15th Arabian Gulf Cup explained

Year:2002
Country:Saudi Arabia
Dates:16-30 January
Finalists:6
Venues:King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh
Winners:Saudi Arabia
Count:2
Matches:15
Goals:33
Attendance:355898
Top Scorer: Hani Al-Dhabit (5 goals)
Prevseason:1998
Nextseason:2003–04

The 15th Arabian Gulf Cup (Arabic: كأس الخليج العربي)[1] was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in January 2002.

The tournament was won by Saudi Arabia for the second time.

Iraq continued to be banned from the tournament because of its invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Tournament

The teams played a single round-robin style competition. The team achieving first place in the overall standings was the tournament winner.

Standings

width=175 Teamwidth=20 abbr="Played" Pldwidth=20 abbr="Won" Wwidth=20 abbr="Drawn" Dwidth=20 abbr="Lost" Lwidth=20 abbr="Goals for" GFwidth=20 abbr="Goals against" GAwidth=20 abbr="Goal difference" GDwidth=20 abbr="Points" Pts
5410103+713
540174+312
512246−25
512246−25
511357−24
510437−43

Results

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: الموقع الدائم لكأس الخليج العربي . 4 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180205072116/http://www.gulfcup.com/soccer/matches/tournamenta.php?period=15 . 5 February 2018 . dead. dmy-all .