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Football at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games

Tournament details
Host country	Turkey
Dates	8 – 16 August
Teams	8 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Turkey (1st title)
Runners-up	Saudi Arabia
Third place	Azerbaijan
Fourth place	Algeria
Tournament statistics
Matches played	12
Goals scored	24 (2 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Chemseddine Bekkouche Ahmed Al-Ghamdi Meleye Diagne Muhammed Gümüşkaya (2 goals each)
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Football at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games was a football competition that held between 8-16 August 2022 at Konya Metropolitan Municipality Stadium and Karatay Mehmet Otkut Football Field in Konya, Turkey. All players participating in the preliminary and final competitions of the tournament must be born on or after 1 January 1998 (U23). However, up to three male athletes who do not meet this age limit might also be included in the official list of athletes for the final competition. A maximum of 8 teams competed. Teams was divided into 2 groups and there were 4 teams in each group.

Turkey won the first gold medal in the tournament, by beating Saudi Arabia 1–0 in the final.

Participating teams

Eight participated teams. All teams are of Under-23.

Men

Confederation	Nation
CAF (Africa)	Algeria  Cameroon  Morocco  Senegal
AFC (Asia)	Iran  Saudi Arabia
UEFA (Europe)	Azerbaijan  Turkey (hosts)

Venues

Squads

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Turkey (H)	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Algeria	3	1	2	0	5	2	+3	5
3	Senegal	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
4	Cameroon	3	0	0	3	2	8	−6	0

Algeria	3–0 (w/o)	Cameroon

Turkey	1–0	Senegal
Gümüşkaya 27'

Turkey	3–2	Cameroon
Karadağ 45' Aydın 60' Sanuç 80'		Marou 24' Wassou 85'

Senegal	1–1	Algeria
Sambou 63'		Bekkouche 84' (pen.)

Cameroon	0–2	Senegal
		Diagne 32', 65'

Turkey	1–1	Algeria
Cherifi 13' (o.g.)		Temine 19'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Saudi Arabia	3	3	0	0	6	0	+6	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Azerbaijan	3	1	1	1	5	3	+2	4
3	Morocco	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
4	Iran	3	0	0	3	0	9	−9	0

Morocco	3–0 (w/o)	Iran

Saudi Arabia	1–0	Azerbaijan
Al-Ghamdi 90+6'

Morocco	0–2	Saudi Arabia
		Al-Johani 45+2' Al-Mutairi 90+1'

Azerbaijan	3–0 (w/o)	Iran

Azerbaijan	2–2	Morocco
Ibrahimli 6' Abdullazade 47' (pen.)		Slim 10' Regragui 90+3'

Iran	0–3 (w/o)	Saudi Arabia

Knockout stage

	Semifinals				Final
	14 August – Konya
	Turkey	1
					16 August – Konya
	Azerbaijan	0
					Turkey	1
	14 August – Konya
					Saudi Arabia	0
	Saudi Arabia	2
	Algeria	1
					Third place
					16 August – Konya
					Azerbaijan (p)	0 (4)
					Algeria	0 (3)

Semifinals

Turkey	1–0	Azerbaijan
Gümüşkaya 43'

Saudi Arabia	2–1	Algeria
Asiri 14' Al-Ghamdi 20'		Bekkouche 37' (pen.)

Bronze medal match

Azerbaijan	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Algeria
Penalties
	4–3

Gold medal match

Turkey	1–0	Saudi Arabia
Altunbaş 26'

Final ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Turkey	5	4	1	0	7	3	+4	13	Gold medal
2	Saudi Arabia	5	4	0	1	8	2	+6	12	Silver medal
3	Azerbaijan	5	1	2	2	5	4	+1	5	Bronze medal
4	Algeria	5	1	3	1	6	4	+2	6	Fourth place
5	Morocco	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4	Eliminated in group stage
6	Senegal	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
7	Cameroon	3	0	0	3	2	8	−6	0
8	Iran	3	0	0	3	0	9	−9	0

Goalscorers

There were 24 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 2 goals per match.

2 goals

• Chemseddine Bekkouche
• Ahmed Al-Ghamdi
• Meleye Diagne
• Muhammed Gümüşkaya

1 goal

• Mounder Temine
• Rufat Abdullazade
• Ismayil Ibrahimli
• Souaibou Marou
• Patient Wassou
• Hamza Regragui
• Reda Slim
• Ziyad Al-Johani
• Turki Al-Mutairi
• Haitham Asiri
• Bouly Junior Sambou
• Metehan Altunbaş
• Eren Aydın
• Eren Karadağ
• Tayyip Talha Sanuç

1 own goal

• Toufik Cherifi (against Turkey)

References

1. "Football at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games". konya2021.com. Archived from the original on June 1, 2022. Retrieved July 4, 2022.
2. "SPOR EL KİTABI Futbol" (PDF) (in Turkish). konya2021.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 1, 2022. Retrieved July 4, 2022.
3. "Team sport draw results announced". konya2021.com. Archived from the original on July 5, 2022. Retrieved July 4, 2022.

External links

• Official website Archived 2022-06-02 at the Wayback Machine

• Football at the Islamic Solidarity Games
• 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games
• 2022 in association football
• International association football competitions hosted by Turkey
• 2022 in Asian football
• 2022 in African football
• 2022 in European football