Riyadh-SANA
The Syrian national football team for the U-23 category qualified for the semi-finals of the West Asian Federation Championship held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by placing second in the first group at the end of the first round of the tournament.
Our team came in second place behind the leaders Saudi Arabia, which is equal with it with the same balance of 3 points, but it lags behind it by goal difference, and the Bahrain team came third.
Our team had lost against Bahrain with a goal against two goals in the first round of the tournament, before beating the Saudi team by two goals to one.
The first group includes the teams of Oman, Qatar and Lebanon.
The tournament system stipulates that the teams of the first and second groups in the tournament play among themselves in the first round of the league system from one stage to qualify at the end of the first and second to the semi-finals, and then the winners move from the two matches of this round to the final match, and the losers play from the semi-finals to determine the third and fourth places The two teams that finished third in the group stage will meet to determine the fifth and sixth places.