The fourteen teams participating in the qualifiers for the FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2025, scheduled for a single match in the capital, Doha, on November 25 and 26, have announced their official lists in preparation for the qualifying stage competitions.
The Arab Cup Championship will be held during the period from the first to the eighteenth of next December, in its eleventh and second edition, which is organized under the supervision of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA).
On the first day of the qualifying stage, the Mauritanian national team will meet its Kuwaiti counterpart at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium on November 25, with the winner qualifying to participate in the third group, which includes Egypt, Jordan and the Emirates.
On the same day, the Syrian team will face South Sudan at the Grand Hamad Stadium, while the Palestine team will meet its Libyan counterpart at Thani Bin Jassim Stadium. The two winning teams will qualify to compete in the tournament within the first group, which includes Qatar and Tunisia.
The rest of the qualifiers will conclude on November 26, 2025, when the Omani team will meet its Somali counterpart at Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium, and the Comoros will meet Yemen at the Grand Hamad Stadium, and the two winning teams will advance to the second group, which includes both the Moroccan and Saudi teams.
The Bahraini national team will also meet the Djibouti national team at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, while Sudan will face its counterpart, the Lebanese national team, at Thani bin Jassim Stadium. The two winning teams will qualify for the fourth group alongside the defending champion Algeria and the Iraqi national team.
Qatar hosted the last edition, which was held in 2021 and ended with the Algerian team being crowned champion after defeating its Tunisian counterpart in the final match with two unanswered goals after overtime, in the match hosted by Al Bayt Stadium, in the presence of more than 60,000 spectators.
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