Syria national football team
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| Nickname(s) | The Qasioun Eagles (Arabic: نسور قاسيون) (French: Les aigles du Qasioun) |
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| Association | Fédération Arabe Syrienne de Football |
| Confederation | AFC (Asia) |
| Sub-confederation | WAFF (West Asia) |
| Head coach | Ayman Hakeem |
| Captain | Ahmad Al Salih |
| Most caps | Mosab Balhous (100) |
| Top scorer | Raja Rafe (32) |
| Home stadium | Abbasiyyin Stadium – Aleppo International Stadium |
| FIFA code | SYR |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 96  (12 January 2017)
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| Highest | 78 (August 1993) |
| Lowest | 152 (September 2014, March 2015) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 73 (23 January 2017) |
| Highest | 53 (October 1974) |
| Lowest | 125 (September 1984) |
| First international | |
 Turkey 7–0 Syria  (Ankara, Turkey; November 20, 1949) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Syria 12–0 Maldives  (Damascus, Syria; June 4, 1997) Maldives 0–12 Syria (Tehran, Iran; June 9, 1997) Syria 12–0 Philippines  (Aleppo, Syria; April 30, 2001) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Greece 8–0 Syria (Athens, Greece; November 25, 1949)  Egypt 8–0 Syria (Alexandria, Egypt; October 16, 1951) |
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| Asian Cup | |
| Appearances | 5 (first in 1980) |
| Best result | Group stage, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996, and 2011 |
The Syrian Arab Republic national football team (Arabic: منتخب الجمهورية العربية السورية الوطني لكرة القدم) represents Syria in association football and is controlled by the Syrian Arab Federation for Football, the governing body for football in Syria. Syria's home grounds are Abbasiyyin Stadium and Aleppo International Stadium. Syria has never qualified for the World Cup finals.
Syria participated in the 1950 and 1958 World Cup qualifiers,one of the first teams in the region to do so. Between 1958 and 1961, the team combined with Egypt to form the United Arab Republic national football team, although the team's records are attributed only to Egypt by FIFA. In the 1966 World Cup qualifiers they were one of two teams from the Asian zone (the other being Israel) to be allocated to the European qualifying zone and were originally placed with Spain and the Republic of Ireland. However, they joined the Asian and African boycott of the 1966 qualifiers, due to the decision of FIFA to allocate just one place between Asia and Africa.
Syria has never qualified for the World Cup. The farthest they've gone in qualification was in the 1986 qualifiers when they reached the final qualifying round only to lose to Iraq. They were disqualified from the 2014 World Cup due to the use of an ineligible player.
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