Mohammed Al-Gharafa SCWearing the armband at Khalifa Stadium on 16 January 2011, he scored the twelfth-minute opener against Kuwait, and the 3-0 win carried Qatar out of their group at their own Asian Cup. He won the Gulf Cup in Riyadh in November 2014, reached 100 caps against Malaysia in November 2013, and spent fourteen seasons and 180 league games at Al-Gharafa. CB2011–14

22 MM 79 Mohammed Muntari 45 caps · 12 goals · El Jaish SC, Al-Duhail SCQatar scored exactly one goal at its own World Cup and it belonged to him, struck in the 78th minute against Senegal at Al Thumama on 25 November 2022. Nothing in his honours list outranks being the first man to score for Qatar at a World Cup, though the Kumasi-born striker also took bronze at the 2021 Arab Cup, won two Qatar Stars League titles and three Emir Cups with Al-Duhail, and has 16 goals in 65 caps. ST2021–22

23 QB 79 Qasem Burhan Al-Khor Sports Club, Al-RayyanAt the 2014 Gulf Cup in Riyadh he kept Yemen and Bahrain out for goalless draws and left with the best goalkeeper award, which Ali Al-Habsi had won in the four tournaments before it. Qatar beat the hosts 2-1 in that final, the trophy that sits on top of 80 caps between 2004 and 2015, squads at three Asian Cups and fifteen years on Al Gharafa's books. GK2004–15

24 AA 78 Ahmed Alaaeldin 71 caps · 8 goals · Al-Rayyan, Al-Gharafa SCAn Egyptian civil engineer's son who arrived in Qatar at ten, he top-scored at the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship in front of home crowds with six goals, one more than anyone else in the tournament. Two Asian Cup titles followed with Qatar, in 2019 and 2023, alongside the 2015-16 league championship with Al-Rayyan and two Stars Cups at Al-Gharafa. ST2015–23

25 AA 78 Ali Afif Two Afifs made Qatar's squad for the 2019 Asian Cup: Ali, a defender wearing number 20 with 52 caps to his name, and his brother Akram, eight years younger, at number 11. Both came home with the continental title, and Ali's own record runs back to Al Sadd's 2011 AFC Champions League win, league titles at Al Sadd and Al-Duhail, and 9 goals in 54 caps for Qatar. LM2011–19

78 Ibrahim Majid Al Sadd Sports ClubOn 5 November 2011 in Jeonju, aged 21, he stepped up in the shootout against Jeonbuk and scored, one of the four that made Al Sadd the first Qatari club to win the Asian Champions League. Third place at the Club World Cup followed six weeks later, another penalty of his converted against Kashiwa Reysol, and for Qatar he took the 2014 Gulf Cup and played at three Asian Cups across 89 caps and six goals. CB2011–14

27 MW 78 Mohammed Waad 22 caps · Al Sadd Sports Club, Al-Wakrah Sports ClubBorn in Iraq and an Al-Sadd player since 2016, he stayed on the pitch for all ninety minutes of the 2023 Asian Cup final on 10 February 2024, guarding the left flank in front of 86,492 at Lusail as Akram Afif beat Jordan with three penalties. Beyond that title sit two Qatar Stars League championships and three Emir Cups with Al-Sadd. LB2016–24

28 TA 78 Talal Al-Bloushi Al Sadd Sports Club, Al-Shabab Football ClubSixty-four caps brought him a single international goal, and it came in Doha on 6 September 2008, in a 3-0 World Cup qualifying win over Uzbekistan. The holding midfielder's real haul came at Al Sadd: the 2011 AFC Champions League, won on penalties in Jeonju with Al-Bloushi in the starting eleven, bronze at that year's Club World Cup, and four Qatar Stars League titles across thirteen years at the club. CDM2008–11

29 WR 78 Wesam Rizik Qatar SC, Al Sadd Sports ClubFour minutes into the 2004 Gulf Cup final in Al Rayyan he put Qatar ahead against Oman, and the title arrived on penalties once Oman had drawn level. It was Qatar's second Gulf Cup and the high point of 114 caps between 2001 and 2014, a run that also took in the 2004 and 2011 Asian Cups and 265 club games split mostly between Qatar SC and Al Sadd. CM2001–14

30 YM 78 Younis Mahmoud Ali On 29 July 2007 in Jakarta he met Hawar Mulla Mohammed's corner and headed the goal that beat Saudi Arabia and made Iraq champions of Asia while their country was at war. He took the 2007 Asian Cup's MVP and Golden Boot awards, captained Iraq for a decade, won three Qatar Stars League top-scorer titles as a foreign player, and finished 29th in that year's Ballon d'Or. GK2000s

31 AK 77 Abdullah Koni 47 caps · Al Sadd Sports ClubKoni wore the armband in Jeonju on 5 November 2011, playing right-back as Al Sadd held Jeonbuk to 2-2 and won the shootout 4-2. Asia's club title is the peak of a career spent entirely at Al Sadd between 1996 and 2014, alongside gold at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, bronze at the 2011 Club World Cup, five Qatari league titles and 63 caps for a defender born in Dakar. RB1996–2014

32 MG 77 Mohammed Gholam 27 caps · Al Sadd Sports ClubAl Sadd took him into the academy in 1986 and he has never really left, playing until 2010 and returning as the club's sporting director. He wore the armband through the finals of the 2006-07 domestic quadruple and collected four Qatari league titles, five Emir Cups, four Heir Apparent Cups and the Arab Champions League, while his 27 caps produced one goal, past Uzbekistan at the 2000 Asian Cup. CB1986–2010

33 WA 76 Waseem Al-Sahlawi A search of Wikipedia, Wikidata, Arabic Wikipedia and the open web turns up no footballer of this name, and the only page carrying it anywhere is this almanac itself. The entry stays unpublished until a verified identity, a club, and a match record can be attached to it. CDM

About this XI

Akram Afif tops Qatar's all-time pool, ahead of Almoez Ali and Hassan Al-Haydos. The 33 covers 3 goalkeepers, 10 defenders, 14 midfielders and 6 forwards. Akram Afif leads the pool at 86 overall. Pick a formation, drag your eleven onto the pitch, then settle the duels below. Your votes reorder the people's ranking of these 33 in real time.

Who is the greatest Qatar footballer of all time?

In the 33 Legends editorial ranking, Akram Afif leads Qatar with an overall rating of 86. The editorial top five: Akram Afif, Almoez Ali, Hassan Al-Haydos, Khalfan Ibrahim, Mansour Muftah. The people's ranking on this page moves with every duel vote and can disagree.

How were these 33 Qatar players chosen?

The pool covers every position across Qatar's football history. Ratings weigh peak level, longevity, honours and historical standing, then the full methodology page explains the tiers. Fan votes in the duels build a second, independent ranking.

Which Qatar players reach the Immortal tier or higher?

None yet. Akram Afif leads the Qatar pool at 86, in the Icon tier.

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